Coco (I) (2017)
Gael García Bernal: Héctor
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Quotes
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Héctor : [sings] Remember me, though I have to say goodbye / Remember me, don't let it make you cry / For even if I'm far away, I hold you in my heart / I sing a secret song to you, each night we are apart / Remember me, though I have to travel far / Remember me, each time you hear a sad guitar / Know that I'm with you, the only way that I can be / Until you're in my arms again, remember me...
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Ernesto de la Cruz : [to Mamá Imelda] Don't I know you?
Mamá Imelda : [Smacks Ernesto with her shoe] That's for murdering the love of my life!
Ernesto de la Cruz : [Confused] Who the...?
Héctor : She's talking about me!
[to Imelda, touched]
Héctor : I'm the love of your life?
Mamá Imelda : I don't know, I'm still angry at you!
Ernesto de la Cruz : Hector? How did you...
[Imelda smacks him with her shoe again]
Mamá Imelda : And *that's* for trying to murder my grandson!
Ernesto de la Cruz : Grandson?
Miguel : She's talking about me!
Ernesto de la Cruz : You! Wait. You're related to Hector?
Miguel : [pointing at De la Cruz's breast pocket] The photo!
[the rest of the family appears from around the corner; De la Cruz runs]
Mamá Imelda : After him!
Ernesto de la Cruz : Security!
Héctor : You said love of your life?
Mamá Imelda : I don't know *what* I said!
Miguel : [cheekily] That's what *I* heard...
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Miguel : [after watching Chicharrón disappear] Wait... what happened?
Héctor : [sadly] He's been forgotten. When there's no one left in the living world who remembers you, you disappear from this world. We call it the Final Death.
Miguel : Where did he go?
Héctor : No one knows.
Miguel : But I've met him! I could remember him when I go back.
Héctor : No. It doesn't work like that, chamaco. Our memories, they have to be passed down by those who knew us in life - in the stories they tell about us. But there's no one left alive to pass down Cheech's stories.
[shrugs]
Héctor : Hey, it happens to everyone eventually.
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Héctor : [singing for Chicharrón] Well everyone knows Juanita / Her eyes each a different color / Her teeth stick out / and her chin goes in / and her...
[he hesitates]
Héctor : ... knuckles, they drag on the floor.
Chicharrón : Those aren't the words!
Héctor : There are children present.
[singing]
Héctor : Her hair is like a briar / She stands in a bow-legged stance / And if I weren't so ugly / She'd possibly give me a chance.
Chicharrón : [chuckles] Brings back memories. Gracias.
[exhales deeply as he vanishes]
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Mamá Imelda : Mijo, I was so worried.
[Hugs Miguel, then looks to Héctor resentfully]
Mamá Imelda : And you, how many times must I turn you away?
Héctor : Imelda...
Mamá Imelda : I want nothing to do with you! Not in life, not in death! I spent decades protecting my family from *your* mistakes. He spends five minutes with you, and I have to fish him out of a sinkhole!
Miguel : I wasn't in there because of Héctor. He was in there because of me. He was just trying to get me home! I didn't want to listen, but he was right! Nothing is more important than family. I'm ready to accept your blessing. And your conditions. But first, I need to find de la Cruz. To get Héctor's photo!
Mamá Imelda : What?
Miguel : So, he can see Coco again. Héctor should be on our ofrenda. He's part of our family.
Mamá Imelda : He *left* this family!
Miguel : He tried to go home to you and Coco. But de la Cruz murdered him!
[Imelda looks from Miguel to Héctor in surprise]
Héctor : [sorrowfully] It's true, Imelda.
Miguel : [after a pause] And so what if it's true? You leave me alone with a child to raise, and I'm just supposed to forgive you?
Héctor : Imelda, I...
[Suddenly shudders and collapses to his knees, Imelda gasps]
Héctor : I'm running out of time. It's Coco.
Mamá Imelda : She's forgetting you.
Miguel : You don't have to forgive him. But we shouldn't forget him!
Mamá Imelda : I wanted to forget you. I wanted Coco to forget you, too, but...
Héctor : This is my fault, not yours. I'm sorry, Imelda.
Mamá Imelda : Miguel, if we help you get his photo, you will return home? No more music?
Miguel : Family comes first.
Mamá Imelda : [to Héctor] I... I can't forgive you. But I *will* help you. So, how do we get to de la Cruz?
Miguel : I... might know a way.
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Héctor : [Ernesto takes Miguel at the edge of the stadium] Ernesto, STOP!
[shudders and collapses to the floor]
Héctor : Leave the boy alone.
Ernesto de la Cruz : I've worked too hard, Hector. Too hard to let him destroy everything.
Héctor : [pleading] He's a living child, Ernesto!
[the other Riveras turn the camera on Ernesto so the audience can see]
Ernesto de la Cruz : He's a THREAT!
[the audience gasps]
Ernesto de la Cruz : You think I'd let him go back to the land of the living with your photo? To keep your memory alive? No!
Miguel : You're a coward!
Ernesto de la Cruz : I am Ernesto de la Cruz, the greatest musician of all time!
Miguel : Héctor's the REAL musician, you're just the guy who murdered him and stole his songs!
[the audience gasps]
Guy in audience : Murdered?
Ernesto de la Cruz : [grabs Miguel by the shirt collar] I am the one who is willing to do what it takes to seize my moment. Whatever it takes.
[Throws Miguel off the stadium]
