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.
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 RUclips 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!
Like obviously, it's its own thing cause of how it was simplified and adapted to the Disney formula and made acessable to kids but magical realism is like the most Columbia thing ever and one hundred years of solitude has it all, every work that is supposed to give you a taste of Columbia will have similarities, then they can also make callbacks to it.
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!
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
"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.
This always reminds me of a quote (most likely wrongly) attributed to Porfirio Díaz: "Poor México, so far from god and so close to the United States" There is nothing so changing, constructive and, specially, destructive to the history of México, as being oppressed, directly or in disguise, by the US.
A mí también me llegó al alma esa frase, efectivamente, somos los hijos de ambas partes. Cómo lidias con la carga de ser el hijo del violador de tu madre y de tus tierras?
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
Mil gracias. Lei Cien Anos de Soledad en 1970 cuando fui estudiante en la Javeriana en Bogota. Me fascino, y siempre me fascina. Lo he leido al menos 10 veces, y casa vez veo y entiendo mas.
In the middle of reading "One Hundred Years of Solitude" in Spanish. I think I started reading it in Spanish years and years ago, but then dropped the book maybe 1/4 through. Right now 1/3 of the way through. And, YES, most of the motifs of the novel are in "Encanto." The town isolated from the rest of the world by mountains and jungles; a founding family who more or less runs the town; beautiful natural phenomena, like yellow butterflies swirling about; bizarre happenings that just happen or plop out of the skies, like the magic candle that materializes directly out of political violence. Though "Encanto" was aimed at a mainstream American audience so it had to get deeply neurotic--notice that the central conflicts revolve around how the Madrigal family is distorted and ruined by perfectionism and the controlling matriarch's worries about outward appearances. And the movie couldn't afford to get super-weird. The novel does not have those hesitations. There is no neuroticism. That is a personality trait relegated to a character like Rebeca, the dirt eater. But it's not the tenor of the novel, which is way more loose and free. Marvelous and morbid and outrageous and very naughty things happen all the time in the novel. It's quite trippy. I enjoy "Encanto" for what it is. But to get a full taste of the utter bizarreness of Colombian magical realism, you definitely need to read the novel.
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 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!
Same! Just finished reading and saw Encanto when it came out. Didn’t really care for the movie and thought they were just trying to do something similar to Coco. But now I realized Encanto was inspired by the book. This video also helped me understand more of the book’s symbolism which I didn’t understand until the end (still trying to figure some). OP’s explanation of the sins in the book (pigs tail) being parallel to the sin of repeating violence due to forgetting and lack communication in real life Colombia just made a neuron fire up in my brain. I was googling trying to find out the metaphor of the pig tail and I found it in this video! OP really helped!
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.
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.
Thank you so much! I was so focused on contextualizing that I didn’t delve into my love for the book. I might have even made it sound depressing, when in reality it can be kind of rhapsodic about what it is be to be alive and to connect in defiance of that pervasive solitude. I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
I never was a Disney person and I fell hard for encanto, I did not come around reading one hundred years of solitude yet, but I already know I will love it!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fascinante video, te felicito por tan cuidadoso trabajo. What a way share the profound enchant of the colombian history, magic and the unique diverse culture. Kudos hermano. Bravo, bravisssimo.
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!!!
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! :)
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 am a colombian living abroad and I want to tell you that everytime I see a yellow butterfly, it takes me back to my lovely country. Greetings from US
coming back to this video because it rocks so very much. watching this at work while slogging though writing up documents. thank you again for making it!
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.
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!
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.
Although I did enjoy the movie, I was really upset that they did not bother to cite the source material at all. When you read "One Hundred Years of Solitude" you will understand why it wasn't just a little dash of similarly here and there. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and recommend it over and over again to others. The whole time I was thinking it really took 6 writers to rip off one man's work? I feel inspiration is fine, but a lot is lifted from the book without any mention of it, which is a problem.
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
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 Bogotá family has always said sun and rain means God's happy, but there are so many regional differences in superstitions that I'm sure there are devil-based ones too
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!
¡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) 😁
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 ^^
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.
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
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).
No way. Encanto is NOT based on One Hundred years of solitude. I refuse to believe that. Their only points in common is taking place in Columbia and being a village.
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 .
