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The Tragic Misinterpretation of Encanto
WARNING: MILD SPOILERS AHEAD!
The new Disney movie Encanto, which was released on November 21, 2021, has been a great strike worldwide. Its amazing soundtrack, loveable characters, and superb storyline have gotten a lot of attention, and the Encanto fandom has grown quickly.
In the fandom for most movies, there’s always a collection of fanart or a bunch of headcanons for its characters. Giving headcanons to characters is like guessing a bunch of quirks or traits for them that aren’t canon (meaning that they aren’t confirmed to be true by the creators).
For example, some people have proposed that Dora the Explorer is allergic to shrimp, or something more complex and dark, like Swiper the fox is a kleptomaniac. And then fans will proceed to talk about how lonely Swiper must feel being alone in the jungle and that’s why he follows Dora around.
There’s a lot of discourse in fandoms about what is fitting and what isn’t. In some fandoms, there’s even a “fanon” instead of “canon” version of characters, because of how much the fandom projects onto them, changes their original traits, and dismisses everything about them.
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The "Actual" meaning of Encanto
Encanto as a film was one of the enhanced received Disney animation in recent memory, from the song, to the traits designs, to the narrative resolution and heartwarming interplay of all of the characters in the family Madrigal.
Though, for all of the popularity of the film there was a bit of controversy in the "proper" reading of the plot. While there is a clear examination of intergenerational trauma from Abuela to Mirabel and all of the family in-between, some have browse the film with as allegorical to the experience some in LGBTQ collective have experienced.
This disagreement led to a decent amount of intercommunal conflict on many social networks about the proper way of reading the text, but is their an actual proper sense to a film? Does authorial intent matter? Is it "wrong" to study the text in a way more relative to oneself?
There is quite a lot of room to discuss the racial and cultural perspectives of the various angles of the argument of the actual definition of the movie.
So I’ve been watching Disney’s Encanto literally multiple times a day every night in my house because Omicron and because preschoolers and… let’s be honest… because LUISA.
We’ve never had a muscular woman favor her in a Disney movie before and I’m here for it. Luisa Madrigal isn’t queer in the movie, but she has already risen to lesbian icon status. She is going to the sexual awakening moment for generations of baby gays and I love that for them. The tune “Surface Pressure” is a bop that is already charting on the Billboard Hot 100 and making big sisters feel seen.
I was innocently scrolling through my TikTok For You Page when Luisa’s voice actress, Jessica Darrow popped up. Encanto is the 26-year-old Cuban-American actress’s breakout role after studying acting at Rutgers University and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. She connected TikTok in March 2020 like the rest of us and the majority of the comments on her recent videos are queer girls simping. She chose one to answer to:
@jessdarrow_Reply to @badnands #fyp♬ original sound – Jessica Darrow
So, is that a yes?? Fans seem to think so. Jessica
10 Best LGBTQ+ Fan Theories About Disney Characters
After the Walt Disney Company was founded in 1923, the first animated film they released was Snow Ivory and the Seven Dwarfs. Since then, they've had approximately 124 films released under the Disney call, and they've slowly started to introduce LGBTQIA+ characters into their universe.
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As LGBTQIA+ representation on the big screen grows, there are more evident signs a character is part of the collective. However, very few are official; and despite the recent representation, it doesn't change the lack of it in past films. As a result, fans have developed their control theories regarding LGBTQIA+ characters. These either come from clear signs and scenes within the characters' films or more subtle hints.
Oaken is a good-natured shopkeeper in the hit 2013 film Frozenand in its 2019 sequel. He's seen in his shop in the mountains where Anna ventures to find Elsa, who has run away from home.
Oaken is very welcoming and kin and briefly introduces Anna to his family. The family comprises four children and a blonde man, who's presumably Oaken's partner. While the wr
Disney’s Encanto is generating a lot of discussion, whether it’s around representation, memory studies or the cost of ensuring futurity. However, a theme that stuck with me is navigating familial romance and generational trauma as a gender non-conforming person. As we grow up, we find different desires and forms of love. One of the first spaces where we detect love is our family, but that love is far from perfect in any way. We are always pretending that it’s flawless and the top that there can be. Too often, the patriarchs and matriarchs of families rule with an iron fist to ensure conformity within the family to stay together. They have a noble motive of saving the family from the trauma they suffered. But in doing so, they inadvertently carry forward the vestiges of the same trauma, inflicting it upon others and putting pressure on them.
As queer people, familial love is perhaps the most complicated of all types of love to comprehend. It stems from a place where many encounter rejection, betrayal and mistrust. At the same time, it’s rooted in structures of patriarchy, monogamy, queerphobia, cisheteronormativity, and love in a very narrow-minded, traditional, exclusionary sense. I know many que