Pixar's Coco: The Traditions, Mythology & References You Should Know!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 พ.ย. 2017
- Pixar Studio's new film Coco (2017) has already premiered in Mexico to coincide with Dia de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead), but will soon hit the rest of the world. If you're a gringo, you may be a bit clueless as to the traditions, culture, and mythology this movie makes references to, but don't worry, this video will cover everything you need to know, and without spoiling the plot.
If I missed some of the traditions, mythology or references in Coco, let me know what they are in the comments below.
The instrumental is by JERMZ BEATS / @jermzbeats4132
All clips used in this video are credited in accordance with TH-cam's Fair Use Guidelines.
Hello! Thanks for watching the video and commenting.
There are a few relevant things I missed in this video.
1. Ernesto De La Cruz is based on Jorge Negrete as well as Pedro Infante Cruz, another iconic Mexican actor and singer, who left the world of the living fairly young, in 1957.
2. There are several other iconic Mexican stars that show up in Coco, like María Felix , Cantinflas, & more, as well as political figures like Emiliano Zapata (thanks to Andrea Orozco Rodríguez for pointing these out).
3. The Aztecs & other ancient Mesoamericans believed the Xolo dog guided the deceased to the land of the dead, sometimes carrying them across a body of water. The Aztec god Xolotl is responsible for guiding the deceased to the land of the dead and did this through the Xolo dog, his spirit animal (along with the Axolotl salamander). Xolotl also appeared as a monstrous dog or with the head of a dog and the body of a human.
If there's anything else you'd like to add, please do so in the comments below.
Thanks for watching.
StoryDive sorry, no, That's a big mistake, hernesto de la cruz is much near to Pedro Infante than Jorge Negrete. Even When Negrete is one of the best singers of ranchero and is a big stars of cine de oro, PEDRO INFANTE is the real mexican IDOL... So, please, fix it... It's a big big BIG MISTAKE
You made THE BEST review of Mexican traditions. So spot on.
RESPONDER
Great video, I agree about Pedro Infante as the real iconic popular figure. The thing about Jorge Negrete it's that, at the 40' and 50' decades, he was the greatest actor and singer because, with his opera technic and his personality, he represented the stereotype of the mexican charro (i mean, the high-class rural man, very brave and very "macho", the hacendado who was powerful and gallant) and he was really famous all over the world. But, after he died his popularity became decreasing a lot; that's because what he represents were not the values that the biggest majority of the people of México really appreciate, after all, he was the kind of person who represented in his movie roles.
Pedro Infante, by the other side (whose movies and songs began popular a few years after Jorge became an idol), had all the legitimacy of the people for the roles in his movies (as Jorge: brave, gallant and friendly) but mostly for his way of thinking in real life. He was the opposite of Jorge. Pedro was courteous, modest, charitable and sensitive to the feeling of the lower-class people; so, let's be obvious, the great majority of the people of México are lower-class people and that is the reason because the popularity of Pedro was huge and still been huge after all these years. Maybe he wasn't as good singer as Jorge was and both were great actors, but the certain fact it's that I really like Jorge's movies and songs and I really LOVE Pedro's movies and songs.
When today in México someone tries to convince another about Jorge was better than Pedro, you will find many arguments around the artistic places that said Jorge was the best (not all true, actually), but nobody will deny the fact that there are just a few people who know who Jorge was and just a few of this people love him, and the fact that everybody knows Pedro and everybody loves Pedro. There's no grandma who doesn't feel in love hearing Pedro's voice.
Great video, very good information indeed, congratulations. See more mexican cinema.
The fact here, the typical birthday song: th-cam.com/video/a1Q6Zg8LPM4/w-d-xo.html
StoryDive I just watched the movie around 30 minutes ago....
I cried.
“If you watched it and didn’t miss anything, you’re probably Mexican”. Jaja accurate
i GIGGLED WHEN HE SAID THAT... I WAS LIKE YUUUPP. LOL
It always takes me a moment to remember that in Spanish "Jaja" is haha and is for laughing, unlike in german where it is "ya,ya" and means "Yes, Yes" especially in instances like this, where bolth reading are valid. Context of course means I reparsed.
