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So, remember Luca's attempt of a bike helmet? The strainer?

When it first appeared in the movie, it didn't have anything on it, right?

Right. Now let's jump ahead to Alberto's drawing halfway throughout the movie, back when Alberto is telling Luca about the things he added to the drawing, how he added colors.

How he added flames!

Good. Now lets jump ahead again even further, when Luca starts bicycling his way through the race. His strainer is back on, but...something is new!

"Also I added flames"

Luca added flames to the Strainer!

Even if Alberto is the artist of the duo, I doubt it could have been him the one to draw them-

The last time we saw the makeshift helmet was when they rode their also makeshift vespa the previous day before leaving to the human town. The boys didn't go there again, not until Alberto flee there after his reveal, and I seriously doubt that Alberto drew the flames then, all with the whole trashing things to the ground and being angry and sad with the world.

It was Luca who must have grabbed it for the race at the last hour and added them on his own.

And it just warmed my heart. Like-

Luca needed to search for a bicycle, for his helmet, and a swimming suit all before the race, and he still found some time to think about Alberto and his drawing, about what he'd said.

It's a reminder as for why was Luca racing, was doing this. It was for them, for their vespa, for their dream.

I already tend to relate to male characters the most in a story so I focus a lot on them and their expressions which are much easier for me to pick up in animation as opposed to live action(neurodivergent thing), and I genuinely cannot think of a single movie/TV show moment that captured that specific look that Alberto had except for maybe in anime(but even that felt different).

Often in moments where the Deep Dark Secret is publicly revealed the character in focus(usually male) stares in defiance, even if a bit hesitant, like in Luca's case in the same scene. But I love how Luca had Alberto, the Tough One, Mr. "We don't need anybody but ourselves", the character so afraid of expressing anything but nonchalance and excitement in front of everyone else, look away in shame and fear, and when in sole focus, stare back up at Massimo's face, clearly prepared to be rejected by another father figure again yet absolutely and openly fearing the words he thinks are inevitable.

It's such a powerful expression. Not everyone can stand up to their greatest fear with defiance. Sometimes all the emotional repression in the world can't hide absolute fear. Luca and Giulia were prepared, if a little afraid, to face Massimo to try to convince him; but Alberto couldn't stand the thought of Massimo rejecting him, not after all that time they spent together, learning from each other, bonding over being born different in different ways.

(Watch Alberto closely, he gets even more scared/upset when Massimo approaches them :( )

The MLM flag sampled from Luca and Alberto

The trans flag with colors sampled from Uncle Ugo

And the lesbian flag with colors sampled from Giulia

IGNORE THE WATERMARK AT THE TOP I USED SOME WEBSITE TO EDIT THIS AHAHAHAHAHSHDJJDHSVSHXJXJDHSJ

but anyways Eve you always have then best ideas so you automatically get kicked to the top of my to do list cuz I GET SO EXCITED TO MAKE THEM AJSHHDHH HH YOUR BRAINCELLS ARE SO HUGE

This is the money Luca post. Reblog to be granted prize money in the near future

*money may come in form of Euros or Lira

Things I noticed in the Luca Junior Novelization.

1.) Ercole apparently can’t swim. In the first picture when he was thrown into the fountain by Ciccio and Guido he freaks out and screams “I can’t swim!”

… I mean, it’s like a foot of water and you’re sitting in it, but go off.

2.) Luca’s real reasoning for risking his life for a Vespa. “My parents were going to send me away! I was never going to see him again! That’s why.. we did all of this.”

Luca, you homo. We all knew that was the reason why. Because you love Alberto value Alberto’s friendship.

BALLISTIC

The animators knew what they were doing 💀

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