A lot of parents do that 😕 Also, I don't understand something : Julieta is the eldest triplet and she looks like Abuela too but I don't understand why Abuele didn't try to force her before like she did woth Isabela
Her side of family contains purple too. She wear purple because the flower, roses theme her powers have. Hers doesn't match Alma that much either Luisa have purple too, even in child picture. Their family contains bluish, purplish and greenish colours
When the movie came out it was a well known theory among fans that the hug in Bruno's vision wasn't Isa and Mirabel, bur rather young abuela and Mirabel. This would help explaining why the house didn't fully recover after the sisters' hug, but started its recovery (aka, reconstruction) after abuela's hug in the lake, representing her making amends with her past and embracing the way her family worked in the present
@@critterwhisperer5821 I'm not attacking anybody. And you don't get to tone-police me. I can talk however the hell I want. It's very obviously Isabela in the vision and I am so tired of seeing the same wrong take over and over. Just like I'm tired of seeing people say that the reason Mirabel doesn't have a gift is because she wiped her hands on her dress, a similarly dumb theory.
The Mariano/Pedro comparison really messed me up when I first realized. Cuz that’s why she wanted him to marry Isabela and didn’t consider him marrying Dolores
Also, Isabela is the first born out of all the grandchildren. Julieta (the first born out of the triplets) also seems to be the golden child out of Alma's kids.
I love that the "pretty one" had dark skin and an aguileña nose, it's really nice to see features that normally get dismissed as ugly represented in a different light in media
Latinos have always been glorified as "sexy" "seductive" women/men, I wouldn't say media has depicted them as a whole as ugly just the ones who don't fit the clique mold they created themselves. I loved watching it and seeing my grandparents get excited about all the Colombian details, they really put alot of love into this film.
There’s also the whole deal with Tia Pepa because she has features frequently villainized, like in Mother Gothel of Tangled (although they rectified that issue somewhat in the series). God, and these “witch” costumes are still up in stores…
Unfortunately she has the biggest eyes, cartoonishly freakish proportions, in order to make up for it, instead of them letting her just own her skin and nose. Not to mention she has straight hair. To me Dolores was the prettiest, and she had even darker skin and super curly hair. And I would have liked her just as much if she had the aguileña nose.
@@himikotoga3Same here, it really is beautiful! Unfortunately, it seems that the WASP hegemony doesn't think so and tries to force women with these features to "fix" it, like getting a rhinoplasty for instance.
Yeah, it may seem weird, but keep in mind that Alma also lost her home and husband to a bunch of men on horses and was left by herself to take care of the whole town and her triplets. That can really mess you up and cause you to make decisions that seem weird to other people, but to you, you just want to keep your family safe
Something i also noticed is that she called Isabela and Mariano's hypothetical kids blessings, dehumanizing them and seeing them for their hypothetical gifts rather than people.
It’s meant to be “weird” and disfunctional, because the entire movie is about the cultural phenomenon of unhealthy and strict family roles in Hispanic culture.
@@mitsubachihachi9643That’s how MOST parents operate. They work hard to give their children a better life that they never had. If you think it’s weird then you’ve got issues
I knew it from the beginning. They look exactly alike, right down to hair type. And I saw the resemblance between Pedro and Mariano instantly. She really tried to make her ideal alternate reality life through her family and a dude that looks exactly like her husband.
Isabela is the most relatable character for me and my favorite. She embodies the struggles I went through as a child, although I let my parents down gloriously, where she stayed strong up until the end.
Wtf, this makes the psychology behind Alma even darker. I did noticed some resemblance between them, but this is another level... Without the intervention of Mirabel this could've gotten worse, with Alma forcing Isa to be the next leader of the family, and Isa eventually falling into a swirl of negative energy destroying everything Alma once treasured
Alma wanted Isabella to have the life she always wanted.She thought she was helping her when she betrothed her to Mariano but really she was trapping her in a life she never wanted.
That's not a rare thing except it's more often the parents who want to live their lost dream by procuration thanks to their kids. I remember a book, from a collection I read as a teen, where the MC is a girl who is a junior champion in swimming, but we learn that her mother was a champion too when she was young but couldn't make to the playoffs because of a car accident. Of course, the MC is really good but her mother is very strict about it at a point she's mad at her because she narrowly lost a race. When the father blames his wife about it, she answers that she has to works more because she decided to devote her life to it but he says " No, YOU decided to devote HER life to it ". Ironically, the MC's name is Isabelle.
I also noticed that Pedro looks like Mariano to a degree. Whether Alma realized it or not, she really used Isabela to live out the life she never had with Pedro.
"mom I don't wanna be a Karen when I grow up" "Honey, Karen's are underrated you'll understand when you grow up to be just like me. Why else would we name you Karen?"
