Alberto Scorfano

* Human
* Sea-Monster
* Illustrated
* Emoji

Luca Movie Theater Storybook

Luca Read-Along Storybook

Ciao Alberto

*"Yeah I get one too sometimes. Alberto you can't, Alberto you're gonna die, Alberto don't put that in you're mouth. Shut em up say, 'Silenzeo Bruno.'" - Alberto, to Luca.*

**Alberto Scorfano** is the deuteragonist of the 2021 Disney•Pixar animated film *Luca*.

## Background

Alberto Scorfano is an independent, free-spirited teenage sea monster with unbridled enthusiasm for the human world. Expressive and gregarious, he is all about having fun, so inviting a fellow sea monster to hang out above the surface is a no brainer for Alberto. Besides, Luca is the perfect audience for Alberto’s vast – albeit questionable – knowledge of all things human. As Luca, Alberto and Giulia train to beat Ercole in an upcoming race, jealousy threatens to tear the underdogs apart and the weather threatens to reveal Luca and Alberto's true nature. Here's our breakdown of Luca's ending, the movie's overall message, and what the epilogue reveals. When Luca first meets Alberto, the older boy tells him that he lives with his father on the island, but his dad is away a lot. It's not until the two friends have a major falling-out that Luca learns the truth: Alberto's father left him a long time ago, and isn't coming back. One day he told Alberto that he was old enough to live on his own and abandoned him, but Alberto initially kept track of the days in the hope that his father would one day change his mind. It's unclear whether Alberto's dad went back to the ocean or stayed on the land, but based on the number of tally marks Alberto made before he stopped counting, he's been on his own for several years. This reveal explains why Alberto is so jealous of Luca's friendship with Giulia. He's afraid that Luca will leave him all alone, just like Alberto's father did, so Luca instinctively rejecting him when he transformed into his sea monster form in front of Giulia was particularly traumatic. Fortunately *Luca* offers a happy ending for Alberto when Massimo, who has grown fond of him while the boys were staying in Giulia's treehouse, offers to let Alberto live with him permanently. This not only gives Alberto a father figure and someone to take care of him so that he can fully enjoy his childhood, but also gives the kind-hearted and instinctively paternal Massimo someone to care for while Giulia spends most of the year living with her mother. For most of *Luca*'s story, the two boys dream of buying a Vespa because Alberto says it could take them anywhere in the world. When they finally get the Vespa, though, Alberto realizes there's another way that it can help Luca travel beyond Portorosso. Earlier in the movie the friends discussed how they could take the "useless" prize money from the race and turn it into a Vespa. In the same way, Alberto takes the Vespa and turns it into a train ticket so that Luca can go to school with Giulia and satisfy his immense curiosity about the wider world. After being accepted by the people of Portorosso and finding a new home with Massimo, Alberto is able to put his abandonment issues aside and trust that he and Luca will remain friends even when they're not together. The overriding message of *Luca'*s ending can be summarized by the old adage, "*If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, it's yours forever. If it doesn’t, then it was never meant to be.*" Sooner or later, parents need to let their children explore the outside world in order to blossom into the person they're supposed to be. Luca's parents arranging for him to go to school is actually an act of love, and so is Alberto selling the Vespa to pay for Luca's train ticket.

### Physical Appearence

In human form, Alberto has tan skin, green eyes, freckles on his face, and brown curly hair. He wears a yellow tank top with brown shorts and is barefoot all the time like his friend, Luca.

In his sea monster form, Alberto has periwinkle scales and purple "hair". His eyes are still green, but they have yellow sclera and oval shaped pupils. He also has a long tail with purple caudal fins.

## More Appearances

Alberto is the second main protagonist in the Dinsey•Pixar movie, Luca. He appears in disney emoji blitz. His character looks like this:

He also appears in a twitter hasflag, and he looks like this:

## Trivia

* Alberto's last name is Italian for "redfish".
* His dad, who abandoned him, is theorized to be named Bruno because of the fact he dislikes that name and names the voice that keeps him from doing things inside his head Bruno.