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Okay, guys, so "Encanto" finally dropped on Disney+,
which means I was finally able to see it.
And the moment it was over,
I'm sure that I was thinking the same thing
everybody else was thinking,
who is this Bruno over at Disney
that is causing such a ruckus?
Because in case you didn't notice,
two different Disney property movies
have had a catchphrase or a song,
literally bashing the character named Bruno.
First in "Luca,"
it's the voice inside of your head
that you can and should silence.
- Silenzio, Bruno.
- And now of course, in "Encanto"
♪ We don't talk about Bruno, no, no, no, no ♪
- I'm mean, it's not exactly the most common name,
and it's popping up back to back in rather significant ways.
So of course we here at SuperCarlinBrothers
started to wonder,
what if it's not a coincidence?
What if it's literally the same person?
And if that is in fact the case,
does it mean that Bruno from "Encanto"
is actually Alberto from "Luca's" thought.
(exciting music)
- [Alberto] Silenzio, Bruno!
♪ No, no, no, no ♪
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Right out of the gate,
I wanna give a huge shout out to Ben Stanley,
AKA, howveyouben over on TikTok
for sending us this theory.
Great name by the way, dude, easily top one name.
Anyway, if you want to check out his original post,
I will link it in the description down below.
Okay, so as a refresher, back in "Luca,"
"Silenzio Bruno" is Alberto's battle cry if you will.
Whenever he's about to do something reckless.
(bike clanking)
- Um!
- It's never actually outright confirmed
that Bruno is Alberto's father,
but I do think there are some context clues
that help suggest that this is the case.
- Alberto, you can't.
Alberto, you're gonna die.
Alberto, don't put that in your mouth!
- These are all very classic things
that a father might say to his son.
We do, of course, ultimately learn
that Alberto's father does leave him.
So the Silenzio Bruno could be part of the coping mechanism
towards how Alberto feels about the way
his father used to tell him things he couldn't do.
To be fair, he was probably saying these things,
you know, for his safety,
because Alberto's relationship with gravity
is a little lax at best.
- Gravity, also known as falling!
(thudding)
- But, either way, he abandoned him.
So whatever his intent was, doesn't matter.
It's not exactly father of the year material.
Ultimately, the end result is
anything that his dad told him to do is wrong.
Anything he told him not to do is obviously right.
But so now let's get to it,
because despite having the same name of Bruno,
there are some problems we need to tackle first.
Like for example, "Encanto" takes place in Columbia
and "Luca" takes place in Italy.
And does the timing even work out?
And doesn't Bruno say that he's been living in the walls
for the past 10 years?
These are all really good points,
but I also assure you they're very explainable.
First, let's tackle the timing though,
because this one in particular lines up really, really well.
We don't have exact dates
as to when either of these movies specifically take place,
but we do have some really good clues
that help us get inside the ballpark.
In "Encanto," for example,
we do know that the candle that is burning
that is giving everybody their powers
has been burning for the past 50 years.
We also know that the catalyst for the miracle in "Encanto"
is when Abuela's husband Pedro
is killed in some kind of armed conflict.
Although this hasn't been confirmed yet,
the thing that we are most likely witnessing
is the Thousand Day's War.
This is based on the fact that
these soldiers are on horseback and carrying swords.
And that war took place between the years of 1899 and 1902.
So if you add 50 years of the candle burning,
we're in the 1950s.
That idea is then kind of further corroborated
by the fact that the like fashion and technology
featured inside of "Encanto" is very 1950s.
And this is the exact same timeframe
that we're seeing in "Luca,"
at least according to a Tweet
from the director, Enrico Casarosa.
Now where things get tricky is when it comes to the ages.
We know that the Madrigal family has the ceremony
where the children get their powers at age five.
And we know that Bruno leaves
right after Mirabel's ceremony,
where she doesn't actually end up with a power.
And according to one of the directors of "Encanto,"
Mirabel is supposed to be 15 years old,
which means that Bruno is missing for a total of 10 years.
Alberto on the other hand is 14 years old
when we see him in "Luca."
So if Bruno is in fact his father,
he's been missing from Alberto for at least four years,
which actually is pretty possible,
and also very terrible.
We see on the wall in Alberto's tower
that he has been tallying the marks since his dad left.
And yes, I counted all them, and there are 360 marks.
So basically he kept count for about a year,
but then he also tells Luca this,
- I just stopped counting after a while.
- So when he says, a while, what he means is an entire year.
But for a whole year,
just to be classified as a while,
it's been a while since he counted.
And that amount of time in order for this theory to work
needs to be four years,
which I'm gonna go ahead and place
neatly in the realm of possibility.
This is of course super terrible,
but also fairly in keeping with Bruno's character
to kind of abandon his family.
After all, that's how he would have ended up in Italy
to begin with.
That being said, though,
there is already a built-in reason
as to why he ultimately would have left Alberto.
And that is the vision about Mirabel.
He would have known that it was about to come to fruition.
And at that point in time,
he would need to return home.
On top of that, and just let me say,
I don't think that this excuses him at all,
but the fact that he does have the ability to see the future
might mean that he was able to see that eventually
Alberto would find a home with Massimo,
which at best is some like real bad Dumbledore logic,
but what are you gonna do?
