Appearances Coco Īt the beginning of the film when Miguel is strolling across the plaza of Santa Cecilia, he passes by an alebrije stall where various alebrijes consisting of different animals are displayed on an alebrije stall just as Miguel drums on the small sculptures and finds the xoloitzcuintle dog Dante. This scene was cut from the final version of the film, because it was taking too long for Pepita to be physically introduced, which resulted in the scene being cut, and Pepita was instead introduced earlier in the final version of the film. The deleted scene, "Alebrije Attack", which was included on the Blu-ray/Digital format releases of Coco was going to feature a sequence of Miguel and Héctor pursued by the jaguar alebrije Pepita on their way to the Plaza de la Cruz via tram where the jaguar alebrije Pepita pursues the two throughout the tram chase to which Pepita corners them while on the tram only for Dante (as a normal dog instead of an alebrije) to protect the two from Pepita to which the two were able to escape from the alebrije. Lee Unkrich, the director of Coco, commented that the production crew's idea to make alebrijes spiritual guides makes it perfect to also fit Miguel's dog Dante which Miguel doesn't understand about Dante being a spirit guide while being told that Dante is a spirit guide, which makes sense to know why Dante is following Miguel. Like typical alebrijes in real life, the sentient alebrijes seen in Coco can consist of various creatures and can either have vertebrate or invertebrate traits.Īlthough not traditionally tied tied to the Dia de Los Muertos culture, the alebrijes seen in Coco are based on the film production team's trip to Mexico where they visited several alebrije workshops where alebrije makers would ask people who visit alebrije workshops about their spirit animals, in which the visit to alebrije workshops was used as an inspiration for the alebrijes seen as sentient animals in the Land of the Dead as said in an interview with writer Adrian Molia in the audio commentary. The alebrijes featured in Coco are based on the custom Mexican folk art sculptures of creatures of the same name which originated from the late Pedro Linares who became very creative of various alebrije sculptures. They can take the appearance of various creatures with mixes of different colors usually with characteristics of different and can either have vertebrate or invertebrate traits. The alebrijes, as their names imply, are sentient creatures that inhabit the Land of the Dead where they serve as spirit guides based on their real-world sculpture counterparts.
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