Greetings nerdy list aficionados are you ready for some Easter Eggs maybe, I mean you might
all be eagle eyed and on the ball so you may have spotted all these but we’ll still have
fun.
I know you’ll tell me if you don’t.
I’m Sasha and we’re going to be taking a look at some Battle Angel Alita or well
Alita Battle Angel as the film is called.
They reversed it.
Now there has been buzz around this movie for awhile some good, some bad some perplexed
by certain stylistic choices, but now the moment has arrived and people can go check
it out for themselves.
So let’s take a look at some of these references and Easter Eggs.
Let’s start off with a nod to pre – existing fans.
There was a Battle Angel OVA released in 1993 consisting of 2 episodes each 30 minutes.
These were originally planned by manga author Yukito Kishiro but he claimed he was too busy
to consider an anime adaptation meaning there was quite a gap between that and this 2019
film, but they still took the time to reference this first adaptation.
How?
Well the deaths of Grewishka and Hugo are shot for shot.
The good kind of shot for shot not 1998 Pyscho shot for shot.
So for those in the know that was a nice touch.
Number 7 – Cultural symbols on Zapan Robert Rodriguez likes to slip in little cultural
nods where he can and he got an opportunity when designing the back of Zapan’s cyborg
body which contains a lovely representation of The Aztec calendar.
It doesn’t really have much to do with his character but it’s very nice to look at.
I’m sure there’s somebody making deep connections though, if you have any deeper
theories you know what to do.
Leave them down below.
Number 6 – Leading off of that aside from the Aztec reference.
Rodriguez also made numerous references to his own heritage throughout the film.
Such as making some of the streets of Iron City resemble a South American city, as well
as sneaking in as many names as possible such as Dr. Ido’s Clinica and having Spanish
banner sup in the motorball area.
Small touches by nice little dare I say Easter Eggs for people to find.
Throwing in a reference here and there is part of the fun of film making.
I would throw in the most obscure references.
People would be baffled for decades.
Number 5 – For those who missed this channels own Kelly Paoli did an interview with Special
effects artist Eric Saidon firstly check it out if you haven’t already , secondly we
were let in on some info that lead actress Rosa Salazar appears in the background of
the Hunter Warrior Bar.
There’s some pretty intense CG on the actress while she’s playing Alita which were some
of the critiques surrounding this film at first so this is a nice way that she got to
be in the film more as herself.
Look out for her in that scene.
Number 4 – 99 numbers can hold a world of meaning an d in this film Alita’s motorball
number 99 is actually a reference to her battle number in the catastrophic war the “fall”
which is of course an angel reference.
2 references in one.
Number 3 - Kansas Bar . In the manga there are many different Bar Kansas, so it’s an
adaptation from the manga but this is yet another dual reference because the original
story was set in the US near Kansas city Missouri, whereas in the film Iron City is not given
a clear location.
So Kansas Bar is a smuch as you’re going to get.
They also changed the name of Sky City to Zalem.
Number 2 – War Paint There is yet another nod to the OVA when Alita uses the blood of
her dead dog friend as War Paint to signify that she will kill Grewishka.
Dark stuff, which makes me think of a pet related change that was made to the character’s
backstory.
In the manga when she is revived she is named after her rescuers dead cat not his dead daughter.
I don’t know dead daughter is a cliché dead cat that’s something unique.
Number 1 – Nova’s reveal the main antagonist of the film is not truly revealed until the
very end communicating instead through proxxy’s adding to the aura of mystery.
Instead he speaks through Vector and Grewishka but there are glimpses of a white haired man
throughout the film and rumours were swirling pre the films release that the character would
be played by acclaimed director James Cameron.
Cameron had been in the running to direct Alita but chose to direct Avatar instead,
and he had expressed interest in being part of the series.
So some fans postulated that he would be Nova however when the reveal ultimately happened
instead it was Edward Norton.
How do you feel about it?
So those were some Easter Eggs from Alita Battle Angel did you notice them.
Have you seen this film?
Are you going to?
Let me know everything down below.
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