Simply because alma sees her young self in Isabela and her being the first born grandchild to come of age. Alma wanted to give isa the life she never had with Pedro, even going as far with finding a suitor that looks like him
One of my favorite things about the movie is that each of the family has it’s colors. Maribel’s side is more cool toned while Delores’s family is more of warm colors, but alma is a nice dark magenta. Isabella sticks out in the cool toned family and looks as though she is closer to alma with pink being closer to magenta that it is cool toned like blue.
I never noticed that! She really does resemble Alma down to her color scheme. When Isabella finds her true self at the end, she has a mix of more vibrant and less pastel colors, which are completely different from her original design. They’re more wild and bold when compared to the rest of the family. She really sticks out as different.
It’s kinda like watching Toddlers and Tiaras when the pageant moms try to live their dreams through their young daughters and expect them to be perfect, when the daughters want nothing to do with it lmao
I can kinda see this. I think it's also largely to do with the fact that she's the first grandchild (proof that her family is not only surviving but thriving... as far as Alma can tell) and... Isabela is pretty. She's the eldest, and pretty so she's got big expectations on her to find a husband and make more magical Madrigals and "keep the miracle burning." She probably intended to groom Isabela into a future Madrigal matriarch, since she was the eldest grandchild. And then it turned out that really Mirabel was the best suited for the role.
I feel like Alma was actually living vicariously through Isabela. She knew her idea of a perfect life was taken from her, and she wanted to recreate it with Isabela. Mariano looks like a more muscled Abuelo Pedro, and dresses like him too. So in her mind, she's not only living through Isa, but giving her a perfect life. Isabela doesn't view marriage and kids as the perfect life, which goes against Alma's more traditional views.
You’re putting words into Isabela’s mouth, kinda like Abuela did. Isabela’s views on marriage and children aren’t known because she never got the chance to express these views-she merely admits that she doesn’t want to marry Mariano. That’s not surprising. Even people who dream of marriage and children wouldn’t want to marry someone who they didn’t love. It’s likely that, if Isabela got to know someone really well and got the chance to fall for them on her own terms, she’d be all for marrying them.
I’ve commented this in another video about why isabela is the favorite one: I thought it was because isabela was the only kid to get a positive vision from Bruno.
I really how Bruno's prophecy for Isabela sounds so positive and supports the "perfect princess" image Isabela plays for everyone. At that point of the movie, viewers would think/assume that the prophecy had been fulfilled when in fact, it still wasn't. Isabela does have a dream life, Mirabel promised it to her when they sang that song together and she did get it at the end of the movie when she finally gets to be who she wants to be. Also, her magic did grow like grapes in the vine.
It's because she's the oldest grandchild. Grandchildren of large families know. I have 12 cousins on my grandma's side of the family and every single one of us knows that the oldest is the favorite. Only one who might be unaware is the other favorite; the small cute one.
Legit tho this is a reason why my siblings are my grandmas’ favorites. Brother reminds one grandma of her late husband, sister reminds other grandma of herself.
I knew a mother who told me that she has to purposely show equal love to all of her children even if her second daughter looks the way she always wanted to look. Abuela could have recognized this and made the effort to not favor one over the other.
this is actually a really cool dynamic to create between characters, its simple and meaningful. giving someone the perfect life only hurts them in the end.
Basically a parent or grandparent want the child to have what they wanted without considering they are an individual who will likely not want exactly what the parent figure wanted.
No bc like that’s why my sibling is the Mamaw’s favorite grandchild- Edit: No one is being rude in the replies? We’re all just talking about what we call our grandparents.
i’m my grandmas “favorite” i thought it was because she raised me for a good portion of my life but my mom pointed out that i look a lot like my grandma when she was younger
It could also be that you tend to behave the way she thinks you should. I was the favorite granddaughter because I preferred to study rather than go out a socialize. She didn't like any of my siblings because they weren't as studious.
I'm nearly my grandma's fav. Not only I'm the eldest granddaughter from a son, I looked the most like her when she was young according to my dad and grandpa. Wide eyes, wide forehead, resting face syndrome. My grandpa even called me with her nickname and became his fav granddaughter due to this. (My grandma even got upset when my mom named me the way I am, because she wanted to name me after her. In my family, it's normal for others to name your children, my brother's name came from my aunt and grandpa, the same aunt also offered other names for her nephews and nieces) But then my youngest cousin was born, the last grandchild from the last son/child and born AT THE EXACT SAME DATE as my grandma. So while I inherit some of her eye-catching traits from my dad, the last granddaughter had the same birthday as her and had the virtue of being the youngest. I knew my place was taken when she was born at the same date as my grandma, sighhhh.
My grandma has 3 children. And the oldest son is her favorite. Also his son is grandma's favorite grandson. She never apreciate my mother, who always takes care of her. Grandma speaks behind her back, and has controled my mum for all her life. That's why I hated both Abuela Alma and Isabela at the begining. I see my mum's pain in Mirabel.
@@blackwolf1424 It would be a good idea for you to have your mother stop taking care of her. My mother took care of my grandmother until I finally put my foot down at the last abuse that is when they tried to evict her from the apartment, but still have to take care of my grandmother. I just took her and moved ASAP. They tried to force her to live in the ghetto, but I said, 'no'.
