Week 3: Film Analysis – Jieyi's 3D Computer Animation Blog

Pick a film you personally have watched and enjoyed.
-Breakdown the story arc (what are the 8 stages)
-Breakdown the characters into their archetypes
-Create a timeline for the main character starting before the film start.

Plot summary

Inspired by the Mexican Day of the Dead, the film tells the story of Miguel, a little boy who loves music, and Hector, a down-and-out musician, who embark on a wonderful adventure in a colorful and mysterious world.

Story arc

01 You: miguel was born in a family business specializing in shoe making, and everything they do is family-oriented

02 Need: miguel Always loved music and wanted to go to a festival, but was opposed by my family

03 Go: miguel Secretly used grandfather’s guitar to accidentally travel to the world of the dead

04 Search: In order to meet “grandfather” Miguel performed a series of musical performances in the world of the dead

05 Find: Miguel finally got tickets to meet his grandfather

06 Take : Ernesto de la Cruz is seen through, Héctor is about to be forgotten

07 Return : Miguel’s grandmother came to rescue them, and Miguel returned to his own world

08 Change : Miguel’s family members agreed with his music dream, and Miguel also understood the importance of family

Twelve-year-old MiG lives in a small village in Santa Cecilia, Mexico . The village is filled with the atmosphere of celebrating the Day of the Dead . Miguel’s great-great-grandfather (great-grandfather) left his hometown and abandoned his wife and daughter in order to realize his music dream, so his great-great-great-grandmother (great-grandmother) Melda forbade the offspring of the Riveras family (Riveras) from contacting music and engaging in production. shoe industry. However, Miguel dreamed of becoming a musician from an early age, just like his idol Dracus. Delacus is a pop singer and movie star who became famous with “Remember Me”, but unfortunately he was killed by a bell in an accident at a concert in 1942. Among the relatives, only Miguel’s great-grandmother Keke is not against music, so Miguel likes her very much. Miguel accidentally discovered that a damaged photo on the table of the Day of the Dead had a group photo of great-grandmother and great-grandparents, but the face of the great-grandfather was torn off. However, he found that the guitar held by his great-grandfather belonged to the musician Dracus, and he believed that his great-grandfather was the god of song Dracus. The overjoyed Miguel took the guitar and told his family that he was going to participate in the draft competition. Grandma was furious when she learned that she snatched the guitar and broke it. Miguel ran out of the house sadly. Made grandma and the whole family go crazy looking for him all night.

In order to participate in the draft competition, Michael brainstormed on Dracus’s guitar and sneaked into his mausoleum. He picked up the guitar and flicked it, and suddenly disappeared in the real world, and no one could see him, except for Miguel’s friend, a street Mexican hairless dog named Dante. In the cemetery, MiG met his dead relatives who turned into skeletons. They looked at MiG in surprise and thought that MiG’s appearance was related to Melda’s inability to go to the real world, so he took MiG to the “dead soul”. Land of the Dead, a place where the dead live. Only on the Day of the Dead can deceased relatives go to the real world to reunite with the living.
In the Land of the Dead, Melda, MiG and his relatives discovered that Melda could not go to the real world because the portrait of Melda was taken from the altar by MiG in the photo enshrined on the Day of the Dead and carried with him. . Miguel must leave before sunrise, or he will become a skeleton and stay there forever. The only way to return to the real world is to have a marigold petal with the blessings of relatives; Melda agrees to let MiG go home, but the condition is that MiG give up his dream of music. MiG returned to the mausoleum without giving up and still took the guitar to participate in the competition, but returned to the land of the dead, showing that he refused to give up his music dream and fled. Then MiG met Hector by chance, thinking of people in the real world. MiG claims that Dracus is his only relative, and Hector agrees to help him find Dracus, so that MiG can continue to stick to his dream; in exchange, MiG agrees to put Hector’s photo on the In the altar of his house so that he can cross the bridge connecting the land of the dead and the real world.
The way to get close to Dracus is to participate in a music competition, and the prize is a ticket to Dracus’ palace. Hector wants to borrow a guitar from his friend Piggy so that MiG can compete. Hector learned from Brother Pigpi that he has no relatives to remember him and will soon disappear permanently in the Land of the Dead. Brother Pigpi asked Hector to accompany him to sing his favorite song in exchange for a guitar as a condition. After Hector and Piggy sang together, Piggy agreed to lend Hector the guitar and then hugged him and then disappeared. After MiG found that Piggy disappeared, he knew that if the undead were all in the real world. When people forget about it, it will truly disappear. However, he agreed to use Piggy’s guitar to change Hector’s fate in the game. Hector painted MiG’s face in the shape of a skull so that he could walk freely in the city without being discovered by his family. In the end they won the music competition. But at the same time, Melda is also following Miguel with her Pepita. Hector found that MiG could return to the real world at any time, and he asked MiG to go back to his relatives and there was an argument. For this reason, MiG left Hector and Dandan determined to sneak into Dracus’s palace alone to find Dracus.

