Life Movie Facts
50 of the most interesting Life facts you didn't know about. Handpicked and verified, these little-known details can be obscure enough most people will miss. These behind the scene easter eggs and hidden messages will give you another view of Life movie message.
In A Bug's Life (1998) Manny, a mantis, is married to Gypsy, a butterfly, because if he he was married to another mantis, he wouldn't have survived their wedding night

Life Movie Trivia Facts
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The main character names the tiger that survives with him "Richard Parker", the same name of a real sailor who was killed to be eaten on the ship the Mignonette, after the sailors who killed him returned home they went on trial which became a famous legal case on England.
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In A Bug's Life (1998) P.T. Flea' s circus is transported in an animal cracker box called Casey Jr. cookies by J. Grant Bakery. Joe Grant wrote Dumbo (1941), in which the famous Casey Jr. train transported the circus.
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When the People's Front of Judea are scheming in a meeting, the one that are taking notes are scribbling form right to left - which would make sense since Arabic languages are written and read from right to left (and the movie is set in the middle east)
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The villain Mr Potter goes unpunished and does not repent. This is in violation of the Hays Code, which contained a requirement that criminal wrongdoing in movies must never be depicted as going unpunished unless criminals are shown to repent.
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: In the scene when Uncle Billy drunkenly walks off, a loud crash is heard a moment later and Uncle Billy reassure George that he is alright. This scene was unscripted and happened due to a stagehand dropping a tray of props during filming. WARNING: Clip is loud.
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You can see a fan in the background while Brian is running from the romans
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When the comedian ask Daniel how he died he says, "Onstage, like you." Later he tells Julia he can't leave because the comedian is his father. Albert Brooks' real father had a heart attack and died on stage at a Friars Club roast of Lucille and Dezi Arnez.
Life Easter Eggs
Hidden objects, characters, easter eggs, and their meanings are wonderful ways to discover the filmmaker's perspectives of any given movie.
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For the longest time, I never understood why the grasshoppers in A Bug's Life (1998) had a feral grasshopper amongst their ranks. Today I finally figured it out, he's a locust, a grasshopper in its crazed "swarming" phase -
A trailer is shown to be outside of the circus tent, along with the Pizza Planet truck featured in Toy Story (1995). Both of these can also be seen in Monsters, Inc. (2001).
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Alfred Hitchcock had a problem, his signature cameo in all his films was difficult when the film is set on a small boat. Before considering being a dead body floating past he came up with the idea of having a before and after photo in the newspaper to immortalize his weight loss -
And its inspiration, Seven Samurai (1954)
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You can see a Planet Pizza Truck which exists in nearly all Pixar movies.
Life Hidden Facts












Red or blue car. He chooses the red car signifying he's ready to take the plunge after a life of dreaming.




Hopper uses his antennae to smell Princess Atta as insects smell using their antennae.


: Whenever George is begging Mr. Potter for something or desperate (asking for a loan, accepting a job offer from Potter), he is shown as physically below him. But when George is standing up to Potter, George is physically above him.


The only clue you get that Cate Blanchett's character was a smoker is that she's chewing gum all the time.

For his cameo in Lifeboat (1944), director Alfred Hitchock appears in a newspaper advertisement for the fictional 'Reduco Obesity Slayer' weight-loss plan. The restricted setting limited the scope of him appearing as a live character. Photographs taken IRL during his rapid weight loss were used.
Eddie Murphy's character travels from New York to Mississippi where he makes fun of the Southern accent. As the years pass be begins speaking in a Southern accent.

They say that every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings; after George decides he wants to live and is running home through Bedford Falls, bells can be seen all over town, including a theater playing The Bells of St.Mary's (begins at the 1:50 mark).

When they show any closeup shot of the Casey's Cookies box, you can see the rosette pattern that would be created by the four-color printing process (CMYK). Something a human would need a magnifying glass to see.
In A Bug's Life after the circus bugs are found to be frauds an ant off screen says "Staff sergeant Slim?". Slim is the stick bug. And he is the STAFF sergeant.
The character Joaquin, who is motivated to fight crime because of the death of his father, jumps in front of the moon mirroring the Dark Knight Returns Batman, who is also motivated to fight crime because of the death of his parents

Gidget obsesses over Max, and agressively defends him when she eventually finds him. Also, Tiberius the bird says she is sweet, but also salty and gamey smelling. This is because she is in heat.

Life Plot
A team of scientists aboard the International Space Station discover a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars and now threatens all life on Earth.
Cast and Details
Here are the full cast and crew of Life. The goofs, crazy credits, and trivia they have performed may have not taken your attention. Some are hidden for a reason, while others randomly forgotten.
Genre | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller |
Director | Daniel Espinosa |
Stars | Hiroyuki Sanada, Ryan Reynolds, Rebecca Ferguson, Jake Gyllenhaal |
IMDB score | 6.6 |