E even has the song "Aquarela do Brasil", which Brazil is named after, in the teaser trailer.E's TV is made up of a small iPod screen and a big magnifying glass would appear to be a shout out to Terry Gilliam's Brazil.E has a Rex toy in his collection, as well as a garden gnome that Pixar has confirmed is a model from Half-Life 2: Episode 2, used with Valve's permission for the Easter Egg.The captain trying to reattach the plant's leaf looks exactly like Al doing the same to Woody's arm in Toy Story 2.In the mosaic section of the credits, one large turtle, two smaller turtles and an orange fish swim by.Those little mouse robots nibbling around EVE in the vast trash room? They're called REM-Es.The pizza delivery Toyota from Toy Story comes to mind.To say nothing of the numerous references to other Pixar films:.Although in Real Life it burned up in the atmosphere years ago. E crashes into Sputnik 1 while leaving Earth for the first time.A-113 can be seen as the license plate number on the back of the mother's car in the first Toy Story movie as they are going to Pizza Planet. There's also the A-113 reference found in every Pixar film, although here it's actually given plot relevance it's the name of the directive AUTO follows to ensure the ship never returns to Earth.It even reflect on BURN-E's visor like it did on Dave's. When the ship goes into hyperdrive, it mimics the light show that Dave sees when he goes though the Monolith. There's another 2001 reference in the BURN-E short.The famous 2001 classical soundtrack is also evoked in two separate scenes with the Axiom's captain the "Blue Danube" waltz by Johann Strauss II plays when the Captain gets the daily status report from the ship's computer, and, fittingly, for a movie about the near-future evolution of humanity, in what is possibly the first non-parodic use of the song in a dramatic context since 2001, Also sprach Zarathustra plays when the Captain becomes the first person on the Axiom in nearly 700 years to stand up and walk. AUTO not only looks like HAL-9000, but has a similar character arc, including being set up by the movie as malfunctioning and later revealing that he was in fact just carrying out orders. AUTO was explicitly designed with HAL-9000 in mind.It should be noted that whenever Pixar staff encounter problems with their movies, they watch Hayao Miyazaki's films for inspiration. E wave to each other seems similar to Chihiro's encounter with the Radishman in Spirited Away.The drones flying out of the shuttle bay reference the runabouts from the opening of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and during the approach to the Axiom, the music sounds like the approach to the Death Star in Star Wars. The solar flare before going to the ice rings references the opening of Star Trek: Voyager. There are at LEAST three visual references when WALL.M-O's "FOREIGN CONTAMINANT" directive is synthesized by the same. AUTO has that Creepy Monotone because he's voiced by MacinTALK, Apple's text-to-speech program.E's "fully charged" and reboot sounds are the same as the iconic Apple start-up sound.Sigourney Weaver is the voice of the Axiom PA system, referencing Alien, Galaxy Quest, and perhaps the Futurama episode "Love and Rocket".E listens to songs from the 1969 film adaptation of Hello, Dolly!.E contains tons of shout-outs, mostly to other sci-fi films, and most obviously to 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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