The book of life is a 2014 american musical comedy animated adventure film produced by reel fx creative studios and distributed by 20th century fox. The story ends, and the candle maker closes the book of life, reminding us all to write our own stories. Xibalba is the antihero of the 2014 computeranimated film the book of life. When hes on point, hes among the best thrillerhorror writers out there. Unfortunately, xibalba is not an example of his usual pointyness. Nightly passions, a book of life fanfic fanfiction. Gutierrez, it was produced by aaron berger, brad booker, guillermo del toro, and carina schulze.
Xibalba is unsure if he is needed anymore, mary beth wants to become a probono lawyer, and the candlemaker has to play peacekeeper between two death deities. Ever since i watched that movie id thought to myself, hey, what goes on in their. When the candle maker shows manolo his page in the book of life, its blank. The winner will take over the land of the remembered. The former backs manolo, while the latter backs joaquin.
Its a lethal collision of brutal death metal, vicious hardcore and oppressive sludge, taking the concept of heavy to a new, crushing level. Fits of giggles escaped her lips feeling xibalba s ticklish fingers run up her sides. By stormchaser ongoing updated feb 27, 2017 embed story. The winner this time round was the book of life, a childrens movie. As pretty as a justpunctured pinata, endlessly inventive, warm. Sanchez walk out of the church with linked arms around each other. It is a orpheus and eurydice style love story set during the day of the dead in a fantasy version of 1920. Xibalba is the secondary antagonistturnedantihero in the film, the book of life. Certainly not an admirable character, but not hateful either and the film actually ends on a kiss between the.
The book of life is a 2014 computeranimated film directed by jorge r. After manolo vanished in thin air, all of us appeared in what looked like a bullfighting ring. Maria rounds up the whole town to fight back as well. You think you can calm the flames of my anger with another bet. The characters and the music excellent reworkings of classic and alternative pop songs. Just watched book of life yesterday i know, i know, i should have watched it sooner, and omg, these two. To some extent, theyre both shown to be right, though good triumphs over evil in the end. The book of life is a 2014 american 3d computeranimated musical fantasy adventure comedy film coproduced by reel fx creative studios and 20th century fox, and distributed by 20th century fox. He was voiced by ron perlman, who is best known for playing the lich in adventure time, dieter reinhardt in blade ii, mr. Xibalba by michael mcbride meet your next favorite book. The book of life is presented as a legend a cheery museum docent christina applegate is explaining to a bunch of troublemaking kids, in a frame story that doesnt overtly add much to the story except extra style and a cute tag at the end.
It is a orpheus and eurydicestyle love story set during the day of the dead in a fantasy. Its a lethal collision of brutal death metal, vicious hardcore and oppressive sludge. The book of life xibalba legacy action figure features the spiritual character from the film measuring about 6inches tall. History for westernanimationthebookoflife tv tropes. The story ends, and the candle maker closes the book of. The film stars the voices of diego luna, zoe saldana, channing tatum. Using wooden figures, she tells them the story of a mexican town called san angel from the book of life, which holds every story in the world. The book of life immerses viewers into the environment, traditions, colors, and sounds of day of the dead celebration. Manolo sanchez, voiced by diego luna, maria, voiced by zoe saldana, and joaquin, voiced by channing tatum. Hector elizondo on carlos sanchez the book of life. It was recorded and produced by taylor young nails. The latter was chasing the former until they both came to a stop on either side of one of the sloping roofs. She placed her petite hands over his gloved wrists, trying to get his hands away but with no avail. I stand next to manolos family on my left while my family was on my right.
Christina applegate on her character the book of life. Dealing with a crew of scientists and their divingspelunker guide who find some very scientific things to get very scientifically excited about, mcbride, as his style, spends a lot of pages nailing down. Guillermo del toro and jorge gutierrezs animated masterpiece, the book of life, brings feminist undertones, animal compassion, hispanic representation and mexican culture to the big screens of the united states. But accepting the film as an afternoons distraction for kids explains a lot about how the storyline is constructed. Due to having a previous bet, in which xibalba cheated, she rules the land of the remembered, while he rules the bleak land of the forgotten. Welcome to the land of the remembered and the land of the forgotten. See more ideas about book of life, book of life movie and life. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools.
Great memorable quotes and script exchanges from the the book of life movie on. His anger quickly melted feeling a sweet kiss on the cheek. Manolos life will be returned if he completes a challenge of xibalbas. Their tour guide begins to tell them the story of two boys, manolo voiced by diego luna, and joaquin channing tatum, both of whom have loved maria zoe saldana all their lives. I wrote this songfic because it just reminded me of their relationship after i saw the movie for some reason. The book of life is a story within a story, as modernday school kids go on a field trip to a museum and are taken through a magical door to a secret room. Ever since i watched that movie id thought to myself, hey, what goes on in their heads. The book of life 2014 book of life details the book of life models, lino cristofaro. The book of life is a mexicanaccented kids cartoon so colorful and unconventionally dazzling it almost reinvents the art form. Book of life, in the jewish and christian religions, a book in which god records the names of the righteous the book of life sinclair novel, a 1921 novel by upton sinclair the book of life harkness novel, the third of the all souls trilogy by deborah harkness the book of life, a collection of short stories by stuart nadler the book of life. The book of life 2014 movie summary and film synopsis on mhm.
71 1392 247 1192 854 937 1355 1332 961 569 673 104 778 1137 1202 316 60 714 553 1499 828 165 1661 1026 975 553 553 31 219 791 164 907