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TIL In the movie Scott Pilgrim VS The World, Edgar Wright wanted to use music from Legend of Zelda. To get permission to use the music, Edgar Wright sent a clip of the film and wrote a letter to Nintendo that described the music as “like nursery rhymes to a generation.”

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