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And this is why I was a little bothered by her inclusion in Coco. I loved Coco. It's a fantastic movie. But putting Frida in there as a recurring character s
by Pxtl 8y ago
And this is why I was a little bothered by her inclusion in Coco.
I loved Coco. It's a fantastic movie. But putting Frida in there as a recurring character seemed kind of bandwagon-y for the normally-timeless Pixar.
- ghaff 8y agoOMG, that went whoosh over my head. (In my defense, I watched it on a trans-Atlantic flight so I probably wasn't at peak mental state.)
- Pxtl 8y agoHah, I know the feeling. Flying to India I couldn't sleep and watched so many movies with my brains just fried from low oxygen. I have no idea what Emperor's New Groove is about.
- omegaworks 8y agoAnd they flattened her into a egotistical narcissist. Fitting for a company that tried to trademark "Dia De Los Muertos" for the film.
- Avshalom 8y agonot so much "egotistical narcissist" as Central Casting Eccentric Artist. They could have replaced her with a skeleton in black leggings and a turtleneck and it would have played identically. And that's what hit me as flat. A quick reference when Héctor tries to slip through customs, or like the El Santo name drop: fine. But instead of honoring her art or her politics they just had her as a bad theater choreographer. And plot-wise like they absolutely could have had her agitating about the socio/economic stratification in the land of the dead and barely changed anything whfg unir zvthry naq snzvyl fyvc va juvyr thneqf ner qvfgenpgrq ol n evbg . That said Coco is on Netflix right now and it's delightful.