Abuela Alma just wanted to live vicariously through Isabella. She subconsciously sees isabella as herself and is trying to right wrongs and imperfections that occured in her own past by projecting her concerns and paranoia of another tragic incident like Abuelo
That is so crazy. Blew me away! That comparison is so true! Alma saw herself in Isa since she was almost identical. But the thing with the flower was the coolest. The single white flower! And then even crazier, the marriage thing!
oh wow, thats a pretty good point! i never thought much of appearance-wise, but yea, Isabella and Mariano do look like Abuela Alma and Abuelo Pedro when they were young adults! it could very well be Alma is projecting onto Isabella to give her granddaughter what she couldnt have and hope to make her life perfect and free of troubles. obviously, unbeknownst to Alma, she was the CAUSE of Isa's troubles in her life, causing her stress and frustration, but even still she hid it to make her grandmother and family happy. ironically enough, w/ all that in mind, Alma nearly forced sacrifices onto Isa just like the colonists forced Alma to make sacrifices: Alma lost her original home and became a single mom to triplets when the colonists invade and killed Pedro, whereas Isa was almost forced to marry a man she didnt love as well as sacrifice being able to truly express herself by keeping up the "perfect daughter/granddaughter/niece" act. if that was what Disney planned, thats sheer brilliance, like omg!
Her powers are spontaneously growing flora instantly, perfectionism is a product of living up to her Grandmother's absurdly high expectations, she even restricted her power to only grow perfect and conventionally beautiful blooms, she never allowed herself to relax that image even when alone (she practiced and worked on being perfect). It wasn't until she finally broke down her facade with her Sister's goading that she even realised how she'd been limiting her life and powers just to appease her Grandmother. It was that liberation that Bruno foretold to her, to live the life of her dreams and how how her powers would grow.
I remember when I first watched it I was like “huh isa and mariano look very similar to alma and pedro must be there was of shoeing they’re related so they will look like eachother” then on my second rewatch I was like OMG Alma see’s herself in Isa and wants to give her the most perfect life which turns out to be extremely toxic as she abuses her entire family’s powers in order to make her and Isa look the most golden.
Not really. We have to remember Alma was scared as hell about loosing what could protect her family. Since Isabella was at the point where she could be married, Alma was thinking that those children would continue having gifts to protect the Encanto. The problem is Alma went about trying to protect her family in the wrong way. Isabella and Alma aren't narcissists, they just aren't perfect.
This has me thinking, maybe one of the reasons why Isabela didn’t want to marry Mariano is because she KNEW he looked like her grandfather and probably thought it was weird to marry someone that looks like him 😆
i can say that a lot of daughters have to suffer with mother’s who live vicariously through them cause their childhood-young adulthood was stolen from them. especially young latina girls. it’s very sad, but very difficult on the children.
But why, though? People pronounce stuff differently (cf. gif vs jif), and that's normal. The narrator seems to be American (please correct me if I'm wrong) and so, he's pronouncing it his way (in whatever accent he has).
@@greatgodly9598 there is nothing wrong with how they say it it’s their accent lol, don’t pay any attention to them expecting everyone to pronounce everything perfectly is kind of ridiculous
"Ull ma" does not work either. Say "Al" the same way you say the 'Al' in "Weird Al Yankovic" and then say "ma" (as in the short version of mom). Then say it together and fast. "Alma".
Out of the grandkids Isa was the one that looked the most like grandma!
Also she is the oldest. It woukd be expected of the oldest
As the oldest I can confirm my mom does kinda want to live her perfect life through me and my sister.
Yep I know, we kinda watched the same video… 😐
I thought Luisa was the oldest
@@thepianoplayerkid4726 No Luisa is 19 and Isabela and Dolores are 21, though Isabela is few months older.
Classic:
“I didn’t fulfill my childhood dreams so I’m making my daughter/Granddaughter to do it for me”
A lot of parents do that 😕
Also, I don't understand something : Julieta is the eldest triplet and she looks like Abuela too but I don't understand why Abuele didn't try to force her before like she did woth Isabela
@Reghan No they're not. They said a lot of parents do that. Which is correct. If they were generalizing they'd say all parents do that.
that's not quite what's going on here, tho it's adjacent. so wouldn't call it classic.
My mom 😀🤦🏽♀️
@@a.g.demada5263 aren't all of Alma's children the same age?
Also Isabela wears purple to match Alma, despite the fact her side of the family wore blue. In the end, she has her own identity and wears blue!
As well as yellow and various other colours in her hair and clothing from the bizarre tropical coloured pollen from her new amazing plants.
No she doesn’t
@@Momo-zs9nk Yes she does. Its bunch of other colors but its mostly blue
There’s a thing where Isabella’s side of the family wears cool colors, which consist of blue, purple and green
Her side of family contains purple too. She wear purple because the flower, roses theme her powers have. Hers doesn't match Alma that much either
Luisa have purple too, even in child picture.
