Intrinsic Element or Film Coco

a)    THEME OF THE FILM

The theme of this film is "life after death" in the form of Dia de Muertos, a celebration of   death originating in Mexico.

 

b)    CHARACTER OF THE FILM

Miguel

Miguel (Anthony Gonzalez) is a 12-year-old boy from the fictional village of Santa Cecilia in Mexico who dreams of being a musician. The entire film centers on the adventures of the main character on the day of Da de Muertos when the world of the living and the world of the dead are connected.

Coco

Coco was Miguel's great-grandmother who had lost most of her memory because of old age. The character whose voice was filled by actress Ana Ofelia Murguia had an important role in the whole story until her name was made the title of the movie Coco.

Ernesto de la Cruz

The late musician Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt) who is very famous throughout Mexico is a figure who inspired Miguel's music. Miguel tried to meet him in the world of the dead and was astonished by what he encountered there.

Mama Imelda

The late Mama Imelda (Alanna Ubach) was the mother of Mama Coco, and she was the first to ban music in the family. Miguel finally found the real answer that caused the ban when venturing into the world of the dead.

Hector

This great imposter named Hector (Gael Garca Bernal) helps Miguel find his family in the world of the dead. Recklessness and Hector's silliness often trigger both of them to get into trouble, while making Miguel have fun.

Dante

Like something that is lacking if the film made by Disney does not display animal characters that faithfully accompany the main character. One of the animal characters in the Coco movie is a street dog named Dante that accompanies the adventures of Miguel in two worlds

c)    SETTINGS OF THE FILM

"Coco finds himself communing with talking skeletons in the land of the dead. Directed by Lee Unkrich ("Toy Story 3") and veteran Pixar animator Adrian Molina, and drawing heavily on Mexican folklore and traditional designs, it has catchy music, a complex but comprehensible plot, and bits of domestic comedy and media satire. Most of the time the movie is a knockabout slapstick comedy with a "Back to the Future" feeling, staging grand action sequences and feeding audiences new plot information every few minutes, but of course, being a Pixar film, "Coco" is also building toward emotionally overwhelming moments, so stealthily that you may be surprised to find yourself wiping away a tear even though the studio has been using the sneak-attack playbook for decades.

The film's hero, twelve-year old Miguel Riviera (voice by Anthony Gonzalez), lives in the small town of Santa Cecilia. He’s a goodhearted child who loves to play guitar and idolizes the greatest popular singer-songwriter of the 1920s and '30s, Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt), who was killed when a huge church bell fell on his head. But Miguel has to busk in secret because his family has banned its members from performing music ever since Miguel's great-great-grandfather left, abandoning his loved ones to selfishly pursue his dreams of stardom. At least that’s the official story passed down through the generations; it’ll be challenged as the film unfolds, not through a traditional detective story (although there’s a mystery element to “Coco”) but through an “Alice in Wonderland” journey to the Land of the Dead, which the hero accesses through the tomb of his ancestors. 

Family and legacy as expressed through storytelling and song: this is the deeper preoccupation of “Coco.” One of the most fascinating things about the movie is the way it builds its plot around members of Miguel’s family, living and dead, as they battle to determine the official narrative of Miguel’s great-great grandfather and what his disappearance from the narrative meant for the extended clan. The title character is the hero’s great-grandmother (Renee Victor), who was traumatized by her dad’s disappearance. In her old age, she has become a nearly silent presence, sitting in the corner and staring blankly ahead, as if hypnotized by a sweet, old film perpetually unreeling in her mind.

The machinations that get Miguel to the other side are too complicated to explain in a review, though they’re comprehensible as you watch the movie. Suffice to say that Miguel gets there, teams up with a melancholy goofball named Hector (Gael Garcia Bernal), and has to pose as one of the dead with the aid of skeletal facepaint, but that (like Marty McFly returning to the 1950s to make sure his mom ends up with his dad in “Future”) the longer Miguel stays on the other side, the more likely he is to end up actually dead.

I’m reluctant to describe the film’s plot in too much detail because, even though every twist seems obvious in retrospect, Molina and Matthew Aldrich’s script frames each one so that seems delightful and inevitable. Many of them are conveyed through a stolen family photograph that Miguel brings with him to the Land of the Dead. The deployment of the photo is a great example of how to tell a story through pictures, or more accurately, with a picture. Somebody’s face has been torn out; there’s a guitar that proves to be important later, and there are other ways in which visual information has been withheld from Miguel (and us) so that it can be revealed or restored when the time is right, completing and correcting an incomplete or distorted picture, and "picture.”

