small cultural & Colombia related details from Encanto 🇨🇴 (part 4)
Vélez Santander trajes típicos – the dress that Mirabel wears is a traditional dress from Vélez (town in the Santander department in Colombia)
men wearing the guayabera shirts
drinking coffee at young age
the village was inspired by Barichara – town in the Santander department in Colombia
the acordeones, tambora and the tiple – typical instruments for Colombian music, traditional in Colombia
Agustín saying ¡Miércoles! – the literal meaning is “Wednesday” but in Colombia we use it as a light version of “oh shit” jajajaja
cucharón – HUGE wooden spoon
our habits – eating meals together
the church, the cross, priest and praying – most of Colombians are religious and Catholicism plays a huge role in our culture and daily life
Bruno’s toc toc toc toc tocó madera – tocar madera (knocking on wood) something that we do when we don’t want bad things to happen
I know I’ve said the next part of it would be short but then I decided to rewatch Encanto (for the 182628th time) and wrote down all of the things I was be able to notice about Colombia and my culture and yeah it turned out there is so much more to say and I may do part 5
Once again I want to say that I know that some of those things can also appear in other cultures but please avoid comments like “it’s not Colombian thing it’s [here a country/ethnicity] thing” etc because now we are focusing on the Colombian aspects of the movie plus such comments make me uncomfortable
I would also be grateful if you could avoid commenting about Raya and how you are mad because Disney disrespected your culture and how they only cared about Colombia and not South Asia. I understand you are mad and you have absolutely right to be but please don’t do it under my post
Yes, yes! You’re right! Somebody has written about it before, though, but let me do it now. He can draw wonderfully! Unfortunately, it’s pretty hard to see the drawings on the wall, but you can still see the Vitruvian man rat and other rats in various outfits.
But what the cartoon shows us best are these three drawings of him.
And they are really not badly done! Just look, he didn’t forget the shadows the players cast and the reflections of candlelight on the floor! But it’s the smiling sun that really makes me smile the most!
So yes, Bruno definitely has a talent for drawing! But other than that, let’s also pay attention to some things in his room that he probably made himself: it’s a rat maze, a ladder (?) with indentations (I don’t know what to call it in English, lol), a barrel chair, and probably his desk.
He did it all himself! He thought out what it should look like, how to implement it, and he did it all! This guy’s got some golden hands! I love him so much!
Compilation of Jared Bush’s Encanto Twitter QAs as of January 13th 2022
I went through best I could to add all the relevant answers he gave, and even the vague ones with links to the tweets. If I missed any, please let me know and I’ll add it. I tried to categorize them and group up similar answers.
Mariano: Oh hellnaw*immediatelyheads over and places Mirabel behind him* That little girl, is a child. I don’t wanna see you sniffing around her anymore for my rest of my life do you understand?!
Creep: *scared* I….
Mariano: *pick up the creep by the shirt*Boy, have you lost your mind?! Cause I’ll help you find it
((Mariano would be like the protective older brother toward the youngest kiddos within the Madrigal family, and no one can tell me other wise))
