Pocahontas (1995 film) character flowered into the idea of a grandmotherly spiritual adviser to Pocahontas. Because of Katzenberg's opposition to having Grandmother Willow in the story, Joe Grant assisted fellow veteran story artist Burny Mattinson with coming up tree puns such as "My bark is worse than my bite", "The roots of all problems", and "They're barking up the wrong tree." Mattinson reluctantly added them to his pitch for the next morning, and during the story meeting, he exclaimed, "Everybody loved it! All of a sudden: 'Oh, I want her in!' 'Let's build her part bigger!'" In September 1992, Disney began casting actors
The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother in "One Hundred Years of Solitude", another book by García Márquez when the character Aureliano meets Eréndira in a brothel and promises to marry her only to find her and her grandmother vanished the next morning. Also included in this story are characters from other Márquez works, such as the spider with the woman's head from "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" and Blacamán the Good from the story "Blacamán the Good: Vendor of Miracles". The novel was adapted to the 1983 art film "Eréndira", directed by Ruy Guerra. Irene Papas acted as the Grandmother and Cláudia Ohana as