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“Coconut” It was one of the last Disney Pixar productions with overwhelming success, especially in Mexican territory for the homage paid to the traditions and culture of the country. Additionally, Mexicans felt very identified with the characters and their family structures, as was the case with the emblematic grandmother Coco, who bears a striking resemblance to María Salud Ramírez, a sweet 108-year-old grandmother.
The famous real-life grandmother lives in Santa Fe de la Laguna, Michoacán, where she is well known even before the fiction that won two Oscars. And then she even began to be visited by tourists.
María Salud Ramírez lived a completely normal life until before the premiere of Coco. He was born on September 16, 1913 and has never left his place of origin.
The lovely granny received thousands of greetings via Facebook.
María dedicated herself to home and family, she didn’t have a life of fame or glamor until October 2017, when Coco’s movie came out. At first only her close relatives of hers noticed her strange resemblance, but when a tourist shared her image of her on social media, she compared her to the Pixar character and renamed her. “Mama Coco in real life” the woman went completely viral.
The 108-year-old grandmother lives in Michoacán.
It also turns out that the streets of the city of Santa Fe de la Laguna are also extremely similar to those traveled by Miguel and his family in Coco.
Contrary to what one might think, María enjoys this sudden fame which led her to take pictures and talk to many unknown people from all over the world who made María’s family home a must-see on the Zacapu-Morelia highway. . . Groups of people or artists have even visited her to show their affection.
María Salud Ramírez Caballero, the grandmother who lives in Mexico, is 108 years old.
What is the movie “Coco” about?
Coco is an animated film produced by Pixar and distributed by Disney.
Coco in the film and her grandmother, with an incredible resemblance.
His argument is based on an idea of Lee Unkrichwho also held the position of project director, and the screenplays by Adrián Molina and Matthew Aldrich. He also had a cast of voices almost entirely of Latin origin, such as Anthony Gonzalez and Gael García Bernal, among others.
The plot revolves around Miguel, a 12 year old boy who is accidentally transported to the world of the dead, where he seeks help to find his deceased musician great-great-grandfather so that he can return to his family among the living and that this removes the ban on his members from playing.
The strong Mexican celebration of Day of death She was the main inspiration during the preparation of the script. In fact, to carry out the project, there was field work and research in the states of Guanajuato, Oaxaca and Michoacanthe latter, where María Salud Ramírez Caballero, the “real Mama Coco”, lives.
Mama Coco with Miguel, two characters from the successful Disney film.
Source: Clarin
