Luca How Studio Ghibli Inspired the Pixar Movie

Luca: How Studio Ghibli Inspired the Pixar Movie

Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s anime influenced the creation of Luca, and it can be seen in the Pixar movie’s setting, visuals, and characters.

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Luca How Studio Ghibli Inspired the Pixar Movie

Pixar’s new movie Luca is set in a colorful seaside town in 20th century Italy, but the movie draws inspiration from around the world, including the anime films of Studio Ghibli. The Japanese studio is best known for the work of directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata on films like Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, and Grave of the Fireflies. Luca uses Pixar’s signature three-dimensional CGI animation instead of Ghibli’s more traditional style and hand-drawn look, but the influence is clear in Luca’s setting, visual presentation, and treatment of female characters.

Luca deals with a young sea monster who longs to walk on the surface. He eventually emerges onto land, where he transforms into a human boy and makes friends with Alberto, another sea monster. He eventually ventures into the nearby town, despite the fact that the townspeople hate sea monsters like Luca. As the movie goes on, Luca is conflicted between his desire to further explore the surface world and his need to keep his identity a secret.

The most obvious nod to Studio Ghibli in Luca is the name of the town much of the movie is set in, Portorosso. The name is just one letter and a space off from Ghibli’s 1992 movie Porco Rosso. The Ghibli film is also set in Italy and involves the main character transforming between a human and a humanoid animal, although it has a much different plot and tone from Luca. This sits alongside Luca’s references to other Pixar and Disney movies. More broadly, the village of Portorosso is the same kind of bucolic rural village where so many Ghibli movies are set, such as Princess Mononoke and Only Yesterday.

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Luca director Enrico Casarosa has said that the movie’s look was directly inspired by Ghibli films. While still using Pixar’s signature computer graphics, Luca covers everything in warm tones and uses textures to create the feel of watercolors and hand-drawn animation. Casarosa said, “A lot of Studio Ghibli’s dreamlike sequences certainly influenced us, so we tried to bring that warmth and imperfection to the computer animation.”

Studio Ghibli is also known for its strong female characters and feminist messages. While Luca is primarily the story of a relationship between two boys, it does include an array of women and girls with strong personalities, diverse ages, and varying body types, akin to the all-female mechanic crew in Porco Rosso. Luca’s mother Daniela, voiced by Maya Rudolph, is a forceful character who has a fun dynamic with her own, more permissive mother Paguro. Giulia is also a classic Ghibli-esque heroine, in that she is both fiery and curious about the wider world.

The anime films of Studio Ghibli, including a potential Porco Rosso sequel, weren’t the only reference point for Luca. Casarosa has also cited the 1979 coming-of-age drama Breaking Away and directors from the Golden Age of Italian cinema like Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti as influences. But it is the Ghibli inspiration that really stands out, and has been touched upon by many critics. Luca combines the faster-paced and more goal-oriented plotting of American animated movies with the imagery, locations, and spirit of Miyazaki and Takahata to create an intriguing animation hybrid.

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