Coco - more alive than life!

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Movie
German title Coco - more alive than life!
Coco
Original title Coco
Disney's Coco logo.png
Country of production United States
original language English , Spanish
Publishing year 2017
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 6
Rod
Director Lee Unkrich ,
Adrian Molina (Co)
script Adrian Molina,
Matthew Aldrich
production Darla K. Anderson
music Michael Giacchino
camera Matt Aspbury ,
Danielle Feinberg
cut Steve Bloom ,
Lee Unkrich
synchronization

Coco - more alive than life! , Even Coco , is an American computer animation film of Pixar Animation Studios from the year 2017 . Directed by Lee Unkrich based on a script by Adrian Molina and  Matthew Aldrich . The children's film focuses on the " Day of the Dead " (Día de los Muertos), a Mexican holiday.

As part of the Golden Globe Awards 2018 , the film was nominated in two categories and named best animated film. At the 2018 Academy Awards , Coco was also recognized as the best animated film, and Remember Me as the best film song.

action

On the Día de Muertos in Mexico, friends and relatives get together to commemorate the loved ones who have passed away

Twelve year old Miguel lives in a city in Mexico and believes that his family is under a curse, because his great-great-grandfather, who was a musician, once wanted to play for the whole world, left and never came back. So his great-great-grandmother Imelda had to look after herself and her daughter Coco and began to make shoes. Today Coco Miguel is great-grandmother, but hardly speaks a word anymore and is dawning. Like his great-great-grandmother, everyone in his family has been at war with music since the incident in the past, but Miguel loves it. He particularly admires Ernesto de la Cruz and has secretly erected a shrine in the attic for the late Mexican musician and put up photos of his great role model. Only the dog Dante, who roams the streets of the city, knows of his secret retreat. In his hiding place, Miguel taught himself to play the guitar with the help of some videos of his idol.

Miguel contributes to the family income as a shoe shiner who is otherwise all involved in the old family tradition of making shoes. He travels all over the city to do this, but his grandmother doesn't want Miguel to have contact with musicians, the mariachi , there. Miguel should rather honor his family, because it is Día de Muertos in Mexico when friends and relatives come together to commemorate their loved ones who have passed away. When Miguel looks at a photo on the family altar that shows his great-great-grandmother Imelda with the still little Coco, he discovers Ernesto de la Cruz's guitar, which he knows from the hall of honor built for him in the city. Miguel now believes that this must be his great-great-grandfather. He reveals to his family that he would like to follow in his footsteps and they learn about his hiding place. When his grandmother destroys his self-made guitar, Miguel runs away. He desperately wants to take part in the talent competition held on Day of the Dead. To get a working guitar, he wants to borrow the one from de la Cruz. But when he steps on the dead flowers that were scattered in his mausoleum in the cemetery and he plays a chord on the guitar, something strange happens, because Miguel can suddenly see the dead, but the living can no longer see him.

Miguel immediately meets an aunt, several of his deceased uncles, such as Oscar and Felipe, who have all come to town for the Día de los Muertos. Together they walk with him over the flower bridge to the land of the dead, where many others are preparing to go back to the world of the living until sunrise to see how their loved ones are doing. Only if relatives have put up a photo of a deceased person can he pass the bridge. His deceased family members try to bring Miguel back, but when Mamá Imelda gives him her blessing to enable him to transition into the world of the living, he is quickly back, because no sooner did he want the guitar from de la Cruz on again take. Miguel believes that when he gets to his great idol, he will surely give him his blessing without the requirement to forego music in the future. Héctor comes in handy, through whom he found out by chance that he knows de la Cruz. Héctor promises to help the boy if he in return takes a photo of him into the world of the living and sets it up so that he too can cross the bridge on the day of the dead. However, the path to Cruz is not as easy as it seems at first. First they have to get the boy a guitar, then they try to get an invitation to the de la Cruz party through a talent competition, and then they are hot on their heels by Miguel's dead relatives who want to bring him back, especially because Miguel Imelda's photo is with them brought into the realm of the dead, and now she cannot pass the flower bridge.