Lol very
Sameeee
*ACCURATE*
You missed this things:
They use a xolo because aztecs believed those dogs would be your company in the afterlife.
Miguel's grandma uses her sandal, because a lot of our mothers and grandmothers in Mexico use that to educate us. XD Usually your mexican grandmother will give you more food too, which is in the movie.
A lot of mexican families live together (the mother, the father, the cousin) in the same house. Like in Miguel's family. I know its not the case in every family here in Mexico, but I think is very common
Xoloiztcuintle dogs are related to Xolotl, the god of sunset and of the spirit word. He was represented by the evening star (Venus), just as his twin Quetzalcoatl (as Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli) was the morning star.
Couple more trivia:
--When traveling to Mictlan (the aztec underworld) the dead had to travel nine underworlds when they would face a series of challenges, like wild beasts, raining arrows and crushing mountains.
--Mictlan was just one of aztec afterlives; There was Tlalocan for the drowned and lepers, and Tonatiuhuichan for the fallen warriors, sacrificial victims and women who died at childbirth (wich was considered a battle).
--The display of aztec human skulls was called a Zomplantli.
--The Catrina original name was "Calavera Garbancera". Garbancero(a) was the term used in early XX century Mexico to refer to wealthy people without class that would imitate the french fashions of the Porfitiato age.
All in all, great research from this video's part, as well as Pixar. I particularly loved the Huehuecoyotl reference.
Cintss Cha Yeah, most of my family used to live in the same street xD
The idea of extended family is not only practiced in Mexico, but also in Spain and Latin American families.
Same here In India, all points
Some other celebrities at Ernesto de la Cruz´s party are: Cantinflas (pretty much the Mexican version of Charles Chaplin), Emiliano Zapata (one of the leading figures in the Mexican Revolution), María Felix (HUGE movie star during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema and the wife of Jorge Negrete before he passed away, also known as "La Doña"), Pedro Infante (another of Mexico's biggest idols along with Jorge Negrete and as someone mentioned below, was also inspiration for the design of Ernesto de la Cruz) and Dolores del Río (another diva from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, she had a very sucessful career in the US as well and was considered by many as one of the most beautiful faces of the cinema in her time).
Andrea Orozco Rodríguez plus a Little nod to Vicente Fernández.
GeekOUT!!!!! Really? That would be kinda creepy since he is not dead LOL
Andrea Orozco Rodríguez yes, have you seen the movie? If you haven't I don't want to spoil it, but there's a scene where de la Cruz is greeting a few people and beside Zapata he says "Como estás Vicente" to a topical charro dressed skeleton, the usual clothing chente uses. (That and he isn't exactly to far away from kicking the bucket sadly) it's just a little nod.
I've already watched it but I don't remember this part! LOL
Andrea Orozco Rodríguez the scene whent by really fast 2-3 seconds at most
It would have been nice to mention that marigold is known in Mexico as "Flor de muertos" (flower of the dead) or "Cempasúchil", wich comes from nahuatl "Cempoalxóchitl", a word composed by "Cempoal" (twenty) and "Xóchitl" (flower), and many people interprete this as "flower of the twenty petals".
Your video and investigation were absolutely awesome, Coco is outstanding, and this can help non mexican people to understand a significant part of its magic.
“Or if you’ve seen coco and you didn’t miss anything... you are probably Mexican” lol 😂
I’m Mexican seen the movie but missed many things.. I’m not familiar @ all with Mexican culture or traditions.. so glad all of you are commenting.. thanks
Why is that so funny?
pues porque si :)
Awesome video! Thank you for showing this amazing references about my México Lindo y Querido.
Let me introduce to other interesting references about Mexican culture shown in Coco:
-The Land of the Living is inspired in traditional Mexican towns specially those from Michoacán (Pátzcuaro, Janitzio, Tzintzuntzan and Santa Fe de la Laguna) and Oaxaca (Santa María del Tule, Santa María Atzompa and Ocotlán) states where Día de Muertos celebrations are famous.
-On the other hand, the Land of the Dead is based mainly in Mexican colonial cities like Guanajuato City and San Miguel de Allende (Guanajuato), Mexico City, Morelia (Michoacán) and Oaxaca de Juárez (Oaxaca), which all of them are UNESCO Cultural Heritage Mexican Cities.
