Disney’s Encanto arrived in theaters in November last year to an underperforming box office. Although it went on to make a perfectly reasonable $228 million worldwide, the film didn’t hit its stride until it arrived on Disney+ on December 24th. The film was critically praised and walked away with the Best Animated Feature Film Golden Globe Award on its release. Still, the movie’s soundtrack has been making the biggest waves, having landed at the top of the U.S. Billboard 200 and the U.K. Compilation Album charts. In contrast, We Don’t Talk About Bruno has become the first Disney song to top the U.K. singles chart and landed a number 2 position on the Billboard Hot 100. For those who believe that animated movies like Encanto manage to avoid a lot of physical work, Disney has released a comparison video of We Don’t Talk About Bruno that reveals just how untrue this is.
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The new video features the final movie clip that serves as the music video for the catchy song, which is displayed under a one-take recording of the live choreographed routine that serves as the basis for the brilliantly developed musical extravaganza. The side-by-side view is an eye-opening experience of just how much work goes into musical numbers like this even when the end result is animated and does not technically have to conform to usual human constraints. However, with sweeping camerawork and multiple characters interacting, it is not enough to manipulate some computer-generated figures into position without first ensuring the whole thing looks right in the real world. Check out the video below.
Encanto’s Music Has Emulated The Greatest Showman in Building To A Crescendo
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As seems to be a bit of a trend with musical movies, Encanto’s original so-so reception at the box office, which did see it top the chart with generally low takings, fails to tell the whole story as since arriving on Disney+ the film’s Colombian-infused rhythms and beats, worked into some very catchy pop tunes by Hamilton and Moana songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda, have wormed their way into the heads of more and more people building up a larger following over time.
Back in 2017, The Greatest Showman arrived in cinemas around Christmas to very little fanfare, and it took a month for audience numbers to start to rapidly increase as the music of the film worked its magic and saw the soundtrack become of the biggest sellers of all time. Thanks to the current short theatrical windows being put on movies, Encanto has not had the luxury of being able to wait to watch cinema audiences slowly grow but instead, its Disney+ impact, as well as the record-breaking feats of the movie’s songs, have proven the movie’s worth, which is appropriate considering that self-worth is one of the strong themes of the film.
Encanto’s story revolves around Mirabel Madrigal, who is the only person in her family not to have a “gift,” an extraordinary power granted to each family member by the magic miracle bestowed up the Madrigals many years ago. When it appears the magic is starting to fade, Mirabel must uncover the truth about her uncle Bruno, whose prophecies of misfortune found him ostracized from the family to save the miracle and her home. Encanto is available now on Disney+.
