Encanto has a good lesson, for kids, teachers and parents

@@hax35507 u Rick rolled me I had to read it 2 times to see that you ware singing Rick astley

Hermosa 🥰

The one thing I love about Maribel. Is the fact that she's not a princess. That would makes her so relatable. And I wish Disney would do that more often.

I feel like frozen and up are like the best Disney princess movies cause it’s not mainly about falling in love and the classic stuff it’s more fun and some of these songs like surface pressure ,waiting on a miracle, and what else can I do talk about not feeling special or you don’t have to be perfect, and that people get put under pressure, a lot of these songs behind them explain things kid or other people go through and maybe will help them realize things if that makes since but I’m just saying I love these Disney heroines so much it’s more realistic but with magic but this is all just my opinion

WOAH THATS FREAKY

they are also the only ones not wearing peaceful or joyous expressions on the doors, besides abuela. i think the doors reflect how they feel

I think it has to do with how their powers are about “knowing” things ie Dolores hears everything so she knows all secrets and Bruno sees the future.

I think Luisas door has her eyes opened

@@walterdenesh923 I just looked at her poster again and no, she just have her lashes pointing up like Camilo.

This! This is why I was sobbing the whole time. Such an important narrative in this movie.

Literally this movie hit home for me and I was crying all throughout it

Exactly

Most people must think Bruno is the villain because of how he is not on the family tree, showing the viewers that the Madrigals no longer consider him one of them. Also, in the song "We Don't Talk About Bruno", Pepa said that Bruno actually predicted that on their wedding day, there will be rain, the way Pepa states this, it makes us think that Bruno actually caused the rain, which he didn't.

Nah, Abuela is a villain. Just not a typical nor the over all one.

👁️👁️ probs Bruno got his future seeing powers cuz he's been anxious since little. Worrying about his future his whole life

I think this is why Mirabel didn't get a gift in the same way the others did. All she's ever wanted is to help her family and she was able to do that by saving the family from itself. Then she is gifted with a repaired, better version of Casita and becomes the new heart of the family.

there’s theories of how the first children got their powers through what they thought about their old town’s destruction: Bruno being anxious about their future and him wishing the ppl of his town knowing about the fire beforehand , pepa thinking that if it only rained that day that the town would’ve been saved , and Julieta thinking that if someone stayed behind with the injured, they could’ve been saved

I mean, yes, definitely. All of the characters have a big attachment from their powers to their personality. Pepa experiences her emotions a little harder than anyone else, she gets angry or panics fast. Julietta is caring and loving, and she shows this by healing the ones she loves. Bruno is super super superstitious and while this may be related to the trauma of always being blamed for bad things, I think it's still worth a note. Isabella is mentioned to have been considered the perfect child ever since birth. Luisa deeply believes that if she doesn't help every singld way she can she's worthless, and like Bruno, this could be caused by previous expectations from her family. Dolores is shown to be a bit "gossipy" so her hearing power suits her well. The only one that I'm not really sure about is Camilo; Because while he does play a few tricks and is shown to be sarcastic at times and that could relate to his power, he is actually shown to care so so much about his family and even the village, and this is more the centerpiece of his character than being "mischievous" My personal theory is that he might be genderqueer and that's how it's interpreted, but I have nothing to back this up, so it's really just a theory. Anyways, their personalities, identities, beliefs, trauma and interests are definitely in relation with their powers. I'd also push it and say that Mirabel's gift would be a lot like Abuela's; it's not explicitly said that Abuela has a gift, but the creation of the house is definitely on her. I think that Mirabel's gift is a very close bond to the house's magic and it stems from her desire to protect her family, like her Abuela did. (sorry for this whole think piece lolol)

So why did Camilo get his gift- o_O

It would make sense that her gift is in her connection to Casita because if you pay attention to how the character’s act with Casita, Mirabel seems to have the most love and respect for it. During the opening song, she says the names of 3 parts of the house, and Casita responds by moving those parts. Maybe she has influence over Casita? Maybe not. I also like the idea that she didn’t get a room because she has the entirety of Casita. But would that mean that *she* runs the *house* while Abuela runs the *family* ?

It's not true that the house only listens to Mirabel. The house listens to Abuela when she moves Mirabel away from Luisa during the breakfast/lunch scene.

@@Nexils only the 2 non gifted can commend castila

@@chocobibi5196 I am not sure if that's true, either. Casita brought all of them coffee and Luisa used Casita as a treadmill. Maybe 'command' is a big word, but I'm pretty sure Casita does it because Luisa asked it of her.

