Dream Quest is undoubtedly Pixar's best animation since Inside Out.
Uncle Meat's favorite in it is Dante, a hairless dog who has been dragging his tongue.
It is also said that it is also the most difficult character to do in the whole film.
Although there is no hair, there are various wrinkles and scratches on its bare skin, each of which changes with movement.
Plus it's ADHD again... Imagined.
But Pixar's animators not only did not try to avoid Dante's role, but instead made a short film, but also found it as the protagonist -
Lunch at Dante
Dante's Lunch
Gluttonous Dante found a bone shining with golden light in the middle of the road!
But this bone did not obey, and every time it saw that it was about to reach its mouth, it slipped away slyly.
And it actually turned around to provoke, bold!
By the way, in this small short film of 1 and a half minutes, there are actually two Easter eggs buried.
Uncle Meat bets that 99% of people won't find it.
These two Easter eggs are estimated that you will enlarge frame by frame and look at it slowly, and you may not be able to find it.
The first Easter egg was on this little boy who nibbled on the corn.
Wearing a T-shirt with the "Dream Quest" logo, a pair of feet is...
Racing Shoes!
The second Easter egg also flashed by.
Dante crashed into the mask stall on the side of the road, and the masks on the stalls were various, including the same model of "Hai Bian King", the same style of "The Flash", and...
Luxo color ball with the same mask!
Surprised? Surprised?
Now just watch Pixar's animation, we've all made the habit of looking for Easter eggs with our eyes wide open.
You can often see the protagonists of other animations in a film, making cameos in various guises, as if they are all in the same "Pixar animation universe".
Some of the soy sauce hits very clearly.
For example, the Strawberry Bear in "Toy Story 3" sits at the foot of the bed in "Flying House".
Others, just secretly rubbing and hiding very deeply.
Uncle Meat's most convincing one is from "Ratatouille", and the male protagonist is actually wearing a pair of "The Incredibles" printed underwear!
"Dream Quest" also has many Easter eggs.
Pizza Planet takeaway car
One of the traditional Easter eggs.
The pizza cart first appeared in 1995's Toy Story. Since then, it has appeared in every next Pixar film, vowing to send pizza to every corner.
This time, the pizza truck drove to Mexico.
It appears at the beginning of the film, when the young boy Mig recalls the family's strict prohibition of music while pushing open the window.
Luxo color ball
The second part of the traditional Easter egg.
Blue edges on a yellow background, with a five-pointed star in the middle, from Pixar's first short film "Naughty Jumping Lights".
Now, this small table lamp will appear in the opening of every Pixar animation, and the color ball has become an indispensable Easter egg in every film.
This time, the colored ball appeared next to Frida.
Mig happens to meet Frida in rehearsals, and The dog Dante gets into a fight with Frida's monkey.
As they fight, you'll see Luxo balls flash past the table behind you.
Non(bing) often (bu) mysterious A113
The third of the traditional Easter eggs.
A113 is the house number of a classroom in the Animation Department of the California Animation Institute (CalArts), the alma mater of the Pixar moguls.
So as one of the birthplaces, A113 also appears in every Pixar work.
In Dream Quest, it is the house number of the office of the head of the Bureau of the Dead.
Ten thousand years of soy sauce John Ratzenberg
In addition to the "Pizza Planet" delivery car, A113, and colored balls, Pixar also has a traditional "live" Easter egg -
Voice actor John Ratzenberg.
This old man has been involved in the dubbing of all Pixar movies, and although he plays soy sauce every time, it will definitely make you unforgettable.
He is the snowman in Monsters Inc., the construction foreman "Tom" in "Flying House", the few human beings with lines in "Wall-E", the "Fish" in "Finding Nemo", the "Ham" in the "Toy Story" series...
This time in Dream Quest, John Ratzenberg's character is juan ortodoncia, a resident of the city of the dead.
The scanner showed his posthumous photo at his dentist's house.
Apple Computer
Jobs was one of the founders of Pixar, you all know.
One of the most important buildings in Pixar's headquarters is the Steve Jobs Building.
So many Pixar works will appear Apple products, paying tribute to Jobs.
Cars is most obvious — one of the cars is all white, with a prominent Apple logo printed on the front, and the 84 on the body is the year the first Apple home computer was born.
In Monsters in Company, Fur monsters and Big-Eyed Boy appear on the cover of magazines... Wait, isn't the back cover an Apple computer?
Apple's most famous advertising slogan, "Think Different," was changed to "Scare Different."
In "Dream Quest", Mig and his skeleton elders have just arrived at the Undead Administration when they see their great-great-grandmother throwing a tantrum at the staff and smashing one... The original Mac.
Clownfish Nemo
Nemo of Finding Nemo appears more than once in the film, but it is not easy to find.
The first time he hid it in the Mig Family Ancestral Hall.
See the skeleton decoration on the right, orange round rolling thing no? It is Nemo, whose face is facing the screen.
The second time he appeared at the town's bazaar, MiG passed by a stall selling Mexican "guardian spirits" with colorful sculptures on the table.
Nemo is mixed up in it again!
Buzz Lightyear & Bigeye
A large string of Piñata hangs on the side of the bazaar street.
It is a traditional Mexican toy, sewn into various shapes from colored paper or cloth, and stuffed with candy and toys.
In the movie, these Piñata are made into cowboy Woody and Buzz Lightyear.
Next to them were Bigeye and the other monsters of Monsters Inc.
El Santo in a mask
In the City of the Dead, the rooftop lavish party of the god of song, Dracus, invited many (dead) celebrities in Mexico.
The security guard was a fan of the brains of one of the masked skeleton strong men, and he also took his head off for a group photo.
This man was the greatest wrestler in Mexican history, his real name was Rudolf Guzmán Huerta, whom Mexicans called El Santo (meaning saint).
This year marks his 100th birthday.
In El Santo's nearly 50-year career, the mask has never been torn off by an opponent, and he himself has never shown his face in real life, and not many people know what he looks like.
Google commemorated his doodle last year
It is said that he died and was cremated wearing this famous mask -
No wonder when you get to the world of the undead, you still can't see his face.
The Incredibles
Next June's "The Incredibles 2" will be Pixar's next work, and "Dream Quest" will certainly have to be previewed.
On their way to a singing show with The Tramp Hecht, MiG and Homeless Hector posted posters of the first "The Incredibles" on the street.
Sid is dead?!
Remember Sid the bad boy in Toy Story?
In the first he was a sadist, in the third he grew up and worked in a garbage dumpster.
But the favorite white skull T-shirt on a black background has not been changed.
At the draft contest of the City of the Dead in "Dream Quest", we actually saw this familiar T-shirt.
Don't...... Sid is dead?
Photo wall
"Dream Quest" is the story of embracing death. In the movie, Mexicans would put together photos of their deceased relatives in their homes to make a "photo wall", called Ofrenda in Latin.
At the end of the film, the director also added Pixar's Exclusive Ofrenda to commemorate the predecessors who made great contributions to Pixar & Disney animation.
There's Walt Disney, Steve Jobs, and the famous actor Don Ricks, who died just this April, the voice of Mr. Potato in the Toy Story series.
After reading these Easter eggs, Uncle Meat is ready to brush it again. You grin?