What’s freshest, though, is the tone and outlook of the film. “Coco” opened in Mexico a month before it opened in the USA and is already the highest grossing film of all time there. It assumes a non-American point-of-view on spirituality and culture—not in a touristy or “thought experiment” sort of way, but as if it were merely the latest product of an alternate universe Pixar Mexicano that has existed for just as long as the other one. The film’s stable of voice actors reads like a Who’s Who of Latin-American talent: the ensemble includes Edward James Olmos, Alfonso Arau, Ana Ofelia Murguia, Alanna Ubach and, in a small role, to my surprise and astonishment, playwright Octavio Solis, who was one of my teachers in high school back in Dallas. Michael Giacchino's score is unsurprisingly excellent, as are the original songs—in particular, the future Oscar winner "Remember Me," the greatest tear-eruption mechanism to accompany a Pixar release since the "Toy Story 2" centerpiece "When She Loved Me."

Like most Pixar productions, this one is filled with homages to film history in general and animation history in particular. I was especially fond of the references to the dancing skeletons that seemed to pop up constantly in cartoon shorts from the 1930s. There’s a touch of Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki in the film’s matter-of-fact depiction of the dead interacting with the living, as well as its portrayal of certain creatures, such as a goofy, goggle-eyed dog named Dante (modeled on Xoloitzcuintli, the national dog of Mexico) and a gigantic flying dragon-type beast with the personality of a plump old housecat. 

Also notable are the film's widescreen compositions, which put lots of characters in the same frame and shoot them from the waist up or from head-to-toe, in the manner of old musicals, or Hollywood comedies from the eighties like "9 to 5" or "Tootsie." The direction lets you appreciate how the characters interact with each other and with their environments and lets you decide what to look at. At first this approach seems counter-intuitive for a movie filled with fantastic creatures, structures and situations, but it ends up being effective for that very reason: it makes you feel as though you're seeing a record of things that are actually happening, and it makes "Coco" feel gentle and unassuming even though it's a big, brash, loud film. 

I had some minor quibbles about “Coco” while I was watching it, but I can’t remember what they were. This film is a classic.

" is the sprightly story of a young boy who wants to be a musician and somehow

                 

D. PLOT

plot Progresif

In Santa Cecilia, Mexico, Imelda Rivera was the wife of a musician who left her and their 3-year-old daughter Coco, to pursue a career in music. She banned music in the family and opened a shoe-making family business. Ninety-six years later, her great-great-grandson, 12-year-old Miguel, now lives with Coco and their family. He secretly dreams of becoming a musician like Ernesto de la Cruz, a popular actor and singer of Coco's generation. One day, Miguel inadvertently damages the photo of Coco with her parents at the center of the family ofrenda and removes it, discovering that her father (whose face is torn out) was holding Ernesto's famous guitar.         

        Concluding that Ernesto is his great-great-grandfather, Miguel ignores his grandmother Elena's objections and leaves to enter a talent show for the Day of the Dead. He enters Ernesto's mausoleum and steals his guitar to use in the show, but becomes invisible to everyone in the village plaza. However, he can see and be seen by his Xoloitzcuintli dog Dante and his skeletal dead relatives who are visiting from the Land of the Dead for the holiday. Taking him there, they realize that Imelda cannot visit as Miguel removed her photo from the ofrenda. Discovering that he is cursed for stealing from the dead, Miguel must return to the Land of the Living before sunrise or he will become one of the dead: to do so, he must receive a blessing from a member of his family using an Aztec marigold petal that can undo the curse placed upon him by stealing Ernesto's guitar. Imelda offers Miguel a blessing but on the condition that he abandon his musical pursuits when he returns to the Land of the Living; Miguel refuses and attempts to seek Ernesto's blessing.      

            Miguel encounters Héctor, a down-on-his-luck skeleton who once played with Ernesto and offers to help Miguel reach him. In return, Héctor asks Miguel to take his photo back to the Land of the Living so he can visit his daughter before she forgets him and he disappears completely. Héctor attempts to return Miguel to his relatives, but Miguel escapes and infiltrates Ernesto's mansion, learning along the way that an old friendship between the two deteriorated before Héctor's death. Ernesto welcomes Miguel as his descendant, but Héctor confronts them, imploring Miguel to take his photo. Miguel soon realizes that Ernesto murdered Héctor using a poisoned drink and stole the songs he had written, passing them off as his own to become famous. To maintain his legacy, Ernesto steals the photo and has Miguel and Héctor thrown into a cenote pit.  

            Miguel realizes that Héctor is his actual great-great-grandfather and that Coco is Héctor's daughter, the only living person who still remembers him. With the help of Dante - who turns into an alebrije - the dead Riveras find and rescue them. Miguel reveals that Héctor's decision to return home to her and Coco resulted in his death, and Imelda and Héctor reconcile. They infiltrate Ernesto's sunrise concert to retrieve Héctor's photo from Ernesto and expose his crimes. Ernesto is crushed by a falling church bell as in his previous life, but the photo falls into the water and disappears.           

            As the sun rises, Héctor is in danger of being forgotten by Coco and disappearing. Imelda blesses Miguel with no conditions attached so he can return to the Land of the Living, where he plays a song for Coco that Héctor wrote for her during her childhood. The song sparks her memory of Héctor and revitalizes her, and she gives Miguel the torn-out piece of the photo from the ofrenda, which shows Héctor's face. Elena reconciles with Miguel, accepting both him and music back into the family. 

