Vivo – Bex asks Director/Writer Kirk DeMicco and Writer Quiara Alegría Hudes the best line in Vivo!!!
What do you think is the best line in the film and why? Bex age 9
Kirk DeMicco – Quiara, you want to go?
Quiara Alegría Hudes – My favorite line in the film is a playful one. It’s when Gabi jumps off the sand barge and she totally misses the raft, and for Vivo, this is a liability and he’s like, “Ah, she’s not gonna make it. She didn’t make it.” And Gabi surfaces, and for her, that’s a total-it’s a win. She’s like, “Did you see that?” Hysterical.
It’s fun. I think that must’ve been a line Kirk wrote. I didn’t write that joke. So, it’s easier for me to appreciate someone else’s. If it’s my line, I’m always critiquing it. [LAUGHS]
Kirk DeMicco – Yeah. The other one I think because it came at a time and it really pulled some things together, is the line that Lin says, “What difference can one song make?” when he’s looking down. Because, again, this is a musical about musicians, but it’s about the power of music. It’s a love letter to music, and to what it can do. And I think that he delivers it so wonderfully, and it seems that you know, remembering his past with Andrés, this man who gave him everything, and he knows.
And so, he has to question that throughout. Like, when it gets torn up, I’ve watched it with kids, and kids gasp when that song hits the water. It’s like, “Oh, my god” a piece of paper, they understand how much that means, the amount of love and energy that’s in that thing, and it gets torn. And so, them rebuilding it, and the difference it does make,when he delivers it to Marta, I think, is profound that I really think that that’s a-I’m being thematic, but yeah, I think that was a really good one.
Vivo – Bex talks Snakes with Vivo Everglades film consultant Elaine Fiore CLICK HERE!!!
Sony Pictures Animation’s Vivo available on Netflix 6/8/21. Bex review CLICK HERE!!! (Live 30/7/21)
