As of: February 14, 2024, 6:48 p.m
By: Michelle Anskeit
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If you've always wanted to be the person who wisecracks with Easter eggs and behind the scenes information during a movie night.
You love facts that you can use to shatter people's worldviews.
Then we are pretty similar.
There's just nothing like the looks on your face after you deliver one of these.
It won't be quite as dramatic here today, but I have a few interesting Easter eggs and background stories from Disney for you.
So let's get started:
1. The Lion King 3 – Hakuna Matata (2004)
In contrast to the second part, the third part of Disney's “Lion King” series is unfortunately one of the film sequels that many people found rather terrible.
This is mainly because it feels like a best of the first part and therefore doesn't necessarily offer much that is new.
What might be new to you is one of the hidden Easter eggs in the film: to the right of a tree you can see how the stars represent a Mickey Mouse head!
2. Tron (1982)
Want to hear one of our collected movie facts that feels like a big fat lie?
Here we go: Did you know that Tron was banned from the Special Effects category at the Oscars because the film was made using a computer?
That was still considered cheating in 1982.
But what Disney should get an Oscar for: How often they can subtly hide Mickey Mouse in their films!
3. Zootopia (2016)
Remember how our Zootopia Police Chief Bogo didn't believe in Judy's abilities as a cop?
Pretty biased for someone who lives in such a modern city.
But as one of the Disney films that deals with serious topics really well, “Zoomania” shows very clearly that this kind of prejudice will never get you very far.
To SEE this, maybe Chief Bogo should update his glasses.
By the way, he wears them because buffaloes actually have really bad eyesight.
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4. Also in Zootopia:
Okay, and speaking of the movie, have you ever noticed that wolf?
If you look closely you will see the similarity to the picture below.
This shows actor Keanu Reeves looking depressed on a park bench in 2010 and holding a sandwich in his hand.
The photo quickly became a meme, but the background story is relatively harmless: Keanu himself explained on Stephen Colbert's
The Late Show
that he was just hungry and thoughtful.
5. Hercules (1997)
I don't know about you, but in my opinion Hades is one of those villains from films and series that has simply been misunderstood.
How would you feel if your family constantly excluded you?
He also has the coolest sayings.
Among other things, he tells you exactly halfway through the film (at minute 46) that it's only half time.
Brilliant guy.
6. Mulan (1998)
And speaking of the second halves of films: Have you ever noticed that in "Mulan" there are no more songs sung after the village burned by the Huns is discovered?
This decision is intended to underline how much darker the film becomes from this point on.
So it's no surprise that the scene with the Huns and the village girl's doll made our list of 10 disturbing Disney moments.
7. Pirates of the Caribbean (2003)
In another list, we've already talked about a movie flaw in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean that you may never have noticed.
In one scene, a man wears a cowboy hat.
This is funny because there are even more details from the film that have to do with hats!
One of them is that at some point Jack Sparrow's hats stopped being made of leather because actor Johnny Depp kept losing them or throwing them overboard.
The material then sank, so it was replaced with something that remained afloat.
8. Toy Story 4 (2019)
You know when you make one of those mistakes at work that practically begs you to get fired?
Then maybe I can reassure you, because you certainly haven't messed up anything as badly as the employee I'm telling you about now.
In 1997, someone at Pixar managed to delete the entire second part of “Toy Story” from the database using the “rm -r -f” command.
So honestly.
The.
Overall.
Part.
However, the film was saved and released because another employee still had a copy at home.
This incident is alluded to in "Toy Story 4": a car there has the license plate "RMRF97" - the order that almost killed the film and the year in which it happened.
9. Also in Toy Story 4:
Remember when Disney took things way too far in Toy Story 3, as they have done in other films, by almost burning all the toys in the oven in one scene?
You might be worried about Buzz in a similar way if you noticed in the fourth part of the series that his stickers are slowly coming off... But hey, let's not think about such farewells and let's quickly look at the next detail.
10. Ratatouille (2007)
You know those movie scenes that are just so perfect you could watch them 100 times?
“Ratatouille” has a lot of that.
You can also see how much love was put into the production in the hidden details: Anton Ego's office not only looks like a coffin, it also looks as if there is a skull on the back of his typewriter.
Both are intended to show that the restaurants he criticizes in his reviews are doomed.
11. Inside Out (2015)
There are also a lot of details in this Disney film that you can mess with.
This time it's not about playing cards where you can see Riley and her family, but about something that varied from country to country.
Remember the scene with the pizza and the broccoli topping?
In Japan it was changed to one with peppers because many Japanese kids find this vegetable disgusting.
12. Fantasia (1940)
And finally, a detail from a very old Disney film that may come as a surprise: In “Fantasia” it is shown that the dinosaurs became extinct due to a drought.
That's because the theory that an asteroid was responsible for the extinction wasn't put forward until later.
Did you like these little Easter eggs and the like?
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