#general posada

[kazachokolate]

Quotes from "Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin Zmey" (modified to fit the fandom, obviously)

Maria: Let's wait until bandidos starve to death! Well, or weaken.

Chakal: OH, WE NEED TO GO THERE

Joaquin: Taste my Joaquin power!

[ravencanspell]

I hope the TBOL fandom is just as physically ill about Manolo not even thinking twice before offering Xibalba his life as I am (i have not seen the tumblr fandom for this movie)

(But seriously like. That’s just not cool. Ow. it sort of slaps us in the face with this idea that he doesn’t care or doesn’t think others would care about his life. That seeing Maria is easily better. Like it’s only vaguely hinted but the idea that he didn’t hesitate because he assumed Carlos and his grandmother wouldn’t care if he were dead due to how they treat him… To Manolo, the payout was greater if he were dead. Not to mention he might have been spurred on by Joaquin and General Posada’s words)

[the-lark-not-the-dove]

im sorry but this is what the gillenormand-pontmercy family looks like in the book actually

gillenormand: + theodule:

marius:

[hardtobethebardbitch]

I want all your thoughts about Maya and the Three as well as The Book of Life (remember I'm Mexican bitch so I reserve EVERYTHING LATINA RIGHT to judge your answer >:3)

*claps hands together* HERE WE GO TIME TO YAP ABOUT THE BEST MOVIE EVER.

I literally grew up watching this movie. My earliest memory is showing it to my best friend at a sleepover when I was like 6.

My entire WORLD as a kid was Book of Life. Got my first phone, what was the first thing in my music library? Book of Life. Every birthday and when I was sick, what would I pick? Book of Life. Hell, I wrote a self-insert as Manolo's older sister who was best friends with Maria and in love with Joaquin(before I figured I was gay, but like...Joaquin)

I DIDNT EVEN REALIZE IT WAS A JUKEBOX MUSICAL

Once I found one of my favorite cover artist Annapantsu's rendition of Can't Help Falling In Love With You, and I thought, "yes, she's seen Book of Life!" Ectasy of Gold? Saw those beer commercials and thought, "Hold up-" I heard Radiohead for the first time and I went, "Wait this was in Book of Life!"

But my God, I as a white person of European descent, adore Dia De Lose Muertos. It is my favorite holiday right after Halloween, because it's my excuse to watch Book Of Life on repeat. I know it entirely by heart, and-although I've now forgotten-I used to scare my sister because I could sing I Love You Too Much and The Apology Song in Spanish, without knowing a lick of the language otherwise. I HAVE A COPY OF A NOVELIZED VERSION OF THE MOVIE, ITS IN SPANISH, AND I UNDERSTAND EVERY WORD.

Okay okay, now onto the actual movie other than my experiences.

This thing is one of the best pieces of media I've consumed in literally forever. While it has certain flaws-pfft what am I saying, IT HAS LITERALLY LIKE ONE MINISCULE FLAW, AND I CANT EVEN PIN IT DOWN.

Im going to treat this as one of my movie reviews, just so I don't make this an entire essay lol

Plot: DUDE, THE PLOT?? it's just-beautiful. Just imagine it for a second, as if you were part of this as a main character like Manolo. You are in love with your best friend-your other best friend is in love with her too. You continue with your life, still in love even after she leaves for finishing school. When she returns you do your best to impress her, despite the fact you're kind of the village loser. You die, and when you get to the afterlife you find out that your love life has been betted on by literal gods, just cause they're bored?? I am shocked Manolo kept his cool as much as he did. And then the freaking bandits?? The battle?? I just fucking love this movie man.

10/10

Music: JUKEBOX MOVIE ALERT!!! Except one-I think two?-songs, everything is from somewhere else. And my gods, the conversion from whatever they used to be into the style of the movie is ASTOUNDING. I completely believed that Creep was supposed to be played on guitar like that. And then I could go on for literal hours about The Apology Song-and most of it would just be screaming in joy. I DON'T UNDERSTAND, IT'S JUST SO GOOD FOR NO REASON?

100/10

Animation: How the hell do I explain this with words? Just look at it yourself.

LOOK AT IT!!! Care and love was put into every single frame and it SHOWS.

10000/10

Writing: I do have to admit that maybe, occasionally, from time to time, rarely, the writing is a little strange. But then when there's real heavy scenes-okay who am I kidding, the writings amazing. Humor, pacing, and everything in between-they made due with what they got, and they left ZERO CRUMBS. JUST LOOK AT THD GRANDMA

Queen. AND THEN THIS FUCKING SCENE I JUST-

"Don't forget me."

