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“#Hayao Miyazaki Influences \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\"luca<\/p>\n

Luca<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>is the closest Pixar has gotten to making a Studio Ghibli film. It\u2019s not particularly in the visuals, though there are plenty of similarities \u2014 the characters look like they\u2019d be comfortable strolling through\u00a0Kiki\u2019s Delivery Service<\/em>, albeit in a 3D version of it \u2014 but in the feeling. There\u2019s a warmth, a wistfulness, and a whimsy to\u00a0Luca<\/em> which feels like it draws inspiration from any Hayao Miyazaki film. And, from the 30 minutes of footage that I saw in an early press day for Luca<\/em>,\u00a0a deep understanding of human relationships and the delicate moments that define them.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a comparison that I don\u2019t make lightly, but it\u2019s one that\u2019s not off the mark, considering\u00a0Luca<\/em> director\u00a0Enrico Casarosa<\/strong>\u2018s lifelong love for the works of the anime<\/a> titan, going so far as to make the Pixar animators on his team watch Miyazaki films and TV shows for reference.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m such a [fan] of Miyazaki,\u201d Casarosa told me in an interview over Zoom during an early press day for Luca<\/em> ahead of the Pixar film\u2019s Disney+ release.\u00a0\u201cHe\u2019s a hero, you know, and I\u2019ve had a chance to meet him.\u00a0He\u2019s looming large in my DNA.\u201d
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\nLet me first emphasize that it\u2019s clear that Casarosa really,\u00a0really<\/em> loves Hayao Miyazaki. Many a filmmaker will praise the animation legend\u2019s well-worn classics like\u00a0Spirited Away<\/em> or\u00a0Princess Mononoke<\/em>, but Casarosa casually references deep cuts from before Miyazaki\u2019s time at Studio Ghibli, back when he cut his teeth in TV.<\/p>\n

\u201cFuture Boy Conan \u2014\u00a0<\/em>I grew up with that TV series<\/a> when it was on in the \u201980s,\u201d Casarosa told me, as we nerded out over Miyazaki and Ghibli together.\u00a0Future Boy Conan<\/em> is a\u00a01978 Nippon Animation sci-fi anime directed by Miyazaki, based on Alexander Key\u2019s 1970 novel The Incredible Tide<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know for 3000 Leagues in\u00a0Search of Mother<\/em>, which is another thing series he worked on, he travel<\/a>ed to Genoa,\u201d Casarosa added later on, surprising even me, who had barely heard of\u00a03000 Leagues in Search of Mother<\/em> mentioned outside of a brief paragraph in a Miyazaki memoir. To be honest,\u00a03000 Leagues in Search of Mother<\/em> is more often considered an Isao Takahata project, as Miyazaki only worked on layout for the 1976 anime series, but Casarosa had a reason for mentioning it. Genoa is his hometown, the riverside city to which he would return every summer and spend a sun-dapp<\/a>led season frolicking through the waves with his childhood friend Alberto, upon whom\u00a0Luca<\/em>\u2018s\u00a0Alberto (voiced by\u00a0Jack Dylan Grazer<\/strong>) is based.<\/p>\n

Stylistically,\u00a0Luca<\/em> might be inspired by Miyazaki, but narratively, it\u2019s all Casarosa. The new Pixar movie follows a young sea monster named Luca (Jacob Tremblay<\/strong>) as he befriends a fellow sea monster, Alberto, who persuades Luca to explore the human world with him. The two of them become obsessed with buying a Vespa, and enter a contest with a hard-nosed but friendly human girl named\u00a0Giulia (Emma Berman<\/strong>). Sea monsters aside, the friendship between Luca and Alberto is heavily inspired by Casarosa\u2019s friendship with his Alberto, a free-spirited soul who \u201cwas following a passion every week,\u201d and helped bring the shy and timid Casarosa out of his shell.
\nI spoke to Casarosa about bringing such a personal story into a major Pixar film, as well as whether\u00a0Luca<\/em> reflects the Miyazaki concept of \u201cakogare no Paris,\u201d or \u201cParis of our dreams.\u201d Read part of our conversation below.<\/p>\n

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Obviously, Luca is inspired by a very personal story of your own childhood, Enrico. Did you have any reservations about turning such a personal story into a major Pixar film?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sometimes you do, but I think it\u2019s so true in storytelling: if there\u2019s something that makes you just a little bit uncomfortable, that\u2019s where the juicy part is. So I think being willing to be vulnerable is a big part of digging deep and finding something worth sharing. So I think I didn\u2019t think too much about that. Not for long, because again, I think you just try and look for the interesting things in your life, and the difficulties in your life. And my friendship with my friend, yeah we definitely spent a few years [together], so this is a kind of an encapsulation of it all.<\/p>\n

But I think it really felt like it gave me something to say, which is great.\u00a0In similar ways, my dad and my grandfather not getting along was what La\u00a0Luna<\/em> was about. It was a difficult thing to do, to show that to my dad when I went back to Italy. But I think it was also a sweet moment. My dad at the time kind of cried and he told me he didn\u2019t realize that much I felt his fights with my grandfather. And so it was cathartic in many ways. So again, you go a little bit to where the emotions are, to kind of be willing to be vulnerable.
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Pixar films as of late, have been tackling some really ambitious, really high concept stuff but the themes of Luca<\/em> are relatively simple \u2014 the outsider narrative and deep friendships. So would you say that that simplicity of the style of the themes of Luca<\/em> is the appeal? And what do you think that Luca<\/em> does with those themes that adds something that hasn\u2019t been done by other films about this subject?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, I feel for me, it was really bringing a playfulness [to the movie]. In talking about a friendship, you\u2019re right, there\u2019s a lot of, \u201cWhat do we want to say about friendship?\u201d so it was really about finding the specificity in this friendship. And what really we\u2019re saying about it \u2014 I don\u2019t want to spoil too much of the movie \u2014 but of course, a lot of it is at the end. The sense of our friendship is in the ending. But that was the key thing, that in the beginning, we were still looking for the theme of it\u2026 Like, what are these friendships? First of all \u201copposites attract\u201d is a big part of it, but [it\u2019s also] \u201chow do we help each other by growing up,\u201d and \u201cthese friendships end up being really truly part of you.\u201d Like you always take a piece as you change, and you grow up, and find your own identity.<\/p>\n