Their family contains bluish, purplish and greenish colours
When the movie came out it was a well known theory among fans that the hug in Bruno's vision wasn't Isa and Mirabel, bur rather young abuela and Mirabel. This would help explaining why the house didn't fully recover after the sisters' hug, but started its recovery (aka, reconstruction) after abuela's hug in the lake, representing her making amends with her past and embracing the way her family worked in the present
Or it was both? I’m so sick of people saying this when it was very clearly Isabela.
@@imthebossmermaid3648 dude chill. People can have their opinions and theories. You don't have to attack
@@critterwhisperer5821 I'm not attacking anybody. And you don't get to tone-police me. I can talk however the hell I want. It's very obviously Isabela in the vision and I am so tired of seeing the same wrong take over and over. Just like I'm tired of seeing people say that the reason Mirabel doesn't have a gift is because she wiped her hands on her dress, a similarly dumb theory.
@@imthebossmermaid3648 chill
@@andrewhillary-ounegbu9345 You chill...and I hope you chill so hard you freeze to death...🥶
i like this one. it’s not something people will notice throughout rewatches, and i never thought of the pedro mariano connection!
Me neither didn't notice at all and my siblings watch this movie on repeat lol 😂
I noticed the pedro and mariano resemblance but not Alma and Isa
@@rissarea23 same
I thought if it. Hehe. Me smart.
Honestly it’s kinda sad if u didn’t notice this even after rewatches. It’s like the most obvious thing
The Mariano/Pedro comparison really messed me up when I first realized. Cuz that’s why she wanted him to marry Isabela and didn’t consider him marrying Dolores
That's actually really creepy.
not Pedro pagero
@@demonheart13 why
@@-silveringlotus-5259 but why
cuz he said pagero
Not to mention that Isabela is the oldest grandchild, so makes sense that Alma would view her so specially
No dolores is the oldest
1.Dolores
2.Isabella
3.Luisa
4.Camilo
5. Mirabel
6.Antonio
@@Beef-mutton-chicken-oh1wz No, Isabela is older than Dolores by a few months
@@Beef-mutton-chicken-oh1wz Isabela is the oldest. Dolores was born a few months after her.
@@Beef-mutton-chicken-oh1wz isabela is the eldest
Sorry guys.
I was wrong.
Isa is elder sis
Also, Isabela is the first born out of all the grandchildren. Julieta (the first born out of the triplets) also seems to be the golden child out of Alma's kids.
No she’s not
Dolores is the oldest
@@Beef-mutton-chicken-oh1wz Isabela is the oldest
Dolores and Isabela are the same age. 😭 Question is whose birthday was first?
@@Momo-zs9nk if you're talking about Julieta... she definitely is😭
She just wanted her to have a perfect life.... in the most toxic way possible
Well besides the fact that no one has ever stood up to Abuela yet, Isa just does what she can for her Abuela. Even if it's not what she wanted
Jealous?
By vicariously living through her, yeah
Yea that's true
Helicopter parents be like
I love that the "pretty one" had dark skin and an aguileña nose, it's really nice to see features that normally get dismissed as ugly represented in a different light in media
Latinos have always been glorified as "sexy" "seductive" women/men, I wouldn't say media has depicted them as a whole as ugly just the ones who don't fit the clique mold they created themselves. I loved watching it and seeing my grandparents get excited about all the Colombian details, they really put alot of love into this film.
There’s also the whole deal with Tia Pepa because she has features frequently villainized, like in Mother Gothel of Tangled (although they rectified that issue somewhat in the series). God, and these “witch” costumes are still up in stores…
Unfortunately she has the biggest eyes, cartoonishly freakish proportions, in order to make up for it, instead of them letting her just own her skin and nose. Not to mention she has straight hair. To me Dolores was the prettiest, and she had even darker skin and super curly hair. And I would have liked her just as much if she had the aguileña nose.
@@Turquerina wait ppl thought mother Gothel's hair was bad??? I always loved her curly black hair when i was a kid
@@himikotoga3Same here, it really is beautiful! Unfortunately, it seems that the WASP hegemony doesn't think so and tries to force women with these features to "fix" it, like getting a rhinoplasty for instance.
Yeah it's really weird how Alma tried to vicariously live her stolen life through Isabella
Yeah, it may seem weird, but keep in mind that Alma also lost her home and husband to a bunch of men on horses and was left by herself to take care of the whole town and her triplets.
That can really mess you up and cause you to make decisions that seem weird to other people, but to you, you just want to keep your family safe
Down to expecting multiple children from her, even.
That's really weird and even disturbing.
Something i also noticed is that she called Isabela and Mariano's hypothetical kids blessings, dehumanizing them and seeing them for their hypothetical gifts rather than people.
It’s meant to be “weird” and disfunctional, because the entire movie is about the cultural phenomenon of unhealthy and strict family roles in Hispanic culture.