Omg, that last bit is SUCH a good point!!

Mirabel also has large eyebrows

Anna and Elsa are tall, pale, and willowy based on their Nordic features, Tiana with dimples are just universal features but she's the first Disney Princess to have them. Polynesians are built thick and are taller than most and Moana fits her body type. Maribel is short and her figure ranges from curvy to chubby which is how Colombian women are built!

Mirabel has some subtle freckles but also a big one for some kids who are self conscious about it which are glasses

I don’t think realistic is the right word, the bodies of skinny people are very real.

@@boglenight1551 Yeah but the bodies of the old disney princesses are unrealistic before Tangled came and got the right way of drawing a skinny person.

*yes*

Yes i think so too! When i see bruno's colour theme i always reminded of disney's classic villain. Maybe they want to break that?

I don’t know whatever Disney made people think about him, but I loved the pre-reveal Bruno and I didn’t even think that he could be a villain, but I love really really love pure green, even “evil” one, but only when it’s actually pure, like no combination with other colors

Not everyone who uses an evil-looking lighting is evil.

The real 'antagonist' to Encanto are the soldiers who killed Pedro and chased everyone away. (They might've been the Nazis but there is no way to be sure)

I understand but also that’s nothing new. Plenty of Disney women have gotten to have “masculine” traits while still being feminine, which is good for diversity but not when we don’t really have any super masculine women because then it’s unbalanced. Having so many female characters with strong “masculine“ traits have feminine ones too sort of sends an idea that women have to “compensate” for deviations by being feminine.

Same! They did not try to make her masculine. They just let her be strong. That was part of her arc at the end "I'm strong, but sometimes I cry too." And that's okay. Everyone is a mixed bag. It was just really beautiful+

@@dinosaur___7209 or maybe it just shows that other people don't get to decide what kind of woman I can be.

@@lynnb2562 lol what 😂 you can be any type of woman you want to be, asking ppl to consider the reasons for why things are the way they are isn’t attacking you personally it’s just saying be aware. 😂 Like we weren’t raised in a vacuum, societal expectations affect us, which is why most women conform to what is expected, still don’t get what this has to do w my original comment though. Be any woman you want to be, but question everything about *why* you want to be whatever that is. *Why* does makeup make so many women feel better but not men etc etc 🤔

@@dinosaur___7209 or you could try to stop psychoanalyzing everybody and realize that some of us just are the way we are because we like it.

she's not a princess, neither is moana, Pocahontas and Mulan

@@bigpulgalokes They're part of the Disney Princess lineup, and Mirabel will likely join as well.

@@bigpulgalokes cry harder

Honestly. I also think it’s a little something that shows she’s more outcasted, as none of the other Madrigals don’t have glasses (other than her father, of whom doesn’t have a gift either)

@@Fluorescent.mushrooms It's good Mirabel will not be one then, bye.

ikr. Disney be real improving

Well if you want all that. I suggest you watch anime, they have really good 3 dimensional bad guys

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@@jrhulkyolo2105 They do, they do… but a lot of them seem to use the same evil cube. Having the same pompous, silver-tongued handsome young man with a vision corrupted by power in a good 1/4-1/3 of animes is starting to get boring, even when the settings and magic systems are so deliciously varied. And no, I refuse to believe that the people in those sports-centered animes aren’t dosing on mana. 😆

@@Deviant_Entity do you watch the mainstream anime?

Sometimes the real enemy is yourself.

@@twstroastmemesfortoxicfans5705 I feel like the enemy is tradition and toxic societal expectations rather than "yourself"

and generational trauma mixed with no real healthy way of coping

While this is true, many people don't realize that the REAL antagonist to Encanto is what could've been the Nazis (I'm not sure) who chased away the family an all those other people.

i LOVED the fact that they also didn’t make luisas personal struggle “yeah i’m strong but I wAnT tO bE dAiNtY aNd GeT mArRiEd” and gave her like, a literal reasonable struggle that makes sense

I'd argue that is still more of a guy thing. I mean, the fear of being seen as weak and being scared of opening up because of that is pretty much the story of most guys suffering under toxic masculinity. Especially when they have to "Protect the family, do the work, be the strong one" that's very much a masculine stereotype. That isn't to say that women don't feel that way. They do. I do. But I don't think it's true to say that it's more a woman than a man thing. At most it's equal.

I’d have to argue against that there. Men aren’t expected to even feel burdens and just shrug them off. There’s a lot less support in the world for men both emotionally and mentally and have a lot more pressure from societal norms.

