a road map known as the color script. But Coco complicated that process. When its story moves to the Land of the Dead, it cranks up all the dials, colorwise. Those scenes look made out of neon ...

Since we didn’t have a script, I would let her take the lead, and then I’d react to whatever she gave me. When we reviewed the scenes, we were all amazed,” Coco, who also directed the film ...