* a huge part of the reason i’m able to have this mindset – this…. safety net, i guess, is because of this space. because of runiel, and the deal we made.
* this place is probably the safest you can get in the void – and to an extent, probably the safest Anywhere, Period?
* it’s been a lot harder lately, to believe that everyone is good and has the capacity for it. i still…. like to try to believe that, but.
* i know that if i was a fragment that didn’t have this kind of safety i’d be a lot more paranoid and a lot more wary of people in general. the void is extremely dangerous, you know?
* we here make the best of it because we have what we do.
* but…. even then, you know. thinking on this more- because i know i’ve been in a rough patch for a while now, my viewpoint is a tad warped right now, but i used to be pretty happy even before being safe here.
* even though, you know, i knew things were dangerous – i guess it’s just harder lately because a lot more has been going on? it’s like everywhere i turn more is happening.
* i’m. getting off track, i guess. sorry.
* i think that a big part of it is like…. to take joy in the smaller things. talking to friends, being around people you love and who genuinely love you – and looking around for more than just the bad.
* there’s been a lot of it – not just here in the void, but outside of it too. and it’s a lot to try and shoulder. but…. you just kinda have to talk yourself into it. there’s a lot of good to be seen – a lot that’s there, still there, always will be – maybe even new good things. that’s where you want to focus when things get you down.
* on a personal level, though……. we don’t have much actively keeping us going. i used to hope for getting out – and then i hoped that i could try and make the void a better place, but…. that’s not exactly attainable.
* what i Can do is be there for my friends- when i have the energy to be. being around them makes me happy, it makes them happy, and seeing them be happy with just my being around? that helps a lot.
* it helps me know that there’s not just a world of bad out there, you know? even if things look super grim and dark, there’s still always going to be good to be found somewhere. put your energy behind those things. it helps a lot.
Y’all seriously need to learn to fact check things you see on here.
1.) it wasn’t Disney who turned down Coco but DREAMWORKS.
and to those who STILL erroneously insist that Disney/Pixar turned down The Book of Life
2.) People getting mad at this:
Marigolds are traditional to our culture as well as to the holiday, ESPECIALLY in petal form. Not the best example but that’s like getting mad at different Christmas movies for using mistletoe.
3.) “Oh it’s the same plot.” Has anyone looked up the plot for this movie other than outright bashing it from the trailer? “The footage, raw though it may be, spun a compelling story about Miguel, a sweet kid who loves music despite the fact that his abuelita banned music long ago, thanks to an ancient drama involving Miguel’s great-great-grandfather—a dashing musician—who walked out on the family. That musician, Miguel discovers at the start of the film, is his town’s most famous son: deceased film star and music supernova Ernesto de la Cruz. On the eve of Día de Muertos, Miguel breaks into de la Cruz’s mausoleum in order to borrow the famous skull guitar that hangs there so that he can enter a talent competition and convince his family to embrace music again. Once Miguel touches the guitar, he becomes something of a living ghost. His family can no longer see him, but Miguel can now see all of his dead ancestors—who look like fantastically decorative skeletons—crossing over a bright bridge made of marigold flower petals from the Land of the Dead. Looking for help and answers, Miguel travels to the Land of the Dead—a dazzlingly vibrant, stacked metropolis inspired by the Mexican city of Guanajuato—himself and sets off an adventure with trickster skeletal companion Hector to find the rest of his family, de la Cruz, and the answer to how he can fix this curse.” You know how insistent Pixar is on always making original films. So don’t you think that they would continue that?
4.) “But the white director who thinks he knows everything because he’s been to Mexico.” That’s right, a white person who is not of Mexican/Latinx culture can not truly KNOW our culture simply by visiting it. And Lee Unkrich knows this fact. Which why he assembled a group for the sake of making sure the movie is culturally accurate, rather than him taking on that role
you know, a team of actual latinx. Including someone who was a huge critic of Coco, and is a critic of Disney, Lalo Alcaraz. He is most famously known for his response to the action of Disney attempting to trademark Dia de los Meurtos (which will be our next point). It’s not Alcaraz selling out. It’s him working together with the movie so it’s not just Disney trying to bring in more Latinx fans but rather creating what Unkrich’s true mission: “a love letter to Mexico.” This team along with many other Latinx creatives (like Adrian Molina who was originally just a writer and then promoted to co-director) and a fully latinx cast (again, as insisted by Unkrich), are working together to make it a Latinx piece of media. ( http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/12/pixar-coco-gael-garcia-bernal-dia-de-los-muertos-miguel )
5.) We all know and got rightfully angry at Disney for attempting to trademark Dia de los Muertos. This was due to the similar original name the movie had. As expected, it received intense backlash to which Disney quickly revoked the request to trademark. Unkrich was the first to vocalize that this was a mistake. This even leading to that point most likely has to do with him being a white man not of our culture, but this humbling experience is what really knocked that message into him and he began recruiting people like the ones in the above point to make sure that the movie itself is true to the people, culture, and holiday, in ways he himself could never fully grasp.
6.) It’s about the Day of the Dead like The Book of Life. My response to this is easy: look at how many movies are there about Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Valentine’s day, Saint Patrick’s day, etc.
7.) Gutierrez himself doesn’t want it to be a competition but as two wonderful films about one aspect of Latinx that will hopefully lead to more in the future.
I love The Book of Life, and is one of my favorite movies if I’m being honest. When it first came out I was filled with such pride and joy for many reasons. One of course for it being a gorgeously rendered film, but for it being such a positive and beautiful representation and celebration of Mexico. As someone who grew up only seeing white main characters, with people like my family and I as only side characters, it brings me such joy to see more media being produced in which Mexicans are the focus along with our culture (which is agreeably much more diverse than what is being tapped into). We still got a long way to go as Mexico is still only one group of Latinx culture, but we are witnessing the stepping stones of Hollywood beginning to reach out and representing this community by working with people of those cultures. The Book of Life will always have a special place in my heart, but I’m not letting my love of that movie keep me from supporting Latinx creators that are putting out Coco. I’m finally getting the representation that I craved as a kid and loving it.
SOMEONE DID THE ENTIRE FACT CHECK YALL DESERVED BLESS YOU
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