The Book of Life
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Carlos Sanchez: All of the Sanchezes have been bullfighters. All of them.
Grandma: I was a beast in the ring. A beast.

Grandma: Kids these days, with their long hair and not killing stuff.

Grandma: Kids today, with their long hair and their no killing stuff.

Carlos Sanchez: All of these families have lost someone, but as long as we remember them, we can feel their presence with us for one night each year.

Carlos Sanchez: Mama, how did you get here?
Grandma: Eh. Cholesterol.

Pepe Rodriguez: I'm allergic to dying.
Pancho Rodriguez: Especially in the face.

Goth Kid: What's with Mexicans and death.

Continuity mistake: After Manolo serenades Maria, when he falls from the balcony he loses his guitar and Maria catches it. Maria takes the guitar with her as he travels down the stairs to return it to him. After Joaquin proposes to Maria, the Rodríguez brothers barge in with a partly unconscious Manolo. When Manolo and Joaquin start arguing, Maria still has the guitar. However, after a soldier throws Joaquin his sword, one of the Rodríguez brothers suddenly has the guitar, and throws it to Manolo. (01:35:00)

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Question: What does Manolo's mother mean when she says, "Wait until he gets here," as she refers to Manolo's father?

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Chosen answer: She's saying "wait until he gets here" as in 'wait until his time comes and he's in the land of the remembered'. As in, more morbidly, just wait until Manolo's father dies & she's able to scold him in the land of the remembered.

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