@@mitsubachihachi9643That’s how MOST parents operate. They work hard to give their children a better life that they never had. If you think it’s weird then you’ve got issues
In Isabella’s childhood photo next to abuela, she also wore braids like abuela did when she was younger
I knew it from the beginning. They look exactly alike, right down to hair type. And I saw the resemblance between Pedro and Mariano instantly. She really tried to make her ideal alternate reality life through her family and a dude that looks exactly like her husband.
Aka creepy as fuck as well as toxic as fuck
Same
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Same
Julieta looks like her mother too
it would be a little fun if isabela had pollen allergy 🙂
That would mean her own room would be literal hell for her
Then what is the point of having Plant powers then?
Most BS tbh...
Then Julieta would just make her food every day. 🤷
@@bethlee8968 delicious
@@bethlee8968 yes but her food can only cure damage not allergies
Isabela is the most relatable character for me and my favorite. She embodies the struggles I went through as a child, although I let my parents down gloriously, where she stayed strong up until the end.
Same here. Except I’m more like Mirabel as my sister was seen as the smart one while I was seen as the failure.
Encanto is one of the deepest and most complex movies Disney has produced in years.
If you notice, in Isabella's baby picture, she actually has the same double braids that young Alma wore
Tfbinifhsytdv
I didn’t even notice until now thanks for telling!
When Isabella was little in her photo you can see she has double braided hair just like alma did in the flashbacks
The details...
And Alma has her hands on Isabela’s shoulder.
No she didn’t
@@Momo-zs9nk
You’re blind.
Also Isabela was the only one with a positive premonition from Bruno from the beginning; reinforcing her "perfection" and beautiful gift...
"Also check out Mariano and Pedro side by side-"
best quote of the year
Wtf, this makes the psychology behind Alma even darker. I did noticed some resemblance between them, but this is another level... Without the intervention of Mirabel this could've gotten worse, with Alma forcing Isa to be the next leader of the family, and Isa eventually falling into a swirl of negative energy destroying everything Alma once treasured
What’s even darker is that this is a very real experience in generational trauma.
@@thatsdree1350 i know about that, but, talking about how to make a movie, how to build the psychology of a character, this is something very bold.
Hey guys this is scary it’s like putting your face on someone else
@@janaibarber4729 totally
Nooooo its abula
People think the vision of Mirabel hugging Isabella is a metaphor for healing her grandmother
Edit-mom I’m famous!
It makes sense tho
👰🤵🤓
@@lovepaarlgirls5611 what the fuck does that mean
@@GoogleUser-xo4lk Couple Nerds I guess
Hmm thats interesting. I like it!
Alma wanted Isabella to have the life she always wanted.She thought she was helping her when she betrothed her to Mariano but really she was trapping her in a life she never wanted.
That's not a rare thing except it's more often the parents who want to live their lost dream by procuration thanks to their kids.
I remember a book, from a collection I read as a teen, where the MC is a girl who is a junior champion in swimming, but we learn that her mother was a champion too when she was young but couldn't make to the playoffs because of a car accident.
Of course, the MC is really good but her mother is very strict about it at a point she's mad at her because she narrowly lost a race.
When the father blames his wife about it, she answers that she has to works more because she decided to devote her life to it but he says " No, YOU decided to devote HER life to it ".
Ironically, the MC's name is Isabelle.
I also noticed that Pedro looks like Mariano to a degree. Whether Alma realized it or not, she really used Isabela to live out the life she never had with Pedro.
We tend to look over the fact that her power isn't being "perfect" it's plant growth and botany (working with plants)
The power of perfection thing is just Mirabel projectiing her insecurities onto her sister.
You mean Chlorokinesis?
You mean like when she’s singing her song and summoning flowers and such all over the place?
....who could overlook that?
@@joshuaDstarks Abuela
I cant get over "loo-eeza" and "eeza bela"
“Peydro”
@@mathikjeks almah
@@madokamagicastan “Merioanou”
It was bugging me the whole time lol. You can hear their names being pronounced the ENTIRE movie, how do you mess that up
@@madokamagicastan almuh
"mom I don't wanna be a Karen when I grow up"
"Honey, Karen's are underrated you'll understand when you grow up to be just like me. Why else would we name you Karen?"
Poor little Karen she should change her name to Becky.
my name is also karen😊
Simply because alma sees her young self in Isabela and her being the first born grandchild to come of age. Alma wanted to give isa the life she never had with Pedro, even going as far with finding a suitor that looks like him
Kinda sad that she doesn’t care about doing this for doleres who is the same age as Isabella. But Pepa’s side of the family gets overlooked altogether
One of my favorite things about the movie is that each of the family has it’s colors. Maribel’s side is more cool toned while Delores’s family is more of warm colors, but alma is a nice dark magenta. Isabella sticks out in the cool toned family and looks as though she is closer to alma with pink being closer to magenta that it is cool toned like blue.
