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i think my favorite thing about imelda is that she never remarried. because you can look at it two ways. 1) she dont NEED a man. she is imelda motherfucking rivera. she is a QUEEN. or 2) imelda could never bring herself to hate hector. despite everything, she wanted to forget him not because she hated him but because she still loved him. she longed for him. she wondered if she would ever see him again. and, she just wanted that pain to go away.

imjuanita:

honest to god this is the BIG MOOD like imelda rivera never gave up on her love for hector like this man was the love of her life, every passing second without him near was like death and she would know because ever since she go to the lotd nothing could compare to the pain and the longing of having no one beside her anymore

and here’s the thing right because she DID see hector, they met a few times but words were short and physical contact was never there because her fucking heart is breaking into a million pieces and that pent up anger and remorse is bubbling at the surface like hector can tell she’s about to yell and cry and scream but she doesn’t and that pains him to no end because for once he really might have just lost imelda he knows—HIS imelda

I accidentally found out that HĂ©ctor was Miguel’s grandpa before watching Coco. It didn’t take away from my enjoyment of the movie and sometimes I was able to forget that I knew, but I couldn’t help but wonder if I would have seen that twist coming or not (I didn’t see the murder thing coming, the worst I thought Ernesto would be was a plagiarist). Could you share how you reacted when you found out HĂ©ctor was the true family member and maybe tag a few others to do the same?

heyheyitsjuju:

pencokun:

slusheeduck:

im-fairly-whitty:

I was kinda in a weird boat, the guy from Pixar who came to present Coco to my university’s animation department a month before it came out was trying not to spoil the movie but kept saying things like “
Miguel sets out to find De la Cruz, who he believes is his grandfather and who he believes will be able to break the curse
”

So I’m like “okay so obviously De la Cruz 1) isn’t his grandfather and 2) can’t break the curse” because I know how these things work.

I went into the movie looking for the “real” grandpa and once Miguel hooked up with Hector it was pretty easy to tell he was the mystery missing grandparent. What I did NOT expect was Ernesto being A COLD BLOODED MURDERER.

THAT is what truly shocked me.

How about yall? Did you see the grandpa twist coming? Lemme know in the comments whether you were surprised at all or if everyone kinda saw it coming.

I was 100% convinced that de la Cruz WAS the true great-great-grandpa for like 70% of the movie. Allow me to explain why:

Work was hyping Coco a ton and I wound up being the main person hyping it, which got me hype for it. So I got to see the trailers and a few special preview scenes over and over again, which I very much enjoyed. But it also led to me trying to piece together the plot. (And, btw, there were a TON of spoilers around work, and I steadfastly ignored them because I wanted to be surprised.)

Anyway, I was convinced that Ernesto really was Miguel’s great-great-grandpa. BUT I was also sure that he’d be the villain–I mean, his whole color scheme was white. If that’s not villain coding, I don’t know what is. So what I figured was that Miguel was going to learn a “Never meet your heroes” lesson and that his great-great-grandpa was going to reject him. Also, that funny skeleton man– who’s probably from like the 70s, because he seems awfully young–and Miguel both must bond over being fans of de la Cruz; that’s why he sings Remember Me. Clearly “La Llorona” was a Spanish “I hate you” song between Imelda and Ernesto, and “Everyone Knows Juanita” is the fun song where we’re introduced to Hector. And obviously Hector was going to step in as an older-brother character when Ernesto let him down and ultimately become Miguel’s found family. How would it resolve? No idea. Also, Dante was definitely going to die and appear in the Land of the Dead as one of those crazy colorful animals.

I had about two weeks of maintaining this idea of what Coco was going to be about, and so while I went in as blind as possible, I was still pretty sure in my ideas of what the movie would be. I started getting vibes of “Well, maybe Ernesto isn’t the grandpa” about halfway through the movie, but if I hadn’t been crying hysterically during the cenote scene, I would have been S C R E A M I N G. 

I was completely taken off-guard and I loved it so much.

(Also, fun fact: I bought my Hector figurine WAY before seeing the movie because I was like “Eh, even if the movie sucks, it’s a beautiful figurine, and I like skeletons so it’s fine.” The Hector tsum was after we’d been hyping it for a bit–we had a TON of them, and I’d gleaned enough from the trailers and my event to figure that I was going to be ruined by this funny skeleton man. Plot twist: I was.)

I was more or less the same with Slushee! I did get spoiled a tiny bit here but more in a “HĂ©ctor is an important character” thing.

What I did not expect was the first big reveal: Ernesto and HĂ©ctor were friends/performing partners and the former killed HĂ©ctor for his songs and guitar. I didn’t expect the second reveal but I wasn’t as shocked as I was with the first one.

Lmao I was in the same boat! I didn’t know a single thing about the movie going in except: a- Miguel is the name of the boy and b- it’s Mexican culture.

I thought HĂ©ctor was either found family or some distant relation they cut out because he ALSO liked music. I thought if he was found family he and MamĂĄ Imelda might grow friendly and I’d have to ship them as a “what could be” type thing (which I’m way too used to so I was fine with)

I HOPED it would be a misunderstanding scenario and that while they didn’t get along/weren’t right for each other, Imelda and Ernesto could set aside their differences for Miguel’s sake (oh how wrong I was)

I also thought HĂ©ctor wanted to go back to the Land of the Living to see his girlfriend, not his daughter. That “my girl” tripped me up too much, haha.

But by the talent show scene, I knew it had to be someone besides Ernesto. They were playing up that factor WAY too much. I still didn’t know who, or how, or WHY, but I had a “oh my god nOOOOO” moment: when Miguel put the pieces together, I was right behind him and just as horrified.

Then I died bc HĂ©ctor and his wife got together again and has beautiful OTP moments and silently slid Ernesto into my “villains that I love” category without a fuss.