Elena Rivera, better known as Abuelita to her family, is the loving and overprotective matriarch of the Riveras and strictly enforces the ban against music set by her grandmother, Imelda, to the point that she disallows any kind of musical expression made by anyone in her family, like whistling, tapping one's toe, or ...
Coco is the story of Miguel (Anthony Gonzalez), a sweet kid who loves music despite the fact that his abuelita (Renée Victor) has strictly forbidden it, thanks to a long-ago drama involving Miguel's great-great-grandfather, a dashing musician who walked out on the family.
Due to intense disapproval from Abuelita, music of any kind is not allowed to be performed or enjoyed in their household. Despite this, Miguel has a secret hideout where he listens to the record albums of his musical hero Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt), the most beloved singer in Mexico before his tragic death.
The story follows a 12-year-old boy named Miguel who dreams of becoming a musician like his great-great-grandfather Ernesto de la Cruz, a popular singer-songwriter who died when he was crushed by a bell in a live concert. Because De la Cruz abandoned his family for fame, music has been banned in Miguel's household.
And yet, Miguel has a secret dream: he longs to play guitar, just like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. But when a mysterious chain of events leads him to the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead, Miguel finds there may be a way to become a musician and get his family's blessing.
For generations, the Riveras have banned music because they believe they've been cursed by it; as their family history goes, Miguel's great-great-grandfather abandoned his wife decades earlier to follow his own dreams of performing, leaving Imelda (Miguel's great-great-grandmother) to take control as the matriarch of ...
Miguel was the one who was able to keep Hector's memory alive with Coco and reminding her that her father loved her very much. At the conclusion of the film, Miguel kept his great great grandfather's spirit alive in the rest of his family's heart.
Discovering that he is cursed for stealing from the dead, Miguel must return to the Land of the Living before sunrise or he will become one of the dead: to do so, he must receive a blessing from a member of his family using an Aztec marigold petal that can undo the curse placed upon him by stealing Ernesto's guitar.
Was the character of Mamá Coco inspired by Maria Salud Ramirez? Pixar has always denied that Coco's loveable abuela was based on anyone in real life and said that it was a product of its creators' imagination. However the Ramirez family have claimed that a Pixar team met with Maria Salud and photographed her.
Luisa appears pregnant with her second-born during most of the film. While in the Rivera workshop making shoes, Abuelita returns home to inform her and Enrique that she caught Miguel at the Mariachi Plaza. At sunset, she helps her nephews set up marigold petals for Día de Los Muertos.
In a town known as Santa Cecilla, a kid Miguel dreams of becoming a musician. Even though his family strictly forbids it and has banned music in their house. The ban was placed because Miguel's great-great-grandmother Imelda was married to a man who left her and their daughter Coco to pursue a career in music.
Héctor Rivera is Miguel's great-great grandfather and Imelda's husband from the movie, Coco, as well as Mama Coco's father. In the film, it is revealed that he had written the songs of Ernesto De La Cruz. However, he was homesick, and after an argument, was poisoned by Cruz, and he stole credit for Héctor's songs.
Almost every year, Miguel was told of how his great great grandmother, Imelda had banned music after her husband had left to raise her daughter, Coco alone.
Abuelita tells Esperanza how she knew something was wrong with her daughter, and she prayed every day for the family's safety. Esperanza tells Abuelita everything that has happened, explaining her story by the seasons of fruits and vegetables that have passed.
Leaving behind a shoe-making legacy behind, Imelda eventually died of old age, in her early seventies. Becoming a spirit in the Land of the Dead, Imelda knew Héctor was there as well. She refused to acknowledge her husband as a member of her family and disowned him, as did the rest of their descendants.
Ernesto's curious disrespect for his partner is revealed to be intentional when Héctor realizes Ernesto killed him and stole his music. It's then that the big twist of Coco is revealed, it's Héctor who is Miguel's great-great-grandfather, not Ernesto.
Interviewer: Senor de la Cruz, what did it take for you to seize your moment? Ernesto de la Cruz is the main antagonist of Pixar's 19th full-length animated feature film Coco.
However, being unwilling to trust Miguel as he has learned too much, Ernesto reveals his true colors by crumbling the petal and pocketing away Héctor's photo while ordering his guards to imprison Miguel in the cenote pit that Hector has been thrown into; intending to ensure that Miguel remains in the Land of the Dead ...
Mama Coco was born in 1918 like what the movie said and she is 99 going on 100 in the movie. When you add that up the movie takes place in 2017–2018 literally around the year the movie came out.
It soon turns to horror when Imelda learns that her inability to cross over to the land of the living was because Miguel accidentally removed her photo from the family ofrenda earlier.
