![]() However, Luca gets caught by his mother, who threatens to send him away to the deeper parts of the ocean if he ever visits the surface again. A fast friendship develops between Alberto and Luca, centered around the desire to acquire a Vespa so they can explore the world together. Alberto convinces Luca to join him, and the viewer learns that the sea monsters don a human disguise when on land. Shortly into the film, Luca meets another sea monster named Alberto, who has been living by himself on the surface. He collects trinkets from the “land monsters” (humans) that fall into the ocean, and longs to explore beyond his home. ![]() Luca is a boy who desperately wants to go to the surface at his parents’ behest. ![]() Luca follows Luca Paguro, a young sea monster living in the ocean off the coast of a scenic 1950s Italian town. So why did Luca resonate so deeply with me while Onward fell short? The answer, like everything that makes Luca work so well, lies in the simplicity of it all. Luca is not only an excellent film, it is (in my opinion) the best original feature Pixar has put out in four years. When I sat down to watch Pixar’s latest feature Luca, I was worried I would feel the same way about it that I felt about Onward and it’s protagonists, but I could not have been more wrong. The plot wouldn’t change a beat, but the themes explored would have felt fresher and more interesting. I had trouble connecting to Onward, and posited that the story would have been more impactful with female characters anchoring the movie instead. Onward was an average cookie cutter adventure story, but part of it was definitely due to Pixar’s frequent (and tired) insistence of having male characters lead their stories time and time again. In my last article, I wrote about Pixar’s March 2020 release Onward, and spent some time exploring why it felt like such an unremarkable film despite being produced by the most famous 3D animation studio in the world. This was deconfirmed by the film's director, who stated that "They considered it, but Alberto's a lot sillier than that, and definitely just made it up".Warning: This article contains spoilers for the movie Luca.His name could possibly be Bruno, as Alberto made the catchphrase “Silenzio Bruno!”.It is unknown what actually happened to Mr. Eventually, Alberto sold the Vespa in order for Luca to go to school with their friend Giulia Marcovaldo while he remains with Giulia's father Massimo, who decides to take Alberto in as his new adoptive son. In the end, Luca and Alberto won the race and bought a Vespa, and despite being exposed of their true forms, they are accepted by the townspeople (except for Ercole Visconti). Luca, now realizing his friend's reason for being jealous of him hanging out with Giulia, decides to make up for hurting and betraying Alberto by winning Portorosso Cup Race and buy their Vespa with the reward money. He confessed to Luca he hoped for his dad's change of mind before realizing that he'd never come back, thus making Alberto blaming himself for that event and thinking of himself as a "bad kid who never should have friends". ![]() ![]() He reveals the truth about getting abandoned by his dad until he stopped counting after a while. He then noticed strange marks on the wall and demand an explanation from Alberto. The truth of Alberto's abandonment finally came to light when Luca tries to apologize to his best friend after he betrays him but Alberto tells him to go away. It was a lie as he meant to not reveal his sad origins to Luca and to be a cool friend for him. He claimed to live there with his dad despite his long "absence". He was first mentioned, when Alberto brought titular protagonist to his lair. This event caused him to become jealous as he was scared of being left behind again. His last words were that Alberto was old enough to live on his own although he was barely a teenager. A year before the movie events, Alberto used to live with both his dad and unknown mother before he got eventually abandoned by his dad when he was thirteen. ![]()
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