D82 wrote:I'm glad Mirabel looks like a teenager and not like an adult and I like that she doesn't look like a typical Disney princess/heroine. I also think it's great that we're getting a female protagonist who wears glasses. I don't remember if it had been confirmed whether the film has a period setting or not. If it hadn't, I guess the glasses confirm it's not set in the past.
That's everything I dislike in a WDAS film.
It's going to be hard for me to maintain interest for this movie now.
D82 wrote:I also think it's great that we're getting a female protagonist who wears glasses. She's the first one at that, right?
Anita and Honey Lemon wore glasses, but they weren't protagonists.
D82 wrote:Here's the
original source of the leak and the full picture of the
Encanto products.
Thanks for posting the original source. It's frustrating when people take images or videos and post them to their accounts without revealing where they found them. Too bad the entire document got removed by Disney. They also had Jakks Pacific contact people who had posted the image and asked them to remove it.
D82 wrote:The older lady must be Julieta, since there's a playset called "Julieta's Kitchen" and she seems to have a spoon in her hand. She has to be Mirabel's mother and her name must have changed from Juana to Julieta. I wonder if she has powers related to cooking.
I agree on your theories for the powers of the other characters, but I don't believe Julieta's powers will be related to cooking. She's a mom, and a Latina mom at that, so it's expected to be preoccupied in the kitchen and interested in cooking. I expect food and communal eating to be featured prominently in the film. That seems to be the latest trope, especially when it comes to depicting communities of color. Coco, Raya, and Over the Moon all dealt with that. Maybe Julieta is the one with the power is healing. It would make sense since she's the nurturer in the family.
D82 wrote:Speaking of powers, do you guys think Mirabel will discover she does have a power during the course of the film like it happened with Jack Jack in The Incredibles or the lead character from Sky High, for example, or will she remain being the only one without powers by the end of the film?
I highly doubt she'll end up having superpowers by the end of the film. It would go against the themes of accepting who you are, turning your limitations into strengths, and relying on your own skills and talents to save the day.
bruno_wbt wrote:It's horrible, they all look like little kids...
I also like my Disney characters looking like adults, especially the princesses. That's why I'm glad that characters like Alice, Wendy or Eilonwy never joined the line-up. I thought they looked too young, but Mirabel looks even younger than that.
Disney's Divinity wrote:I don't know if that's true or not. Isabela looks darker than Mirabel and Luisa lighter than the both of them. It's still possible the boy is also a sibling.
I think so too. Maybe the father is Afro-Latino and that's why the siblings come in different skin tones and hair textures. Besides, her brother's supposed to be an important character whose name was even separately trademarked. Surely, they would have included him in a figurine set.
Disney's Divinity wrote:I do think it's possible that Mirabel has a power of her own... Perhaps it's an "invisible" power, something interpersonal--perhaps an ability to draw people together or make them feel good / happy.
That's more likely than getting her own superpower. Something similar to how Anna's superpower was love.
Disney's Divinity wrote:That said, I still hope maybe she does look younger than the normal princess and ends up not being included in the line. The line's bloated anyway, but I think that's hopeful wishing since she's a "First _______ princess."
I hope so too, but there's no way Disney will pass up on the opportunity to capitalize on their first Latina lead while adding more diversity to the line-up. I think the only way they won't do that is if Encanto becomes immensely popular and gets turned into its own franchise like what happened with Frozen.
Disney's Divinity wrote:I get she's supposed to be a plain Jane type, but she looks a little like Steve Urkel.
Combined with a Nickelodeon aesthetic. She wouldn't look out-of-place on
Rugrats or
As Told by Ginger.
She does look very geeky and un-Disney in her design. I'm not fond of that.
Disney's Divinity wrote:I was watching The View this morning and they were talking about some controversy surrounding Lin-Manuel Miranda, that he made sure light-skinned Latinos were at the front of the show in Hamilton over dark-skinned actors or something along those lines?
The controversy was not about Hamilton, but about the film adaptation of Into the Heights. The film was criticized for not having enough dark-skinned/Afro-Latinos in the main cast and whitewashing the setting of the film, Washington Heights, which is supposedly high in Afro-Latino population. People were also upset that the film removed a scene from the play where an Afro-Latino gets discriminated by a light-skinned Latino which was perceived as covering up issues of colorism and anti-Black racism in the Latino community.
Disney's Divinity wrote:Perhaps this is why they wanted at least a few of the characters to be dark-skinned, because of that controversy?
There's no way this very recent controversy affected decisions that were made months, if not years, ago. I'm sure though that having dark-skinned characters in Encanto will be perceived by the public as him addressing the backlash and "doing better" like he promised in his
statement.
--"it's unfair" to judge the film and its characters by this. They could look much better here than in the film because they're hand-drawn, after all--that's been the case for most of the other Disney Revival characters. Elsa and Anna look even prettier in hand-drawn images we've seen (even though they were already pretty as it is). I thought the BH6 cast looked much better in the hand-drawn end credits than they ever did the film itself. 
How is she supposed to stand next to the other Disney princesses?
It was clearly about how goofy-looking the design is. It's like if there was a Disney Prince line that consisted of Tarzan, Phillip, Eric, Naveen, etc. and then the new member is Lewis from Meet the Robinsons. How awkward Lewis' design would look standing next to those former characters.
