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Captain America: The Winter Soldier Audio Commentary:

“We’re heading towards the midpoint of the movie where in conspiracy thrillers you figure out who’s after you and what the truth is, so you can turn around and go forward. And we hit upon the idea that the secret place they went to find the answers to was where Steve was, in essence, born, where it all began. This scene of Steve seeing himself in the past was a very talked about sequence. We all knew we wanted to intimate some sort of memory from him. Using footage from the previous film seemed like a cop out, so we were trying to find a new way to express again this identity crisis he’s going through, and also to remind the audience of what this place actually was. So we tried to externalize it, use these ghosts running through the location so that you get context for it. But also that moment where he stares at himself is a very sad moment. Again, it’s, “What have I lost and what have I gained?”