Waiter! You forgot my tissues!

Characters: I...cannot stress enough...how much I love everyone in this movie.

Manolo? Peak. He molded what my type would be. Selfless, strong, but allows you to be independent, a complete pathetic cat to his lover. His conflict can be felt by anyone with disapproving guardians, or even those who just had disappointed figures in their life. And Diego Luna???? Fuck. Perfect character right there.

Maria? Badass. Likes to lead a little on, but what girl hasn't? She's the leader's daughter and has a pet pig. Need I say more? And Zoe Saldana fucking smashed the role.

JOAQUIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

I LOVE Joaquin. When I saw Deadpool and Wolverine and my friends pointed out Channing Tatum I went, "JOAQUIIN" and they stared like I was senile. I do honestly believe that he is extremely underrated within this niche Fandom. Just saying, I had an epiphany a few years ago: How did Joaquin feel?

Maria was believed to be dead. Blinded by grief he tells his best friend that it should have been him. I entirely believe that he was the one to return to the tree. To apologize, of course. And what does he find? His best friend, dead. He doesn't have anyone left. Maria comes back, and he can only imagine the pain she's feeling. He hates that General Posada is only thinking of marriage at a time like this.

And if he hadn't been the one to find Manolo? Then it was Carlos. And Joaquin watched as a man he respected carry his best friend's body out of the fog from the lonely dock. Or perhaps Carlos buried him right under the tree, and returned with nothing but grief.

And he completely accepts Manolo and Maria's love! He definitely felt hurt, but I'm sure it took a minute because he was just happy Manolo was alive man. He'll find love, I'm sure he will. He'll get a medal from me, no doubt.

Im simply saying, Joaquin had the most development of everyone in this movie.

La Muerte and Xibalba? Peak on and off married couple. La Muerte is hot as hell, and Xibalba's hilarious. Candlemaker, peak. Carlos, peak. The Mariachi Brothers, peak. Luis, peak. Carmen, peak. Book, peak. Even the detention kids were so incredible!

100/10

Overall movie: This movie has so many layers, and it can be enjoyed by all ages. I have enjoyed it since I first watched it, and I will adore it until I die. I will have this play at my funeral, and all you sick fucks are invited.

100000000000000000000000000000 x infinity/10.

And MAYA AND THE THREE???? UGH. MADRE DE DIOS I WANT TO CRY THIS THING MADE ME SOB.

I heard my dad call me from the living room. It was during COVID so I was a little under the weather. I go to the living room, and he's showing a new release on Netflix: Maya And The Three.

I CRASHED OUT. I was SCREAMING at him, begging him to give me the remote. I almost cried right then and there.

AND THEN I STARTED WATCHING?!?!?!!! AND IM INSTANTLY HIT WITH...ZOE SAL-FUCKING-DANA.

AND THEN...DRUMROLL...

DIEGO LUNAAAAA

(I'm fine guys I swear.)

Guys...this thing reignited something in me. The absolute fabulousness of the entire show screamed "Gutierrez". While no one was bursting into Radiohead this time, I swear my heart gave out from all the absolute nostalgia I was getting, and the new story that was tugging my heartstrings in a direction they had never gone.

(You can only imagine how I felt with that La Muerte Xibalba and Candlemaker cameo lol)

I adored every character, but I feel like one can guess who my favorite was haha...

Hes so pathetically down bad for Maya and I can't blame him one bit. LOOK AT THAT FACE!!! I wanna squish it.

Man his reincarnations are gonna feel that lovestruckness. (*cough,* MANOLO, *cough*)

This entire thing, even with all the deaths, I just adore.

I FELT THAT SCREAM WHEN ZATZ DIED. I FELT THAT SCREAM FROM MAYA DEEP IN MY CORE.

AND THEN THEY BROUGHT BACK THE MISBEGOTTEN SON OF A LEPROUS DONKEY BUT JUST A LIL DIFFERENT I CLOCKED THAT IMMEDIATELY AND SCREAMED.

And, of course the ever popular

Rico, Chimi, Picchu, Lance, Daggers, Shield, Camazotz, Puma princess, Micte, Queen Teca, Chiapa, Apush-I love every single character in this show.

AND THEN ALL THE THREE SYMBOLISMS JUST ARGGH

I can't go on man, I'm either gonna die of euphoria or pass out I have been writing this for almost an hour now. But it was so worth it, and I hope it was worth your time too.

No retreat, no surrender.

I am so behind on my French.

[fangirl201sworld]

Headcanon Time!

