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Hey brother.
Guys, it's a question we have tackled in the past,
trying to figure out which monster was scaring
which other child inside of the Pixar universe.
It's one of my favorite kind of videos to make.
The only issue was that so many of the kids
in the Pixar universe are just like too brave
to have had monsters,
like I just can't imagine anyone being able to scare
any of like the Parr kids.
Can you?
Or like Merida for example,
the movie's literally called Brave.
But with the release of Luca,
we have a new candidate for kid with a monster, Giulia.
(speaking foreign language)
- Eyes up!
- And obviously Luca and Alberto don't have monsters
because they're already uh,
you know, monsters.
Although that'd be really funny if like the monster
came into the room and like, oh crap,
and yeah, I know what you're thinking,
Giulia spends most of the movie with Luca and Alberto
and accepts their monsterness almost immediately.
Like, do I really think she would be scared
by a monster in her closet?
Yes, yes I do, and I think I know who it is.
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Okay, so first things first,
just figuring out which generation
of scarers and or jokesters we might be looking at.
Like who are the list of candidates
to even be Giulia's monster.
Luca takes place in the 1950s slash 60s,
so does that mean it's a much older generation of monster
like the one Mike sees when he's a kid?
Or could it be maybe some of the ones that he and Sully see
when they visit Monsters Inc.
in the middle of the night at college?
How do we whittle it down?
Great question, and it all has to do
with how time travel works in the Pixar Theory.
Which by the way, if you're familiar with the Pixar Theory
and that Boo was the witch and the witch is a whittler.
That sentence was really clever, so good job self.
But time travel in Pixar is different than
time-travel in other stories, 'cause you might be thinking,
well, Hey, if it's time travel,
can't they just travel back to any point in time?
Couldn't it still be any generation?
But no, according to the Pixar Theory,
the monsters exist on a parallel timeline
and can only travel a set distance into the past.
So as time moves forward in the monster world,
it also moves forward in the human world.
The monsters can't keep traveling to the same day
over and over again.
They are stuck traveling to the moment in time
that is currently available to them.
- Kids these days.
They just don't get scared like they used to.
- Exactly Waternoose, you get it
because now there's a new generation of kids.
The great news about this though is that
if we can just establish a point in time
on both sides of the door,
then we can just move the slider up and down
and it'll always line up, and guess what?
We can totally do this thanks to some helpful information
provided in Monsters Incorporated.
Namely this folder, or as I like to call it
the fountain of information.
It has got all sorts of fun information in and about
the child that Sully is going to be scaring
first thing that morning,
but what I'm looking at here are all of the dates
right here that show all the times
this child has been scared before.
And as you can clearly see,
all of those dates took place in 1999,
about four to six days apart, suggesting that the time,
this time they're going to be scaring him is again,
only four to six days apart from the last time
he was scared, which is really just a long way of saying
that on the monster side of the door,
it is the Monster's version of 1999.
As for the human side of the door,
it's a little bit harder to gauge,
but we have a pretty good guess
thanks to some extremely prevalent posters
in multiple kids' rooms,
specifically here and here and here.
You know what all these posters have in common?
Is that they're from a series of actual real life posters
that were printed to promote the grand opening of
Disneyland.
And look, if it was just one Disneyland poster
in one random kid's room, that would be great, but it's not.
It's multiple Disneyland posters in multiple kids' rooms,
which is odd, like how likely do you think it is
that so many kids from different places
simultaneously have posters from the same series of posters
promoting the opening of one very specific park?
Answer, very unlikely,
unless it just so happens that it's the very year
Disneyland opened and it's the new coolest place on earth
and they all want to go,
which is why they all happen to have a poster
from the same series of posters.
To me, that is the only thing that makes sense
and accounts for this weird occurrence and great news,
we know when Disneyland opened here in the human world.
It was 1955, which thankfully establishes us
a point on the human side of the doors.
What the monsters call 1999 on their side of the door
travels to what we call 1955 on our side of the door
and everything otherwise moves forward
at the exact same rate.
Got it?
