#Spanish audience- *HORRIFIED SHRIEKS AND CURSING AT THE DOG*

[elecmon]

This is honestly super interesting/funny because same on catching on Héctor and Imelda from a mile away, but then there's Ernesto who was the perfect personification of Machismo, the main character trait all the male leads in the real life movies that inspired the ones Ernesto 'starred' in share

In all of those the strong, heroic, other worldly, manly hero was always paired with a feisty, sharp tougned, quick to anger, village beauty, and helpless damsel

(which ofc sans the last bit is our Imelda.)

I remember watching the Spanish version twice in theatres and both times the shock that Imelda and Ernesto weren't at one point married/it was Héctor gave just as big a reaction as the murder reveal

A rare off-brand different-fandom post from me, but I was thinking of this after conversation with @demonoflight yesterday:

So I think it’s pretty well-known that most people found the plot twist in Coco to be really obvious (and I don’t think that makes the movie any less enjoyable, rather the setup of the effective dramatic irony makes it fun in its own way), but what I still think is hilariously funny to me is that the reason I called it out early was because the relevant ship was too compatible.

Like, the longer the movie went on and the more I got to see Imelda and Ernesto’s respective characters, the more I found it increasingly impossible to believe that such a no-nonsense woman with no patience for pretentiousness would even give someone like Ernesto the time of day.

I know what they say about love making you stupid, especially when you’re young, but I just kept thinking “I cannot remotely imagine these two ever seeing a single thing in each other. Now (points at Héctor) this guy, on the other hand…”