Line #21 Trivia/Soul


1	* ActorSharedBackground:
2	** Creator/JamieFoxx, like Joe, is a classically trained pianist, although Foxx didn't perform any of the music in the film.
3	** Like Lamont "Curley" Baker, Questlove is a drummer in real-life.
4	* AllStarCast: The cast includes Creator/JamieFoxx, Creator/TinaFey, Creator/DaveedDiggs, Creator/AngelaBassett, and Creator/PhyliciaRashad.
5	* TheCastShowoff: [[spoiler: Daveed Diggs gets a rap solo in the credits.]]
6	* CelebrityVoiceActor: In the Japanese dub, Joe is voiced by musician and actor Kenta Hamano, which some tokusatsu fans can recognize him as Kyu Saijo in ''Series/KamenRiderDrive'' and Uncle Death in ''VideoGame/LetItDie''. Likewise, 22 is voiced by former member of Music/{{AKB48}} and also actress, Rina Kawaei.
7	* ColbertBump: Plenty of people have been introduced to Music/{{AJR}} because "Overture" was featured in the teaser.
8	* CreatorsOddball:
9	** The first Pixar film in which their "good luck charm" Creator/JohnRatzenberger doesn't appear as a voice actor. Instead, his ''[[InkSuitActor likeness]]'' [[https://www.laughingplace.com/w/news/2021/01/01/john-ratzenberger-pixar-soul-cameo/ can be spotted in the subway station]].
10	** This is also Pete Docter's first directorial efforts since the Music/RandyNewman-backed ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc1'' not to be scored by Creator/MichaelGiacchino, instead working with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross from Music/NineInchNails, with [[Series/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert Jon Batiste]] providing all the jazz piano music. Since the film was centered around music ''and'' needed something to animate Joe's piano playing to, Docter needed more immediate musical feedback from the composers rather than waiting until the picture was locked before handing it off to a composer to score it with a full orchestra.
11	** It's quite unexpected of Trent and Atticus, known for their indystrial [[Music/NineInchNails hard-edged music]], to do anything even remotely related to Disney, much less score a movie for them.
12	* DVDCommentary: By director Pete Docter, co-director Kemp Powers and producer Dana Murray.
13	* IronyAsSheIsCast: Hugely successful rapper and musician Daveed Diggs plays a character who not only never sings or does anything musical, but actively ''mocks'' Joe's musical ambitions as a dead end. To balance this out, Diggs also performs the song by the rap group from Joe's youth.
14	* KidsMealToy: UsefulNotes/McDonalds released a set of six plush clip-ons; Joe Gardner, Mr. Mittens, Newb, 22, Terry, and Moonwind.
15	* MarketBasedTitle: Released in Japan with the title ''Soulful World''.
16	* MissingTrailerScene: As is typical for Pixar movies, the teaser trailer depicts a scene that doesn't appear in the movie, where 22 does a cowboy dance.
17	* PlayingAgainstType: For composer Trent Reznor, the ethereal, ambient music he created for the Great Beyond and Great Before scenes is a far cry from the angry IndustrialMetal he creates as Music/NineInchNails or the edgier techno music that he and Atticus Ross have composed for video games and Creator/DavidFincher movies.
18	* ReleaseDateChange: The film was originally planned to be ready for the summer of 2021, but finished ahead of schedule and was moved up to June 19, 2020... [[{{Irony}} and then it was pushed forward]] to November 20th due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic shutting down movie theaters in most countries. When it became clear that American movie theaters would not operate to full capacity in time for it to get a proper theatrical release, it was rescheduled yet again for a direct-to-digital Christmas release on Creator/DisneyPlus.
19	* ScrewedByTheNetwork: In 2024, the film was supposed to have a nationwide release as a result of the delay of ''WesternAnimation/{{Elio}}'', but closer to the film’s release, some theaters pulled their showtimes for the film for reasons unknown.
20	* UncreditedRole: [[Creator/EdwardAsner Ed Asner]] isn't credited as 22's old man voice, despite the fact that he is a well-known actor and had appeared in [[WesternAnimation/{{Up}} another Pixar film]].
21	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Quite a few things changed as development went along, as shown [[https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/8/22149552/soul-pixar-interview-character-afterlife-designs here]].
22	** Originally, the film was just about a soul who didn't want to go to Earth and took place entirely in the Great Before. Joe was initially created just to give the soul character a reason to eventually go to Earth before he ended up becoming the main character.
23	** Joe was originally a white man who was first interested in animation, then one who wanted to be a rock star. He didn't become a Black man with a love for jazz until Kemp Powers came on as co-writer and co-director.
24	** The film had [[https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2020/12/26/spoilers-disney-plus-soul-why-pixar-chose-powerful-ending-spoilers/4019429001/ two different endings planned]]:
25	*** [[spoiler:Joe accepted his fate and went to the great beyond]]. This was scrapped because everyone felt that it was robbing him of the chance to live life with a different viewpoint.
26	*** [[spoiler:Joe toured with Dorothea while teaching students privately on the side, and eventually recognized one of them as 22]]. This was agreed to be too confusing as per the film's internal logic, and, in Kemp Powers' own words, "there was something innately not satisfying about it."
27	** Trent Reznor initially created a score that imitated the style of Music/RandyNewman, but Pixar threw it out, complaining that they wanted something new, not another version of Newman.
28	* WordOfGod: [[https://twitter.com/Powerkeni/status/1345117802449915906 According to co-director Kemp Powers]], Mr. Mittens came back to life because "the cat had nine lives". A sequence depicting Mr. Mittens returning to his body was storyboarded, but was discarded. You can still see Mr. Mittens alive when Joe gets back to his body on the subways and runs to the jazz concert.
29	* WorkingTitle: According to the [[https://ui.eidr.org/view/content?id=10.5240/1CF3-2E66-501B-C6FE-9D8F-Z Entertainment Identifier Registry]], the film was registered under the tentative title of "Born To Be".
30	* WriteWhatYouKnow:
31	** Joe's story about working to achieve a singular goal, then wondering what to do with the rest of his life once he had, was inspired by Pete Docter going through a similar existential crisis after the massive financial and critical success of ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' made him wonder if there was anything left for him to accomplish as a filmmaker.
32	** Co-writer and co-director Kemp Powers drew inspiration from his own experiences as a creative struggling to achieve his dream as well as his deep love of jazz.
33	* WrittenByCastMember: Creator/TinaFey [[https://ew.com/movies/2019/11/06/pixar-soul-photo-jamie-foxx-tina-fey/ helped Pete Docter, Kemp Powers, and co-writer Mike Jones write 22's lines]].

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