The concept for Coco is inspired by the Mexican holiday Day of the Dead. Pixar began developing the animation in 2016. Unkrich, Molina, and some of the film's crew visited Mexico for research.
Walt Disney Animation Studios' “Encanto” tells the tale of an extraordinary family, the Madrigals, who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto.
Encanto was released on November 19, 2021. A huge commercial success alike the film, the soundtrack reached number one on the US Billboard 200, becoming the first Disney soundtrack since that of Frozen II (2019) to top the chart.
Encanto is the first Disney movie to focus on specifically Latinx characters. The most common food the Madrigal family eats is arepas de queso. Luisa can (and does) carry several donkeys at once. Tia Pepa is the only redhead in the family.
What MEXICANS think of the film COCO | Easy Spanish 95
Is Coco a Mexican movie?
In Coco, young Miguel's love of music ultimately leads him to the Land of the Dead where he teams up with charming trickster Hector. Pixar's newest animated movie, Coco, is meant to be a love letter to Mexico. The movie has a Latino cast.
Unlike Colombian Nobel-laureate Gabriel García Márquez's fictional town Macondo, which is supposedly based on the author's childhood hometown, Encanto cherry-picks certain geographies and elements of Colombia to create a fictional village.
The movie surprisingly underperformed and did not make as much revenue as anticipated, according to the Washington Examiner on November 27. The main character, 18-year-old Asha, is an afro-latina villager determined to restore the forgotten wishes of her family and those belonging to the kingdom of Rosas.
The Iberian Peninsula is divided between Peninsular Spain and Continental Portugal. This also helps explain Asha's racial and ethnic background, as Wish producer Juan Pablo Reyes Lancaster Jones previously explained (via Geeks of Color) that Asha has Southern European and North African heritage from her mother's side.
Elena of Avalor is an American animated television series created by Craig Gerber that premiered on Disney Channel on July 22, 2016, and moved to Disney Junior on July 14, 2018. The series features Aimee Carrero as the voice of Elena, Disney's first Latina princess.
Moana, also known as Vaiana or Oceania in some markets, is a 2016 American animated musical fantasy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.
1. Coco. 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.
The title refers to Miguel's great-grandmother Mamá Coco, whose father is key to the anti-music mystery. This tale unfolds in an unspecified Mexican town on the eve of El Día de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead) as the entire community is preparing to honor their departed loved ones.
With Academy Award-winning, Afro-Latina actress Ariana DeBose as the voice of Asha, the protagonist of the film, my hopes for an impactful narrative were high and eager to be fulfilled.
Raya is a fictional character in Walt Disney Animation Studios' animated film Raya and the Last Dragon (2021). Created by screenwriters Adele Lim and Qui Nguyen, Raya is the thirteenth official member of the Disney Princess line-up and Disney's first Southeast Asian princess.
Asha is the first mixed race/biracial Disney heroine. Being of North African-Iberian ancestry. Asha is the second Black Disney Princess after Tiana. Asha is the fourth Disney Princess to have freckles after Rapunzel, Merida, Elsa, and Anna.
While some claim Jasmine is Arab because the movie opens with a song called Arabian Nights, others believe that the architecture in Agrabah is clearly based on the Taj Mahal, making Jasmine Indian. It's a debate that has fueled speculation that in Hollywood, Indians and Arabs are interchangeable.
Colombian and Mexican Spanish share common roots in European Spanish, yet they are quite different. Although Mexican and Colombian Spanish speakers can understand each other, these two varieties are not mutually intelligible to a very high degree. However, a Mexican Spanish speaker can easily recognize a Colombian one.
In short, Agustín actually meant to say the Spanish curse word “mierda,” which translates to “s—t” in English. But he refrained from doing so and instead said “Wednesday.” According to #Encanto Twitter, this is a common practice in the Colombian community as a way to avoid profanity around children.
