Disney Pixar’s Fantasy Comedy Drama released in 2020 is an amazing ride of finding one’s self filled to the brim not only with enigmatic and interesting characters and dialogue, but with very intricate and detailed animation too.
Over the years Pixar has been known for their tendency to include tiny easter eggs that are barely noticeable. Soul, for one, isn’t an exception. In this video, we’ll list down 10 things you definitely missed in Soul.
1. The Mystics
We might all already know that the Mystics are most likely based on hippies, but what we might not have noticed is the intricacies in detail about them. The song playing when we first meet them is Bob Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues, one of the very first songs to receive a music video, something that seems to now be the standard for most music.
2. The Pizza Rat
One comedic yet not-that-memorable scene is the Pizza Rat scene where Joe in a cat’s body is dragging pizza through the street and meets a rat doing the exact same thing. Although it’s a funny joke, there’s more to it. You might think that it’s an easter egg for Master Splinter or Ratatouille but it’s actually not the case.
The pizza rat is an homage to a video that went viral back in 2015 showing a rat carrying a whole slice of pizza through the subway.
3. 22’s Famous Mentors
Although in the film we’re all exposed to a number of very notable mentors for 22, if we pause in the scene where 22’s wall of mentor name tags are shown, we see a number of more interesting and famous mentors from Aretha Franklin, Johnny Cash, Jack Kirby, Babe Ruth, Martin Luther King Jr., and even Joan of Arc.
4. The Cat
It might be obvious to others, but it’s not such a happy think to think about it that it was no coincidence when 22 took Joe’s body and Joe took the body of the cat, when we see the cat going up the staircase, it literally meant that it died exactly when the two jumped from the beyond back into the world.
5. 9 Lives
If the cat is dead, why do we see it near the end of the film where Joe wakes up after being given another chance? Well, it’s an easter egg of what a lot of people say about cats. They have 9 lives. It explains why the cat is confused when going up the stairs, because it probably wasn’t its 9th life.
6. The Hall of Everything
Pixar is not only known for including a lot of easter eggs in their films, but they’re more specifically known for including easter eggs about their previous films. In the Hall of Everything we see a lot of these easter eggs. One of the more noticeable one was the Pizza Planet Truck from Toy Story.
7. Luxo Ball
The yellow ball with one blue stripe and a red start from 22’s cardboard box home seems familiar. That’s because it’s the Luxo Ball. An easter egg that has appeared in almost all pixar movies, most notably in the Toy Story Franchise.
8. Merida’s Soul
The scene after the Hall of Everything, we see a soul practicing archery and celebrating after hitting 3 bull’s eyes in a row. That’s also what Merida did in Pixar’s Brave, out matching her pathetic suitors.
9. Chinese Take-out Box
The Luxo ball isn’t the only prolific easter egg prop in Pixar Films. In this film, the Chinese Take-out Box, known for first appearing in 1998’s “A Bug’s Life” as a makeshift circus prop, appears in not one, but two scenes in “Soul”. We see it in the hedge fund manager’s desk before he pushes everything off his table and in the garbage can that Joe trips over while running away from Moonwind’s boss. Beat that, Luxo Ball!
10. 23-19
The last but not the least easter egg is 23-19. In “Soul” it’s the number for the subway cart that Joe and 22 goes in. 23-19 also happens to be one of the most memorable numbers in Pixar history as it happens to be the Human Contaminant Code in Pixar’s box-office hit, award-winning, critically acclaimed 2001 film “Monster’s, Inc.”
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