So now all we need to do is figure out
when Luca is taking place
and then we can just work backwards,
and thankfully there are even more posters in Luca
that help us determine the exact date.
Namely, all of the posters you can see
for the various Italian movies around town.
Here, you can see 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
which came out in 1954,
Here is Roman Holiday which came out in 1953,
and here is La Strada, which also came out in 1954.
But the one that's really helpful actually isn't a poster,
it's the movie this old woman is watching right here.
This movie is called Big Deal on Madonna Street,
and it came out in 1958.
This is the latest release date of any of the movies
that we see throughout the town,
which means it has to at least be this year.
Although to be fair, it could be any year after that,
like up to 1969, but since all of the other posters in town
are from movies in the fifties,
I feel like it makes more sense that it's still the fifties
and this being the latest, concrete way point
we have to work off with I'm going with
Luca takes place in 1958,
which means that back on the monster timeline,
it would be 2002, which is interesting
because it means that the scare floors
would have been switched over to the laugh floors.
However, that does not mean we are looking for a jokester
because we also know that Giulia is 13 in Luca
and the oldest known age of a kid of a monster,
at least that we are aware of thanks to
the folder of information is
eight.
So it's pretty likely that Giulia has aged out
of her monster by the time Luca is actually taking place,
but if we roll the calendar back five years
to when Giulia would have been eight that makes
the year in Italy 1953,
which should bring us to 1997
on the monster's side of the door
and right in the middle of Sully's prime.
Well Sully and all his coworkers who we see
entering the scare floor with him at the beginning
of Monsters Inc.
In fact, if you use the scare cards
that came out with Monsters University,
you can see how long each monster on the floor
has been an active scarer,
and we know that the last year listed on their card
is the year from the start of the movie,
so we can just look at that and then work backwards,
which I did for all of them on this lovely chart.
The green line is the year in question
and shows who was active when Giulia was eight.
Unfortunately it was
all of them,
so that didn't end up eliminating much for us.
That said, I am willing to allow for
a one to two year margin of error
for what year Luca is actually taking place in.
Which would at least eliminate Nick Schmidt and Pete Ward
who only just became active right at the end
of Giulia's eligibility for a scarable child,
and honestly, I'm betting she had a long-term monster
based on the line.
- Just let me do the talking and act casual.
He doesn't do well with fear.
- That to me sounds like Giulia has seen her dad Massimo
deal with her being scared a lot.
Combine that with his innate distrust
and dislike of sea monsters,
and it sounds to me like at some point
he caught a glimpse of whoever her monster is,
but even getting rid of Nick and Pete,
that still leaves us with Sully, Randall, George, Bob, Joe,
Ricky, Ted, Harry, Augustus, and Josh.
I love how they all have such regular names.
And I'll admit, from here, I was a little perplexed
as to how to move forward,
like what made any of these more or less likely
to be Giulia's monster?
And let me just tell you, I examined her room for a while,
which we actually get to see from several angles,
but it's so tiny there's just not much to glean from it.
I mean, she has this Donald Duck toy,
which I guess helps line up with
the Disneyland recently opening idea
and maybe means she's not afraid of duck looking things,
but that's none of them again, so that doesn't help.
I cannot tell you it was really so frustrating
because the room is so small
and there was so much stuff crammed in there,
you'd think something would offer a hint,
but that's when it hit me you guys.
The size of the room.
It's not the question, it's the answer.
There is no spoon.
The files are in the computer.
Here's the thing, how many of those monsters
could even fit in this room?
Honestly, not many, and just look around,
there are so many books piled up everywhere
that even if you're a trained professional scaring monster,
it would be super easy to just like
bump into something and knock it over.
Which, and I'm not sure if you need reminding,
but monsters do not like touching human things.
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- Now all that said, I should also mention that
Giulia is a bit of an odd case as far as scaring goes,
because the room we see her in is not actually even
her main room, like she only lives with her dad
during the summer.
The other three quarters of the year,
she lives at her mom's house.
Which got me wondering, like,
how do the monsters deal with kids with multiple rooms?