This one has a bit of angst.

I think that Manolo and Joaquín, at some point during the ten years that María was in Spain, their personalities and ideals finally collided and it ended in an argument that separated them for a long time.

What do I mean by this? We all know that Joaquín had become arrogant and selfish over time and had focused more on being the hero of San Angel who had forgotten the friendship he had with Manolo and seeing him more as a rival.

Manolo was obviously affected by this. One thing led to another and, well, they both parted ways. I don’t exactly know how would end up arguing, but I’ll think about it.

Also, both General Posada and Carlos were a little to blame (mostly the General).

[loveaetingkids]

Book of Life theory:General Posada and Joaquin deleted “scenes” 

After scrolling through Gorge Gutierrez’s Tumblr blog mexopolis like a totally normal person would guys Im normal I promise,I stumbled upon this thread of Book of Life related designs and scrapped ideas. What caught my attention however,were two rough sketches of young Joaquin- an older kid and a teenager-interacting with General Posada:

These two shots seemingly take place during the music cutscene depicting Manolo and Joaquin growing up.On both of these pictures we can see Joaquin looking self-assured,smug even.Meanwhile Maria’s father has either guarded or concerned face,seemingly because of Joaquin. The shot on the left demonstrates it the best- here Mondragon Jr is training with a mannequin,while Posada tries to guide the boys hand with his,as if to show him the move.General has a displeased expression,but teenage Joaquin has pretty much the “I’m better then you old man” look. These scenes are interesting in a way that in the original movie,we never see General Posada being annoyed with Joaquin,thinking of him as “a son he never had”(he sure does love Maria).So this change in their relationship may have several reasons:

1)Posada started suspecting something was up with Joaquin’s strength that seemingly came out of nowhere.Not knowing about the Medal of Everlasting Life,Maria’s father expressions can be interpreted as a sign of distrust.Perhaps the fact that Captain Mondragon went mad from the medal and chopped off General’s arm(as it was stated in trivia of character wiki) would’ve played a role in it.

2)General felt threatened by Joaquin’s skills.From the movie we know that Posada is quite an arrogant person who rarely listens to others.That is why these scenes can depict General Posada fearing that Joaquin will continue climbing up the hierarchical ladder until the latter takes his position.

Now here comes the most interesting part:the audience knows that General has a few soldiers who are supposed to guard San Angel,but are in fact useless. Why didn't Maria's father assign Joaquim to defend the city with his unit instead of forcing him to stay in San Angel by marrying his daughter? I speculate that the deleted cut of the movie has an answer for that.Keeping the reasons listed above,it is possible that General let Joaquin defend other cities from bandits on purpose,to keep the latter away from him because of uneasiness/jealousy.Only after the bandito’s attacks became more frequent,General decided to use Maria (because let’s be frank,there’s no better word for it)  as an anchor for his best soldier.

[puzzled-pegasus]

TBOL Characters as John Mulaney Quotes

Joaquín

“I need everybody, all day long, to like me SO MUCH.”

“There's a HORSE loose in a HOSPITAL!”

“Hey, can I walk ya home?”

“My grandma died oVeR tHE SUMMER!!”

Manolo

“I love saying 'my wife', it sounds so adult....‘That's my wife! No one talk to my wife! I didn't kill my wife!’”

“None of us really know our fathers. Anyway,”

“And a lot of people think that you like bulls…”

“SiNg, goddammit!”

Maria

“We got married by a friend.”

“Why is that what you think femininity is?”

“I was offended as a woman, who was being pushed around by this chauvinist a**hole,”

Carlos

One Black Coffee™

“God can't hear you.”

General Posada

“[Maria Posada]! Did you bite this nice man's d*ck?”

“You have the moral backbone of a chocolate eclair.”

Xibalba

“My wife is a b**ch and I like her. So. Much.”

La Muerte

“Everyone get out of my way, I just want to sit here and feed my birds.”

Candlemaker

“I am too blessed to be stressed!”

Chakal

“‘It's the One Thing You Can't Replace.’”

“I hAve a nUCleaR BOmb!! And I'm gonna blOw up tHe hOspiTal!!!”

“You know, like a crime.”

[cannondisabledcharacters]

Today’s disabled character of the day is General Ramiro Posada from The Book of Life, who is an amputee

[Image Description: 3D model of a man with a silver hook prosthetic on his left side. He is wearing a dark green jacket covered with many metals and ribbons. He is also wearing silver epaulettes, black belt with gold stripes, black cape, and white pants. He has short curly white hair.]