Episode 125: Encanto
Beyond the Screenplay
Michael Tucker
4.7 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2022
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
The BTS team discusses Mirabel’s character design, the function of the memorable musical numbers, and how a story with low stakes and a small scope can still feel larger than life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay, the podcast where each week we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film. |
| 0:13.7 | Today, we're talking about Bruno. |
| 0:16.3 | One of the main characters in Encanto, the 2021 film directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard, |
| 0:22.9 | co-directed by Cerise Castro Smith, screenplayed by Charisse Castro Smith and Jared Bush. |
| 0:28.5 | I'm joined by the Bond Screenplay team, Trisha Arand. |
| 0:31.8 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:32.9 | Brian Bittner. |
| 0:34.1 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:35.2 | And Alex Coyotes. |
| 0:36.7 | Hi. |
| 0:38.0 | Okay, so Enconto, we haven't talked about an animated movie for a little bit, and there's |
| 0:42.9 | been quite a lot of hype and buzz around this. |
| 0:45.9 | As I mentioned in our previous episode, some close friends have been yelling at me for a long |
| 0:50.7 | time to watch this movie, and people keep saying, we don't talk about Bruno |
| 0:54.6 | and I don't know why. |
| 0:56.2 | And so I was like, okay, let's, I'm excited to finally watch this and understand what is |
| 1:00.4 | going on with this movie. |
| 1:02.3 | And it is lovely and great and very well done. |
| 1:06.6 | It has a really solid screenplay and the morals morals and themes feel just very, like, modern and good, and yes, like, I'm so happy this kind of movie exists. |
| 1:20.7 | And so, yeah, I think there was a little bit of that, like, a minor bit of resistance because of all the hype and because of the, like, |
| 1:28.6 | it's the best thing ever. And like, you're going to love the music and everything's going to be |
| 1:32.5 | great. And I was like, okay, but like, is this the best thing ever yet? I'm waiting. But pretty |
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