I finished One Hundred Years of Solitude two days ago and watched Encanto today. The inspiration was so glaring that I needed to look for someone on KZfaq commenting on it. You gave me that, but also so much more! Loved the little history lesson, this video deserves so much more views than it has!

As a non-Columbian who read “One-Hundred Years of Solitude” before seeing “Encanto”, I immediately recognized the connections. To hear someone explain so much further from a perspective within the culture and a much greater knowledge of Columbian history, is very rich indeed. Thanks so much for this work!

"This forced miscegenation resulted in a confused identity for the population, you know, the joint historical baggage of the oppressed and the oppressor" really hit a lot of feeling I have as a Mexican. Wonderful video and this made me love Encanto more and makes me wanna try to reread One Hundred Years of Solitude.

As someone who's studied the 20thC Irish colonial + civil conflicts, it's striking how "The Violence" echoes in "The Troubles".

9:21 Not gonna lie, I laughed out loud at this. You KNOW this was a scene from the drawing room that the team just had to put in after dissecting 100 Years of Solitude.

Yeah,I got the connection right away watching Encanto with the grand kids.

While reading One hundred years of Solitude it was so obvious that there were references to it in Encanto. But since I know next to nothing about Colombian history it was hard to pinpoint everything and put it in perspective. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge on this topic and explaining the connections of the two stories with each other and Colombian history

One Hundred Years of Solitude was one of my formative pieces of literature and you did such a fantastic job discussing the way Encanto is influenced by it! Also, I'm an American and you should definitely compare us all to Dick Cheney.

This was a very wonderful video, highlighting so many cultural contexts and references that I, as a white European, was frankly oblivious to. While I did enjoy Encanto on a surface level before, I feel like all of these layers of meaning and references to Columbian tradition, literature and history have given me a wholly new appreciation for the film.

This video is such a hidden gem! I just finished One Hundred Years of Solitude and want to see the Disney movie again to see it in a new context, not as much thanks to the book as thanks to your essay connecting it beyond the obvious Easter eggs to the shared dialogue with Colombian history and culture. I instantly subscribed to your channel and I can’t wait to watch or read more of your ideas and essays. Keep up the good work!

I don't generally keep up with Disney movies as an adult but when I heard that Encanto was based on One Hundred Years of Solitude, I couldn't watch it soon enough. This book is one that changes you, stays with you, opens your eyes to hopes, beauties, sufferings, longings, magic, and near impossibilities... It hung over me like a welcome, haunting fog for days after I finished. Loved the movie and I loved your contextualization of it. ¡Gracias! Subscribed.

I found your video because I had an inkling that 'Encanto' had some connection with 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', thank you for confirming my suspicion and giving such a fascinating and detailed analysis. May I, in return point you towards another Disney film that is directly inspired by, and in dialogue with, another literary work. The film is 'Frozen' and the literary work is Phillip Larkin's poem 'An Arundel Tomb'. If you read the poem you will see that the two main themes in it refer to statues and the significance of un-gloved hands; these two themes are strikingly present in 'Frozen'. In 'An Arundel Tomb' Larkin ponders the meaning of a statue of an earl and countess. The statue is set upon the couple's tomb and shows them holding each other's hands, having removed their gloves. Larkin notices this touching detail with a 'sharp tender shock' and then goes on to contemplate the significance of this detail and the statue as a whole, considering the meaning of the statue communicated to different generations over time and how the true meaning of the statue is altered as time passes and society and collective knowledge change, he also considers how the sculptor might have altered the deceased's intentions by adding his own flourishes. As a result Larkin cannot be sure that we are interpreting the statue truthfully and he cannot, therefore, fully endorse the final line of his poem 'What will survive of us is love'. In contrast to this the, transparently clear ice statue Anna creates of herself at the climax of 'Frozen' is an auto-sculpture, there is no intervening sculptor to add inauthentic flourishes. Anna is frozen at the very moment that she performs a bare-handed act of true love and no time intervenes between the sculpture's creation and the people viewing it. As a result, and in contrast to 'An Arundel Tomb', the expression of love can be read immediately and directly and with full confidence that no modifying influence has yet come between the statue's creation and our reading of it. Therefore, we can fully endorse the final line of the poem 'What will survive of us is love'. If you remember, the very next comment in relation to the statue is Elsa's, observing that it is love that is the answer to the problem of the perpetual winter, love has survived Anna's transfiguration and death. As we know, Anna is revived and she and Elsa embrace, and it is a very special embrace: neither Anna nor Elsa is wearing gloves. Yes, the original arresting detail of glove removal on the tomb in Arundel is used throughout 'Frozen' to demonstrate true connection, true love, authenticity, and defiance of convention. These are the romantic traits that we can see that Larkin is attributing to the earl and countess when he observes their gloveless hand clasp on their effigies, as these are traits that flow from true love and openness. Once Anna is required to wear gloves in order for her to control (repress) her powers, for the rest of the film not one embrace, or coming together of hands, involves two un-gloved hands until the final embrace of Anna and Elsa. In fact the removal of gloves is also used to reveal one's authentic self, just as in 'An Arundel Tomb'; witness Elsa's famous removal of her glove, which she lets go of before singing 'Let it Go' and embracing her true self, as well as Prince Hans removing his glove at the moment that he reveals his evil persona. Finally, the most immediately obvious connection between 'An Arundel Tomb' and 'Frozen' is the name of their locations, it is not a coincidence, I would aver, that 'Frozen' is set in Arendelle. There are other possible connections with the poem, such as the line 'Snow fell, undated' and the line 'The earl and countess lie in stone' in contrast to the honest, prophecy-making stone trolls. However, I hope that I have indicated that there is enough of a significant crossover for you to view the film in a new light, maybe adding a bit more depth to the film and food for thought.

