Coco: Day of the Dead Film by Pixar

I'd be down for something set around Cinco de Mayo but it's not that big of a holiday in Mexico.

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How about Los Posados? It doesn't get as much focus as Day Of the Dead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Posadas

Im kind of irked that wikipedia and you give give different spellings so I dont know which one is correct.

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Its Las Posadas. In Spanish words have gender, and Posada (inn) is female. Don't ask me why.

Soy Latino, no me lo tienes que explicar, no sabia por que no estaba seguro de cual era la version correcta. Pero gracias.

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"I'm Latino, you do not have to explain it to me, I did not know why I was not sure which version was right. But thanks."

edited 12th Jun '17 10:41:38 AM by Ultimatum

New theme music also a box

Aegis: I'm Latino as well, and I explained not just for your benefit but for everyone's.

edited 14th Jun '17 5:49:12 PM by Sijo

Ups, Mis mas sinceras disculpas. Me encanta hablar en español. El Español es lo mas!

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I'm having mixed feelings about this.

I feel that this will have a Brave vibe to it, based on the plot of the age gap and a spite fight about defying traditions. Plus, I've seen the whole "music is forbidden" thing in The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning.

Though the Frozen short is really tempting me.

So I think Coco may be Pixar's answer to Spirited Away. Based on the summary alone, it looks like Miguel is going to take some sort of trip to a Mexican spirit world.

Make your comparisons to Kubo and the Two Strings as well if you like (I liked that movie; too bad it was a bomb).

Also about the TEASER trailer, does anyone else think the first notes in the teaser are reminiscent of a certain theme from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask? Ironic that we have skull faces in both works.

edited 12th Jul '17 11:24:48 PM by jameygamer

That's why people are calling it Kubo Meets The Book Of Life.

edited 12th Jul '17 11:23:53 PM by firewriter

I know Pixar are big fans of Studio Ghibli. John Lasseter introduced almost every single Studio Ghibli DVD/Blu-ray distributed by Walt Disney Home Video.

This seems like a deliberate nod.

My mother liked Day of the Dead stuff, so I'm seeing Coco.

I wouldn't be surprised if Jorge Guitierrez was involved in some way with this movie, even if it was just as a consultant. He's become something of Hollywood's go to guy for fact checking Mexican influence, even in stuff that's only styled after the culture like Puss In Boots.

edited 13th Jul '17 8:52:54 PM by KnownUnknown

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.

Why? He's not the sole owner of the Day Of The Dead theme. I love him, but this looks really different from his usual vision.

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I don't think I can get past how hideous the skeleton characters are.

Skeletons have an inherent coolness and even cuteness to them as-is; look at Grim, Jack, Papyrus, countless other skeleton characters people have loved over the generations. Everything that makes a skeleton "scary" also makes it endearing; the perpetually grinning teeth and big, empty eye sockets are easy to project a lot of personality onto.

And then there's....this.

The skeletons in Coco have rubbery lips over their teeth and eyeballs in their sockets and oh my LORD do they look unpleasant.

Someone has got to take Pixar aside and politely explain to them that there's more than one kind of eye and more than one kind of mouth in the world.

Book of Life had skeleton eyeballs and lips too, sure, but they were stylized enough to not just look like desiccated corpses wrapped in a thin membrane of skin like Coco's offering.

The pervasive idea in animation that you must make everything as human as possible to be "relatable" is death to character design, and Pixar has always been terrible about it. I hoped they had learned a thing or two making Wall E and Eve, but they just went straight back to rubbery goblin faces.

edited 15th Jul '17 5:46:16 PM by scythemantis

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I dont hate the designs like you do but Im always glad to see people being more willing to criticize Pixar.

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I noticed that in test footage for Monster's Inc. the characters looked a lot more... uncanny.

There was later test footage I couldn't find where Sully has a much larger forehead which I found the most unsettling

I didn't say "he's probably secretly making this movie because it's a Day of the Dead film and he made one once," I said "he may be involved in a minor way due to he niche he's made for himself as Hollywood's go to Mexican consultant."

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.

Your video isn't showing up for me, but I looked up Monsters test clips on my own, and the two-limbed Mike reminded me of Douche.

Kinda late, but yes, it is a Shout-Out to The Divine Comedy. Also, it's inspired by the mexica (aztec) myths where the dead needed a dog as a guide to safely travel through the underworlds.

On a more relevant note, the movie came out yesterday and I've heard great things about it. I'll go watch it tomorrow so I'll be able to give a better review by then, hehe. :P

Wow, I had no idea that the movie was coming out a month earlier in Mexico than anywhere else. No wonder the trope page for it is crawling with spoilers now.

"I shall not be foolish again, my dear Gwendolyn!"

Haha, yeah. I think they did it because the day of the dead is on the 2nd of November, so they wanted it to be before the actual holiday.

Like how Christmas movies come out shortly before Christmas itself.

Oh wow. Thanks for the heads up!

I heard someone on /co/ say that some parts got "too real" for him.

Anyway, I'm reluctant to see it 'cause of the whole Footloose-like plotline. The kid's family will paint the ancestor as a callous jerk who abandoned them for music, but he then hears a different story that it was the other way around and that he left to help the family and they disowned him for leaving. There'll be a big argument and his parents will pull a Triton and do something wrong like kabonging his guitar and he'll run away and "die". Then, after hijinks in the afterlife, they'll all reunite and become closer and start a newer, better tradition. The End.

Like I said, I'm not that interested, but Olaf is really tempting me.

edited 28th Oct '17 10:12:57 PM by Kartoonkid95