I never noticed that! She really does resemble Alma down to her color scheme. When Isabella finds her true self at the end, she has a mix of more vibrant and less pastel colors, which are completely different from her original design. They’re more wild and bold when compared to the rest of the family. She really sticks out as different.
Yes exactlyy
the fact that you misspelled all of their names except Abuela Alma
@@cherrytherealone But didn't capitalize it lmao
It’s kinda like watching Toddlers and Tiaras when the pageant moms try to live their dreams through their young daughters and expect them to be perfect, when the daughters want nothing to do with it lmao
Same with dance moms 😭😭
Makes sense. Also I didn't realize until now, but Alma and Isabella have the same earrings as well!
She's the favorite because she's beautiful. That's just how the world works. The best looking person will often be treated the best.
I can kinda see this. I think it's also largely to do with the fact that she's the first grandchild (proof that her family is not only surviving but thriving... as far as Alma can tell) and... Isabela is pretty. She's the eldest, and pretty so she's got big expectations on her to find a husband and make more magical Madrigals and "keep the miracle burning."
She probably intended to groom Isabela into a future Madrigal matriarch, since she was the eldest grandchild. And then it turned out that really Mirabel was the best suited for the role.
See? You get it. Traditionally Latin American culture would place her in that role.
That was what I thought too. I can see this theory some but assumed was just the fact that she was the eldest.
Isabella isn't the eldest, Luisa is
@@marisafernandes9259 Isabella is the eldest. Luisa looks older but she is the middle child. Isabella is supposed to be 21/22 and Luisa is 19.
@@marisafernandes9259 incorrect. The creators confirmed the age order. Isabela is 21, Luisa is 19.
I feel like Alma was actually living vicariously through Isabela. She knew her idea of a perfect life was taken from her, and she wanted to recreate it with Isabela. Mariano looks like a more muscled Abuelo Pedro, and dresses like him too. So in her mind, she's not only living through Isa, but giving her a perfect life.
Isabela doesn't view marriage and kids as the perfect life, which goes against Alma's more traditional views.
I mean… it’s possible she wants to marry and/or have kids, just not with Mariano.
She could still want kids and marry. It’s not “tradition” that she’s against 🤣
You’re putting words into Isabela’s mouth, kinda like Abuela did. Isabela’s views on marriage and children aren’t known because she never got the chance to express these views-she merely admits that she doesn’t want to marry Mariano.
That’s not surprising. Even people who dream of marriage and children wouldn’t want to marry someone who they didn’t love.
It’s likely that, if Isabela got to know someone really well and got the chance to fall for them on her own terms, she’d be all for marrying them.
Alma: Lets torture mah younger self💀
And the fact that when isa was a child, she's wearing the same braids as young alma had!
I’ve commented this in another video about why isabela is the favorite one:
I thought it was because isabela was the only kid to get a positive vision from Bruno.
That definitely could've enforced her favoritism tbh.
I really how Bruno's prophecy for Isabela sounds so positive and supports the "perfect princess" image Isabela plays for everyone. At that point of the movie, viewers would think/assume that the prophecy had been fulfilled when in fact, it still wasn't. Isabela does have a dream life, Mirabel promised it to her when they sang that song together and she did get it at the end of the movie when she finally gets to be who she wants to be. Also, her magic did grow like grapes in the vine.
It's because she's the oldest grandchild. Grandchildren of large families know. I have 12 cousins on my grandma's side of the family and every single one of us knows that the oldest is the favorite. Only one who might be unaware is the other favorite; the small cute one.
"side by SI-"
sorry i just found it funny, but that actually seems pretty accurate!
Finally i found comment about it 💀
She was the only one who got a good prophecy from Bruno, hence, the favouritism.
Isa is the favorite because she’s the oldest grandchild. The resemblance is a nice bonus.
Legit tho this is a reason why my siblings are my grandmas’ favorites. Brother reminds one grandma of her late husband, sister reminds other grandma of herself.
i look exactly like my dead grandma and my grandpa literally cant go a dy without looking after me...
I look like my mom and grandma combined
I knew a mother who told me that she has to purposely show equal love to all of her children even if her second daughter looks the way she always wanted to look. Abuela could have recognized this and made the effort to not favor one over the other.
I like this theory/hidden fact thing. I always thought it was a coincidence how Pedro and Mariano looked VERY identical.
MIRABEL DESERVE MORE LOVE SHE IS SUFFERING FOR LOVE JUST PLS ENCANTO
Bro the last part 💀
Someone tell Dolores..
My parents notes that when Bruno was seeing the future my mom said that it look like Isabelle but it also the Abuela.
😯😯😯
this is actually a really cool dynamic to create between characters, its simple and meaningful. giving someone the perfect life only hurts them in the end.
Basically a parent or grandparent want the child to have what they wanted without considering they are an individual who will likely not want exactly what the parent figure wanted.
