Top 50 Rio Movie Facts
Following is our collection of Rio facts. 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 Rio film message.


Rio Trivia
These trivia from Reddit and other sources can be used as questions with answers in quizzes or games.
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Til Schweiger, who played Hugo Stiglitz in Inglorious Basterds (2009) was born and raised in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany and had always refused roles that required him to put on a Nazi uniform. He only agreed to this role because he got to kill Nazis, rather that portray one.
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Lt. Aldo Raine wears the First Special Service Force's insignia of crossed arrows on his collar and red arrowhead shoulder patch. This was an elite US-Canadian commando unit in WWII and the precursor to modern special forces for both nations.
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The stunt involving a tanker rolling over was so dangerous that the stunt driver was not allowed to eat food for 12 hours before shooting. This was in case something went wrong and he needed to be rushed into surgery.
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When the 'Bear Jew' makes his debut you can hear him hit his bat against the wall 28 times. 28 in Hebrew is "??" meaning "strength".
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At the movie premiere in Inglorious Basterds (2009), Brad Pitt is introduced as stuntmant "Enzo Girolami". This was the birth name of the director of original The Inglorious Bastards (1978), Enzo G. Castellari.
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Dwayne Johnson ad-libbed his "forehead" joke, making Ludacris spit-take for real.
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During the bar scene while the German soldiers play Who Am I? several names on their cards are code names for infamous double agents (explanation in comments).
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Lord Humungus was originally written to be Jim Goose, Max's former partner who had been horribly burned. The concept was scrapped, but evidence of this still remains: the scars behind Humungus's mask, and the fact that his gang wears old patrol leathers.
Rio 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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The Rock's character watches an old Miami-Florida State football game on TV. The play he watches is a sack by a young Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
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Hans full name is Han Seoul-Oh nodding to Han Solo from Star Wars. -
- all of the cars are electric, because in the other universe the dinosaurs never died out, so there are no fossil fuels -
Former Racing Driver Keiichi Tsuchiya (right) made a cameo appearance as a Fisherman. Famously known as the "Drift King" in his native Japan, Tsuchiya also served as a stunt co-ordinator and stuntman for the film. -
The "De-evolution" guns seen in Super Mario Bros (1993) were just repainted versions of the Super Nintendo "Super Scope." -
Mike Meyers' character briefs Michael Fassbender's character about an extraordinary plan to assassinate Hitler during a film screening at a small cinema. The operation is dubbed "Operation Kino". In German, Kino translated to English means cinema. -
Brendan Conlon fights Koba, played by WWE and Olympic champion Kurt Angle. The camera cuts to Conlon's trainer as the match begins for a small easter egg.
Rio Hidden Details
One of the Delta Operators behind Steve Forsing lowers his M4 towards the ground before he makes a 90 degrees turn to his right displaying excellence in muzzle discipline, making sure that the barrel is not pointed on Steve Forsing or anyone else.



" a leaf falls onto an Austrian-born, Jewish soldier, and its appearance mimics the yellow "Star of David" that Jewish people were forced to wear on the left side of their chest by the Nazis.

: Colonel Hans Landa says that the Basterds often wear German uniforms to ambush unsuspecting German soldiers. The next scene shows blood stains on the uniforms the Basterds are wearing when they conduct such an ambush, implying they were taken from previous victims
Lt. Aldo at the very beginning says "Any and every son-of-a--b**** we find wearin a Nazi uniform, there gonna die." And every one of the bastards that wore one for undercover, did.



The Bear Jew's bat in Inglorious Basterds (2009) is covered with the names of Jewish people who are trapped under Nazi rule, including Anne Frank.
Michael Fassbender's character Archie Hicox pretends to be in the film that Shosanna was playing at her movie theatre before Nation's Pride.



The Jew Hunter tells Aldo that 999 *point* 999 times out of a million, Aldo would be right. In German, large numbers are separated by periods, not commas.


Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) tenses his facial muscles and keeps his jaw trying to look Italian. This way he looks like Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) in "The Godfather" (1972)




Col. Landa brings exactly three Nazi soldiers to trick the Deryfuses into thinking they're LaPadite's three daughters.




- You can see Larry indecisively tapping his pencil on his grading book through the reflection of his glasses



Rio Plot
When Blu, a domesticated macaw from small-town Minnesota, meets the fiercely independent Jewel, he takes off on an adventure to Rio de Janeiro with the bird of his dreams.
Cast and Details
Here are the full cast and crew of Rio. 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 | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Musical |
Director | Carlos Saldanha |
Stars | Karen Disher, Jason Fricchione, Sofia Scarpa Saldanha, Leslie Mann |
IMDB score | 6.9 |