-Fun fact: Miguel's town called Santa Cecilia is because she is the saint of musicians and celebrations are held on November 22nd every year.
-Mexican music: While mariachi is the most known worldwide, Coco shows also other 7 Mexican musical styles: son istmeño (from the Istmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca), son jarocho (Veracruz), son chiapaneco (Chiapas), música norteña (Northern Mexico like Nuevo León state), banda (Sinaloa), huapango (Hidalgo), making it one of the most diverse musical films about México.
-A cenote is shown in an important part of the film. Cenotes are water caverns located in the Yucatán Peninsula (Campeche, Quintana Roo and Yucatán states) where the Mayans believed that Cenotes were the gate to the Xibalbá (equivalent to the Aztec Mictlán).
exactamente apenas iba a mencionar lo de los cenotes, pero me ganaste jeje. saludos
Mike I Una disculpa :P
Y detallazo lo del cenote. Una referencia al Hanal Pixán de la Península :D
Wooh! excelente complementación y gran síntesis de datos. No cabe duda que la investigación detrás de esta estupenda película ha sido profunda.
The land of living looks more like the in the way to the Isthmus region, in Oaxaca. In fact all the Rivera family fashion came from different towns (witch I find weird).
Ooh... which songs were inspired by each genre?
Also you forgot to add that the Xoloitzcuintle (the dog breed) were belived to help the souls of the deceased cross to the other side, they were buried with their owners at the time of their dead so they can help their spirit cross the Mictlán (the underworld), that's why Frida acknowledges it as an important being.
Hello, StoryDive. Thanks for your observations. I have seen the movie a third time; it is a wonderful work of art; It is still a success in my country (3rd week). I had never seen that much euphoria in theaters, people crying excitedly, I couldn’t believe my eyes; but it is true. This movie really is a love letter to Mexico. Thanks Pixar-Lee Unkrich. I do not know if Coco will touch the hearts of people outside of Mexico; but as a Mexican, in this movie is like if Pixar had read our minds and hearts. Best regards.
Thanks for the comment. I hope the film is as big a hit in the rest of the world as it is in Mexico!
Yes yes yes, it's very much a love letter to Mexico and Mexican culture and I'm happy that someone like Pixar took the time to make such a wonderful movie towards a country that tends to be abused and ridiculed.
At the same time, how much of the profit that Pixar is making from this film is being given to the people whose heritage they have appropriated to generate that profit? So far, I have not seen any references to colonization being represented in the film.
Hi dear Patricia Mae Anthony. To answer your question, we would need to make a survey and a study to see how much revenue tourism will this film generate and attract to indigenous people who live in those towns; how much money Pixar invested in the time they spent in Mexico in the making of this movie. A celebration which by itself already attracts many people; about the references colonization represented? You can read it at the end of the movie after the credits. Of course, the ideal thing was that the indigenous Mexicans had made this film, but when the ideal conditions do not exist: Thank you Disney-Pixar love your piece of art dedicated to my culture. To deepen why we Mexican celebrate this movie, please let me pose the following example: it is as if they said all over the world that Patricia is silly “she thinks the dead relatives come back on the 1st and 2nd of November”, and suddenly someone initiates a project stating: "Patricia is not that silly at all". Greetings.
Juan Robles I watch it in Cinema twice and will watch it again while it's there. Greetings from Indonesia! :)
Wonderful video. It is also significant that Miguel and Hector at one point end up in a cenote (the underground grotto). Cenotes are all over Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, and were considered sacred places by the Maya as they provided a connection to the underworld. Furthermore, water is the source of life.
The cenotes around Yucatan form a semi circle because they are part of the rim of the Chicxulub crater. The one that was formed by the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
jmchez I have actually been to the village of Chixulub. I know Yucatan very well.
Well, since you left out the information on the asteroid impact, I'd thought that I put that in for those who are not as knowledgeable of the area as you.
The Land of the Dead buildings are interesting too. The giant tower changes in styles throughout Mexican history. At the bottom was the temples and it slowly turned into those multi-colored rectangular buildings.
