Analysis on the Reasons for the Intensive Resonance Among Mexican of the Film Coco
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200826.111How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Coco, the day of the dead, storytelling techniques, dramatic tension, visual elements, lighting set, originally sound track
- Abstract
In 2017, the blockbuster film, Coco, arouses intensively high resonance for people worldwide [5]. People in Mexico particularly have a strong feeling about it due to not only the touching story but also the high relevance about the culture of their own. It is worthwhile to learn and explore reasons why Coco is able to make such resonance globally and why Coco produced by the advanced animation company, Pixar, conveys a sense of familiarity and a sense of home for Mexican. The movie Coco is analyzed in three different aspect: the utilize of storytelling technique, the representations of some visual elements, and the effect of audio embedded. Some documentaries recording the experience of producing Coco from Pixar are also important materials as it reveals the exertion behind the scene. After the analysis, the conclusion is drawn: The movie, Coco, easily arouses emotional resonance for people across Mexico because the team faithfully depicts every cultural and Mexican elements into scenes, with a successful auxiliary of songs adapted from indigenous Mexican music and with myriads of well-designed storytelling techniques which keeps audience hooked and entertained.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Jinhong Shangguan PY - 2020 DA - 2020/08/28 TI - Analysis on the Reasons for the Intensive Resonance Among Mexican of the Film Coco BT - Proceedings of the 2020 4th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 558 EP - 561 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200826.111 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200826.111 ID - Shangguan2020 ER -