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Facts 1711-1740: Up Themed Page

"Please let me in!"

"No."

*slams door shut*

*long awkard silence*

*door opens*

"Oh alright."

That right there was one of my favourite parts of the entire movie! This fact paged was requested by @fyiimizzy. 

Enjoy!

Oh, and crazy thing just happened! As I was looking for facts on this movie, I stumbled upon my Shake It Up Themed Page on Google! How weird is that?

Fact #1711 

The heartbreaking and memorable beginning of the movie almost wasn’t in the film. The first storyboarded version had Ellie and Carl punching each other, and when the writers presented it, they were left with silence.

Fact #1712 

Young Ellie is voiced by the daughter of the film’s director, Pete Docter — and her name is also Ellie.

Fact #1713 

Russell was originally named Lewis, but the story team changed it to avoid confusion with the Meet the Robinsons character.

Fact #1714 

One alternate ending included Muntz chasing the bird in the labyrinth, getting fooled by a balloon animal, and then getting lost forever.

Fact #1715 

The other alternate ending had Muntz being fooled by a balloon bird in the house and then having the dogs run in and tip the house over the edge of a cliff.

Fact #1716 

Pixar had real ostriches on the animation campus for inspiration when designing Kevin.

Fact #1717 

There were 70 different iterations of Kevin and she was voiced by eight sounds. Some parts were voiced by director Pete Docter.

Fact #1718 

Charles Muntz was designed by a mix of Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, Howard Hughes, and Walt Disney.

Fact #1719 

The Alpha Dogs are shaped like bullets and heat-seeking missiles.

Fact #1720 

Dug is a mixture of a golden retriever and a lab. He is also the only dog of Muntz not named after a Greek letter.

Fact #1721 

To make Russell sound more natural, voice actor Jordan Nagai would sometimes run around before saying a line.

Fact #1722 

Several of the drawings from Ellie’s Adventure Book were drawn by the director’s daughter.

Fact #1723 

The courtroom Carl reports to is A113.

Fact #1724 

A replica of Ellie and Carl’s house (inside and out) was built in Utah for an asking price of almost $400,000.

Fact #1725 

Director Pete Docter named Disney storyman and writer Joe Grant in the film's dedication to the "real life Carl and Ellie Fredricksens who inspired us to create our own Adventure Books." Grant was part of the 1937 team that created Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and wrote Dumbo and Fantasia. The mentor, friend and source of inspiration to Docter and countless others continued to work at the Walt Disney Animation Studios up until his death in 2005, one week shy of his 97th birthday.

Fact #1726 

Carl’s name is only actually said twice in the film. He is referred to by Mr. Fredricksen or Fredricksen the rest of the movie.

Fact #1727 

The Pizza Planet truck appears in Up three times.

Fact #1728 

The grape soda pin Carl dons is the same brand featured in the Buzz Lightyear commercial in Toy Story.

Fact #1729 

Dug’s ‘point’ pose identically mimics Mickey’s dog Pluto’s point.

Fact #1730 

Gazerbeam’s skull from The Incredibles rests in The Spirit of Adventure.

Fact #1731 

In the scene where Russell attempts to break into the Spirt of Adventure, he floats by a window where the dogs are playing poker. This is reference to C.M. Coolidge’s famous painting series of “Dogs Playing Poker.”

Fact #1732 

Up was the first Pixar movie and second Disney movie to be nominated for both Best Picture and Best Animated Feature.

Fact #1733 

In the Simpsons, the Itchy and Scratchy short “P.U.” is a parody of Up.

Fact #1734 

Charles Muntz was named after an actual enemy of Walt Disney. Up’s villain Charles Muntz was named after Walt Disney’s real-life archenemy, Universal Pictures executive Charles Mintz. Mintz stole Disney’s production rights to “Oswald the Lucky Rabbit” in 1928. This lead Disney to create Mickey Mouse and quickly surpass Universal in animation popularity.

Fact #1735 

During the production of Up, the Animation Department produced an average of 4 seconds of animation a week.

Fact #1736 

Pixar consulted with an architect to learn about home foundations to make the lift off of Carl’s house more believable.

Fact #1737 

The Spirit of Adventure is 3,061 ft. long, which is 3.8 times longer than the Hindenburg.

Fact #1738 

To walk from the location where Carl and Russell first arrive on the tepui to the top of Paradise Falls would require a 14.5 mile trek. It’s about 6.75 miles across to the nearest tepui when they look out across the landscape.

Fact #1739 

All of the crowd dogs were actually a single dog based on Beta, tweaked around in shape and groom to look like a pack of 50.

Fact #1740 

I know I've already said this but, the first ten minutes of Up will make you weep like a baby! :(

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I hope you all enjoyed these facts as much as I did!