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Coco

These alebrije Chihuahuas arecompletely unnecessary to this scene

Coco • 2017
These alebrije Chihuahuas arecompletely unnecessary to this scene

Full Transcript

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You and I we are artists Miguel
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We cannot belong to one family
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The world is our family
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Ooh Ooh The fireworks have begun
Available in 9 languages
Duration
6 seconds
Views
39
Timestamp in Movie
01:03:18
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.
- -Really early on in the story reels, we had de la Cruz holding little skeleton Chihuahuas. - Coco 00:07
- -Really early on in the story reels, we had de la Cruz...
Those went away, but there was something funny to me about de la Cruz having little dogs that he carried around. - Coco 00:07
Those went away, but there was something funny to me about...
So we created this little bevy of alebrije Chihuahuas for him to have with him. - Coco 00:06
So we created this little bevy of alebrije Chihuahuas for...
Soon the party will move across town for my Sunrise Spectacular. - Coco 00:23
Soon the party will move across town for my Sunrise...
This is a moment I always wondered would be a little too creepy, but, you know, we wanted to up the stakes, and I feel like it gives you just enough urgency to send Miguel home. - Coco 00:12
This is a moment I always wondered would be a little too...
-Yeah, showing his midsection. - Coco 00:05
-Yeah, showing his midsection.
UNKRICH: I was always really pushing for super saturated color in the movie. - Coco 00:06
UNKRICH: I was always really pushing for super saturated...
And Danielle Feinberg, who is our Director of Photography for Lighting, she would show me these color keys that were gorgeous, but I kept pushing her to go more and more saturated with the color. - Coco 00:11
And Danielle Feinberg, who is our Director of Photography...
I just wanted super bold use of color in the Land of the Dead, and she came up with these great images, which I absolutely love, and it's exactly what I always wanted. - Coco 00:11
I just wanted super bold use of color in the Land of the...
UNKRICH: Yeah, Sharon Calahan and Danielle Feinberg in the lighting team, yeah, did a great job of using that pool to start to lean towards de la Cruz maybe not being the great guy that we thought he was. - Coco 00:13
UNKRICH: Yeah, Sharon Calahan and Danielle Feinberg in the...
MOLINA: There's some color schemes that I would naturally never tend toward, an orange, green, purple color scheme, but to see it used in this way, it gives it such this otherworldly feeling, and it does so much for the tone of this scene, that I just thi - Coco 00:17
MOLINA: There's some color schemes that I would...
UNKRICH: Michael Giacchino's music at the top of the scene is very kind of uplifting and it's very positive, you know, as he's getting ready to send Miguel back. - Coco 00:09
UNKRICH: Michael Giacchino's music at the top of the...
But then when Héctor shows up, things do take a turn for the weird and the darker. - Coco 00:07
But then when Héctor shows up, things do take a turn for the...
And the thing I love about Michael's music is that it almost feels like it's the soundtrack from one of the de la Cruz clips playing on the wall. - Coco 00:08
And the thing I love about Michael's music is that it...
It's got this kind of 1930s, '40s noir kind of feeling. - Coco 00:06
It's got this kind of 1930s, '40s noir kind of...
MOLINA: Yeah, this slow unraveling of secrets. - Coco 00:06
MOLINA: Yeah, this slow unraveling of secrets.
UNKRICH: And we're still trying to play de la Cruz very much like he's a nice guy. - Coco 00:06
UNKRICH: And we're still trying to play de la Cruz very...
You know, he's troubled that Héctor's come back, but it's more like troubled because you have a friend who's kind of gone off the rails and had a bad life, and you feel for them, and de la Cruz feels bad for him, but we didn't want to play that he was at - Coco 00:21
You know, he's troubled that Héctor's come back,...
We tried our utmost in the movie all the way up to this point to portray de la Cruz as being as warm and grandfatherly as possible, and the perfect person for Miguel to be idolizing. - Coco 00:12
We tried our utmost in the movie all the way up to this...
Of course, the rug just gets pulled right out from under Miguel as he kind of puts this all together and realizes he's been adoring a madman. - Coco 00:10
Of course, the rug just gets pulled right out from under...