Perhaps it would be worth reflecting on the difference in quality between a work of art that creates new forms (One Hundred Years of Solitude) and a production made by a cynical, unoriginal, corporate machine?
I'm not surprised by your well-developed hypothesis about the literary roots of "Encanto" here. The film was marketed as having a "Magic Realism" theme set in Colombia, so it seems pretty obvious Disney was going to crib from the foremost example of that genre, 100YoS. And the message of most anything along those lines is going to be moderated by the Rated "G" - suitable for young children. I do appreciate your highlighting the differences between the GGM version of Macondo and Disney's.
Nope… this movie is NOT an child friendly adaptation of this book… the movie was inspired by the colonization and violent past of Colombia… like the 1000 days war… the landscape was inspired by a few places like Salento (Cocora Valley), Caño Cristales in the Serrania de la Macarena national park, Cathedral de Sal (which looks like a church and carved out of rock but the halls lead to a complex), among other places.
I was to know the imagined moment that was one of your all-time favorites.
Perhaps it would be worth reflecting on the difference in quality between a work of art that creates new forms (One Hundred Years of Solitude) and a production made by a cynical, unoriginal, corporate machine?
I'm not surprised by your well-developed hypothesis about the literary roots of "Encanto" here. The film was marketed as having a "Magic Realism" theme set in Colombia, so it seems pretty obvious Disney was going to crib from the foremost example of that genre, 100YoS. And the message of most anything along those lines is going to be moderated by the Rated "G" - suitable for young children. I do appreciate your highlighting the differences between the GGM version of Macondo and Disney's.
I will have to read 100yrs again! It’s been decades for me, too.
Nope… this movie is NOT an child friendly adaptation of this book… the movie was inspired by the colonization and violent past of Colombia… like the 1000 days war… the landscape was inspired by a few places like Salento (Cocora Valley), Caño Cristales in the Serrania de la Macarena national park, Cathedral de Sal (which looks like a church and carved out of rock but the halls lead to a complex), among other places.