Through a trick, both end up at the de la Cruz party. When Miguel reveals himself to him as his great-great-grandson, but then learns that it was not de la Cruz but Héctor who wrote the big hits and that de la Cruz finally murdered him for the sake of fame, his idol no longer wants his Give a blessing, but has him thrown into a pit, because de la Cruz wants to prevent anyone from finding out about the murder of Héctor and his deception by all means. In a conversation with Héctor in the pit, when he mentions the name of his daughter Coco, he finds out that this is in fact his great-great-grandfather and not de la Cruz. Miguel and Héctor are rescued from the pit by Mamá Imelda and their guide. The spirit guide throws Ernesto de la Cruz against a bell, whereupon he dies again. Ultimately, together they manage to send Miguel back to the living before sunrise, but unfortunately without the photo of Héctor, who is on the verge of dying his last death, disappearing forever, because in the world of the living Coco himself gave him forgetting begins.

Back at the family home, Miguel runs to Mamá Coco to get her to remember her father again. Only when Miguel plays the song Always think of me on de la Cruz's guitar and begins to sing, his great-grandmother begins to blossom and joins the song. Although she hadn't spoken an intelligible word for so long, she begins to tell about how her father once wrote the song for her and shows Miguel all the letters that she had received and kept from him; and there is also a photo of Héctor below.

The following year, on Día de Muertos, the photo of his great-great-grandfather is now on the altar of Miguel’s family. All deceased relatives can come to visit together across the flower bridge, including Imelda and Héctor, who have found each other again, together with their daughter Coco, because Miguel’s great-grandmother has also passed away in the meantime. Even Dante, who is a spirit guide in the realm of the dead, mingles with the living in his normal form on the day of the dead. Miguel made sure that everyone knew that it was his great-great-grandfather Héctor who wrote all the songs that are so popular in Mexico. Miguel, who has now realized that memory is actually more than just a word and that the day of the dead is more than a folk festival, is now a mariachi himself and sings at the celebration for his living and deceased family members.

production

Staff and speaker

The film is a co-production by Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios . Lee Unkrich , who already held this position on Toy Story 3 (2010) , was hired to direct . In preparation for the film, the makers of the film deal intensively with the people, the culture and the traditions of Mexico. In addition to a number of Mexican musicians, they also had a staff of advisors and experts at their side. During various trips between 2011 and 2013, the director Lee Unkrich and his team researched in museums and churches for three years and visited places, haciendas and cemeteries in Oaxaca, Guanajuato and Mexico City. They also got to know families in Tlacolula, Tialixtac, El Tule, San Marcos Tlapazola and Abasolo who let them participate in their lives, mostly multigenerational families, as shown in the film.

In an interview with epd Film , Lee Unkrich said about the idea that it came from him because he was fascinated by the tradition of the Dia de los Muertos: “I wanted to find out more about it and had to find out during my research that it was less about death is about a celebration of life, especially about the family - in the context of a re-encounter the contact between the living and the dead comes to life. It is very much about memory, about our obligation to keep the memory of the deceased alive, which also means passing it on to the next generation. ”Also the idea that a dead person will turn to dust when no one is at it thinks it came from the mythology of the Dia de los Muertos, as the makers of the film found out on their research trips to Mexico.

When selecting the voice actors for the film, the producers deliberately chose voice actors with a Mexican background. At the beginning of October 2017 it was announced that the Peruvian soccer player Claudio Pizarro would have a guest appearance in the German dubbing of the film.

Film music

The score was composed by Michael Giacchino , who won an Oscar for his work on the Disney Pixar film Above . Giacchino worked with Germaine Franco on the orchestration . She explained the use of a variety of typical Mexican instruments, such as a guitarrón , a folkloric harp , a quijada and several sousaphones , charchetas , jaranas , requintos , marimbas , trumpets and violins . The recording was made in August 2017 together with an 83-piece orchestra. Traditional Mexican songs can be found in the score. Camilo Lara from the Mexican Institute of Sound music project supported the team as musical advisor and contributed the piece Jálale .