Coolest part of the movie was seeing my all time fav Mexican luchador and greatest movie actor “ El Santo”!!
Well, Ernesto De la Cruz is most inspired by Pedro Infante.
Alexa Veer and Jorge Negrete. He’s like a combination of both.
But it looks more like Pedro Infante.
It's a combination of both but the resemblance with Pedro is bigger even the name "de la Cruz". Pedro whole name was Pedro Infante Cruz.
Yes, he looks more like Pedro Infante.
Time to look into him
The character of Ernesto de la cruz was based on two Mexican Actors ...Pedro infante and Jorge Negrete ... And in the movie Infante and Negrete have a cameo with Ernesto de la cruz
The Xoloitzcuintle dog was actually also thought as a companion to the Mictlán, probably that's why Dante can pass through both lands without any trouble.
And also la Catrina is also called "La Calavera Garbancera" made by José Guadalupe Posadas, an image Diego Rivera would revive and remake into one of his paintings and used afterwards on decorations
Hey great video almost every thing is right but you miss that "Ernesto de la cruz" is a mix between Jorge negrete and Pedro Infante Cruz" the other thing is in "Huehuecoyotl" that means "old coyote" and is the "guardian" of the Dance and music
Thanks for the tip about Pedro Infante. "Guardian" definitely sounds better than "Patron".
I would say that, almost every point commented in the video is questionably wrong.
This is the most beautiful film ever done by pixar hands down. I will be going to watch this movie again, thank you for your input. You got few things wrong tho but good job.
Actually Hector losely resemble Mario Moreno Cantinflas a legendary mexican actor and comedian, he was paspartu in the arround the world in 80days
It’s amazing how much culture there is behind Dia de los Muertos. First time I ever heard of the holiday was 18 years ago in Spanish class in my freshman year (my high school had a rule that you had to take 3 years of a foreign language in order to graduate), but I was only told the “mere basics” of the holiday, i.e. what the holiday was about and how the people celebrated. I didn’t know how far back it was celebrated, where it originated, and what the symbols such as the skulls, marigolds, etc. meant
You're right at 1:11 but you forget a little reference of the mexican childhood, the power of La Chancla. but this was a great video and you did it well with your spanish.
Jorge Negrete had such tremendous operatic skills that he could have sung Verdi and Puccini all over the world if he wanted to. Not surprisingly, the closest mariachi singer with that skill is none other than Placido Domingo, himself. When Domingo has covered Negrete's (and Infante's) songs, he really lets you know how great are the heights that some of those songs can achieve in the hands of a master.
“Or the day of the dead in gringo” lmaooo
actually the Catrina is the creation of the famous artist José Guadalupe Posada in some time between 1910 and 1913. Also Ernesto de La Cruz is inspired by two Jorge Negrete and the great Pedro Infante Cruz (the latter has more resemblance with Ernesto). And you missed a lot of famous people like Cantinflas and Maria Felix.
You missed one that only a few people have noticed: Héctor's belt buckle in his family portrait has a Mayan symbol on it. If you've done any research on Mexican history, especially during the period Héctor was alive, you'd realize the belt is foreshadowing. Now, there's no way that jacket is Héctor's; he's practically swimming in the thing, and likely borrowed it from his friend Ernesto. But the belt is definitely his. Prior to the Mestizaje movement, the very Spanish-looking paragon Ernesto de la Cruz would likely not care to have a Mayan symbol on his belt. But Héctor, who is clearly Mestizo, might be more willing to embrace Mesoamerican culture, because it's his own heritage.
1:11
He: If you don't miss anything you're probably Mexican
Me: Como lo supo xdxdxd
I am Mexican-American, and I learned a thing or two. Thank you so much, great job.
aside of Jorge Negrete, Ernesto de la Cruz is ALSO inspired by Pedro Infante, they were both the no.1 and 2 of Mexican Cinema.
Coco shows you that no matter where you are or who you are all of us want to find a connection between our love ones who has passed away and the present ones ....but the most important while you remember your dead ones they will never disappear because en dia de muertos we will find one to each other in a same sacred and unique day....love beyond life and death...
The sinkhole Miguel is rescued from is called a cenote (a sinkhole) which in Mayan culture is where people were thrown as sacrifice to the gods, and so associated with death.