God this is such a good video, I’m so honored to have been able to voice part of it

I think the reason for staying alone between Bruno and amarantha stayed the same, even if one interprets him as gay... He really needs a hug

After Reading One Hundred Years of Solitude, I had no idea how similar and aspects that Encanto uses in it's film. I haven't watched the film since it came out, but now I really want to watch it to see the similarities from the novel! :)

I have no words to express my satisfaction after seeing this video! It would worth a million views! Congratulations, I really LOVED Encanto, and I loved that it made me discover the super fascinating culture of Colombia, its sad history and Marquez's masterpiece.

Forever jealous of your signed copy Excelente video, parce

Thanks! I heard of a hundred years of solitude as a inspiration for Encanto and I was looking for somebody that would explain. Thanks^^ Oh! Yeah it's all about circles of violence then. It explain both the book and the movie. Honestly Encanto is very good because of that: It gave to a lot of people the opportunity to talk about trauma and heal.

Thank you, I watched your video with great interest. When I first saw Encanto, I immidiately noticed parallels with One Hundred Years of Solitude. Encanto is surely a Disney success - they don't have many nowadays. Glad I found this video, very eloquent and with valuable commentary from an actual Colombian. I love Latin America. It is very far away from my country (Russia), but I'm facinated by its cultures, including Colombian. I'm even studying Spanish now.

Prior to this video, I had very little knowledge of One Hundred Years of Solitude (which I will now definitely read), and Colombian history. I watched this video due to my love for Encanto, which was so reminiscent of my and my family's experiences even though I come from a different cultural background. I loved your take on it and what it meant for Colombians, but also loved this story for its universality- so many countries have been impacted by colonialism, and the following generations have been looking to voice their struggles. For this among many other reasons Encanto is my current favorite Disney film. I am so glad to hear that they did a decent job of representing Colombia, and really enjoyed your analysis.

Thank you so much for your perspective! This video should be on the Encanto DVD as an extra!

Just like the movie, this had me tearing up and beaming at the same time. Incredible work.

What an incredible gift to get to hear your perspecitve on these tales. I just spent too many hours in one night finishing this masterpiece of a book and could not possibly go to sleep because of how taken I was with the whole thing. Despite having a decent grasp (for a swedish person) of latin american history in general, your specific examples and lived experiences with regards to Colombia makes me see this novel in new lights, and I feel my appreciation for the world that García Márquez created has deepened even further and seems even more real. I hope that I will (many years later) remember this book and world whenever I see a yellow butterfly! ¡Gracias!