The several versions of the film-heard song Remember Me was created by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez wrote that already in 2013 for her work on the song Let It Go for the Disney film The Ice Queen - Completely unabashed at the Oscars in 2014 won an Oscar were. The song, the title of which in the German version is Denk immer an mich , deals with the central theme of memory. At the end of the film, Miguel sings the song for his great-grandmother Coco, who joins the song that her father once wrote for her. In the end-credits version, the song is sung by Miguel and Natalia Lafourcade . Depending on the tempo, the lyrics by Remember Me can be interpreted differently, as a love song , but also as a lullaby , as actually intended in the film. In the song La Llorona , the Llorona , a figure of Latin American folklore, is sung about, more precisely this is the spirit of a woman who weeps for her children, whom she drowned in a river.

The soundtrack includes 38 pieces of music and was released on November 10, 2017 by Walt Disney Records . Remember Me was released on CD that same day . An animated music video for the song had already been released on October 27, 2017, and a video with Miguel and Natalia Lafourcade in November 2017. The German soundtrack for the film was also released on November 24, 2017 .

Detlef Hedderich explains that traditional Mexican music has a strong influence on film music and forms the basis with which the world is musically accompanied in Coco . Hedderich continues: "With the help of an 83-member orchestra, highly talented Mexican musicians and singers, as well as original Mexican instruments [...] the team around Giacchino and Franco succeed in capturing the melodic landscape of the film perfectly." The soundtrack rose on November 24, 2017 It entered the US soundtrack album charts at number 23 and reached number 3 on December 8, 2017. On the same day, it entered the Billboard 200 at number 55 .

publication

The film premiered on October 20, 2017 at the Morelia International Film Festival in Morelia . In Mexico it was released on October 27, 2017 (the weekend before Day of the Dead ), in the United States it opened on November 22, 2017 and in Germany on November 30, 2017. On August 29, 2019, it was released in recorded the program by Netflix .

reception

Age rating

In Germany, the film was approved by the FSK without any age restriction. The statement of reasons for the release states: “The story about growing up , family and dealing with death is told in colorful, imaginative images and with a lot of music, whereby the protagonist is suitable as a strong identification figure for young viewers. Even preschool children can deal with the action and suspense scenes, as these passages are always replaced by calm scenes and all conflicts are harmoniously resolved. The portrayal of the world of the dead is child-friendly and not frightening. "

Reviews and use in school lessons

The film has received positive ratings from 97 percent of Rotten Tomatoes critics to date . The consensus states: "Coco's rich visual pleasures are accompanied by a thoughtful narrative that offers a family-friendly and deeply touching approach to issues of culture, family, life and death." The film was released as part of the 2017 Golden Tomato Awards emerged as the winner in the Best Animated Film category .

Frank Arnold from epd Film says that as unusual as Coco's setting is, the story of Miguel relies on familiar patterns, even if one would have wished for a more original script, but at least: “After the Disney production Vaiana , Disney / Pixar is involved Coco is presenting another piece of indigenous culture for a large audience - and that the protagonist (voiced by Anthony González) is a Mexican is by no means a matter of course for a studio production in 2017. "

Andreas Platthaus from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung says that one could not wish for a more lively film from the very first minute, although it starts in the cemetery, which is an extremely improbable setting for a film genre of animation that already bears the living in its name. Platthaus goes on to say about the film: “Nor was it a reaction to Donald Trump's populist attempts to isolate himself . The fact that it has now come to cinemas in America is, willy-nilly, seen as a political signal - after all, the film is a declaration of love for Mexico that has never been seen in Hollywood before. "

Vision Kino , an initiative for film and media education in schools, sees a possible use of film in the subjects of German , religion, music, ethics and art . Stefan Stiletto explains the starting points for the educational work: "Because Coco is so deeply anchored in Mexican culture, ideas of the afterlife and different ways of dealing with death (and remembering the deceased) can be compared." a good way to start a class discussion about cohesion in a family and the desire for individuality, says Stiletto.

