![]() ![]() “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. It’s an upbeat tune with a catchy beat and you can feel the party atmosphere even when not watching the film.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. Another favourite from the soundtrack is Un Poco Loco. ![]() Interestingly, the writers of Remember Me are the same as those for Frozen - Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. It’s a clever use of music that we’ve seen before in Frozen with Love is an Open Door (if you don’t know the story behind that, have a wee Google and get back to us). Its lead track, Remember Me, is interpreted in two different ways during the film, giving the song new context as the story progresses. It was Coco’s mother who started the family shoe business after her husband left her to become a musician, hence their affliction to music.Ī film about a kid wanting to become a musician would be nothing without a few good tunes and Coco has a very strong soundtrack. His grandmother and great grandmother, Mama Imelda and Mama Coco, are the matriarchs of the family with Mama Imelda also caring for her mother Coco. They are shoemakers and want Miguel to go into the family business but he has other ideas. Miguel is a boy with a dream and it goes against his family’s wishes.
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