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Coco

No more hiding, Dante.I got to seize my moment! I'm gonna play in MariachiPlaza if it...

Coco • 2017
No more hiding, Dante.I got to seize my moment! I'm gonna play in MariachiPlaza if it kills me

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No more hiding Dante I got to seize my moment
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I'm gonna play in Mariachi Plaza if it kills me
Available in 3 languages
Duration
10 seconds
Views
42
Timestamp in Movie
00:14:12
Uploaded
Jan 31, 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.
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!
MOLINA: The big reveal. - Coco 00:05
MOLINA: The big reveal.
De la Cruz's guitar? - Coco 00:16
De la Cruz's guitar?
UNKRICH: We went through so many different versions of how to reveal the musician. - Coco 00:05
UNKRICH: We went through so many different versions of how...
There were versions where he wasn't even in the photo, and Miguel folded it open and found there was another person in it, and all these different permutations of trying to figure out kind of the web of the storytelling and what we wanted Miguel to know o - Coco 00:16
There were versions where he wasn't even in the photo,...
It took a while to get to this spot of just having de la Cruz's guitar get revealed there when the photo opens up. - Coco 00:09
It took a while to get to this spot of just having de la...
MOLINA: In all of his excitement to pronounce himself a musician, we have Miguel throw off his apron, kind of just a little subtle expression of him not wanting to be saddled with his family's future. - Coco 00:12
MOLINA: In all of his excitement to pronounce himself a...
I don't think his parents take it as the way he intends it. - Coco 00:06
I don't think his parents take it as the way he intends...
ANDERSON: You keep seeing his family and the character design of all of Miguel's family. - Coco 00:06
ANDERSON: You keep seeing his family and the character...