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here’s some old watercolor doodles for Luca!
plus some bonus oc content lol
Concetta and Pinuccia Aragosta Appreciation Post
Luca, teoría. La familia hibrida.
Una de las escenas finales en la película de Luca es cuando, después de que los niños ganaran la Copa Portorosso, se les organizó una pequeña fiesta en el patio de la casa de Giulia. Y aunque muchos niños del pueblo estaban encantados con la victoria de Luca, Alberto y Giulia, en realidad pocas personas entraron al patio a la fiesta.
Los invitados a la reunión eran obviamente la familia de Luca; sus padres y abuela. Pero junto a ellos habían otras cinco personas: Las hermanas Aragosta, un anciano, el niño del helado y la señora Marsigliese (a quien en el doblaje latino le cambiaron su nombre a “Mastroianni).
Pero, ¿y si hay una especifica razón por la cual ellos están ahí?
Hablemos primero de las invitadas que no necesitan mayor explicación.
Todos recordamos a las hermanas Concetta y Pinuccia Aragosta, dos ancianas que resultaron ser monstruos marinos, las cuales, asumimos, han vivido en Portorosso junto a los humanos por muchos años ya.
Es claro que fueron bien recibidas en la fiesta al ser monstruos marinos también. Entonces, ¿qué hay de los tres humanos que están junto a ellas? ¿por qué fueron invitados específicamente? Quizá tal vez estén más relacionados a todo este asunto de los monstruos marinos de lo que pensaríamos.
Mi teoría es la siguiente:
I really don’t want to be that guy but I think the two elderly women at the end of the movie were sisters, as their character names are Concetta Aragosta and Pinuccia Aragosta... the actress who voiced them in the Italian dub also have referred to them as sisters.
I’m sorry guys, I thought they were wives too 😢
(Please if someone has more information share it)
THEY’RE SISTERS?!
Thinking hard about the Aragostas. They had been living in Portorosso as closeted sea monsters for how long?? They must have their own story, too. A story of going to the surface and discovering the dangers for themselves and working in ways to stay safe and enjoying living in the human world when everything around them told them that they would be killed if found out, just like Luca and Alberto, but for how many years?
Probably decades. Probably longer than most Portorossans had even been alive.
And then in comes these two boys, sticking out like two sore thumbs. No shoes, weird clothing, fish smell, horrible understanding of general phrases and social cues— Did they see themselves in them? Surely, maybe, they recognized the boys as seamonsters before anyone else, because it really was so obvious.
And did they know their names? They could have. They have a relative below-surface that Luca is familiar with. I wouldn’t be surprised if Libera was one of their friends. And they’re quite nice to the boys when they are revealed; Massimo even had them over for dinner. And the Aragostas are shown to be particularly fond of Alberto, as seen in the short.
And could they have done things for Luca and Alberto as well? Could the purse-slapping be a way for them to sneak them in on some social cues? Could the women have charted Luca and Alberto through their time in Portorosso, making themselves present when possible (and not too suspicious)?
Like, goddamn, man. I wanna know more.
If I had a nickel for every time what I thought to be an old lesbian couple in a movie turned out to be sisters…
the older ladies of portorosso who were revealed to be sea monsters possibly have a daughter:
Concetta (taller) Aragosta and Pinuccia (shorter) Aragosta are the names of the two women (NOTE THE SHARED LAST NAME), but then in the beginning of the film Luca greets a maroonish colored lady by “Ms Aragosta” and according to the wiki, her first name is Concetta . So, adoptive daughter named after one of the mothers?