The legends of Maui

Pinkpeony73·2/19/2017 in General Discussion

Okay, so I was reading a book of Hawaiian legends the other day. A lot of them were about Maui, and believe it or not, they were all really accurate to the film. Even the part about Maui's mother/parents (I can't remember which) tossing him into the ocean is true. Basically, for every tattoo that Maui sang about in "You're Welcome", there was a legend for it in my book.

I mean, I know Disney does their research, but this was really impressive!

Anyway, there's your History lesson for today. Class dismissed.

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JuliaG109·2/19/2017

I know, it's so cool! Yesterday I watched a little animatic on YouTube called "Maui and the Sun" that showed Maui slowing down the Sun with his four brothers because the Sun was moving too fast and the days were too short. He used ropes to grab the Sun and pull it back. He then climbed up onto rocks and began hitting it with his fish hook until it got tired and stopped trying to get away. At the end, it said something like "And that's why, if you look closely, you can see the ropes binding the Sun to the Earth."

And in the song You're Welcome, he talked about slowing down the Sun! It's too bad his brothers weren't in the movie, I wish they were. There aren't that many characters in the movie.

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Pinkpeony73·2/19/2017

JuliaG109 wrote: I know, it's so cool! Yesterday I watched a little animatic on YouTube called "Maui and the Sun" that showed Maui slowing down the Sun with his four brothers because the Sun was moving too fast and the days were too short. He used ropes to grab the Sun and pull it back. He then climbed up onto rocks and began hitting it with his fish hook until it got tired and stopped trying to get away. At the end, it said something like "And that's why, if you look closely, you can see the ropes binding the Sun to the Earth."
And in the song You're Welcome, he talked about slowing down the Sun! It's too bad his brothers weren't in the movie, I wish they were. There aren't that many characters in the movie.

I agree, there should have been more characters. For sure.

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Gracekim12·6/14/2017

yeah but if her brothers had been in it, it would have been more of a rescue story

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What do you think?