#Luca pixar movie#
Casarosa infuses the Pixar movie with the sheer joy of what it's like to discover something remarkable for the first time as a kid. There's even a dream sequence filled with tons of Vespas.Īll this love for Vespa might have felt like a product placement in Luca were it not so heartfelt. Wowed by a Vespa poster, Luca and Alberto begin to dream of their own Vespa, building a rudimentary scooter to feel the thrill. Luca doesn't know any better though, and he's too busy gaping at all the human stuff anyway. But Alberto also thinks that the stars are all fish, so clearly, he's trying to hide his insecurities behind a façade. Alberto is a self-proclaimed master at “human stuff”, claiming that his (missing) dad told him everything and that he has been on his own for a while. Naturally the next morning, Luca returns to see Alberto who it turns out is a bit of a show-off. The curious Luca is equal parts amazed and intrigued by his brief time above the surface. It turns out that Alberto lives on land, which is equal parts shocking and terrifying for Luca as he's been told to stay away from the human world all his life. One morning, after Luca comes across human artefacts as he's out shepherding, he follows the breadcrumbs and bumps into a fellow sea monster, Alberto Scorfano. She ensures that Luca always comes home on time and questions him daily if he spotted any boats of those “land monsters”. While Luca's grandmother (Sandy Martin, from Napoleon Dynamite) indulges him and his father Lorenzo (comedian Jim Gaffigan) lives in his own world, Luca's mother Daniela Paguro (Maya Rudolph, from Bridesmaids) is very strict and protective of him. Except that his flock is fish, since he lives in the sea. have spoken about how they were inspired by traditional 2D animation, Japanese woodblock paintings, a bunch of Italian classic movies, and the works of the legendary Hayao Miyazaki - and paired with a scintillating background score by Dan Romer (Beasts of the Southern Wild) that is at once serene, playful, tingling, and epic.įrom Luca to The Family Man, What to Stream in Juneīelow the surface, Luca Paguro leads a simple sheep herder sort of life.
It's also about giving them the room to grow while still being there for your friends.Īll of this is brought to life with some of Pixar's most stylised animation to date - Casarosa & Co. Luca also explores the importance of facing your fears - epitomised in Luca through a running “Silencio Bruno!” gag - and the role that friends play in pushing you beyond your comfort zone. Central to that is Luca and Alberto's shared love for Vespa, the Italian scooter brand that made a name for itself as a style icon in the second half of the 20th century. Luca is a literal fish out of water in the new Pixar movie, and he's naturally fascinated by the ways and creations of humans.
Of course, Luca - written by Jesse Andrews (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl) and Mike Jones ( Pixar's Soul) - is about more than that. It's a coming-of-age story of two young boys in the ‘60s who have to hide their true selves from everyone around them in fear for their lives.
Though Casarosa has said it wasn't intended as such, Luca does fit the bill. Or you can even view it from an LGBTQ+ lens, as many already have. You can also see it as a film about xenophobia, a timely message in an increasingly nationalist world where people use our physical differences to discriminate against oppressed minorities. At its core, Luca shows how prejudice and fear of the unknown - while the likes of Luca and Alberto are repeatedly called “sea monsters”, we never see them do anything remotely monstrous - can divide us. Though technically, they are shapeshifting amphibians, that become fish in water, and human on land.įor Casarosa, this is the centrepiece as it allows Luca to explore what it wants to talk about. The aforementioned Luca (voiced by Jacob Tremblay, from Room) and Alberto (Jack Dylan Grazer, from Shazam!) are actually “sea monsters”, feared and hunted by the humans who live above the surface. It's set in a world that takes after the 1950s and the 1960s, for Casarosa doesn't feel as nostalgic (yet) about the eighties. The 84-minute Pixar movie on Disney+, from feature directorial debutant Enrico Casarosa, is inspired by his own childhood - Luca is dedicated to Casarosa's best friend Alberto Surace, whose name he lends to the deuteragonist and the title protagonist's best friend - in the Italian Riviera in the 1970s and 1980s.
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