![]() Their wedding is interrupted by Chakal, who leads his army to San Angel to find the Medal, which had once been in his possession. Meanwhile, María has been awakened from her coma, learns of Manolo's death, and reluctantly accepts Joaquín's proposal. Xibalba sets Manolo against a giant bull skeleton made from the skeletons of every bull slain by the Sanchez family, believing that to be his greatest fear. Furious, La Muerte lectures Xibalba before offering a new wager at Manolo's request: Manolo's life will be returned if he completes a challenge of Xibalba's choosing, but if he fails, he will be forgotten and Xibalba will keep both realms. They find La Muerte at Xibalba's castle and expose his cheating. The Candle Maker sees that Manolo's story in the Book of Life is blank and can be rewritten by himself, so he takes them to the Land of the Forgotten. Inside, he meets the Candle Maker, the overseer of mortal lives and keeper of the Book of Life. Furious but determined to return to María, Manolo travels to the Cave of Souls to reach La Muerte. However, Manolo was bitten twice and died. They travel to La Muerte's castle, discovering Xibalba, now the ruler of the realm, who explains the bet and smugly reveals that María didn't die because she was only bitten once and therefore survived. In the Land of the Remembered, Manolo reunites with his mother and his ancestral family. Devastated by María's apparent death, Manolo allows Xibalba to kill him, believing he will be reunited with María in death. When Manolo brought Maria's body to the town, Joaquín and Ramiro angrily blamed him for her "death", Manolo even blamed himself for Maria. María and Manolo profess their mutual love before dawn but are interrupted when Xibalba sends his dual-headed snake staff, which bites her and sends her into a coma. That night, María is pressured by her father and San Angel's mayor, General Ramiro Posada, to marry Joaquín for his protection from the Bandit King Chakal. Years later, the day María returns to San Angel, Joaquín has become a military hero with the Medal's aid, but Manolo's musical aspirations are suppressed by his father Carlos, who trains him to be a bullfighter in their family tradition.Īt Manolo's first bullfight he defeats the bull but refuses to kill it, angering Carlos and the crowd but impressing María. María is sent to Spain to become a "lady" after freeing animals destined for slaughter. The story begins with scenes of young Maria, Manolo, and Joaquin playing together as childhood friends. ![]() However, Xibalba cheats by giving Joaquín his Medal of Everlasting Life, which grants the wearer invincibility. They strike a wager: if María marries Manolo, Xibalba will no longer interfere in mortal affairs, but if she marries Joaquín, La Muerte and Xibalba will swap realms. On the Day of the Dead, La Muerte, ruler of the Land of the Remembered, and Xibalba, ruler of the Land of the Forgotten, see Manolo Sánchez and Joaquín Mondragon competing for the love of María Posada. ![]() Mary Beth, a museum tour guide, takes a group of school detention students on a secret museum tour, telling them, with wooden figures, the story of a Mexican town called San Angel from the Book of Life, holding every story in the world. The film grossed $100 million on a $50 million budget. It received mostly positive reviews from critics and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Animated Feature Film. The film premiered in Los Angeles on October 12, 2014, and was released theatrically in the United States on October 17, 2014. Based on an original idea by Gutierrez, the story follows a bullfighter who, on the Day of the Dead, embarks on an afterlife adventure to fulfill the expectations of his family and friends. It features the voices of Diego Luna, Zoe Saldana, and Channing Tatum with supporting roles by Christina Applegate, Ice Cube, Ron Perlman, and Kate del Castillo. Gutierrez, it was produced by Aaron Berger, Brad Booker, Guillermo del Toro, and Carina Schulze. The Book of Life is a 2014 American 3D computer-animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by 20th Century Fox Animation and Reel FX Animation Studios, and distributed by 20th Century Fox. ![]()
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