Vicariously living through someone is so sad because that person loses their personality trying to please the person who wants to love through them
It's because she reminded her of when she was happy and Pedro with her, ig.
No bc like that’s why my sibling is the Mamaw’s favorite grandchild-
Edit: No one is being rude in the replies? We’re all just talking about what we call our grandparents.
M-mamaw?
now what the hell is a mamaw.
@@puririiin it’s what some people call their grandma
@@puririiin stfu I call my grandma n o n n a.
@@puririiin Just looked it up, it’s what southern people/white people call their grandmas, I don’t understand but I guess.
i’m my grandmas “favorite” i thought it was because she raised me for a good portion of my life but my mom pointed out that i look a lot like my grandma when she was younger
It could also be that you tend to behave the way she thinks you should. I was the favorite granddaughter because I preferred to study rather than go out a socialize. She didn't like any of my siblings because they weren't as studious.
I'm nearly my grandma's fav. Not only I'm the eldest granddaughter from a son, I looked the most like her when she was young according to my dad and grandpa. Wide eyes, wide forehead, resting face syndrome. My grandpa even called me with her nickname and became his fav granddaughter due to this. (My grandma even got upset when my mom named me the way I am, because she wanted to name me after her. In my family, it's normal for others to name your children, my brother's name came from my aunt and grandpa, the same aunt also offered other names for her nephews and nieces)
But then my youngest cousin was born, the last grandchild from the last son/child and born AT THE EXACT SAME DATE as my grandma. So while I inherit some of her eye-catching traits from my dad, the last granddaughter had the same birthday as her and had the virtue of being the youngest. I knew my place was taken when she was born at the same date as my grandma, sighhhh.
My grandma has 3 children. And the oldest son is her favorite. Also his son is grandma's favorite grandson. She never apreciate my mother, who always takes care of her. Grandma speaks behind her back, and has controled my mum for all her life. That's why I hated both Abuela Alma and Isabela at the begining. I see my mum's pain in Mirabel.
@@blackwolf1424 It would be a good idea for you to have your mother stop taking care of her. My mother took care of my grandmother until I finally put my foot down at the last abuse that is when they tried to evict her from the apartment, but still have to take care of my grandmother. I just took her and moved ASAP. They tried to force her to live in the ghetto, but I said, 'no'.
I’m the “ paborito” or favorite in Filipino in our family and idk what my Lola looks like when she was young though….
From a dysfunctional family standpoint, she’s the golden child 😭
Abuela Alma just wanted to live vicariously through Isabella. She subconsciously sees isabella as herself and is trying to right wrongs and imperfections that occured in her own past by projecting her concerns and paranoia of another tragic incident like Abuelo
Mirabelle: I never understood why abuela liked Isabella more
Dolores: abuela's got a vanity complex
This happens alot with in real life, the one that looks the most like the parents/grandparents is usually the favorite.
My brain just broke in half
That is so crazy. Blew me away! That comparison is so true! Alma saw herself in Isa since she was almost identical. But the thing with the flower was the coolest. The single white flower! And then even crazier, the marriage thing!
oh wow, thats a pretty good point! i never thought much of appearance-wise, but yea, Isabella and Mariano do look like Abuela Alma and Abuelo Pedro when they were young adults! it could very well be Alma is projecting onto Isabella to give her granddaughter what she couldnt have and hope to make her life perfect and free of troubles. obviously, unbeknownst to Alma, she was the CAUSE of Isa's troubles in her life, causing her stress and frustration, but even still she hid it to make her grandmother and family happy. ironically enough, w/ all that in mind, Alma nearly forced sacrifices onto Isa just like the colonists forced Alma to make sacrifices: Alma lost her original home and became a single mom to triplets when the colonists invade and killed Pedro, whereas Isa was almost forced to marry a man she didnt love as well as sacrifice being able to truly express herself by keeping up the "perfect daughter/granddaughter/niece" act. if that was what Disney planned, thats sheer brilliance, like omg!
"May-ri-an-o"
"Pay-dro"
Breathe just.... breathe....
She also have a beautiful power
Blessings to superdog and your family stay strong❤️❤️
Yep. Even Bruno's vision paired both grandmother and granddaughter as one.😄
I guess this makes sense
Dude you're awesome! but Isabella just have magical powers of being perfect, I even love her myself! she even walks like an deity
Her powers are spontaneously growing flora instantly, perfectionism is a product of living up to her Grandmother's absurdly high expectations, she even restricted her power to only grow perfect and conventionally beautiful blooms, she never allowed herself to relax that image even when alone (she practiced and worked on being perfect). It wasn't until she finally broke down her facade with her Sister's goading that she even realised how she'd been limiting her life and powers just to appease her Grandmother. It was that liberation that Bruno foretold to her, to live the life of her dreams and how how her powers would grow.
Honestly I never knew that.... But I didn't even know the gramas name was Alma 😂😭
In the trailer I thought Isabella was alma😭👍
😭👍
😭 👍
You guys mocking me or sum-?
