Talk:Ernesto de la Cruz/@comment-11472367-20180316035217

I thought he was a member of the Rivera family after seeing the trailers/spots for the movie Coco, but he WASN'T after I saw Coco in theaters. When I saw it, I found out that Ernesto was the real villain who killed Hector (he is actually Miguel's great-great grandfather) with his poisonous drink and stole his songbook and his guitar to become a famous musician (this is not songwriting, this is song-stealing) as revealed when Miguel enters the Land of the Dead. Even though I read that he was inspired by famous figures in the Golden Age of Mexico, his skeletal and his living form remind me of Manolo Sanchez (the hero from another cartoon movie about the Day of the Dead: Book of Life). Also when I saw the ending of this film with a "Forget You" sign on Ernesto's bust outside his mausoleum, it looks like Ernesto vanished into the Land of the Forgotten, just like Chicharron (a forgotten old friend of Hector).

I think everything related to Ernesto in the Land of the Dead (his merchandise, his signature, and other stuff) is torn down in the Land of the Dead with Hector now being remembered after Miguel found proof that Hector was the real musician who is a member of the Rivera family and not Ernesto. What would happend to the big Ernesto statue in Santa Cecilia? Would it get torn down, would it be rebuilt with Hector's face, or would there be a "Forget You" sign on the statue like the one in the mausoleum?