so I seen a comment talking about how in this scene mirabel made them kinda angry and I agree. But I love the movie for making mirabel so dismissive of the fact isabela just admitted she hated this perfect life and felt forced to marry. Obviously you would expect the ✨perfect disney protagonist✨ to have empathy during this revelation right? Well mirabel and isabela have a strained relationship as obvious in the movie and mirabel is a sarcastic teenager. So I actually like that they added this flaw where she’s so caught up in her mission that she’s like “yeah ok whatever” to isabelas obvious anger and hurt. It shows that even though isabela just had this huge confession mirabel is still bitter about how isabela treats her. Yes it’s an unlikeable moment but I love when characters are interesting and have flaws! yes she’s the protagonist and yes she’s in the wrong!
Unfortunately some people on tiktok do not have the same opinion. I seen one reply saying it shows “mirabel treats her family badly” LIKE WHATTT😭 just because of this one little scene does not make her an asshole for the entire movie wth
Can we please appreciate how Isabela's room is always pink, but the moment she changes it, it's blue
And that the colors that appeared during the song were red, yellow, blue, aka, the Colombia flag
She even wears these colors in the end
AND, that the colors that first stained her were, yellow, green, blue (the triplets), in that order, which is also the same order the triplets were introduced in 'The family Madrigal' for the first time, Pepa first, then Bruno, then Julieta
Looking at these official storyboards and concept art for Isabela’s transformation during “What Else Can I Do?”, always makes me just say that we were ROBBED of her wearing a cool punk rock dress and a flower crown!
Don’t get me wrong, I love the splattered and colorful dress Isa had once she had her breakthrough during the song, but THESE ideas I have to admit, are so much more cooler and amazing! She’s got spikes, vines, PAINT on her face, and a beautiful flower crown, and she looks gorgeous! Lin Manuel himself said that her song is supposed to be a “Rockin’ Español” song, so her punk look would have been so amazing, it sucks that it was scrapped! 😭
However, I do have a few theories why they did, maybe it was time budgets, or maybe they thought all that glamor would be a too big of a distraction, but whatever the reason, I really love this look on her, and I DEFINITELY hope to see something like this on her in the future, maybe in a series or a short, whichever because I DEFINITELY headcanon that she looks like this after the events of the movie. Slay Isa! 😩💕🌸🌺🌵
Long ago, I was listening to some Encanto songs, I truly love "What Else Can I Do?" So I drew Olly and Olivia sliding to the top of origami castle. King Olly singing how he wonders what's like to have fun like a kid, well since he's the origami King he's always serious being too mature that he's shutting himself from his joyous side, until Olivia helps Olly realize and learn that, it's ok to have fun, especially when you're the king of royalty.
The first version I did is the Human Chibi
And the second one is the origami version it might be a bit different than the first.
I also wrote a parody song of it on Paper Mario amino I can copy it and paste it here.