Film Theory: Encanto, The Madrigal Family SECRET!
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By the end of Encanto, we see Dolores united with her prince charming - or at least that is what it seems like from the outside. Theorists, when watching Encanto for the 100th time, my mind started thinking a little too hard about the whole Madrigal family and their magical, secluded town. Let's just say MAYBE they should hold off on the wedding for a while...
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Credits:
Writers: Matthew Patrick and Mark Hofmeyer
Editors: Forrest Lee and Danial "BanditRants" Keristoufi
Assistant Editor: Caitie Turner (viridianrosette)
Sound Editor: Yosi Berman
That’s fair but it’s revealed in the art book that Augustine is from outside the encanto so chances are there’s a trickle of people coming in
@Bunni Boo whatever you’re horribly insulting me on doesn’t matter to me anymore 1 because it’s been weeks so you’re late 2 it’s 3AM.
@Jelly-mid Whatever still doesn't change my main point that nobody's been able to get in or get out for 50 years due to the mountains. But here's a cookie smarty pants.🍪
@Maria Ximena Otalora Cordoba it would definitly explain Augustins clothing, it looked very different from the rest of the villages fashion
@Bunni Boo no the Encanto isn’t where they live they live in the Casita 💀🤓
Isn't the Encanto literally the house the family lives in so yeah he's from outside the Encanto from the surrounding village since they said in the movie nobody could leave due to the mountains.
The main problem with the theory is that it’s been confirmed that people have come in from outside the village. Also, there were plenty of people living there even initially that inbreeding wouldn’t happen in just 50 years, which really isn’t that long when it comes to this topic.
@Snorlox He never said inbreeding would have in 50 years, he said in 129 years.
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@Braiden Smack they confirmed that people have come from outside the town. and even if no one did, there's no reason to believe inbreeding happened in only 50 years. that's hardly any time to have passed
Yeah but the writers confirmed it
Exactly.
The 50 rule is on an already isolated community. It's shown in the movie that the village is very genetically diverse with a wide range of skin and hair types, and body shapes. The village they originated from was probably one that had excellent trade and population movement
Latino families are very diverse
1:40 Casita fixed itself. Casita's "health" is determined by the general mental/emotional state of Abuela/Mirabel, so, I don't really know exactly what counts as "bad enough mental health for Casita to be cracking" vs "good enough mental health for Casita to be cracking," but I think maybe just the fact that Mirabel was, at that point, distracted by the cracks rather than focusing on her internal depression (or whatever you want to call it) may have been sufficient for the cracks to go away. But hey, that's just a theory. A film theory!
Aaaaaaaaaaand CUT!
@Nova Kitty Oh wow. That kinda makes sense. That would be peak irony right there 😬
heard someone else theorize that the cracks healed themselves because of how Mirabel felt when Abuela believed her at first about the cracks
Ironic: Mirabel panicking about the cracks made them disappear. Really, even assuming Bruno managed to seal up all the cracks in walls and floors seamlessly, and clean up the cieling tiles (which is a big stretch) there's no way he could repair the staircase.
Film Theory: Mirabell actually did get a gift, time manipulation, and we see it used many times throughout the film.
@Violet S. I honestly never considered that
I always thought Mirabel's Gift was the ability to bring the magic back to the Encanto if it's broken. Like her door was absorbed into her and then comes out again when the doorknob is replaced. Which is also why she has that close connection with casita, she's essentially part of the magic now. Abuela focused too much on the candle as the source of the "miracles" not realizing "the miracle is you," and so the casita knew things had to break before they could be fixed, and Mirabel is the right person to pick up the mantle as Matriarch after Abuela lost sight of what was truly important
That's what it thought to
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A lot of people probably think you're exaggerating when you say you've seen the movie 50+ times with your kid, but as a parent I want to assure y'all that it's not an exaggeration. When a kid gets hooked they may watch a movie 2-5 times a day. Two weeks in and you've had it in the background 59+ times.
i used to watch frozen so much, it made my family sick of it😭😭
My sister got into Captain Underpants so every day her and my mom watched it like 2 times a day 😑 TvT Thank goodness we cant find the dvd...
You know it's more than 2-5 times a day.
its because of my little sister i can recite each word in coraline haha
I feel kind of bad for my parents, because when I was a toddler the movie I was hooked on for over a year was “Godzilla Raids Again” The 1959 English dub of the 1955 Japanese sequel to Godzilla. I had a bootleg VHS copy and I brought that thing with me to daycare I was so obsessed
50 years is not enough time for inbreeding to become a problem especially when a whole village is concerned unless they specifically tried to “keep it in the family” which i surely doubt is the case.
This actually works really well with my analysis that the breaking point for the house WAS the marriage, because Isa didn't love Mariano and Casita would not stand for the next generation of Madrigals to be raised in a loveless marriage. It had to be arranged carefully to hold off inbreeding, but it wouldn't be an emotionally healthy environment for children; so Casita just hit reboot on the whole thing to prevent generational disaster.