Also, in Mexico, November 22nd is the day of Santa Cecilia, patron saint of musicians, and since Miguel is a musician, it's no wonder his town's name is... Santa Cecilia!
You're welcome.
The movie is a triumph. Watched it twice. The mythology of a young hero saving a patriarch from the abyss to restore his culture is also a mythological theme. The over-protective and devouring matriarch is another. We see these same themes in the tale of the Eye of Horus... Coco's themes are deeply human and very ancient. Rescuing the patriarch or his culture from the abyss is the theme of The Lion King, Star Wars, Pinocchio, The Incredibles, Blade Runner 2049, Hamlet, Thor, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, Moana, National Treasure, The Truman Show, Water Boy, ... LOL! you get the point. This is the first good movie out of Hollywood in a while. We need more movies like Coco and I'd love to see these universal human truths told from more cultures. This one was masterfully executed and I hope it becomes a classic.
Another one is the use of the song "Llorona" a Mexican Folk song with an interesting historic background and links to the folk tale of La llorona (The weeping woman), as well as La Malinche a Nahua woman and one of Hernan COrtez's consorts during during the Spanish Conquest
nice video! but "la catrina" was created by José Guadalupe Posada an incredible grabado artist, and it means how close that everyone is to death, even the rich people...
This was wonderful. I saw Coco when it came out but I confess I knew very little about Dia de los Muertos. This week I've been watching videos to learn more about it. This complemented Coco beautifully. One of these days I must watch it again. Thank you.
This is a great video. Just one little thing. Día de Muertos on the 1st is not Día de Inocentes (that's on December 28th, it's something like April Fools Day in USA). November 1st is Día de Todos Los Santos (for kids and babies) and 2nd is Día de los Fieles Difuntos (for adults). Greetings from México and thanks so much for share our culture through this interesting video.
It can be called Día de los "Santos" Inocentes as far as I know (And I'm mexican so yeah...)
Something you missed about Dante: it was commonly thought that you needed a xolo (sp?) dog like Dante to guide your spirit to the land of the dead (as Dante does for Miguel), but you had to be careful about what color dog you brought. If you had a dog that was too darkly colored, you might lose them and lose your way, but if you had a dog that was too lightly colored, they might not want to lead you for fear of getting their coats dirty in the underworld. So you needed a medium colored dog- like Dante, who's that kind of off-grayish color. That's part of the reason xolo dogs are so often those weird grayish colors.
u forgot All the border crossing references. the bridge of flowers is like the bridge crossings at the border. they got customs and everything lol. love that part.
Something that's also worth pointing out is that in Aztec mythology, Xolo dogs were buried alongside their human companions because it was believed that the dog would guide the spirit of the deceased on his way to Mictlan. In Coco you can clearly see this referenced when Miguel crosses to the Land of the Dead alongside Dante.
That was fun and informative!
Thanks for showcasing your Spanish skills... I didn't think they were that bad!
I absolutely looooooooved the movie and you managed to teach me more with this video, StoryDive.
:)
1:11 ha ha ha that made me laugh far too hard lol
thank you for publishing this video! It is very informative and you have encapsulated everything about Mexican traditions, mythology etc perfectly :) Cheers!
Indeed I'm Mexican, but I came to see if you had the right info xD NICE video! And I really liked your sense of humor
Gracias por explicar todas las tradiciones de mi país
"" MÉXICO "" 👏👏✌💓💓
['.\ /.'] No creas todo. Explicó un 70 u 80% bien. Nada mal pero le faltó un poco.
Pedro Infante, Cantinflas, María Félix, Zapata, Luis Aguilar... they were in the movie too
You are excellent!!!! Thank you so much! Really well created and researched! excelente!!
I think Japan has a similar holiday in Obon festival
Mario U what's that about??
I feel like my Japanese grandpa told me about a holiday like that before
Hi, good video! You could have mentioned as well that the xoloescuincle dog was a companion to guide the dead to the Mictlan, I think that was why Dante accompanies Miguel in his journey. Greetings from Mexico!
