![]() ![]() That becomes the feeling that you’re trying to chase for the rest of the movie.” Miguel and the music are one and the same, and if we’re successful in conveying that, then we don’t need to say, one more time during the movie, how much he wants to play. This direct approach didn’t go over well when tested what 12-year-old is self-possessed enough to go around saying things like, “music is in my bones, I have to play music, it’s part of who I am”? So Molina went, literally, back to the drawing board, eventually coming up with the moment in which Miguel, tucked away in a secret hideout and surrounded by de la Cruz mementos, watches old videos of his idol while practicing on a makeshift guitar.Īs Miguel is transported, Molina explains, the song track and Ernesto de la Cruz’s dialogue “gain this echo-y, watery sense to convey this feeling that Miguel is lost in this music. “If you don’t buy that music is the air he breathes, you’re in the middle of the theater asking yourself: ‘Why was he doing this?’” In the earliest versions of the film, Miguel expresses his love for music by simply talking about it. “He yells at his family, he runs away, he breaks into this room, he crosses over into the land of the dead, and he chooses to pursue the most elusive person possible, all in order to have a chance at fulfilling those dreams to be a musician,” Molina explains. What follows is a journey into the afterlife that sees Miguel risking almost everything to follow this one simple dream. On the eve of Día de Muertos, Miguel breaks into de la Cruz’s mausoleum in order to borrow the famous skull guitar that hangs there so that he can enter a talent competition and convince his family to embrace music again. That musician, Miguel discovers at the start of the film, is actually his town’s most famous son: deceased film star and music supernova Ernesto de la Cruz ( Benjamin Bratt). But there’s one deceptively simple early scene that proved especially challenging for Coco’s creative team and co-director Adrian Molina-a Pixar storyboard artist stepping into the director’s chair for the first time.Ĭoco is the story of Miguel ( Anthony Gonzalez), a sweet kid who loves music despite the fact that his abuelita ( Renée Victor) has strictly forbidden it, thanks to a long-ago drama involving Miguel’s great-great-grandfather, a dashing musician who walked out on the family. ![]() From the arresting, luminous city of the dead to the nonstop music and those eye-popping, mystical alebrijes, Coco is packed to the gills with visual and auditory delights. We hope as audiences see Coco that they realize how much more there is to be gained by crossing bridges and connecting worlds and embracing other people and their cultures.There’s a number of dazzling elements in Pixar’s latest film Coco that will have filmgoers young and old talking-once they’ve stopped sniffling those trademark Pixar tears, that is. We know that representation matters and that marginalized people deserve to feel like they belong. We tried to take a step forward towards a world where non-white children can grow up seeing characters in movies that look, and talk, and live like they do. Our goal was to share the beauty and celebration surrounding Dia de Muertos, while also telling a respectful universal story. ![]() We were driven to be as authentic as possible, so we created a diverse crew, found an all Latino voice cast, and brought in cultural consultants to help get our story right. ![]() We poured our hearts into this film taking research trips to Mexico and absorbing every bit of information and details that we could. Our intention was always to tell a great story celebrating the beautiful people, the beautiful culture, and the beautiful traditions of Mexico, but we didn’t know just how important the message would become. When we started making Coco back in 2011, the world was a very different place – most notably in terms of politics. As Lee Unkrich took to the microphone, he spoke of his gratitude and the importance of the film stating, “This is an incredible honor for all of us at Pixar and for Coco – and for everyone who had anything to do with making it. ![]()
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