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In May, my comrade and I were taking a saunter when she started excitedly telling me about Pixar’s newest film, “Luca,” which would be released in a rare months. As she told me more about the trailers she’d seen, I was intrigued. Sea monsters that can become human when dry but alter back to sea monsters when they get wet? Pretty animated shots of the Italian Riviera? Young friendship with mild gay undertones? When the emit date came, I was perfectly delighted to pull uncover my laptop and enjoy a close 95 minutes of friendship and entertainment. Luckily, Pixar’s 24th feature-length film was just as delightful, if perhaps a bit different, than I’d expected.
The story focuses on Luca (Jacob Tremblay, “Room”), a young sea monster living with his family in an underwater collective on the Italian Riviera. Luca’s existence consists mostly of being a fish shepherd (fishherd?), trying to please his family and dreaming of the surface, while also organism deadly scared of the land monsters — humans — who inhabit it. Enter Alberto (Jack Dylan Grazer, “It”), another young sea monster who shakes up Luca’s protected, albeit boring, world.
Luca and Alberto bond over a treasure of Vespa scooters and the want to explore the
‘Luca’ and Disney’s problems with LGBTQIA+ representation
“Luca” is a recent Disney film directed by Enrico Casarosa, released in June, and has caused some problems with it blatantly drawing from LGBTQIA+ people’s stories and lives; only for Casarosa to shut this down by saying, “I was really keen to talk about a friendship before girlfriends and boyfriends come in to complicate things.” While yes, the friendship is well-done and important; the sheer number of allegories to being LGBTQIA+ makes the knowledge that Casarosa is very specifically not making “Luca” a story of being LGBTQIA+.
The production is about a sea monster, Luca, who longs to go to the surface. The entirety of his life underwater beat home hard. The suffocation of living under the surface, of living in a closet, the be afraid of of being discovered, the fascination of the society outside. And his parent’s fear. Luca’s parents are deeply afraid of the surface; they consistently notify him that humans are hostile and cruel to sea monsters, they announce him that humans will see his differences and therefore not accept him. And later on in the film; his parents are willing to dispatch him to ‘the Deep’, a p
Luca's Gay Romance Is Finally Canon, But Should Have Been All Along
Luca is an animated production that can be interpreted in myriad ways. Director Enrico Casarosa is outspoken about the Pixar production being inspired by much of his own upbringing, while its themes of young children who can be as either humans or sea creatures evokes themes of LGBTQ+ identity and the world’s prominent refugee crisis. Love many films of this ilk, your interpretation is oftentimes valid, even if not necessarily canon to the wider story, which in this case caused an uproar when it comes to two of its main characters.
Titular protagonist Luca Paguro and childhood friend Alberto Scorfano have distant been keen to explore beyond the sea they were raised in, to discover what wonders the human earth will hold, despite the fact their true identities might never be acknowledged. The duo interact with each other constantly throughout, growing their lifelong friendship through hardship, adversity, and new companions who call the land home. Through the film’s dialogue, themes, and even the animation, it can be simple to read Luca as a gender non-conforming story, one where its main characters try to reach to terms with no
Disney-Pixar’s “Luca” embraces queer coded theme, faces controversy
In Pixar’s “Luca,” does being a sea monster infer more than it is supposed to?
“Luca,” produced by Disney and Pixar, and released on Disney+, offers many a sense of comfort. For others, however, there is controversy around its LGBTQ themes.
Luca and Alberto quickly become friends due to the fact they are both sea monsters in a sea monster-fearing world. They are curious about the human earth and explore a local town on the Italian Riviera, but are constantly worrying about being discovered by the townspeople and Luca’s parents. Together, they enter a competition to win a Vespa. They also face many obstacles, such as learning how to be regular humans, training for the rivalry with their new comrade Giulia, and hiding their true selves from the ignorant townspeople.
Over the years, Disney has slowly develop more open to demonstrating aspects of homosexuality and the LGBTQ community in their movies. And “Luca,” even if unintended, does have a queer-coded undertone.
The idea of ¨being in the closet¨ is for many a very scary situation due to fears of rejection by friends and family. For Luca and A
Why Luca Is A Homosexual Story (Despite What Pixar Says)
WARNING: The following contains SPOILERS for Luca.
Luca has arrived on Disney+ and, despite what Pixar says, the movie presents a sturdy allegory for growing up gay and finding a connection with other LGBTQ people. Luca tells the story of two boys – Luca and Alberto – who have to hide their true identities to procure a taste of authentic life among the population of the nearest town. Pixar markets the show as a coming-of-age tale, with the boys living the summer of a lifetime, but places the narrative at a period in the boys' animation before such considerations arrive into play.
Pixar, like Disney itself and other studios, has been shy on the representation front when it comes to gay characters, only dabbling recently in depicting such people, and mostly on the sidelines and in petite parts. When the first trailer and synopsis were released for Luca, many reacted with joy that the movie could be showing the lauded studio's first LGBTQ people in lead roles, exploring coming out for a juvenile audience the way it has explored many other serious topics. But those involved with the proposal were very quick to shut that door.
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