Great video, I love Encanto (I wept when I read the song title Dos Oruguitas in the video description). @26:00 "If we are stuck in a chaos maintained by our own indifference, individualism, and self defeat do we even deserve a way out?" The answer is, yes! Everyone deserves a way out of chaos. People deserve whatever they need without having to earn it. I am doing what I can to support Columbia from the US, and I don't need or expect anything from Columbia to earn my support. I have wanted to read 100 Years Of Solitude for way too long. To say "that Macondo, and everything that happens there and in the book, is an encapsulation and reflection of Columbian history" feels deeply disingenuous based on your own description of it. I know online leftist love to judge people with taboo sexual interests, but obviously Gabriel García Márquez was interested in inc3st. It's really ok to enjoy fantasies fo inc3st and be attracted to one's own family even if inc3st isn't ok. He clearly found writing to be a healthy sexual outlet for his fantasies (writing is brutal, so writers only write about what interests them). There is a deeply opressive stigma against people for enjoying fantasies or attractions that aren't ok in real life. For example 99% chance this comment is removed by the owner of this channel just for me standing up for such people even though I myself don't share such taboo fantasies. I know plenty of wonderful people who have such fantasies. I don't judge people for acting on those fantasies or attractions ( I have met plenty of wonderful people who have), and I don't judge people who judge them for acting on those fantasies or attractions despite that also not being ok and violent . I do judge people who don't accept that people are allowed to simply have such fantasies and attractions which are inherently harmless and brought on by nature and meant to be enjoyed in healthy outlets for them. And I judge people who try to oppress such people by pretending that they don't exist i.e. not talking about how Gabriel García Márquez was one of those people. it's easy to pretend like the oppression of people with taboo sexual interests is not a problem. Even though it's obvious from your description of 100 Years Of Solitude that the author was passionate about the relationship between the oppression of such invisible people and the violence in Columbia. I mean, what exactly is the point of this video if it's going to ignore and therefore reinforce the oppression Gabriel García Márquez was obviously calling out. A pig's tale is not a punishment. "Deformity" is not a punishment. People do things that aren't ok, that's not the problem because it's human nature. The way people treat or talk about a person with a pig's tale is the problem. Don't you know that some people watching this video are children of related parents? Talking about inc3st in such a black and white way is really dehumanizing to people who are the result of inc3st and really disrespectful to their parents. That's not ok. Also, Bruno never got married because he's a Minor Attracted Person.
I don't know, maybe just read the book (hopefully in a way that isn't hyper-literal) and realize I'm talking about history and its portrayal through literary devices
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
Same, but I am European and so pale there 8s no make up out there that would match me.... My mother has 4 siblings and I do not even know her cousins, I found encanto cast very manageable. I am a Foster child, but my birtmother had at least 6 kids, my father 7, 3 of those shared ... Its a doozy
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.
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 RUclips 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!
Like obviously, it's its own thing cause of how it was simplified and adapted to the Disney formula and made acessable to kids but magical realism is like the most Columbia thing ever and one hundred years of solitude has it all, every work that is supposed to give you a taste of Columbia will have similarities, then they can also make callbacks to it.
As an American, you should totally use the Dick Cheney line. Just prepare for all of the people who say "Yeah! He was a real American!"
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!
Colombian* ;)
@@sebastianchala8574 Before I even clicked to expand the comment section I knew what was waiting for me LOL!
I’m watching 100 years of Solitude on Netflix and saw some similarities with Encanto. I looked it up on RUclips and your video showed up. Thanks!
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
"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.
This always reminds me of a quote (most likely wrongly) attributed to Porfirio Díaz:
"Poor México, so far from god and so close to the United States"
There is nothing so changing, constructive and, specially, destructive to the history of México, as being oppressed, directly or in disguise, by the US.
A mí también me llegó al alma esa frase, efectivamente, somos los hijos de ambas partes. Cómo lidias con la carga de ser el hijo del violador de tu madre y de tus tierras?
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
Mil gracias. Lei Cien Anos de Soledad en 1970 cuando fui estudiante en la Javeriana en Bogota. Me fascino, y siempre me fascina. Lo he leido al menos 10 veces, y casa vez veo y entiendo mas.
Forever jealous of your signed copy
Excelente video, parce
In the middle of reading "One Hundred Years of Solitude" in Spanish. I think I started reading it in Spanish years and years ago, but then dropped the book maybe 1/4 through. Right now 1/3 of the way through. And, YES, most of the motifs of the novel are in "Encanto." The town isolated from the rest of the world by mountains and jungles; a founding family who more or less runs the town; beautiful natural phenomena, like yellow butterflies swirling about; bizarre happenings that just happen or plop out of the skies, like the magic candle that materializes directly out of political violence.
Though "Encanto" was aimed at a mainstream American audience so it had to get deeply neurotic--notice that the central conflicts revolve around how the Madrigal family is distorted and ruined by perfectionism and the controlling matriarch's worries about outward appearances. And the movie couldn't afford to get super-weird. The novel does not have those hesitations. There is no neuroticism. That is a personality trait relegated to a character like Rebeca, the dirt eater. But it's not the tenor of the novel, which is way more loose and free. Marvelous and morbid and outrageous and very naughty things happen all the time in the novel. It's quite trippy. I enjoy "Encanto" for what it is. But to get a full taste of the utter bizarreness of Colombian magical realism, you definitely need to read the novel.
