“Luca”, the new Disney film and the love for the Vespa

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The Vespa is the absolute protagonist of the Disney feature film set in Italy. Symbols of adventure and discovery

it was impossible for us not to write a review of Luca, the new Disney Pixar movie. Not because the story is set in a quaint fishing village on the Ligurian coast, but because Vespa Piaggio is also one of the protagonists of the film. Also in this case the two wheels are the means to reach freedom and to explore the world. As in hundreds of other films, the Vespa is a means of transport, and a means to reach a dimension of fun and joy.

In the feature film, already available to Disney + subscribers, it is the driving force that draws the protagonists into a world unknown to them.” It is the greatest invention of human beings. Get on the saddle and take you wherever you want. The Vespa is freedom” thus begins the dream of two children, Luca and Alberto, who recognize in the Italian scooter a magical machine capable of transforming space. travelling and time in experiences. Two wheels that turn life into an adventure. 

On the other hand, the Vespa is an icon that has always had a privileged relationship with the big screen and cinema has played a very important role in building its myth. Appeared on the screens in 1950, with the Italian film “Domenica d’agosto” , Vespa becomes a world status symbol with   William Wiler’s Vacanze Romane (1953) and the famous sequence in which Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck throw themselves into the traffic of Rome on the saddle to a Vespa 125.
There are countless actresses and actors who have ridden a Vespa, and just as many films – comedies or dramas, action or social commitment – in which the most loved scooter in the world peeps out when it doesn’t even become a character: from  Caro Diario  ( 1993) by Nanni Moretti, in which the protagonist is riding a 150 Sprint for the entire episode entitled, precisely,  In Vespa ad  Alfie  (2004) in which Jude Law goes for a walk through the streets of Manhattan with his white Vespa -blue, to The Interpreter  (2005) by Sydney Pollack, with Nicole Kidman taking her yellow Vespa the preferred means of transport for getting around New York’s streets.

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And then still a true cult of youth cultures such as  Quadrophenia,  Absolute Beginners and  American Graffiti, up to blockbusters such as The talent of Mr Ripley,  The Charge of 102  and the most recent  Transformers 5 – The Last Knight and  Zoolander 2.

Vespa also boasts appearances in spectacular animated films such as  Ratatouille  (2007),  Madagascar 3  (2012) and  Big Hero 6  (2014). As well as an unforgettable appearance in the eighth season (1996) of  The Simpsons. Vespa also appears in many TV series, among the most famous  Romanzo Criminale and  How I met your mother.

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