I thought about this in waaaaay to much detail during the height of my kid’s Encanto hype. My conclusion is that they are only on their 2nd/3rd generation of isolation so they likely haven’t started inbreeding yet. But they are only a few decades away from everyone being cousins so it’s probably a good thing that those mountains fell down.
Recently I've really enjoyed a small dystopian short film series by the name of Autodale. I think there is tons of potential for Film Theory to find out more about this world and would be a nice interlude while some other movies come out rather than having to do the same movies again and again. I think almost all of these videos are great but, I'm sure from a creative perspective doing the same movies can be a bit of a burn out. So I encourage MatPat and the Film Theorist's amazing minds to give Autodale a quick look to see if there is theory potential. I would love to see it if you do!
Awsome idea
Ooo that’s an amazing series
I've seen it too!
That would be cool
Mirabel, her sisters and cousins are the first generation of their family to be born within the Encanto. Presumably, there have only been one or two generations for other families in the village. Another comment mentioned how one of her family members (who married into the family) came from outside the village. But it couldn't hurt to have some more generic diversity lol
@Balki Bartokomous true
True, but good odds there was a child born in the Encanto 1 year after they arrived. They didn't just "not have kids" for 50 years.
Kids that ask Mirabelle about her gift were also new. Coz not to know about such is weird. Her family is the most important one in village.
@Child Of Icarus yea but people came into the down before the mountain cracked. There was a woman in the movie who was new in town
It was stated pretty clearly in the movie that there ARE outsiders coming in and settling in the Encanto. Julietta married a man from the city. There was even going to be a love interest for Isabella that comes from outside the Encanto. Sorry y'all, unlike the last one you definitely missed with this.
@soɔǝʇıdolɐɹʇsn∀ Did I say those words? I don't see where I said those words lol. I made my point with Mirabel's father, and added the extra tid-bit of interesting info about Isabella for emphasis. The point being: people are obviously making their way in to the Encanto.
Concept art counts as cannon now?
1:40 yes, I think Casita did fix itself and it does have the ability to do so, but it's mostly connected to the feelings of Mira (and maybe even Abuela). during the scene where Isa and Mira are singing What Else Can I Do, at the part where they stood in front of the candle and Isa hugs Mira, the cracks started to vanish (probably because Mira is happier being reconciled with her sister) so yeah, it's definitely not Bruno who did the fixing.
1:13 she doesnt pick the bridge, that just a random piece of stones., the question is.... was she lying on the floor, with that stones on top of her, waiting for mirabel?
Film Theory: Mirabell actually did get a gift, time manipulation, and we see it used many times throughout the film.
Kinda impressive how MatPat was able to take a movie like Encanto and managed to conclude that everyone was simply a result of methodically planned out inbreeding.
Well I mean he isn't wrong..
@JeffMan YES
@Darius Bostic no thank you
The thing is that's exactly what happens. With European nobility, everyone was a cousin to someone, with only the occasional soldier or wealthy commoner elevated to nobility. Therefore, genealogy was exceptionally important. Even after seeing what happened with the Hapsburgs, second and third cousin marriages were considered quite normal.
Well, MatPat did have to rewatch this 45 times
9:36 He's also wearing glasses, which is a trait that she cannot change. It seems more like she can undo trauma done to a body, rather than "heal every ailment a body is currently experiencing"
I love the fact that we're still getting theories about this movie because Matt is being forced to watch it against his will at the command of a toddler.
The first cracks in the house was because Mirabel felt so excluded and was being left out. But when she came to warn them about the cracks everyone came to her aid, and came together, putting the house back together for the time being
I absolutely LOVE how he researches things for the sake of a movie theory lol And it's awesome
The only problem with this theory is that there’s 2 characters in the movie who speak about coming from out of town
@Mary Jane Blunt & Kevin Alvizurez woah
@Mary Jane Blunt & Kevin Alvizurez maybe not necessarily. It could be for a newly wedded couple
@Mary Jane Blunt & Kevin Alvizurez They said he left, not explicitly implying “Hey! Bruno left the mountains and the whole town!” Instead, they just say he is gone and no longer there with them, almost like he’s dead. But that’s just a theory
@Mohamed Ramadan That's debatable and Matpat showed they started with around 75 people at most.
@Rainy weather lol maybe buy maybe that's what they want you to think
I love how most of these theories aren't canon but with his way of explaining it he makes it sound like it was canon
Theory : mirabel didn’t get a gift because as augustin didn’t have a gift their was a lower chance of her getting one.
"No diving in today my friends, this gene pool is shallow" The writing on this dude, truly phenomenal, great job Mat!
I think that inbreeding actually takes more than 50 years to take place. Especially given how many people were leaving and got stuck in Encanto's city at the beginning.
