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MOLINA: Exactly, all the plot lines and everything, so that whenever they came up, they would fit into our storytelling
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Coco

Exactly, all the plot linesand everything, so that whenever they came up,they would fit...

Coco • 2017
MOLINA:Exactly, all the plot linesand everything, so that whenever they came up,they would fit into our storytelling

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it's playing just for you
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A feeling so close
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You could reach out and touch it
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I never knew
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I could want something so much but it's true
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You must have faith sister
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Oh but Padre he will never listen
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He will listen To music
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Only a song only a song
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Has the power to change a heart
Available in 10 languages
Duration
8 seconds
Views
199
Timestamp in Movie
00:12:58
Uploaded
Jan 17, 2026
Genres
animation, adventure, comedy
Production
Pixar,Walt Disney Pictures

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Movie Summary

Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer.
♪ A feeling so close... ♪ You could reach out and touch it ♪ I never knew ♪ I could want something so much, but it's true ♪ You must have faith, sister. Oh, but, Padre, he will never listen. He will list - Coco 00:30
♪ A feeling so close... ♪ You could reach out and touch it ♪...
UNKRICH: We watched a lot of classics of Mexican cinema to inspire us. - Coco 00:06
UNKRICH: We watched a lot of classics of Mexican cinema to...
It was really important to me from the beginning that since there was going to be a lot of musical instrument playing in the movie, that we do it as realistically as possible. - Coco 00:10
It was really important to me from the beginning that since...
We've all seen movies where people pretend to play instruments who don't really play, and you can always tell, especially people who actually play instruments, so we took great care to film all our musicians. - Coco 00:12
We've all seen movies where people pretend to play...
We strapped GoPros onto their guitars and shot lots of reference footage of the playing so that the animators could study that and make Miguel and all the other characters play really, really realistically. - Coco 00:12
We strapped GoPros onto their guitars and shot lots of...
There's an angle coming up here that is kind of subtle, but I liked the idea of placing one of the de la Cruz posters over Miguel's shoulder so that when he's playing and kind of lost in his bliss and the reverie of guitar playing, that it would feel like - Coco 00:18
There's an angle coming up here that is kind of subtle,...
But my father, he will never give his permission. I am done asking permission. When you see your moment, you mustn't let it pass you by. You must seize it! Senor de la Cruz, what did it take for you to seize your mome - Coco 00:29
But my father, he will never give his permission. I am done...
No more hiding, Dante. - Coco 00:10
No more hiding, Dante.
MOLINA: I always loved this cut when Miguel says, "I'm going to play in Mariachi Plaza if it kills me," and then you cut to a bunch of kids' faces painted like skeletons. - Coco 00:10
MOLINA: I always loved this cut when Miguel says,...
We actually modeled a girl, and at a certain point, I realized they should really be identical twins. - Coco 00:07
We actually modeled a girl, and at a certain point, I...
ANDERSON: We saved 10 bucks on that one. - Coco 00:08
ANDERSON: We saved 10 bucks on that one.
MOLINA: This was always a tough scene to get right because Miguel has all this hope to play in the Plaza, and we needed his family to shut him in, to trap him, and so putting it at the ofrenda became this perfect place. - Coco 00:14
MOLINA: This was always a tough scene to get right because...
But the balancing act of him having the guitar and worrying about being caught, and then being trapped in this future of being a shoemaker, it just took a lot of rewrites to get it just right. - Coco 00:12
But the balancing act of him having the guitar and worrying...
We had to rewrite this probably every time we screened. - Coco 00:05
We had to rewrite this probably every time we screened.
There's a lot of doing and redoing when you make these movies. - Coco 00:06
There's a lot of doing and redoing when you make these...
There's a good example coming up here of how our research trips fed into the story. - Coco 00:07
There's a good example coming up here of how our...
We were with a family down in Mexico, sitting in their ofrenda room and partaking of the great food that they were giving us, and I noticed that this basset hound, the family dog, kept sneaking into the ofrenda room, and it was trying to eat - Coco 00:22
We were with a family down in Mexico, sitting in their...
Dante! No, Dante. Stop! - Coco 00:06
Dante! No, Dante. Stop!
And I kind of filed that one away, hoping that we'd find a spot for it in the movie, and so that's how we ended up with Dante climbing up on the ofrenda. ANDERSON: And here it is. - Coco 00:14
And I kind of filed that one away, hoping that we'd...
No, no, no, no, no! - Coco 00:06
No, no, no, no, no!