This song makes me want to dance. Though even the best dancer can't do what Hector does. Actually, I like his normal dancing even more than his loco dancing where he builds himself upside down and out-of-order.
You even get a glimpse of the beautiful Pepita in this clip.
How long can I go without mentioning Coco?
Who knows. I haven't had the chance to gush about this movie to anyone who's seen it. Except Dad. He's probably heard me go on about it enough already.
Which is why I'm gushing on my poor blog.
Might as well go on for a while, try to burn some of it out of my system. Usually writing stuff down means it stops speeding through my head.
Singing the songs would probably help too, but my voice still hasn't returned fully from my cough even though I'm otherwise recovered. Hopefully soon though. I've been learning them, so I'll be ready!
So, you may want to skip the rest of the post.
When I noticed that Hector had suspenders, I thought it was funny because I guessed skeletons needed them to keep their clothes on. But not so! You can see in this video that he takes them off in order to take his bones apart. Which means that his suspenders are not for his pants. They're to keep his bones together! XD
His clothes are so patched and he's so battered that his bones fall apart more than the other skeletons. Especially the arm without the sleeve, and the leg where the pants are torn off at the knee.
Also, I just realized he can take off his hair? And his goatee (which he then twists back on). @_@
Can I mention his goofy grins?
Plus his commentary on his photo is "muy guapo, eh?" He is actually guapo (handsome, if you don't speak español). It's just not really... reflected in this particular photo.
Imelda is beautiful while she's alive. Not quite so much when she's dead, but Hector looks cool both alive and dead.
Imelda is pretty awesome at the end. Do not mess with the people she cares about XD
And Miguel is cute too! "Dimple, no dimple! Dimple, no dimple!"
Angry flower shark
Maaan, his story is so freaking sad though. Even before he knows the whole story. But he's not a broken person. He must have had some terrible days though.
He may be, well, kinda unreliable at times (Why the heck would he lose that poor guy's femur?). But he's also super caring and outgoing. You can tell he has some self esteem problems, and that's not surprising at all. When Hector and Miguel are stuck together, he calls himself a sorry excuse of a person. TT^TT
He also takes pretty bad care of himself (and bad care of his stuff).
Plus people are so mean to him.
Miguel unintentionally makes fun of his limp. And other people taunt him for theoretically choking to death (Which feels even worse when you've seen the full movie). And that one lady almost drops a freaking staircase on him.
As I first watched the movie, I slowly liked Hector more as the story progressed. By the end I knew he was one of my favorite characters from the movie. But it wasn't until the next day that my brain had processed enough to go, "Man, I freaking love this skeleton!"
I wonder what Pixar's process was to figure out the skeleton faces. Sometimes it feels strange that their bone is also their lips. But it works.
Their level of research, on every level, is mind-blowing. They were accurate with the guitar, and everyone says they nailed the culture and the holiday. Which I know from experience is not easy to do. XD
Plus Disney has a history of not being very respectful to some of their subjects... Hence my initial worry about the movie.
I also wonder how written stories would affect the spirits in the Land of the Dead. For example, what if someone had a diary filled with stories about their family? Doesn't that count as having your family pass down stories about you? Would a skeleton be safe there as long as there was some kind of written record about them? But I guess not, because there seem to be written records about most people. I guess the stories have to be passed down directly.
I love that there are Español words and phrase scattered all over. Though there are a couple that I need to look up (once I can watch the movie with subtitles).
I also wish that they didn't have the term "final death." It would have been more powerful if it didn't have a name, I think. (Edit: Just learned that "the third and final death" is an actual thing, so I take this back).
I just saw Coco again today, with some of mi familia. When we stepped out of the theater, I went "Group family hug!" And bundled everyone together XD
Watching anime makes me use random Japanese words. Watching Coco makes me use random Spanish words (Except the Spanish is a lot easier for me since I studied it for three years XD). I am easily influenced by what I watch.
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