Pixar's Luca

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Re: Pixar's Luca

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Re: Pixar's Luca

Post by Daniel » January 26th, 2022, 3:16 pm

So much cuteness. You can really see the old school anime and Italian comics influence.

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Re: Pixar's Luca

Post by Daniel » March 23rd, 2022, 4:09 pm

The sights that inspired the world of Luca:

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So cool!

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Re: Pixar's Luca

Post by EricJ » March 23rd, 2022, 4:21 pm

Well, real-world-inspired animation is not always a bad thing:

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Re: Pixar's Luca

Post by Ben » March 23rd, 2022, 5:20 pm

Daniel wrote:
March 23rd, 2022, 4:09 pm
The sights that inspired the world of Luca:

So cool!
Cool indeed! Love how they’re lined up. :)

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Re: Pixar's Luca

Post by Randall » March 24th, 2022, 12:18 am

Very neat!

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Re: Pixar's Luca

Post by Daniel » March 26th, 2022, 3:22 pm

Few more:

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Simply incredible!

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Re: Pixar's Luca

Post by Daniel » March 28th, 2022, 12:54 pm

Ditto!

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Re: Pixar's Luca

Post by Daniel » June 17th, 2022, 6:43 pm

Bonus features, including an audio commentary, were added today on Disney+. Yay! :D

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Re: Pixar's Luca

Post by Ben » June 17th, 2022, 8:07 pm

Sneaky!

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Re: Pixar's Luca

Post by Daniel » June 17th, 2022, 8:28 pm

Almost a year to the day it was released on Disney+!

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Re: Pixar's Luca

Post by EricJ » June 17th, 2022, 8:51 pm

Finally just got through it last week (without the commentary), and yeah, it's not too bad for a mid-tier Pixar:
It's at least got structure, a third act, a...sort of villain (who represents very little actual threat, but still gets a plot comeuppance), and enough alternate-world whimsy with the undersea characters to justify making an animated movie instead of Cinema Paradiso.
We even get the "gasp!" moment of emotional resonance that we expect from a Pixar movie, when
Luca almost sells out Alberto for public acceptance,
something we sure didn't get with the Puberty-Fangirl Panda.

It's just that refreshing to see a Disney/Pixar movie where the emotional climax doesn't consist of "I was never good enough for you, Mom!"

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Re: Pixar's Luca

Post by Ben » June 18th, 2022, 3:22 am

Call me late to the party, but I just worked out what the title of that panda movie is a metaphor for… Boy, they sneaked that one past us, eh? :shock:


As for the emotional climaxes (ooh, er!), those characters only just want to make their Moms (or Dads) proud of their boy. Or girl, or whatevs. :)

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Re: Pixar's Luca

Post by EricJ » June 18th, 2022, 2:01 pm

Ben wrote:
June 18th, 2022, 3:22 am
As for the emotional climaxes (ooh, er!), those characters only just want to make their Moms (or Dads) proud of their boy. Or girl, or whatevs. :)
Ahem, THOSE do, but here, they managed to keep every boys' dilemma of "The day you discovered girls were more interesting than building that rocket with your best buddy" friend-abandonment issues, without (except for maybe one strategically-placed line that an animator wanted to sneak in) making it a Metaphor For Something Else.

Yes, we occasionally have male protagonists who worry about living up to Dad, but they don't spin it into the world or society's pressures and expectations being against them...
And here, it wasn't so much about mom and dad's Expectations, as Not Letting Them Find Out About the World's Coolest Forbidden Vespa. (And Vespa means freedom.)

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