You made THE BEST review of Mexican traditions. So spot on.
wow hermano..!! thats an amazing research you did! bravo!! (some of that i admit i didnt know)
it feels really cool to see that people from around the world are interested or at least curious enough to get to know some of our traditions. and whats more, the really authentic and beautiful ones.
Awesome job man!
Also this movie was released on October 27 and premiered at the Palacio de Bella Artes in Mexico City
You got a fix the fact that Ernesto de la Cruz is Pedrito Infante, if you see a movie of him you will tell.
This was a great and informative video. I will use it in a lesson for my high school art students. Thank you!
VERY GOOD PRONUNCIATION MAN!! YOU GET THE APPROVAL OF THIS MÉXICAN :D
Great investigation, great video, you got my like, saludos from Mexico City
Omg the Aztec temple catch.. Great video
Spot on! Really enjoyed your video.
Loved your video♡ gracias!! Learned a thing or two))
...wait, Ernesto de la Cruz is not Jorge Negrete. There was another skeleton picturing Jorge Negrete at Ernesto's party. And the whole ordeal around Ernesto points much, MUCH more to Pedro Infante. Even the design is more similar to Pedro Infante than to Jorge Negrete, including the fact that Pedro Infante was probably the most Iconic mexican movie actor from that time.
1:11 "if you already seen coco and you didn't miss anything, your probably Mexican" oh my gosh 😂
Great review! Greeting from Mexico.
hello, it is a very good research of dia de los muertos, all the elements and comments that you explain in the video are true and accurate. greetings from MX.
You missed Quetzalcoatl and Xolotl's journey to Mictlan. Mictlan was one of several afterlives that the Mexica believed in, and perhaps the least desirable since it was reserved for those who died of natural causes and old age, not in the glory of battle or childbirth.
Anyway, for those who died of natural causes, a dog was killed and buried with the body to act as a guide for the departed as they traveled to Mictlan, mimicking Queztalcoatl and Xolotl's journey to Mictlan so they could recover the bones of the dead to make humans for the fifth iteration of the world.
Wow! This video is very interesting . Nice job!! 🇲🇽
I saw this movie over the weekend, it is funny, sad, educational and entertaining! it was released less than 5 days ago and I understand it is already one of the top selling film!
Dante's name might be a reference to Dante's Divine Comedy, a poem about the journey to heaven written in three parts, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. This is interesting considering the dog breed itself is thought to lead those to the afterlife.
i am mexican and i watched this video to confirm that i know all the things that i already know.
Gracias we , tu vídeo esta muy bien echo :)
There are some details missing and a bit of the information is questionable but overall it's awesome! I REALLY enjoyed this video and I'm grateful to you for doing all that research and wanting to spread the knowledge of our mexican culture to your viewers. I really appreciate it!
Congrats, felicidades gran trabajo, great job.
quick note, Ernesto de la Cruz inspiration was a mix of Jorge Negrete and Pedro Infante, both of them make a cameo in the movie
Tu español no es malo c: ... Good video 👍
Thanks, but take my word for it, IT IS BAD! Lol. I tried my best to pronounce the words correctly but it was difficult.
Yeah, it was a little awkward,, but hey, its better than my french, so i cant complain, we can only judge because we started speaking spanish when we started to talk, soooo yeaah, pretty good for a non native speaker, and you threw some nahuatl (language of the aztecs) in there, so the long difficult words with a lot of "tl"s in there aren't spanish annyways
Thanks for this video, gracias por el video.
Thanks for your video.
I would say de la Cruz is more based on Pedro infante, whose widely regarded as the greatest Mexican mariachi/ranchero artist.
Excelente información, thanks a lot!
SUPERB!!!!
You had me at Flight of the Concords
Great job =)
Excellent video! very good review. Thanks very much, because I am Mexican!!
9:03 Of course not, "there are children present". --However the movie does sneak in one or two disguised adult jokes. (As when others are giving the guy a hard time about how he died, for instance)
Late, but día de muertos is celebrated in November because it is around this days (October November) when the cempasuchitl blooms and it's color orange is a reminder of the dead, which is at the sane time related to the orange color of the monarch butterflies that migrate during this time too, and butterflies in general were considered to be and represent the souls of people. Later on with the conquest it was coincidence that the Halloween celebrations were around the same days as our day of the dead.