So for me, it was really about digging deep with that. And what we wanted to say about that was, the important part in finding emotion, finding how you bring that that roller coaster ride to an audience so that it\u2019s an interesting journey. Finding the fullness of that, but also trying something different.<\/p>\n

We were always very aware of, \u201chow much of a roller coaster ride do we want to do?\u201d I have always been interested in lyricism and a little bit [of a] slower pace, so it was also trying to do something a little different with an introvert at the heart. Which was not easy \u2014 introverts are not immedia<\/a>tely easy to filmmaking. I feel like [in] a novel, it\u2019s slightly easier to get inside the brain of the characters. Those were the things I also was interesting in trying to find: Can we have some different, a little bit more lyrical? That was the challenge. And then it came together \u2014 let\u2019s take everybody to Italy and [have] these wonderful memories, [let\u2019s] make this a true love letter to the place, which has been such a fun part of really finding specificity of the place and the characters. Giulia is such a unique, unusual character [that] I\u2019m so happy we\u2019ve found. So, yeah, hopefully those are the things that bring it to that next level.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve spoken about the influence of Fellini and other Italian neorealist filmmakers on\u00a0Luca<\/em>, but there\u2019s been a lot of mention from the animators of the influence of Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki. And I have to say, watching the footage from Luca,<\/em> I was reminded of this concept of Miyazaki films called \u201cakogare no Paris\u201d (Paris of our dreams<\/em>), especially in this dreamy, nostalgic vision of Italy. Would you say there\u2019s a thematic inspiration from Miyazaki films on Luca<\/em> as well?<\/strong>
\nYeah, there\u2019s a couple of things. I\u2019m such a [fan] of Miyazaki. He\u2019s a hero, you know, and I\u2019ve had a chance to meet him.\u00a0He\u2019s looming large in my DNA. [One of] the things that I really think a lot about is first, Future Boy Conan \u2014\u00a0<\/em>I grew up with that the TV series when it was on in the \u201980s. It took me a little while to realize that this was something special. When I was a kid I didn\u2019t know yet, we watched all sorts of Japanese cartoons in Italy and Europe, especially in the \u201980s. Almost everything was robots and\u00a0Candy Candy<\/em>\u00a0[a girls-targeted anime which ran from\u00a01976-<\/span>1979]\u00a0<\/span>and all sorts of genres, but this one always connected to me.<\/p>\n

Later as I studied animation, I watched more movies, and saw\u00a0Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro,\u00a0<\/em>of course all these wonderful movies, and I realized what was special about that. There were only two kids in that TV series, which was also very interesting. So something that we showed animators [working on Pixar\u2019s\u00a0Luca<\/em>] was just how playful the animation was, how it\u00a0supported this childhood point of view. And when I think about the things that I love, that I really feel kinship with in those movies, is that eye for detail and that eye for nature. And that\u2019s why I am attracted to characters like Luca, or like Conan and Jimsy [from\u00a0Future Boy Conan<\/em>], who are\u00a0experiencing things for the first time. They\u2019re almost like aliens.\u00a0That enabled me to really lovingly detail a blade of grass in the wind, which is something that, of course, Miyazaki is a master [at].<\/p>\n

And the wonderful thing that enabled me to use the same gaze toward Portorosso,\u00a0toward the Italian details that I grew up with. And I thought, \u201cOkay well there\u2019s something I can give you. I don\u2019t need to give you a completely idealized version, because I have a memory of it.\u201d So I want it to go past that, I wanted to give you specificity there and staying away from stereotypes.\u00a0Those are given by the sounds that I remember in the summer, the characters in town. The whole town becomes its own character. And what we\u2019re hearing from Italy, luckily people are recognizing them, and so I\u2019m really happy with it because that is something we\u2019ve worked hard to find an authenticity there.<\/p>\n

And don\u2019t get me wrong, there\u2019s a lot of love that Miyazaki puts in his vision of Europe. In fact, you know for 3000 Leagues in\u00a0Search of Mother<\/em> [a\u00a01976 Nippon Animation anime directed by longtime Miyazaki partner Isao Takahata, on which\u00a0Miyazaki\u00a0did layout], which is another thing series he worked on, he traveled to Genoa. So when I was a big fan, I was nerding out about their depiction of Genoa, which is my home city. But I feel like, hopefully, there was something I could give to that place, because I experienced those summers and was there for it.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s something uncanny about the way Miyazaki could put himself into a kid\u2019s point of view. That\u2019s something that I certainly wanted to do this movie. I was saying this to everybody: When I jump into the sea, even nowadays in California, I become a kid, I want to play in the waves. So I realized that, that is a connection to childhood: the sea, the water. So that was a big part that I wanted to hopefully share with the world.<\/p>\n

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Luca<\/em> debuts exclusively on Disney+ on\u00a0June 18, 2021<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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