Black Widow: 21 WTF Moments

11. Alexei & Yelena Sing "American Pie"

Black Widow Scarlett Johansson
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One of the movie's more compelling pieces of character work involves Yelena struggling to reconcile that her seemingly idyllic childhood with her "parents" was entirely staged.

As much as she resents Alexei and Melina for maintaining the ruse, she has an affecting heart-to-heart with Alexei mid-film where he insists she did indeed mean everything to him. In a sweet and unexpected moment, they end up singing along to Don McLean's inimitable classic "American Pie."

This is also a callback to the film's 1995-set prologue, where a young Yelena can be heard singing along to the song on the radio shortly before she and Nat are shipped away from their faux-parents.

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