Gross profit

After its launch, the film landed at number 1 in the cinema charts in the USA, as well as in Germany, France, Japan and China. In China, where the film opened on November 24, 2017, it has grossed 189 million US dollars so far and in Mexico around 58 million US dollars, making it the most successful film of all time there. The worldwide revenue of the film so far amounts to 807 million US dollars, which places the film at number 11 of the most successful films of 2017. In the list of the world's most successful films of all time , it is number 87 (as of August 8, 2020). The film has so far recorded 1,360,193 visitors in Germany.

Awards (selection)

On December 18, 2017, it was announced that Michael Giacchino's work was on a shortlist from which the nominations in the category Best Film Music were made at the 2018 Academy Awards and that the song Remember Me was in a shortlist of 70 songs from which the Nominations in the Best Movie Song category were determined. Below is a selection of nominations and awards from well-known film awards.

Annie Awards 2018

  • Award in the Best Animated Feature category
  • Award in the category Animated Effects in an Animated Production
  • Award in the Character Animation category in an Animated Feature Production
  • Award in the Character Design category in an Animated Feature Production
  • Award in the category Directing in an Animated Feature Production
  • Award in the category Music in an Animated Feature Production (Michael Giacchino, Kristin Anderson-Lopez , Robert Lopez , Germaine Franco and Adrian Molina )
  • Award in the Production Design category in an Animated Feature Production
  • Award in the Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production category ( Dean Kelly and Madeline Sharafian )
  • Award in the Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production category
  • Award in the category Writing in an Animated Feature Production
  • Award in the Editorial category in an Animated Feature Production

Art Directors Guild Awards 2018

  • Awarded the Excellence in Production Design Award in the animated film category ( Harley Jessup )

British Academy Film Awards 2018

Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2018

Eddie Awards 2018

  • Award for the best film editing in an animated film ( Steve Bloom )

Golden Globe Awards 2018

Grammy Awards 2019

  • Nomination as Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media (Michael Giacchino)
  • Nomination for Best Song Written For Visual Media ( Remember Me , Miguel and Natalia Lafourcade)

Kids' Choice Awards 2018

  • Award as favorite animation film

National Board of Review Awards 2017

  • Award for best animated film

New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2017

Academy Awards 2018

  • Award for Best Animated Film (Darla K. Anderson and Lee Unkrich)
  • Award for best movie song ( Remember Me , music and text: Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez)

Producers Guild of America Awards 2018

  • Award for Best Animated Film (Darla K. Anderson)

Satellite Awards 2017

synchronization

For the synchronization, which was commissioned by FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH , Axel Malzacher was responsible for the script and direction .

role Original speaker German speaker
Miguel Anthony González Pablo Ribet-Buse
Salvatore Scire (vocals)
Ernesto de la Cruz Benjamin Bratt Heino Ferch
Kevin Kraus (vocals)
Héctor Gael García Bernal Karlo Hackenberger
Mamá Coco Ana Ofelia Murguía Luise Lunow
Abuelita Renée Victor Ulrike Lau
Father Jaime Camil Patrick Winczewski
Mummy Sofía Espinosa Dina Kürten
Tio Berto Luis Valdez Helmut Gauss
Plaza Mariachi Lombardo Boyar Michael Pan
Chicharrón Edward James Olmos Peter Groeger
Mamá Imelda Alanna Ubach Alexandra Wilcke
Tía Rosita Selene Luna Daniela Reidies
Papa Julio Alfonso Arau Frank-Otto Schenk
Tío Oscar Herbert Siguenza Joachim Kaps
Tio Felipe Hans Hohlbein
Arrivals agent Octavio Solis Axel Malzacher
employee Gabriel Iglesias Lutz Schnell
Corrections Officer Cheech Marin Oliver Siebeck
Emcee Blanca Araceli Vera Teltz

Web links

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