I don't think there is any feasible way of me stating this, but when I read One Hundred Years of Solitude, a moldy copy that was forgotten, and dropped into a dishevelled corner of the British Council Library, I didn't see so much as strangers, but people from own family, my own reality, my own uncertain background of race, religion, strife, privilge, and crime, and poverty. I saw people who wore longyis and spoke an old and nearly dead dialect of Urdu and a specific Thanlyin tongue of Lower Burma Parsi and wore tattoos in their scripts of their ancestral tongues and their syncrhonized and messy religions and beliefs, I saw the death of my family and their past, my paternal and maternal great grandmother's family, the continued linage of women and the incessant and present abscence of the men in our hearts and minds who died so young, and leaved no more a descent of themselves but legends, my great grandmother's counsins and brothers and uncles, who were of coolie descent and other unknown origins, who were of native to the south of the south of the south of entriety of Burma, who owned the land, who were even rumored to cannibals, and had magic skin that deflected bullets, and wrestled with ghosts and demons, and angels, and the fact that we claim descent too from the Golden Horned Mother of the lower delta, a water buffalo, the kindest in the world, who gave us milk and shelter, when the kings had threatened to leave us to drown in the flood lands, her blood, and her suffering, it's her, in us, it is the strangest thing, I don't have words to describe it, I can't have them, they are mostly gone, or fogotten, or apart, or have claimed an aspect of the majority, and then wholly abandoned their true minority and near slave-like and coolie origins, who had forgotten who they are or ever were, but me, and my stories, and all this pain, in clasped chains around my arms, and my necks, and my ankles, as the British, then the Japanese, and them before them, the Buddhist, the Burmese, with their attacks, and apparaisals, and their slaughtering of us, we will never forget, but oh my Lords, and Mothers, have we wholly forgotten ourselves, but some.

nunca había pensado que la obra de García Máquez haya podido influenciar esta pelúcila de Disney muchas gracias por el video!

4:51 I’m wheeze laughing omg I’m so thrilled I found your channel! And now I need to go revisit One Hundred Years of Solitude

Loved the game of thrones recap starting at ~8:00

This is now my go to video for when I'm trying to explain their connection to people that aren't hearing me. Thank you! This is brilliant!!

That scene always gets me to sob like a child "lay down your load lay down your load, we have no gifts but we are many and we'll do everything for you" Just the relief of being allowed to accept help and that your efforts do not go unseen but but will be reciprocated in whatever way. It does not need a genius or a very rich person to inact change and help, everyone can help in a little way and it makes all the difference if we stand in solidarit!!!

I have watched Encanto over and over, I really love that movie! I'm so glad to find this video, because it brings so much more context that I never knew about before. I might see if I can track down the book, because those snippets of it read in the video were beautiful, even if so sad.

idont have anything to add to commenting for the miniscule boost it might give it was an amazing video and also the cat at the end killed me sobs so cute

This is a beautiful analysis on so many levels. It’s so heartfelt and thoughtful and you got a laugh out of me several times and maybe a few tears too lol. This really deserves to be one of the most watched video relating to Encanto because it just cuts to the core of the movie as well as it’s inspiration. Thank you for making this!! Great work!

Great video! I just finished one hundred years today, and was thinking about Encanto the entire way through. Thank you.

This is so beautiful, this is such a loving analysis. You've done amazingly on these video essays,, but this one steals my breath.

A great video. Thank you

Fascinating. Thank you for this.

Love every video you've shared with us, thank you.

Thank you for this wonderful video!

Your analysis is so beautiful

Loved it!

Excellent video Jose!

Thank you for this video, it is really informative!

Loved this video and super envious of your signed book!

amazing video!

Such a beautiful analysis. Please keep making more ❤

so thankful to have found your channel

That was really interesting and touching and I am so glad I watched this! Thank you!

Thank you so much for your analysis! it’s very informative!

This was so well done, more people need to watch this! 👏🏼

really great video. I've always heard of 100 Years of Solitude, so I'm definitely going to have to read it now

So beautifully spoken.

This was such a beautiful video and analysis. I was teary-eyed most of the video.

What a great video. It deserves so much more attention

I don't think 100 years of solitude is just Colombian... I'm Venezuelan and I could feel very connected and identified in this book, and could easily picture the place and the family as it happens in my family, superstition and magic mixed with realism and tragedy

Wow! Amazing video, Gracias por hacerlo.

Está increíble. Gracias por este vídeo ❤️

Great Video!

Love your videos (o:

One hundred years of solitude opened the magic side of my brain forever!

Those last words, no spoilers, so hilarious! Need a separate channel just for that thing I'm not spoiling. LOL!

This video got me to pick up 100 Years of Solitude and I finished reading it the other day, so thank you for introducing me to a great work of art.

Una hermosura de video, no puedo dejar de llorar

this deserves so much more attention! great video

Increíble video como de costumbre 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Me encanta todo el análisis, investigación y humor que siempre incluyes en tus videos. Aprendí muchísimo y ahora tengo una mayor apreciación por la peli de Encanto (de por sí me gustaba, jaja, pero ahora más) Sigue así 👍🏾 saludos desde México

No you didn’t end the video with “la Tierra del olvido”. 😭😭😭 gracias por este video tan especial y tan Colombiano 🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴

Thank you for this wonderful video essay! After watching Encanto, I was strongly reminded of One Hundered Years of Solitude, and I was so glad to find your video discussing just this topic. I'm especially grateful for the part on Columbian history, which I was previously unaware of. It not only gave me a new understanding of Encanto but also of Garcia Marquez's book, enabling me to appreciate it even more. Now I'm hooked and going to dive into the other analyses you have already uploaded. Keep up the great work!