@@Phoenix_NH True, the word "Just man up" when you're mentally struggling is only making things worse.

Both men and women feel pressure like this. I’m a woman, but this song made me think of how men are so often expected to be strong and lift everything and handle everything, no cracks, no mistakes.. it is very real for both genders

In the heights (another one of his musicals) has the same thing. Someone joked it's how you know Lin was involved.

@@ohhi7168 Which song? I only listened to some of them

Lin's music and style is really hard to miss once you start listening to it!

Same!

I thought of “Breathe” from Lin’s play -In The Heights- , was kinda of like “Waiting on a Miracle” and “Hurricane”

Same, love how they didn't overdue the whole glasses falling off/ getting dirty thing. (Unlike some people *cough cough* Scooby-Doo) It only happend a few times!

I loved Mirabel's frames, too!

@@Flower_32_old fr!! She pushes up her glasses a few times and sand gets trapped, but its not all the time!!

I love you

I love you luisa

Frozen but it's actually good, and in 10 minutes. Shots fired.

I agree lol 😂 When I heard “what else can I do” I immediately thought of “let it go” They are similar in the expectation to be perfect, and fear of hurting their family/kingdom if they can’t keep up the act. Except there are some deeper aspects of Elsa’s character, like how she is ostracized, and isolated, and believes her powers to be bad/evil. That’s what makes “let it go” so powerful- she realizes that who she is and the power she has isn’t something bad and destructive, but good and beautiful.

It is not "neither good nor bad", it is "both good and bad," I believe.

The real villain is intergenerational trauma

@@Meraxes6 this!

@@Meraxes6 100%

And all they need are some strong words to help make them see what they're doing, and then loving help to fix it. It can be hard to talk to them about it, but any toxic person can be helped and cured and get out of their tar-pit.

Has to be a nod to Juanes, that’s the first thing that went through my mind after hearing it

@@Ymacerino No nod to Juanes. He used that in a song, inspired in many other songs, that at the same time also took that expression from common folk cursing expressions.

"Miércoles" is an extremely common replacement for "Mierda" in Colombia. We use it all the time. That scene was very funny for me

@@vcaro12 We do say that in Spain too, I was laughing my ass off

We say miercoles as a euphemism for mierda here in Puerto Rico too lol.

I thought it was used to help make a cartoon character look stereotypically smart 🤔. Like Velma in Scooby-Doo.

@@saiberunato glasses are also used for that, yes. Especially in older entertainment, glasses in character design generally indicate intelligence, or, more accurately, a stereotypical dorky nerd character who would be useless if not for their intelligence

That was my guess. That in animation it would he difficult to do.

Keep in mind animators get laid off frequently to avoid paying royalties! Very glad my husband didn’t make it and got out of that industry, a friend who is an animator couldn’t do it if his wife didn’t have a steady job.

@@EmP-2022 Probably one of the reasons why so much animation work for American companies is farmed out overseas to foreign animators, particularly Asian animators.

The thing you pointed out actually lies within the real gift she has: she is the only one who can and who will succeed Abuela as "leader" of Madrigal family, that's why she is so in tune with the Casita. She indeed is a integral part of it, the real core and essence, just because of the role she will be charged of and she is destined to. The whole movie is about change, transformation ( the golden butterfly ) and , most of all, about the dualism between tradition ( represented by Abuela) and innovation ( Mirabel, of course ). That's not to say that you're wrong, I just wanted to explain the reason of the connection between the casita and the main character!

What was mirabels gift /did she get one

@@helluvahazbin2404 she didn’t get one

In the part of Colombia do they say adios because the part I was they say chow

It needs your approval??

I’m a Colombian as well. Totally agreed.

I was watching the movie with my parents and they said the same thing at that part lmao

Yes! The true miracle of this movie is Alma knowing so soon and giving birth to triplets, with no complications and they didn't need NICU time or anything else. Also, how do you carry 3 babies like she did out of the city? And they slept through the whole thing?!?

@@littlemissmel88 yep, back then if a mom was expecting triplets it was pretty sure that at best one of the four of them would not make it, if not all four. So yep, that's the biggest miracle of the movie!

Maybe she had a dream about the three. Magical Realism... Also something that happens in other cultural, religious experiences... Receiving answers during dreams

I dont know if she was telling Pedro that she had 3 babies but maybe more on how many kids she wanted?