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 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!
Same! Just finished reading and saw Encanto when it came out. Didn’t really care for the movie and thought they were just trying to do something similar to Coco. But now I realized Encanto was inspired by the book.
This video also helped me understand more of the book’s symbolism which I didn’t understand until the end (still trying to figure some). OP’s explanation of the sins in the book (pigs tail) being parallel to the sin of repeating violence due to forgetting and lack communication in real life Colombia just made a neuron fire up in my brain. I was googling trying to find out the metaphor of the pig tail and I found it in this video! OP really helped!
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
As someone who's studied the 20thC Irish colonial + civil conflicts, it's striking how "The Violence" echoes in "The Troubles".
Exactly! You are completely correct.
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.
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.
Thank you so much! I was so focused on contextualizing that I didn’t delve into my love for the book. I might have even made it sound depressing, when in reality it can be kind of rhapsodic about what it is be to be alive and to connect in defiance of that pervasive solitude. I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
I never was a Disney person and I fell hard for encanto, I did not come around reading one hundred years of solitude yet, but I already know I will love it!
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.
Great, comment just replace U with O for Colombia
Please say Colombian. Never again columbian. Your comment was very well appreciated though. Gracias
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.
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.
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.
Very good analysis, I absolutely love the book. I did know very little about latin America and I've learnt so much. Me mola mucho
This was such a beautiful video and analysis. I was teary-eyed most of the video.
God this is such a good video, I’m so honored to have been able to voice part of it
King of narration!
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
Fascinante video, te felicito por tan cuidadoso trabajo. What a way share the profound enchant of the colombian history, magic and the unique diverse culture. Kudos hermano. Bravo, bravisssimo.
Muchas gracias!
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!!!
One hundred years of solitude opened the magic side of my brain forever!
Thank you so much for your perspective! This video should be on the Encanto DVD as an extra!
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! :)
What a great video. It deserves so much more attention
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 am a colombian living abroad and I want to tell you that everytime I see a yellow butterfly, it takes me back to my lovely country. Greetings from US
Just like the movie, this had me tearing up and beaming at the same time. Incredible work.
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!!
coming back to this video because it rocks so very much. watching this at work while slogging though writing up documents. thank you again for making it!
This means so much to me, thank you 🥺
Hace mucho que no lloraba con un videoensayo, muy buen trabajo
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.
Hola parce, me encantó (GET IT?!) este vídeo
this was such an enriching video after seing encanto, thanks and grat job!
This is so beautiful, this is such a loving analysis. You've done amazingly on these video essays,, but this one steals my breath.
So glad I found this channel
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
nunca había pensado que la obra de García Máquez haya podido influenciar esta pelúcila de Disney muchas gracias por el video!
Great video! I just finished one hundred years today, and was thinking about Encanto the entire way through. Thank you.
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!
Wow! Amazing video, Gracias por hacerlo.
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.
@@Fyrsiel yes, I loved the snippets from Cien Anos. Perfect selections!
this deserves so much more attention! great video
Although I did enjoy the movie, I was really upset that they did not bother to cite the source material at all. When you read "One Hundred Years of Solitude" you will understand why it wasn't just a little dash of similarly here and there. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and recommend it over and over again to others. The whole time I was thinking it really took 6 writers to rip off one man's work? I feel inspiration is fine, but a lot is lifted from the book without any mention of it, which is a problem.
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.
Loved the game of thrones recap starting at ~8:00
Also just LOVE this video
Oh, try the ptolomeic dynasty of Egypt... Makes grrms incestuous wet Dreams look tame
I loved Encanto, but I'm not sure if it made what Coco did for Mexico. Until I watched this video, awesome analysis!!! Thanx!!!
That was really interesting and touching and I am so glad I watched this! Thank you!
Those last words, no spoilers, so hilarious! Need a separate channel just for that thing I'm not spoiling. LOL!
Thank you so much for your analysis! it’s very informative!
A Latin American Serve ™️
(OMG your edition is so beautiful 🥹)
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
Thank you for this video, it is really informative!
Excellent video Jose!
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 Bogotá family has always said sun and rain means God's happy, but there are so many regional differences in superstitions that I'm sure there are devil-based ones too
@@JoseMariaLuna good to know, thanks!