@@Mcobeni0131 idk
@@Mcobeni0131 I think they're agreeing 👍
Oh thank God, I thought I was the only one who saw the resemblance, especially with Pedro and Mariano.
WHY CANT I STOP LOOKING AT ISABELLA SHE SO PERFECT AHHHH
Well...She's perfect in her own ways.
Who did not realize this in Encanto
Soo, basically she wanted to be the one to "live through" her granddaughter because she didn't get the ideal life she "so rightfully" wanted?
Aight.
"PeYdRo" *insert weird laughing"
"Mayrieono" *insert more laughing"
"EEZBELLA" ☠️
"AMA-"💀💀💀💀
"LOOEEZZA-💀
XDD. 😂😂🤣
I'm dying 😭😂
LMFAOOO
Looeezza is aceptable, but PEYDRO XDDD
I keep on thinking who Owlma is
Aww little Bruno so cute!!
That cartoon Isabela is beautiful.
I remember when I first watched it I was like “huh isa and mariano look very similar to alma and pedro must be there was of shoeing they’re related so they will look like eachother” then on my second rewatch I was like OMG Alma see’s herself in Isa and wants to give her the most perfect life which turns out to be extremely toxic as she abuses her entire family’s powers in order to make her and Isa look the most golden.
...Or she was just the oldest.
Lol 😂
😂 possible..
Thing is that Isabela and Dolores are same age but, I think Isabela came first
Or both..?
Isabella came first, with dolores being a few months later so they are the same age with Isabella being older
and she always was graceful and a good child. so most likley ye
"also look at Mariano and Pedro side by SII-"
So... She was a narcissist and was creating another narcissist.
Nice.
Exactly
Mmm not exactly
Finally a comment I agree with lol
Not really. We have to remember Alma was scared as hell about loosing what could protect her family. Since Isabella was at the point where she could be married, Alma was thinking that those children would continue having gifts to protect the Encanto. The problem is Alma went about trying to protect her family in the wrong way. Isabella and Alma aren't narcissists, they just aren't perfect.
@@goldenequals4203 she acted like the most perfect bitch to mirabella
She’s also the most graceful and feminine. They usually get the familial preferences lol.
that makes so much sense
So then does that mean in Bruno's vision when it says to embrace Isa it really meant Abuela? Huh, I like that detail
ALMA
Its abuela
@@elise12312 Abuela just means grandma in Spanish tho, her real name is Alma
@@mathikjeks oh eheheheh
My auntie is named alma
DW, I THOUGHT THEY SAID 'ALMOND'
And Mariano looked like her grandfather.
Alonzo seems so young. Sitting there with Koshiea; they look like a young man spending time with his auntie.
When I first watched Encanto I actually thought that Pedro and Marino were the same person
Lol I love how he calls ‘Albuela’ ‘Alba’
He calls her "Alma" which is canonically her first name.
L take 🤦🏾♀️
Random side fact, isabella stands for "forever beautiful"
She’s been projecting onto Isabella :,)
Bro the way he says abuela makes me laugh
He’s saying Alma 😊 her actual name 💙
This has me thinking, maybe one of the reasons why Isabela didn’t want to marry Mariano is because she KNEW he looked like her grandfather and probably thought it was weird to marry someone that looks like him 😆
And that's why the vision showed Mirabel hugging Isa (a version of her grandmother).
i can say that a lot of daughters have to suffer with mother’s who live vicariously through them cause their childhood-young adulthood was stolen from them. especially young latina girls. it’s very sad, but very difficult on the children.
"Izza-bella"
"Louizza"
"Ohmla"
"Mariono"
"Peydro"
This angers me 😁
But why, though? People pronounce stuff differently (cf. gif vs jif), and that's normal. The narrator seems to be American (please correct me if I'm wrong) and so, he's pronouncing it his way (in whatever accent he has).
Hell, I'm pretty sure I pronounce Isabella, Luisa and Pedro the same way bc I'm an American, as well.
He can’t help his accent.
@@greatgodly9598 there is nothing wrong with how they say it it’s their accent lol, don’t pay any attention to them expecting everyone to pronounce everything perfectly is kind of ridiculous
Ohlma is who. Not Abuela
Fun fact:Isabella is also the eldest granddaughter of abuela Alma
And the first born of Abuela's first born
I love encanto so much I watch it every night
I always saw it as “she’s a pretty girl that can grow pretty flowers.. she’s perfect!!” Never thought about of this way
"side by siii- "
I thought the same thing lmao
At first I thought u were gonna say “because alma is narcissistic and loves herself”
I totally agree she’s my favorite character
That's quite interesting! I just watched this movie perhaps six times this week.
I think Alma is not pronounced like "ohma", but more like [ull ma]
"Ull ma" does not work either.
Say "Al" the same way you say the 'Al' in "Weird Al Yankovic" and then say "ma" (as in the short version of mom).
Then say it together and fast. "Alma".