Exactly. Like many cultures where the women do the agricultural work among other physical labors

That would also make for a more novel version of a sequel. Instead of the obligatory few months/one year later style with the characters being more or less similar to their first movie roles, we could actually have it set maybe a couple of decades later with Mirabels generation now the elders and the new generations making their marks again. Possibly even with an intrusion from the outside world into their magical refuge (reflecting more intergeneration troubles).

Yeah I think the same thing and then when someone doesn't get a gift they will know that they are the next to hold the magic

The trailers totally didn't make me think it was the one time we saw Bruno, that'd he be the villain somehow

I saw the Abuela as the secret symbolic villain of the movie when I watched it; I was glad they all reconciled by the end

The antagonist was their own insecurities which is even more realistic than a villain

@@sc7922 true That's what makes it special compared to other typical Disney movies.

No personified one but more in themes

It does?

@@skylovermc2146 In the beginning of the movie, she's very passive agressive to Mirabel, like a cactus, she's a beautiful plant but she can be really mean and hit where it hurts. Plus some cactus bloom flowers. She's literally a plant making plants.

@@xlife.lightx thank you!

its ma-dri-gAl

the person is american

@@thiccpenguin4738 it’s not hard for americans, even white americans, to pronounce names. i am a white american and i can do it just fine.

@@thiccpenguin4738 Being American is not an excuse, it’s ignorance and refusal to check it over to say it right.

SAME

I dare myself to read all that I'm gonna do it

@@kim-yp5hy do it then

@@SNOWYSKY2001 I did

It's amazing what unresolved trauma can do.

Oooh, I never noticed that before!! That’s a great observation

When the song "i'm waiting on miracle" i'm really surprised the first time saw it using big green fireworks. I thought they have something with Bruno too but idk

We love bruno! He was just misunderstood 😂

Bruno would be the least person to be the villain, he isolate himself to save Mirabel

He's literally a hero

Technically he isn’t a villain he’s just put as bad cause of the wedding incident

@Liessa Abiane She isn’t a villain she was reliving the moment from her past. After she lost her husband due to losing the house she didn’t want to lose her family, too.

I hope that eventually there will be enough Disney heroines who aren't in any way princesses so that they'll have to come up with another brand name for them lol

Elsa brought so much money to Disney that they pretended she was a princess, you can't let out of the club your most succesful character

@@pleisha I think both Anna and Elsa are princesses (and later queens) of Arendelle though

bruh what mulan may not have been a princess but she was a war hero???? like what did mirabel to to be anything like that??????

@@MimiUsagichan I mean Tiana is it anywhere near royalty and she is also a Disney princess, I mean Prince Naveen is technically royalty but not really. why shouldn't Mirabel also princess?

Kind of, but they were faceless because they also weren't the villains. Violence is an ugly, huge monster that makes you its main weapon. We remember the times of violence as painful for everyone, on both sides.

Makes sense. Think on the clothes as well to give you an idea. Camilo has chameleons on his ruana. Julieta has medical herbs in her dress. Pepa has raindrops Bruno has hourglasses. Luisa has son weights on her skirt. Isabelle is a entire flower herself. What does Mirabel have on her dress? Butterflies. Like the candle, which Casita is an extension off.

@@bluedarkdarklin2552 like I really needed to cry not more lol thanks

@@itskashkashi She also has designs on her skirt that represent each of her family members. She is the glue that holds everyone together.

They weren't the main antagonists though

@@jaygged6472 they are the reason the movie even happened tho

Agreed. And Abuela probably wouldn’t apologize if this wasn’t a Disney film

Sorry if im being nosy but does your grandma have a thought about the movie?

@@lisasetiawan3552 No she died a few years ago

We do this in Bulgarian culture too!

@@sinyabun Every culture does this really lmao i'm a white American and I dont know a single person ive met who doesnt know the saying

I do this in my family! Though I’m from america. I do it often still

I don't think that just in Columbia, my family says it all the time and we're Mexican

she married the prince didn't she

@@zippers987 No, Shang is not a prince

Yes, she is a Disney Princess, which is different from being just a Royal Princess.

She's just a village girl

There is several criteria that a character has to meet at least three of to make it into the line up. Must be human(this one is non negotiable) Big box office Born/married royal Heroic deed (this is how Mulan got in)

Well, she's short because she is the second youngest after Antonio, who is the youngest. Mirabel is supposed to be 14 or 15 years old. Girls reach their maximum height around age 18. Luisa is 18, and Isabella is 21. Dolores is a year younger than Isabella, and Camilo is a year younger than Luisa. This is all according to a book called "The Art of Encanto".

we don't talk about Bruno...

