![]() I’ve already written a brief introduction to magical realism in my recent post about great magical realism books, but in case you missed it, here’s my take on this fascinating genre… The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier.The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende.Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel.One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.Examples of Magical Realism from Latin American Authors.But I realize there are many parties involved with the decision. It would be fantastic if all of us would be in the same room and celebrating at the same time. I’m focusing on the positive and moving forward. “What I’m doing now is continuing to celebrate the nomination and all the work of my fellow nominees. “I was disappointed to hear the news, as were all the other nominees,” Franco said. The Alliance for Women Film Composers, recently issued a statement of protest on behalf of Franco, who found the decision surprising and unexpected. Instead, it will prerecord them an hour before and edit them into the show in shortened form. I wanted to give Mirabel the best music of what she represented.” “Encanto” DISNEYīut, speaking of representation, the Academy has suffered a backlash from its decision to cut eight of its craft and short film categories, including original score, from the live broadcast. “Being female and working first as a percussionist in orchestras and playing piano and having this love of Latin jazz, I was always the only woman,” she said. More than anything, Franco identifies with Mirabel, who doesn’t fit in with her family but has the tenacity to keep it from breaking apart from within. “But I wanted Afro-Colombian singers, and so we did a choral recording session remotely in Colombia. “But how to put that kind of singing in the film? I saw Carlos Vive play at the Hollywood Bowl and his band was incredible,” Franco continued. They’re represented by a choir that is part of a huge tradition of female musicians and singers called cantadoras. Byron and Jared wanted the influence of the Choco rainforest in the animation, and I wanted to complement that with Afro-Colombian rhythms and chanting from the area of Palenque, where the runaway slaves lived. “And the animation is so beautiful that there are certain moments, when Antonio gets his room, that we went full out. ![]() so that when she goes through her journey you hear the cumbia,” said Franco. But because the cast of characters was so vast, the composer only focused on a few, principally Mirabel and her young cousin, Antonio (Ravi Cabot-Conyers), who can speak to animals. She was tasked with finding subtle intro lead-ins to the songs and making orchestral arrangements for them. In addition, Franco studied Miranda’s songs with their diverse Latin American rhythms and textures. “And then I knew that I needed to use full orchestra to expand it.” “I wrote it mostly on piano and sang the melody,” Franco continued. Then I would bury it in many ways, and that represented the magic of the place.”īut there’s also some nostalgia in the melodic and harmonic presentation because of the bittersweet backstory of the Madrigal family matriarch, Abuela (María Cecilia Botero), who’s lost her husband. ![]() And they liked this one ‘Encanto’ theme I wrote and you hear throughout. “I would write on piano and work with the instruments and present different ideas to Byron and Jared. “I recorded all these different textures and melodic ideas, and I presented a suite, totally away from picture,” added Franco. But she couldn’t travel to Colombia during the pandemic, so she purchased several indigenous instruments, such as the arpa llerna harp, the mandolin-like bandola, the tiple guitar, the marimba de chonta, made out of palms - which arrived in a large box as individual pieces - and lots of drums. And it was a great chance for me to explore sonically the magic of the place and Mirabel and her determination.”įranco started with a rhythmic foundation based on the Colombian national dance, cumbia. They wanted something more intimate and they definitely wanted Colombian instruments. “What I did was spend time with Byron and Jared to discuss how to apply magical realism from literature to the score,” Franco said, “and what they wanted was something that didn’t sound traditionally Disney and huge Hollywood orchestra all the time. Why ‘Across the Spider-Verse’ Cut a Post-Credits Scene with Villain Spot
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