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How many times have you seen the movie Ratatouille?
The answer would probably be at least 5 times. It happens quite rarely in the film industry that a movie gets released and is so good that you have no other option but to rewatch it over and over again. The 2007’s masterpiece Ratatouille is an example of such a rarity. This Walt Disney and Pixar classic was directed by Brad Bird. The movie made $620 million from a budget of $150 million. The reason why it did so well is that it contained everything, competitiveness, heartwarming emotions, suspense, a good character story, and a really nice ending to support everything. After all, how can you not love a movie made about the food set in Paris, this was perfection.
Ratatouille, like all other amazing movies, has a lot of easter eggs and details that you will probably miss on your first watch. Don’t you worry! The die-hard fans who have watched the movie multiple times have done all the research have shoveled out all the hidden details for us. Today we are going to view 30 of them.
Scroll down below and trust me this will surprise you.
1. In this scene we can see Colette has a forearm injury from a hot oven rack, something almost every other professional chef has.
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2. To perfect the scene where Linguini jumps in the river, the directors made a crew member wear the chef’s jacket and jump in the water to see how does the jacket stick to the body when wet.
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3. At the end of the movie, Ego can be seen a little fatter compared to how he looks throughout the movie. That is because he said he only swallows the food he loves and he absolutely loved the Ratatouille
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4. When Cars lost the academy award to Happy Feet, the directors put a special sign saying “Quality Assurance Guaranteed” in their movie Ratatouille just to make the academy aware that every frame of the movie was animated manually and there was no motion capturing.
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5. The infamous Ratatouille that Remy prepares is an actual dish created by Chef Thomas Keller. It takes 4 hours to get the whole thing done.
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6. When Remy enters the kitchen for the first time, he jumps in a bowl of water to clean up in order to avoid contaminating other food that he makes contact with.
7. The dog that barks at Remy in this scene is actually Doug from the movie Up.
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8. If you notice closely, Ego’s office looks like it is a coffin and his typewriter looks like a skull.
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9. The reason why Remy walks like humans on two limbs instead of four is to keep his front paws clean for cooking. So thoughtful.
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10. When Ego takes his first bite into the Ratatouille, his face turns less pale which shows how much his thoughts about the restaurants’ food had changed. He loved it.
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11. When Ego gets sent back in time after eating Remy’s Ratatouille, we can spot some details in Ego’s mother’s house that hint that Remy actually lived with Ego’s mother and also learnt cooking from her.
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12. In this scene where Remy hugs his father, his voice actor Patton Oswalt hugged director Brad Bird to get a more realistic feel out of the scene.
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13. The mime that you see in this scene is actually Bomb Voyage from the movie The Incredibles.
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14. While going through the Cookbook you can see a page that tells the role of everyone in the Gusteau’s Kitchen and that is why Remy knows it all when he actually goes to the kitchen.
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15. The bite mark from when Remy bit Lunguinin can be seen in later scenes.
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You know what. These details are so minute and little but now that I know them, my whole experience just got so much better. I am going to have to rewatch Ratatoutille as soon as possible and you know I am going to gasp as I go through all these details now that I know them. Amazing.
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16. In the scene where Linguini offers Remy to hde in his pants, you can see Linguini’s brief that has The Incredibles logo on it.
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17. When Linguini cuts leek for the soup, you can actually spot green smears on the cutting board which actually happens when you chop the greens. Minor but very realistic.
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18. The cup you see Remy use is actually a toothpaste cap.
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19. Towards the end of the movie, in this scene you can spot that all utensils are pins, the plates are actually buttons and the cups are thimbles.
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20. Gusteau’s Restaurant has actually been referenced in Cars 2 as Gastow’s.
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21. The shop scene with dead rats hanging on a rack was actually inspired by a real shop called Aurouze in Paris. Ew.
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22. The reason why you can see the staff so exhausted after Linguini’s inspirational speech is that his speech actually took 20 minutes and got super boring. Attention to detail.
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23. The wine bottle seen in this scene is a Lasseter Wine Bottle which is actually a real-life wine owned by John Lasseter.
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24. While he was exploring the house, Remy spots a woman pointing a gun at a man who she later kisses. He understands that as we can see when Colette is about to hit Linguini, Remy gives a nudge to make him kiss her.
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25. From the setting, it feels like the movie is set in the 60s until this scene comes where you can see this letter from Linguini’s mother to Gusteau dated 2004 which confirms the movie was set some years after 2004 and not 1960s.
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26. The reason why Patton Oswalt was chosen as Remy’s voice actor was his amazing standup work with food as the topic.
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27. Cross movie references, you can see Colette’s cookbook in Riley’s living room.
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28. Gusteau’s first name is Auguste as can be seen on his cookbook.
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29. This phone call was a fake, Skimmer was just talking to the dial tone.
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30. The Chinese takeout food box that you see in Ratatouille can also be seen in the movies A Bug’s Life and Inside Out. The exact same ones.
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