@@jinx2297 Bruno is better than grandma here

the video didnt say she was the only disney main character with glasses. they said shed be the only disney PRINCESS with glasses (which is true)

@@hypomanix she's not a princess

@@alexa.9923 there’s a line of characters that Disney refers to as Disney Princesses, including some characters that aren’t quite princesses such as Moana and Pocahontas (who are chiefs which aren’t quite princesses)

@@isabelhendricks2084 yeah but I kinda hate that. They just aren't princesses.

Didn’t they say one of the few/only?

So you clearly don’t know what “one of the only characters” means.

@@wajmgirl Yeah, now that I read it back I see my mistake

Yes Milo was the main character who wore glasses. But sadly, Atlantis the lost empire was not a box office hit so some people forgot that Milo was a character. It was also the reason why Princess Kida is not considered as a Disney Princess, because the movie did not earn enough money.

@@moonwalkerangel7008 hecking tragedy tho rip

HAH-

Well her mom can only heal injuries and so that that

Lol

They didn't prevent that guy from growing a gut or the priest from losing his hair, so I think innate genetic stuff is untouchable lmao

If genetic diseases are a no-go, what about cancer? And diabetes? Would that be unhealable?

Elena of Avalor is a great Disney princess. It’s not a movie though, it’s a series on Disney Junior.

Yeah like a pre-colonial America type of story set in ancient Aztec, Maya or Inca

@@joekerr5418 kinda remids me of El Dorado! buuut, pre-colonial natives aren't latinos. Neither are the conquistadors. It's the mix of both races & cultures.

No we don't, we had a bit of a disagreement with Spain a while ago about royalty lol

Yeah creepy but I will let it slide a bit because she literally can't help it. I think she should be a detective tbh

She can't help it. Also, she's a young person with a crush. I think it's safe to say that anyone crushing on someone has had facebook stalked, tried to talk to, and listen in about them to learn more. I think with everything she hears, she would naturally turn her ear to listening on the guy she likes. And he didn't seem too creeper out by it 😂

I think we all have that nosey cousin who knows all the gossip 🤣

She actually is the middle, she's 19 while Isabella is 22 and Mirabel is 15. She just says she's "older," as in older than Mirabel.

Shes cannonically the middle. She has a song about holding the familys pressures, not the being the eldest

It was confirmed by the writers that she is the middle child lmao

She's literally the middle sister

the line is “give it to your sister your sisters *older*” not the oldest. and from what we see from isabel, she isnt giving her problems to luisa. she keeps them deep down and doesnt talk about it. either way luisas song is about how shes under so much pressure because thats what they expect from her.

Columbia tho?

Colombia*

I saw a tiktok recently that shows how to annoys colombians, that is saying they are columbians lol. (Dont know how accurate that is but still funny)

@@kraudvincentvonpierre5606 ... its been 2 months... I am ashamed.

Some people who noticed this wondered if the characters on the doors all look like the way they would when Casita collapsed.

I was thinking she might be the one who will take on the candle after the grandmother passes as she was getting older and would eventually pass

ooo lin wrote candy store too?

When you hear his music, you just know it's him.

@@zainabrizwan5242 no, sadly. But Candy Store is how I found Lin:)

Same

She did she just didn’t tell anybody… which is weird because she can’t keep a secret otherwise lol

I think she can keep a secret. It's just that the prophecy why bruno left was something that's been wondered for such a long time she just can't keep the tea to herself.

But in teh song we dont talk about bruno she said smth that she hears him muttering and mumbling or smth

She says in the end of the movie that she knew he was in the walls and didn’t say anything. There is even a small hint to the reveal he in the the walls in We Don’t Talk About Bruno. When Dolores has her line about Bruno’s vision of the man she pines for would be betrothed to someone else, her next line is “I can hear him now.” Which when listening you would think she means she is repeating his words in her head, but in actuality she probably could hear him at that moment with the rats that she earlier in the movie said they talk a lot in the walls

In the song we dont talk about bruno she literally said she hears him

Green can also represent jealousy, but also harmony and growth. It can represent Fresh beginings, prosperity, and hope.

Bruno isn't a villain at all. He's just like Mirabel in that he felt like he wasn't able to contribute because nobody appreciated his gift. He sacrificed his way of life just to protect his niece

Also dont forget, green means luck too!

Here it references emeralds, and the fact that native Colombian tribes used them to predict the future, nothing evil about it.

@@patax144 yeah