Have they ever done this in other movies?
Where they take footage from an actor's old films and use that footage as flashbacks? It's a great idea if you ask me, because it worked perfectly in this movie.
shareYes. In the John Wayne movie The Shootist, at the beginning, they use clips of his old movies to basically set up his character. This is just the one I can think of
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