I loved Encanto, but I'm not sure if it made what Coco did for Mexico. Until I watched this video, awesome analysis!!! Thanx!!!

My dad's side of the family has some Colombian heritage (my great-grandmother), and it's a pretty mixed family as well. Seeing all the different Madrigal family members and citizens of the village felt like the most accurate representation I've seen and had as a Latino ever so far. There were people my shade, Afro-Latinos like my father, those with darker skin and curls and ringlets for days. It was like finally seeing a mirror on the screen. And of course when 'Barranquilla' started playing all of us, my dad and my sisters, exclaimed "ohhhhh, I know this song!" By the way, my dad says that when it's sunny but also raining, it means the devil is nearby or at work. Is there a similar term in Colombia? I'd love to know.

My favorite so far!

Thank you so much for this video, I absolutely love and adore the movie encanto, despite not being a Disney person. They usually are so flat and hollow to me, nice ideas at times, but little substance and questionable morals if one looks to close but encanto.... So many layers, every single character is complex and believable, flawed and lovable, I can sympathise with everyone's struggle and the real villain is miscommunication as so often in families. It feels real in a way the others do not. I love everything about this movie and you provided so much context to the why's. While as you point out, it is very columbian, it also is plain just very human. I absolutely need to read this book or at least listen to an audio book for now ^^

Te luciste. Me encantó.

I did see the connection there with 100 years of solitude when i watched Encanto

Me encanta que te usas las palabras primeras del libro tras el vídeo. El libro es tan mejor en español, en mi opinión.

¡Qué maravilla de video! Soy profesor de español para extranjeros, me encantó Encanto y ahora puedo relacionarlo con la clase de literatura. Le agradezco muchísimo su dedicación, ¡es usted mucho bacán! Saludos desde España. (También me encantó su gatico) 😁

I was so baffled by why a animated kids movie had a joke about incest in it, it did not lead to anything but unsettling implications given its about and aunt and neffew who do not know each other and is told by an uncle to a niece..... But lets just say I get it now

I live in washington in a town not far from the mexican border and thus not far from Columbia most of the people i know are mexican columbian or from el salvador. And this movie hits home hard most of my family half mexican full.mexican and white its a strange combination. I adore Encanto. One of the very few disney characters thats most like me .

Eh, voy a escribir esto en español, este es el primer vídeo tuyo que encuentro, pero entendí que hablas español, y los demás pueden usar el google traductor: No me esperaba un vídeo que me pusiera tan emocional, esperaba un vídeo lleno de referencias y datos curiosos, pero eso demuestra que ha pasado mucho tiempo desde que leí el libro en el bachillerato, y además no lo entendí muy bien (y eso que genuinamente pensé que era el mejor libro que había leído en toda mi vida... aún lo pienso), porque el libro no fue solo de cosas mágicas raras, a primera vista al azar, comentaba la historia. Yo soy de El Salvador y también entiendo ese sentimiento de querer reparar un país roto, aunque también la desesperanza y la sensación de que es imposible que el país salga de tanta violencia; así como la sensación de querer solo decir, ay, me vale madres, y básicamente ignorar todo lo que sucede a tu alrededor, y no querer hacer nada al respecto de toda esta violencia... principalmente por ejemplos históricos de cuando la gente intenta hacer algo, ya sea contra la opresión o contra la delincuencia, suele terminar muerta. Pero, aún así, queremos tener esperanza. Y ¿sabes? También creo que es en comunidad, que las cosas pueden mejorar. Concretamente, con los proyectos sociales en que se empoderen a la población, pienso que es la mejor manera (y la más segura para todos).

thats cool

whats that clip at 14:39 from, i neeeed to know, i love it

Can we all just agree that latin america's Shrek dubs were better than the original thing?

Casi me muero cuando vi ese libro firmado, por si acaso.

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LUNATICS RIIIIIIIIIIIIISE!!!!

So many people how do you keep them all straight. Me trying to figure out the mexican side of my family well just my family in general i dont even know how many cousins and uncles i have

Sound about the same as the thing with Germans and Hitler.... Just don't people

This was such a beautiful video and analysis. I was teary-eyed most of the video.