You missed one very big Mexican celebrity!! And you had her in your eyes very clearly! You missed Maria Felix, the best and most important Mexican actress from the Golden era (40s - 60s)!
She's right to El Santo in a purple dress (8:03 - 8:07).
I commend you for being informative and appreciative of a culture that is not your own. Tu español no es malo amigo.
Good work with your research!
Tis not perfect though
Enjoyed
Great video. I'm so excited to watch this movie not because I'm Mexican but because I'm from Michoacán state. The one state out of the 32 in the country that we think when talking about the "Dia de los muertos" celebration.
another cool thing is that the fictional town "Santa Cecilia" from where Miguel is from is based on a many small towns from Michoacan. mostly towns around the Patzcuaro area.
Carl Mag Estas equivocado. El día de los muertos se celebra en varios estados del centro y sur del país. Tu comentario tiene sesgo de egoísmo e ignorancia. Hasta suenas como que te quieres apropiar de esta tradición. Y en realidad cuando muchos pensamos en el día de los muertos, pensamos en Oaxaca, Ciudad de México, Puebla etc. etc. y por supuesto Pátzcuaro (que no en todo Micoacán) Y escribo en español porque dices que eres mexicano ¿o no?
Edúardo Cano tienes razón, me gusta tu comentario.
Un Poco loco
The towns built in the same period look alike, try looking around the country.
hello and thank you for posting this video. it was very informational. lol Im hispanic and grow up in upstate N.Y. And no one really said anything to me about tradition
Nice abbreviated cultural run-through, which I enjoyed.
The offers or ofrendas can be of three levels which Is the basic one or Seven levels which Is the completed one
You had me rolling at the "your probbly mexican" lol i'm half but still relatable.
hiciste una investigación muy buena, felicidades
As Mexican there are only a few things to say... Thank you! This video explains everything so well! Thank you for the research!
You did no wrong. 😀👍🏻😍😘
Great explanation!!! As a Mexican I approve ☺️
Coco Regarding Dia de Muertos, and Dia de los muertos... They say both in the movie.. but it seems the cooler way to say it for those who are familiar is just Dia de Muertos. That film was incredible! Incredible. I think it was the best animation film I've ever seen! I was deeply moved. There was a holiday "Frozen" movie short before it.. and it was nice.. but the difference between them.. one was "cute" and one was phenomenal! The Coco movie had such depth and was so rich with character. Also, for guitar players.. It was the first animation I've ever seen where all the fingering on the guitar is real! He plays all the right chords and fingerings so after watching the film a few times I could actually learn to play the song "Remember Me". The little boys' expressions were so touching... They were deep expressions with so much meaning! I laughed and I cried! Great great movie!
Buen resumen.
I reall enjoined your video, your Spanish it's actually really good, it's not common to hear words as xoloizcuintle and The names of our ancient gods from an English speaker. Congrats, your review was delightful for me. Kisses and love from Mexico
I think you a splendid explanation of the Day of the Dead. The first I ever heard of it, I was horrified(as a Cuban, I'd never heard of this type of celebration and thought it was rather disgusting). As I learned about it, I adapted it to my teaching of Spanish to students in a small Virginia town. Unfortunately, we didn't have the Internet/computers so I could only share my knowledge with my students with the spoken word. We didn't even have the money to purchase a short video on the Day of the Dead. How times have changed!
Do you have a transcript of the video?
...Virgil Guides Dante & Dante Guides Miguel...
In The Devine Comedy, Virgil Guides Dante Alighieri through the "Inferno".
Dante Guides Miguel through the "Land of the Dead."
Love This Wonderful Connection i don't think i've seen mentioned before today, the Ninth day of November, this Year One of the Covid-19 2020. Was one of the things i mentioned on the drive home after the movie. Weren't you there?
ey oye se que no es de
mitología Azteca ni de México, pero pues me encanta la conexión.
1. November 1st is not "día de los inocentes" is "día de todos los santos";
"día de los inocentes" is in December 28.
2. And Ernesto de la Cruz don't even look like Jorge Negrete, he looks more like "Pedro Infante"... both appear in the movie as calaveras.
iSaludos a todos!