            One year later, Miguel proudly presents the family ofrenda - featuring a photo of the now deceased Coco and the restored photo of Héctor and Imelda - to his new baby sister. Letters kept by Coco contain evidence that Ernesto stole Héctor's songs. As a result, Ernesto's legacy is destroyed and the community honors Héctor instead. In the Land of the Dead, Héctor and Imelda join Coco for a visit to the living Riveras as Miguel sings and plays for his dead and living relatives.

E). MORAL VALUE

1. Achieve Dreams and Ideas Via Special This film tells the story of Miguel, a boy who has a musical passion. Miguel lives in a village in Mexico with a hard life. He grew up in a shoemaking family who hated music. They hate music because they believe for generations that music is a curse. Miguel's enthusiasm to be a musician deserves a thumbs up. Although all members of his family forbid, the 12-year-old boy never gave up to reach his goals. He also dared to step and determine his way of life even though he was not supported by his family. In fact, he traveled to the Land of Death aka the Land of the Dead to meet with his idol musician who became his motivation to keep trying.  

2. Eliminate Grief, Grow Love Via Special The culture featured in Coco is a Mexican celebration that upholds the tradition of Dia de Muertos. Even though it is said to be as limited as a death celebration, the tradition is not a grieving moment. On the contrary, the tradition aims to celebrate and remember the goodness of the ancestors and to respect and remember the memories of family members who have passed away. The celebration also taught us not to grieve for a long time. In fact, to regain the memories of people who have died, we must foster a sense of joy so that his spirit will also be happy. Plus, the celebration was a moment of gathering for all family members to share stories.  

3. Memories of the Beloved Via Special It's not wrong, how come, if we remember the person who died. In fact, it becomes a thing that makes them happy even in a different world. In fact, the saddest thing is forgotten. In the film, when a person dies, his spirit will live in the Land of Death. However, when the person is no longer remembered by his family, his spirit will die and cannot return to meet his surviving family. Now, in this life, we can recall people who have gone before us. For example, when we worship, we cannot forget to pray for our dead family. We also need to express gratitude for the life given by God. Actually, remembering a loved one is not only to those who have died. Those who are still alive are also obliged. You see, they have made our lives happy.  

4. Honesty Is Expensive Via Special The value of honesty is also very often in films, especially films whose targets are children. You see, honesty must be instilled since childhood. If it is not accustomed to being honest, the child's behavior becomes negative later. So, it's not surprising that Disney and Pixar films always instill the value of honesty. Coco's film also shows scenes of dishonesty from one of the characters. Interestingly, the scene was a surprise in the film. The film also teaches that if someone who is lying and cunning will surely be repaid. Therefore, honesty can be said to be the standard for family films.  

5. Family is a valuable asset Via Special Family films certainly have a moral message about togetherness and warmth in the family. The importance of the family is portrayed through everyday scenes. In fact, when you are in a difficult choice, family support is needed. The film also tells us that no matter how far we go, we still need a family. Just not enough friends. Because the warmth given by family and friends is different. Well, when viewed from the synopsis and the film footage, the story of this film focuses on Miguel's family in the real world and the world of the dead. In order to maintain the integrity of his family in the world, Miguel was willing to risk his life. In addition, this film also contains a moral message that when one family is in trouble, we should help.

F)    FUN FACTS

1.   There are bone-shaped paving stones in the streets of the land of the dead.

      Keep an eye out to see if you can spot them while you watch the movie!

2.   Marigolds are the only living plants you will see in the land of the dead.

     The fact that these are the only living plants in the Land of the Dead set it apart from The Land of The Living. During their preliminary research trips to Mexico, the filmmakers learned that marigolds play a huge role in Día de Los Muertos: guiding the spirit of a loved one home. And it doesn’t hurt that they’re beautiful!

3.   Dante’s breed is xoloitzcuintli, which is the national dog of mexico.

     Dante is Miguel’s loyal pet in the movie … Xolo dogs are nearly hairless, and often have missing teeth, causing their tongues to hang out. Local Xolo dogs visited Pixar, so that animators could study them.

4.   When you see anyone play the guitar in coco, they are actually playing the correct notes!

     Using videos of musicians who had cameras attached to their guitars as a reference, animators were able to make the guitar-playing in the movie authentic.

5.   Ernesto de la cruz was animated so exactly that even his adam’s apple moves when he sings.

     Thanks to the magic of additional facial rigs, de la Cruz’s throat and cheeks also vibrate when he sings!

6.   There were 500 individual pieces of clothing created for crowd characters.

     To get the look right for the characters—from the residents of Santa Cecilia, to the skeleton-attendees of Ernesto de la Cruz’s party in the Land of the Dead—animators spent time drawing in real-life sessions with Mexican folkloric dancers.

7.   A cleft on ernesto de la cruz’s chin is visible in both his living self and his land of the dead self.

     His pencil-thin mustache is also reminiscent of the mustaches that were popular when he was alive. Pixar animators really think of everything!

                                                                                                                           

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