MiG in the palace told Dracus that he was his great-great-grandson. When Dracus welcomes MiG and wants to give him blessed marigold petals, Hector also sneaks into the palace and reveals that he was once a famous singer and composer and Dracus’ partner. Familiar clips played on the screens of the palace reminding Hector of the day he died and decided to give up the music industry to be with his family, but Dracus poisoned Hector and stole his songs and guitar to become famous . Dracus put Hector’s photo in his jacket pocket and sent Hector and MiG into a huge cave lake.

In the cave, MiG realized the purpose of his family and hoped to reconcile with them; Hector said that the main reason he wanted to cross the bridge was to see his daughter Coco again, and MiG finally knew that Hector was actually his real elder brother. Grandfather and idol. He learned from Hector that the memory of Coco, the only living person who still remembered Hector, was declining, and Hector began to disappear gradually. If Hector still couldn’t make Coco remember him when the sun rose, he would die forever disappear. With Dandan’s help, Melda found MiG in a little pumpkin and reunited with Hector; and Dandan also became Aibo Riji because he helped MiG and the others get out of trouble. Miguel convinces Melda and her family to help him snatch Hector’s photo from Dracus and tell all the truth. Melda and her family decided to help Miguel retrieve Hector’s photo from Dracus after they got the truth. Back to Hector’s photo, but by accident, he sang on Dracus’s stage but failed. In the live broadcast, an angry Dracus dropped Miguel from a height (this scene also allowed the audience to witness Dracus’s bad nature), but fortunately the little pumpkin rescued Michael, but Hector’s photo was Fall into cave lake. Unknowingly, Grandmother Rosita, Aunt Victoria, Oscar and Uncle Felix Pao Gaozu jointly made their evil deeds known to the world. When Dracus returned to the stage, he was cast aside by fans. Kicking to hit the big clock of the palace, Dracus was hit by the big clock on him again as before, making the scene thunderous.

But the sun slowly rose, and Hector began to slowly disappear. Hector asked MiG to let his daughter Coco never forget him, and MiG promised Hector that Coco would always remember him. Melda then sends MiG back to Santa Cecilia. After returning to the real world, MiG picked up the guitar that belonged to Hector and ran home to let the dull great-grandmother Coco recall Hector and then played and sang the song “Remember Me” with tears. This is a song that Hector once dedicated to his daughter Coco. It triggered Coco’s memory and sang along. Coco took out the relevant notes from the drawer, and there was a corner of Hector’s missing face in the photo . She and Mi Greg shares some of her memories of her dad, Hector, reuniting the family.
A year later, on the Day of the Dead, Michael introduced the ancestors to the new family members, including his late great-grandmother Coco. Because the cocoa keeper had the key evidence that Dracus stole Hector’s works, Dracus was despised by the world and Hector was rehabilitated. In the land of the dead, Hector and her daughter Coco reunited with their relatives through the Chrysanthemum Bridge. Michael played and sang for the living and deceased relatives. Dandan and the cat-type pumpkin are all part of the Miguel family. The story Perfect ending.

story curve

Up is good G Down is bad I Start left B end right E

Role Classification

Michael ( Miguel)

The main character of the movie is a boy who loves music, just like his great-grandfather.

Ernesto de la Cruz

Stealing Hector’s music and poisoning Hector to death, taking the opportunity to make himself famous, Michael once mistook him for his great-great-grandfather, Michael’s former idol, and was finally exposed by Michael and his undead relatives for his evil deeds .

Characters who have changed the most, or who have grown the most

Hector _

Michael’s great-great-grandfather [17] and true idol, Coco’s father, longs to see his daughter and asks Michael for help.

Elena ( Abuelita/Mamá Eléna)

Coco’s daughter, Michael’s grandma, hated music, but led to a dispute with Michael, and finally reconciled with Michael in relief.

Little changed character, no change, no progress

Coco’s great-grandmother ( Mamá Coco)

The daughter of Melda and Hector, with dementia, is an important character in the movie, and all the stories are related to her. Finally, she recalls her father, and one year after the death of Songshou at the age of 100, she is with other worlds. Parents reunited.

The most down-to-earth and most life-like characters, adding vitality

Dante

A stray dog, which MiG named Dante, is MiG’s close partner. The prototype is a Mexican hairless dog, with almost no hair all over the body, and often missing teeth, so the tongue is always sticking out. Because in Mexico, during the Day of the Dead, people regard dogs as guides of the soul, so they entered the world of the dead with MiG to help him find his family.

One-dimensional characters with little depth and little emotion

Small Pumpkin (Aibo Riji)

The divine beast of the world of the dead is the guide of the world of the undead. They come in all shapes and sizes, with many fantasy creatures. For example, the colorful and very loyal little pumpkin is Melda’s undead guide, and the undead guide is an awesome existence in the world of the undead.

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