Disney • Pixar's Coco

"The papá - he was a musician. He and his family would sing and dance and count their blessings. But he also had a dream: to play for the world. And one day, he left with his guitar...and never returned.

Eternal love… ❤

This is an important distinction from the usual varieties of parents where either they are evil and do bad things to their children, or are good and it turns out that their actions were right all along, even if the child didn’t understand at the time.

Loving parents, families who genuinely care about their kids, can still end up stifling them in an effort to keep them safe. It’s hard to shoulder the responsibility of protecting and guiding another human, and so it’s easy to mess it up from time to time, even when you don’t mean to. Chief Tui didn’t want Moana to drown in the ocean. Mama Imelda didn’t want Miguel to abandon everything else in pursuit of music. 

Their fears came from understandable places. From genuine trauma, and bad things that had happened to them.

But they were also both wrong. If Moana hadn’t sailed off to find Maui and restore things, she would have died on the ‘safe’ island along with everyone else. If Miguel had been forced to give up his music, he would have only continued to resent his family, and would have lost the closeness they had through another, different kind of tragedy.

Hola! Ok! :-D

Aww! This was alive-Hector who was watching Imelda sing, probably!

<3

And I also found this sketch on my sketchbook!

this had to be part of a series of drawings on Hector and Imelda that I haven’t posted yet!

 But I find him adorable here! :3

Probably I’ll  finish very soon this series of drawings that I had set aside! I had forgotten it!

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- lovestruck expression <3

This moment is like 3 seconds long and it hurts me.

Look at that side glance–he doesn’t think he’s going to be able to cross.

Coco’s told him about the photo. There’s no reason for her not to, and there’s no reason for her to lie to him. (Plus, if you watch the lip sync right after this when he greets Coco, while the dialogue says “Coco!” the lip sync seems to say “You were right!”)

But after 96 years of this–being rejected at the bridge over and over and hearing that buzzer goodness knows how many times, how can he not expect it?

In previous years he’s tried ridiculous stunts to cross the bridge, but he can’t do it this time–not in front of his family. He has them; that should be enough. Look at that glance to the side… if he can’t cross, he’s fully prepared to just leave it at that.

But as we of course know…

…that’s not what happens.