I hear you cry at night. Do you dream about them? I know that’s why you wreck things. And push me. Our family’s little now and we don’t have many toys, but if you want, you could be part of it. You could be our baby and we’d raise you to be good.
I want to write a fic where Lilo goes to college and her roommate is Boo from Monsters Inc. Boo is the first person to think Stitch is adorable and cuddly, and Lilo is the first person not to act like “Mike Wazowski” was a weird name for a goldfish. They get on like a house on fire which is kind of bad for Nani’s blood pressure.
But then one night they wake up in the middle of the night because something is in their closet. And the door starts to creak open so Stitch tackles whoever (whatever) is in there. They fall back into the closet, the door slams shut… and when Lilo runs over and opens it there’s nothing but an empty closet.
Then Boo tells Lilo all about this weird thing that happened to her when she was a kid, and how no one ever believed her but she knows it was real.
And cue Lilo and Boo busting into the Monster world to rescue Stitch and wreaking mad havoc in the process.
SEE THIS IS A WORTHY SEQUEL
This needs to happen
Petition for the movie to be hand-drawn in Lilo and Stitch’s style when they’re in the human world, and computer animated once they go through the door into the monster world.
You could be our baby and we’d raise you to be good. Lilo & Stitch (2002)
Okay listen up fucknuts because I’m gonna day some things. This scene right here is one of my all time favourite scenes in cinema. I have a degree in film studies, I’ve seen all the greats, And in my humble opinion few scenes surpass this scene in terms of sheer brilliance. First of all it looks gorgeous, the art style in this movie is consistently the prettiest fucking thing you’ll ever see. But what really makes this scene for me is how clearly the characters motivations and by extension their personalities are shown in such a simple way.
First we have Lilo, who with a few short lines of dialogue manages to convey the aching loss she feels for her family. She never even says they died it’s just implied but we feel it. As an audience the tone of voice and music and artwork all convey so accurately exactly how that feels to her. And because of this we understand that she looks as stitch not as a replacement for her family but as a way of moving on. Of coping with her grief by allowing herself to love something else. But then she asks stitch about his family and then we get to my absolute favourite part of this movie.
Stitch doesn’t say a word. He simply retrieves a book and leaves. He looks back for a second as Lilo says goodbye and then silently climbs out of the window. But without saying a word we again understand exactly what he is feeling. Because of the sheer brilliance of the animation. The choice of book (which we as an audience know from an earlier scene) tells us that stitch feels lost and wants the same thing that Lilo wants. He wants a family. It’s important that he leaves though because he wants to find this family for himself. He wants to make it. Because he was only told that he could destroy until a little girl with a big heart told him otherwise.
Lilo and stitch at its core is a film about grief and growth. Lilo mourns her family. Stitch laments his loneliness, somehow together they work out how to heal each other’s scars and find what they were looking for.
Let’s not credit just Chris Sanders for this. This happened because they cast actual Hawaiian Actors like Tia Carrere and Jason Scott Lee to play Hawaiian characters, and allowed the actors to have input into writing the characters’ lines.
This sort of authenticity comes from accuracy and authenticity in casting choices. The fact that Chris Sanders as direct/writer facilitated that does not mean he gets credit for the actors’ experience.
This is why diversity and representation in media matters.
Dude as a hawaiian, this is like straight up what my life as a kid was. My mom worked at those fakey luaus full time to pay rent. My mom is someone who is absolutely passionate and proud about being a hawaiian, living and teaching the ways our ancestors lived and taught.
See, we Hawaiians, we live by the way of aloha. And not by the way of “hello” “goodbye”, let me educate you. As Pono Shim, CEO and President of Enterprise Honolulu, the Oahu Economic Development Board, states absolutely perfectly “aloha is to be in the presence of life, to share the essence of one’s being with openness, honesty, and humility. It is a way of being, a way of behaving, a way of life. It is a commitment to accepting others and giving dignity to who they are and what they have to offer.” Aloha is more than hello and goodbye. Think of aloha as an abbreviation.
Akahai: meaning kindness
Lokahi: meaning unity
Olu’Olu’: meaning agreeableness
Ha’aha’a: meaning humility
Ahonui: meaning patience
This is something we all need to live by, seriously, we all should
the dropped sub-plot was that lilo hated tourists, which is why she goes around taking pictures of them like they were attractions instead of people; like how they took photos of locals
similarly there was a deleted scene where she scares tourists off of a beach by sounding a false tsunami siren to watch them run screaming
deeper in the lore that kid thats a prick to her, mertyle, is the daughter of the person who runs the megamart and crushed a lot of other local businesses- when they have to do a hula to tell a story mertyle actually uses it to describe the low prices, where lilo does a hula about a traditional creation myth that was important to her mother. you may notice both lilo and nani are on first name basis with both the coffee shop owner and the fruitseller, there is big disparity between the locals and foreign interest businesses relegating them to just be tourist industry
friendly reminder that lilo & stitch is indisputably the best disney film
I think I have to join in the sentiment that knowing this deep aspect of the movie in culture, I love this movie even more. I love culture, I love history and I love people of different backgrounds that offer such rich experiences.
I want to write a fic where Lilo goes to college and her roommate is Boo from Monsters Inc. Boo is the first person to think Stitch is adorable and cuddly, and Lilo is the first person not to act like “Mike Wazowski” was a weird name for a goldfish. They get on like a house on fire which is kind of bad for Nani’s blood pressure.
But then one night they wake up in the middle of the night because something is in their closet. And the door starts to creak open so Stitch tackles whoever (whatever) is in there. They fall back into the closet, the door slams shut… and when Lilo runs over and opens it there’s nothing but an empty closet.
Then Boo tells Lilo all about this weird thing that happened to her when she was a kid, and how no one ever believed her but she knows it was real.
And cue Lilo and Boo busting into the Monster world to rescue Stitch and wreaking mad havoc in the process.
SEE THIS IS A WORTHY SEQUEL
This needs to happen
Petition for the movie to be hand-drawn in Lilo and Stitch’s style when they’re in the human world, and computer animated once they go through the door into the monster world.
Question of Smoke 