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ahumblenoodle:

Coco Thoughts

@sir-scandalous made me obsessed with this movie, but I have no regrets. Here are just a few of the things I’ve been thinking about lately…

  • One day, everyone will remember Hector since he’s basically famous now, but his family will all fade. (Except for maybe Miguel.)
  • Mama Coco’s last words to Miguel are, “You’re so much like my Papa.”
  • Every night until she died, Miguel sang Remember Me to her.
  • When Coco was young, she’d often cry alone, asking the night air, “Where are you, Papa?” and Imelda heard once and cried the hardest she ever had in her life, and that’s what made her banish all music and find a way to restart their lives without Hector.
  • Imelda sometimes sings in private when no one can hear, because she still so dearly loves music. It wasn’t easy banishing two of the three things she loved the most in life, and sometimes the music just wouldn’t go away until she sings.
  • It’s how she knows she’d never forget Hector, even if she wanted to more than anything to get rid of this persistent hole in her chest that nothing ever really filled.
  • Hector could feel Imelda passing, since she was one of two who remembered him, and went to greet her but she whacked him with her shoe and refused to listen to anything he had to say, and that was the day Hector’s heart really broke.
  • After Miguel, Hector and Imelda fall in love again so easily, and Hector totally makes a “let’s bone” joke, for which he gets a well-deserved smack.
  • When Miguel passes, his first objective is to find Hector, and practically tackles him when he does. He’s so, so happy to see him. “I’ve missed you so much, Papa Hector.”
  • Hector just melts and grips Miguel tight, because, “I missed you too, Miguel. You grew up to be such a good man.”
  • Their family all dog-piles, but for a good few minutes there it’s just the great-great-grandpa holding the kid who saved his life and brought him back to his family again.
  • Miguel was totally arrested for stealing Ernesto’s guitar, then thought crazy for saying he went into the Land of the Dead. Seriously, how exactly did they convince the entire fanbase that Ernesto murdered someone???? Like, yeah, Coco has the letters and all… Idk, this just has confused and bothered me. Also the whole microphone thing. The ONE bad thing out of the whole movie.
  • Miguel is decently well-known, but he never traveled too far from his family so he’s not near as famous as Hector/Ernesto, but people still love to hear him perform.
  • After some practice, Miguel starts writing his own songs just like Hector.
  • Ernesto left Hector’s body on the ground where he died and he was buried in a nameless tomb so the citizens of Santa Cecilia eventually tear down Ernesto’s tomb and rebuild an honarary one for Hector.
  • The whole family loves Hector once the story comes out about what happened to him, and he’s brought into the family. He’s the dad/grandpa everyone had been missing in their lives, and he so seamlessly fits in.
  • Imelda teaches Hector how to make shoes, and he loves making Coco all sorts of cute shoes!!!

That’s all for right now, I just love this movie so much oh my god. ;-;

dreamstormdragon:

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demonoflight:

When Miguel presents the family photos on the ofrenda to baby Socorro, he tells her “they’re counting on us to remember them”, and I feel Miguel is really going to go the extra mile to keep all of their memories alive, not just Héctor’s. Asking family, friends and neighbors about all of them, listening and memorizing all the stories better than he had in previous years, taking note of what everyone was like and what everyone enjoyed doing while they were alive – and probably still enjoy now that they’re in the Land of the Dead.

So on Día de Muertos, Miguel leaves special personalized offerings for everyone, including the family he hasn’t met from the non-Rivera side of the family. He leaves letters and poems and drawings, magazines and books, albums featuring the best Rivera family photos from the past year, innovative shoes he thinks the Rivera shoemakers be interested in (especially the twins), knickknacks and tools and new accessories (hats, bandanas, ribbons, flower crowns)…

And mixtapes! He remembers technology is outdated in the Land of the Dead, so he puts Papá Enrique’s old CD player on the ofrenda with a completely full CD binder. He makes mixtapes with music he thinks (or knows) his family would like, sorted by family member, and ones with music he likes and wants to share with his family. He refills the binder with new mixtapes every year, and when he starts recording his own songs he adds these CDs too. He even shares scratch vocals and acoustic versions and unfinished songs; many times, after putting a demo he’s unsure about on the ofrenda, he’ll wake up the next day feeling a lot more confident in it because he has a gut feeling that Papá Héctor loved it.

Of course, no one fully understands why Miguel is suddenly putting all this extra stuff on the ofrenda, but they figure it’s his way of dealing with the story of Papá Héctor and honestly, it’s very sweet and thoughtful of him! Elena in particular never fails to tell Miguel how proud she is of him and even gives him advice on gifts.

And the dead Riveras? They might need to start carrying a few handbaskets on Día de Muertos to put all those thoughtful presents in. And when they see Miguel again, many years from now, they will express their immense gratitude, but will also have some stern words about the year he introduced Héctor to the Macarena.

I am 100% on board with this idea. 

I am 200% on board with this.

Especially the Macarena.