Would it be a different monster for a different place?
Because honestly I kinda doubt it.
I mean, let's take another look at the fountain, sorry,
folder of information again.
They've got room maps, race, known fears,
fear valve adjustments based on scream decibels,
average scream yield, whether or not you're a bed wetter,
which I got to say that makes me feel real bad.
Like it's bad enough they're scaring kids,
but how bad would it make you feel if somewhere out there
someone has on file in paperwork that you're a bed wetter
and is using it against you?
The point is the monsters are paired with the kids
on many, many levels and somehow I doubt
they're just sort of like cross-pollinating on this regard.
So to that end, whichever monster is coming into the room
to scare Giulia at her dad's house couldn't be that big
because there's just not enough room in the room.
And, and just like, besides that, look at her dad,
look, look at this guy.
You think size is what's going to scare Giulia?
- I don't think so.
I don't think so.
- Either way, just based on size alone,
I think we can safely eliminate Sully, George, Bob, Joe,
Ricky, Ted, and Augustus,
leaving us with just Randal, Harry, and Josh,
a much more manageable pool of candidates.
But do any of them in particular stand out?
Well, Josh and Harry do both have the
like squid tentacle looking arms,
which would totally match up with the whole
sea monster vibe, so there's that.
However, I think there can be no doubt
that Giulia's actual true monster is none other
than Randall Boggs.
For one, let's revisit that scene
where we first meet Massimo
and discover his hatred of sea monsters.
Why he hates them is not particularly known,
but remember what we said earlier
about how he doesn't handle a scared Giulia very well,
and that that might be because he caught a glimpse
of her monster once upon a time.
Well, do you know which monster
it might be easy to only catch a glimpse of
because he's super good at camouflage?
Randall,
and look at the latest sea monster clipping
he's stabbing to the wall.
Which monster would you say it also kind of looks like?
Randall.
Massimo lives in a town that is superstitious
about sea monsters and also caught a glimpse of Randall once
scaring his daughter who happens to look
like all of the bad photos people manage to take
of the sea monsters in the town.
That's why he hates them.
But, that said, Giulia herself actually scoffs
at the notion of sea monsters.
- Everyone in Portorossa pretends to believe
in sea monsters.
- She says this because she knows the truth.
Real monsters come out of your closet, not the ocean.
It turns out they're both right,
but just watch her reaction to seeing Alberto
for the first time in his Randall-esque sea monster form.
Utter terror, almost like she is reliving
an old nightmare come back to haunt her
because in that moment she thinks Randall is back,
and honestly how fitting, right?
Like the main villain for Monsters Inc
is scaring one of the main characters as a kid
from another Pixar movie.
Randall, that guy is the worst.
The other thing I really love about this idea though,
is the relationship between Giulia and Massimo.
Again, he doesn't handle Giulia being scared very well,
but I think despite appearances,
he is massively empathetic to the feelings of his daughter.
- I don't want you doing the race again.
You get so upset.
- He hates sea monsters because he believes
they've scared his daughter, but interestingly,
at the end of the movie,
he is also the very first one to come around
to Alberto and Luca after they're revealed as sea monsters.
And personally, I think this is because
Massimo can very clearly see that his daughter
is not afraid of them,
and if she's not scared of them, then they're not a threat,
and if they're not a threat then he doesn't hate them.
It's just like he trusts her judgment so much,
and I love it.
Also, I love that it means Randall's scares
are being undone by the monsters of Luca,
like that guy's legacy is melting more and more each day.
Also, also I feel like this is worth mentioning
just because this always seems to come up
whenever we're making one of these videos,
but each monster
scares
many, many children.
Like if you're sitting there saying,
wait, no Randall can't be Giulia's monster,
cause he's Boo's monster, like he can be both.
Randall is many, many kids' monster, but anyway, guys,
that is our theory, not just for who Giulia's monster is,
but also why Massimo hates sea monsters.
But what do you think?
Do you think there is a better candidate?
Let me know your thoughts in the towel section down below.
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I will see you in another life, brother.