So beautifully spoken.
whats that clip at 14:39 from, i neeeed to know, i love it
Cate Blanchett's iconic press junket for Cinderella in which she misheard "villainous gaze" as "villainous gays" and just ran with it
so thankful to have found your channel
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!
Está increíble. Gracias por este vídeo ❤️
Your analysis is so beautiful
This was so well done, more people need to watch this! 👏🏼
I did not expect the in**st subplot 😑
Nice vid 👍
Loved this video and super envious of your signed book!
Thank you for the amazing video!!!
Such a beautiful analysis. Please keep making more ❤
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!
really great video. I've always heard of 100 Years of Solitude, so I'm definitely going to have to read it now
Loved it!
¡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) 😁
¡Muchas gracias!
Una hermosura de video, no puedo dejar de llorar
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 ^^
Love your videos (o:
Love every video you've shared with us, thank you.
Fascinating. Thank you for this.
Great Video!
amazing video!
Can we all just agree that latin america's Shrek dubs were better than the original thing?
I did see the connection there with 100 years of solitude when i watched Encanto
Te luciste. Me encantó.
A great video. Thank you
Me encanta que te usas las palabras primeras del libro tras el vídeo. El libro es tan mejor en español, en mi opinión.
@@zainabbarakat9566 Si, es mucho major en espanol. Y mas major leerlo cuando el lector esta Colombian, detro de la cultura.
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.
Wow, awesome
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
My favorite so far!
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).
Gracias por esta reflexión tan linda 💛
Yeah,I got the connection right away watching Encanto with the grand kids.
No way. Encanto is NOT based on One Hundred years of solitude. I refuse to believe that. Their only points in common is taking place in Columbia and being a village.
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 .
CoLOmbia, colombian. Please is not in South Carolina!!
thats cool
JML is too gorgeous
Great video, I love Encanto (I wept when I read the song title Dos Oruguitas in the video description).
@26:00 "If we are stuck in a chaos maintained by our own indifference, individualism, and self defeat do we even deserve a way out?" The answer is, yes! Everyone deserves a way out of chaos. People deserve whatever they need without having to earn it. I am doing what I can to support Columbia from the US, and I don't need or expect anything from Columbia to earn my support.
I have wanted to read 100 Years Of Solitude for way too long. To say "that Macondo, and everything that happens there and in the book, is an encapsulation and reflection of Columbian history" feels deeply disingenuous based on your own description of it. I know online leftist love to judge people with taboo sexual interests, but obviously Gabriel García Márquez was interested in inc3st. It's really ok to enjoy fantasies fo inc3st and be attracted to one's own family even if inc3st isn't ok. He clearly found writing to be a healthy sexual outlet for his fantasies (writing is brutal, so writers only write about what interests them). There is a deeply opressive stigma against people for enjoying fantasies or attractions that aren't ok in real life. For example 99% chance this comment is removed by the owner of this channel just for me standing up for such people even though I myself don't share such taboo fantasies. I know plenty of wonderful people who have such fantasies. I don't judge people for acting on those fantasies or attractions ( I have met plenty of wonderful people who have), and I don't judge people who judge them for acting on those fantasies or attractions despite that also not being ok and violent . I do judge people who don't accept that people are allowed to simply have such fantasies and attractions which are inherently harmless and brought on by nature and meant to be enjoyed in healthy outlets for them. And I judge people who try to oppress such people by pretending that they don't exist i.e. not talking about how Gabriel García Márquez was one of those people.
it's easy to pretend like the oppression of people with taboo sexual interests is not a problem. Even though it's obvious from your description of 100 Years Of Solitude that the author was passionate about the relationship between the oppression of such invisible people and the violence in Columbia. I mean, what exactly is the point of this video if it's going to ignore and therefore reinforce the oppression Gabriel García Márquez was obviously calling out. A pig's tale is not a punishment. "Deformity" is not a punishment. People do things that aren't ok, that's not the problem because it's human nature. The way people treat or talk about a person with a pig's tale is the problem. Don't you know that some people watching this video are children of related parents? Talking about inc3st in such a black and white way is really dehumanizing to people who are the result of inc3st and really disrespectful to their parents. That's not ok.
Also, Bruno never got married because he's a Minor Attracted Person.
I don't know, maybe just read the book (hopefully in a way that isn't hyper-literal) and realize I'm talking about history and its portrayal through literary devices
Casi me muero cuando vi ese libro firmado, por si acaso.
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
Same, but I am European and so pale there 8s no make up out there that would match me....
My mother has 4 siblings and I do not even know her cousins, I found encanto cast very manageable. I am a Foster child, but my birtmother had at least 6 kids, my father 7, 3 of those shared ... Its a doozy
LUNATICS RIIIIIIIIIIIIISE!!!!