Prophecies make people do some weird things.
So with all of that out of the way,
basically the idea here is that
he leaves the Madrigal family,
and ultimately finds himself in Italy
where he meets Alberto's mother, who must be a sea monster.
And honestly, even that totally adds up to me
because as someone who literally came from a family
where everybody is magical,
a sea monster probably isn't that shocking
or alarming at all.
One of the things that I will admit
that is a little bit off here though,
is Alberto's last name, it's Scorfano and not Madrigal.
But even that kind of makes sense
because Bruno is already in hiding
from a very famous and well-known family.
So kind of makes sense
that they would have gone with the mom's last name.
So all of the circumstances line up really, really nicely.
But the other thing that's really crazy about this
is just how similar Alberto and Bruno are.
For example, inside of Casita,
Bruno's room is the tower of the house.
And Alberto also lives in a tower.
And not just a tower, a tower where the main door to it
is actually walled off.
We also have the scene where Bruno
is kind of like shifting between all of the various
inside of the wall characters that he is,
and he puts a bucket on his head.
This is very similar or reminiscent
to how Alberto gives Luca like a strainer for a helmet,
which I'm just gonna go ahead and tell ya,
somehow having a loose piece of metal on your skull
feels more dangerous.
Whenever Bruno makes a prediction,
the prophecy shows up on a green piece of glass.
And when we first meet Alberto,
he's literally collecting a green sea glass bottle.
And then up inside of his tower,
there are tons of these green sea glass bottles.
And, it gets better.
Both of them have hammocks that they sleep in
inside of their spaces,
where they use a certain kind of decorating style
that I like to refer to as clutter,
which I can super tell you, can relate.
But the very specific clutter is also interesting.
For example, they have the exact same gramophone,
and this one's really cool,
but if you notice behind Bruno in this scene here,
he has a boot with a plant growing out of it.
I don't know if this reminds you of anything,
but it totally should because
it is extremely reminiscent of the boot
with a plant growing out of it
that is the key MacGuffin of the entire plot of "WALL-E."
And you might be wondering, well, yeah,
but that's "WALL-E" and not "Luca."
Correct, but guess who had that boot before WALL-E, Alberto.
Boom!
Or should I say, boot!
I mean, what foresight to collect
what will go on to be an incredibly important boot,
am I right?
It's like, what can this guy see the future or something?
Oh, wait.
Do you see what I mean?
There are so many similarities between
how these two characters live.
But there is one fairly large caveat
that we are yet to discuss,
and that is the character from "Encanto" known as Delores.
Delores, in case you have forgotten,
because there are a whole bunch of Madrigals,
and I would totally understand,
is the one who was able to hear everything,
and as a result, is a bit of a gossip.
- No one has to know.
(Delores squeaking)
- I know.
- Now the issue with the Delores
is that the end of the movie,
she says this-
♪ Yo I knew he never left, I heard him every day ♪
- Which agreed, makes it sound like Bruno
literally never left the house.
However, I do think the tone of her voice here,
and a line that she gives earlier in the movie.
- The only one worried about the magic is you,
and the rats talking in the walls.
Oh, and Lisa.
- Makes the previous comment at the end of the movie
fueled much more by like confirmation bias.
Like it sounds like she's confirming
a long-term possible suspicion
rather than like revealing
that she actually knew this secret the entire time.
And I actually liked this explanation a lot more,
because for one,
if she had literally known this piece of information
the entire time and never told anybody in the family,
it makes me kind of like Dolores a lot less.
And besides that,
I think we can go back to the point that we made earlier,
which is that Dolores is a gigantic gossip.
In this scene right here,
Mirabel literally can't take her eyes off of her
for even a second without her immediately gossiping
to the people around her.
So to me, that means someone who doesn't come across
as being good at keeping secrets.
So I don't think that it means that she literally heard him
every single day.
I think it means that she heard something
talking inside of the walls,
and because it is an incredibly magical house
with incredibly magical people everywhere,
maybe wouldn't be entirely surprised
if there were some rats that could talk.
But maybe also had this otherwise quiet suspicion
that maybe someone was living inside of there.
In fact, all of this makes me even more confident
that Bruno was gone for some period of time.
Because she can quite literally hear her love interest
reciting poetry across town at night,
but not her own uncle inside of the walls
on the other side of the dinner table,
eating alongside you?
That moment where he has like a plate drawn
on the piece of wood was really sad.
But maybe not as sad as when he abandoned his own son,
Alberto in Italy as a sea monster to fend for himself.
Also, this makes me wonder though,
does that mean that Casita somewhere has a door for Alberto?
And if so, what would his power be?
Because he's already a sea monster, double powers.
Again, I wanna give a huge thank you to Ben Stanley
for submitting this theory to us.
Again, if you want to check out his original video,
you can do so in the description down below.
Otherwise, guys, what do you think?
Do you think that Bruno could be Alberto's father?
Or do you just think it's some
really, really, really bizarre coincidence
or person who works at Disney
that a bunch of the animators,
for whatever reason, don't like?
Let us know in the towel section down below.
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