On a random note, I'm now just mentally hearing MatPat singing "We Don't Talk About Bruno" while walking around the house planning his theories for Encanto. That just lives rent free in my head now, especially cuz MatPat's voice is *amazing.*
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I love all these theories that people are coming out for Encanto it makes it more interesting
MatPat has literally watched this movie so much that he's trying to figure out the sexual activity of movie characters..
The fact we are still theorizing this movie after 3 months is crazy
The question about the first cracks being real or not has been driving me INSANE since the first time i saw it too matpat, ur not alone lol
Mirabel, her sisters and cousins are the first generation of their family to be born within the Encanto. Presumably, there have only been one or two generations for other families in the village. Another comment mentioned how one of her family members (who married into the family) came from outside the village. But it couldn't hurt to have some more generic diversity lol
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I randomly love the idea that your kid will once look these videos up and sees his childhood destroyed by its own dad. :D
Hey MapPat, although you have already done a lorax theory, can you figure out how much money the once-ler has by the end of his story, and at the end of the film?
I also thought, "Wait, so they have been isolated for so long? What about relationships?"
Film Theory idea: In the movie Top Gun, could Goose have survived hitting the canopy after ejecting from his plane?
Regarding the road and the bridge, my interpretation is that Luisa is re-arranging the town for the wedding. That's why she's moving the church to a more central location, that's why she's diverting the river and moving the bridge because she diverted the river and now it flows on a new path, thus needed her to move the existing bridge to a new location.
Old Swede, thanks! Now that all makes sense. I've always wondered why on earth a church, a bridge and the whole river are being rerouted. Because the matron of the family wants everything to be perfect. (Or they just want to enlarge the village anyway, because new houses were built at the beginning of the film)
That is exactly what happened and they even say that she is doing that.
And I thought I had it bad when my mom used to tell me to clean my room for guest coming over🤣
Lately there are so many bots in every comment section 😂
This man smarter than mat pat himself
In the deleted scenes I saw that one of the early ideas for Isabellas boyfriend wasn't Mariano, but Bobo from the city... So I guess they do get outside visitors!
Could you do a film theory on the gruffalo/the gruffalos child I think it would be really cool ❤️
As postal dude once said: “would it be safe to say them at your family tree is one big copious loop?”
Got me thinking about Wall-E 🤔 would the 500 years they were in space be long enough for them to start resorting to that as well?
I love how film theory takes a Disney movie and makes it slightly more terrifying than the freezeframe of the dancing donkeys with 0 context
This entire comment section is SO corrupt with bots
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I feel like just listening to the Latin Spanish dub is a good way to show who’s from where and what region of Colombia, showing that there is, in fact a trickle of outsiders coming in to the encanto
i would love to see doroles and mariano's wedding in encanto 2.
You know in encanto when mirabel brings the house back to life when the doors come back to life they don't have the characters with their gifts and what is mirabel's door is exactly the same before she got her gift
I have a theory my theory is: In total drama island is any of the stuff Chris does even possible/legal with a contract?
Finally another encanto theory …. Oh ….. well I wasn’t expecting that.
@Mo Mauve I caught 13. And they're all the same ones that are in every multi-reply comment section. Gotta wonder if reporting any of them actually does anything.
For some reason the only lyric that comes to mind from the movie after watching this is 🎶If you're impressed, imagine how I feel🎶
matpat talks so much about science stuff on all of his videos that i forget that this is a game/film theory video lol
And remember in the sene where Bruno says the aunt had a crush on her niece but their love could never work because it was forbidden
I mean… it’s not a secret that there’s a lot of small towns in Antioquia that are quite inbred, and that has caused a lot of issues with genetic Alzhaimer.
"We haven't stopped" is the struggle of a parent, good luck with the rest of the movie binge watching Mat
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fun fact, whenever I'm in the car with my little brother, we always listen to the Disney Movies like Encanto and Turning Red (as well as some other songs) thankfully, we're not always in the same car most of the time, so I don't need to worry about those same songs stuck in my head.
Okay ..WHO ATTACHED THE BOT MAGNET ON MY COMMENT?!
Dude went as far as making a simulation! That's dedication!
The way this theory gets destroyed easily when you remembered that AUGUSTINE WAS AN OUTSIDER and used to live in a city
We need this same theory but with moana island. Would have been amazing put them togheter in one theory. Great theory, btw!
Can't wait to see your video of "backrooms pitfalls"
I love how mat pat is one of the nicest people ever and he starts with topics like inbreeding and cannibalism
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And Markiplier’s taste in Pokémon
A lot of nice people like strong/violent/taboo subjects in fictional media because that doesn't affect their personality at all. MatPat is a clear example of that. He's the sweetest and nicest guy, and he loves horror media.
I love at the the end when he says “and CUT” Also when he’s talking about the kings and queens, I like when he says the word “Pure”
Has anyone else noticed how dolores travels a mile in a (seemingly) very short time at the start of the movie?
I know this has nothing to do with Encanto but I'm curious about the anime fire force and want to know how much fire would you have to emit from your feet to fly
He should do a theory on how much money was lost in the final train scene of lone ranger