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Zootopia (2016)

Description: From the largest elephant to the smallest shrew, the city of Zootopia is a mammal metropolis where various animals live and thrive. When Judy Hopps becomes the first rabbit to join the police force, she quickly learns how tough it is to enforce the law. Determined to prove herself, Judy jumps at the opportunity to solve a mysterious case. Unfortunately, that means working with Nick Wilde, a wily fox who makes her job even harder.
Directors: Byron Howard, Rich Moore
Writers: Byron Howard (story by), Rich Moore (story by)
Stars: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba

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Originally, the film revolved around Nick Wilde. Test audiences said that they had a hard time connecting with him emotionally, and found themselves drawn to Judy Hopps, so the story was changed.

Animators decided upon Judy’s purple eye color because they thought the rest of her gray fur markings were too dull, particularly for a main character. Purple was chosen to represent her energetic and optimistic personality.

Duke Weaselton is voiced by Alan Tudyk, who also voiced the Duke of Weselton (often mispronounced Weaseltown) in Frozen (2013). In contrast to the character of the latter, Judy mispronounces Duke’s last name as “Weselton” in this movie.

The nudist Indian Yoga instructor is named Nangi. Nangi refers to a naked woman in the Hindi language.

Chief Bogo’s name is taken from the Swahili word “mbogo,” meaning buffalo.

On her train ride to Zootopia, before Judy selects Gazelle, some of the other artists on her music player include: The Beagles, Black Sable, Catty Perry, Destiny’s Cub, Ewe 2, Fleetwood Yak, Fur Fighters, Gun N’ Rodents, Hyena Gomez, Kanine West and Mick Jaguar. These are references to the bands and singers, Destiny’s Child, The Beatles, Black Sabbath, Katy Perry, Fleetwood Mac, Guns N’ Roses, Selena Gomez, Kanye West, U2, Mick Jagger, and Foo Fighters.

Nick Wilde’s design is heavily based on the title character of Disney’s Robin Hood (1973) (who is also a fox).

The pirated DVDs that Duke Weaselton is selling are movies with word plays to other Walt Disney Animation Studio features. Examples are: “Pig Hero 6” (Big Hero 6 (2014)), “Wrangled” (Tangled (2010)) and “Wreck-It Rhino” (Wreck-It Ralph (2012)). He also claimed to have movies that haven’t been released yet, which were “Meowana” (Moana (2016)), “Floatzen 2” (Frozen (2013)) and “Giraffic” (Gigantic). These were intended to be foreshadowing of future projects of Walt Disney Animation Studios. Moana would be released later that year. However, Gigantic was shelved a year later and eventually canceled due to creative problems. And Frozen 2 released on November 2019

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