In his mind, stealing the gem to give humans the ability to create life would be the ultimate gift to win him their favor forever instead, being the reason the heart is lost to the ocean tarnishes Maui's reputation.
Throughout the film, Maui's main motivation is the praise of mankind. During the Moana song "You're Welcome," Maui lists the things he's done to win the gratitude of humanity: he brought them fire to ward off cold nights, long days filled with sunshine, and coconut trees, and he controls the breeze and the tides. It was meant to be just another adventure he could add to his tattoo tapestry of achievements - instead, his hubris caused him to lose not only the heart but his power as well. Stealing it would prove his prowess, gain him infamy with the humans, and cause chaos all in one go. Ultimately, Maui took the heart simply because he could.
Maui is traditionally known as a trickster god - that means he likes to cause mischief, even if his actions are mainly done to the benefit of mankind. Related: Why Pixar Employees Are Right To Be Upset By Disney's Release Model
However, the heart (and his hook) are lost to the ocean after his escape landed him in a fight with the lava demon, Te Kā. A thousand years before Moana takes place, Maui visited the mother island to steal the heart as a gift to humanity. The heart gave her the ability to create islands filled with flora and fauna to provide homes to the people of the South Pacific. The heart of Te Fiti is an ancient gem possessed by Te Fiti, the mother island. To lift the curse spreading from the ocean (and killing life on Moana's island) and revive Te Fiti, the heart had to be returned to her - but why did Maui steal the heart in the first place? The heart was bestowed upon Moana by the ocean a thousand years after it was stolen from Te Fiti by the demigod, Maui. #grateful." According to the WWE bio page for Peter Maivia, The Rock's grandfather began his wrestling career in the early 1960s in New Zealand and won championships in the South Pacific and Hawaii before coming to the United States in 1970.Disney's Moanachronicles the story of Moana and Maui on a mission to return the stolen heart of Te Fiti. He replied in a tweet, "a lil’ gem of a secret, my character Maui was partly inspired by my late grandfather, High Chief Peter Maivia of Samoa. When the Twitter user tweeted a side-by-side picture of Maui and The Rock's IRL grandfather, the actor dropped a major truth bomb on the world. And though Maui does bear a slight resemblance to The Rock (if the actor had hair, of course) no one could have guessed exactly how close to home the role hit for him. Brace yourself for all the feels.įor those who somehow forgot, Moana takes place in the South Pacific and the title character, Moana, is a princess on a quest to save her people and her home with the help of a demigod named Maui.
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Even though Moana came out almost a full year ago, The Rock AKA Dwayne Johnson decided to unveil a previously unknown, super sweet fact about his character in the Disney movie on Twitter.
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