Influence
For the 2007 television show Pushing Daisies, a "quirky fairy tale," ABC sought an Amélie feel, with the same chords of "whimsy and spirit and magic." Pushing Daisies director Bryan Fuller said Amélie is his favorite film. "All the things I love are represented in that movie," he said. "It's a movie that will make me cry based on kindness as opposed to sadness." Because of this, The New York Times' review of Pushing Daisies reported "the 'Amélie' influence on 'Pushing Daisies' is everywhere".
In the 2009 film Bunny and the Bull, the scenes set in the real world of Stephen's flat have the same red, green and gold feel of Amelie's interiors. Additionally, the opening credits are similar to Delicatessen, an earlier film of Amelie's director Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
The protagonist of the 2005 fantasy film MirrorMask has a personality similar to that of Amélie, in at least the respect that they both frown upon the prospect of a romantic relationship and prefer more time alone with their imagination.
A species of frog was named Cochranella amelie. The scientist who named it said: "this new species of Glass frog is for Amélie, protagonist of the extraordinary movie "Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain"; a film where little details play an important role in the achievement of joie de vivre; like the important role that Glassfrogs and all amphibians and reptiles play in the health of our planet". The species was described in the scientific journal Zootaxa in an article entitled "An enigmatic new species of Glassfrog (Amphibia: Anura: Centrolenidae) from the Amazonian Andean slopes of Ecuador" .
The song "La Valse d'Amélie" from the soundtrack of the film was sampled in the song "Diary" on the 2009 album Attention Deficit by hip-hop artist Wale.
The girl's name Amelie soared in popularity after the release of the film.
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