I've been procrastinating watching encanto because I couldn't find any pirated versions in English
So now I've watched encanto, but in my mother tongue: Hungarian (although I spoiled the entire thing for myself before)
I'll be rating everyone, we don't talk about Bruno will be included in the rating for everyone in the song
Conclusions:
Abuela Alma's voice was terrible. She had one singular moment where I found it acceptable.
wdtab: that one single line she has is the best part of the song here help. 4.5/10. Deducted .5 because she doesn't have an accent
Pepa also doesn't have an accent or that tinge of nasallyness.
Wdtab: "I created a hurricane" takes away from her blaming Bruno
Okay listen. Since she's the first one saying "we don't talk about Bruno no no no" I count it as her line (since everyone just starts following her)
- there's no "no"s. Instead the transition of it is like "don't even mention it/him(Hungarian doesn't have gendered pronouns) this name has ling been forbidden. The name Bruno is forbidden" 2/10 kept her personality fairly alright
Felix:. No. He sounds like the whitest out of them. Why would you do this.
Wdtab: okay this one's actually okay. 5/10 plus points for being Felix.
Dolores: SHE'S SPEAKING LOUD. HOW. HOW DARE YOU. YOU LITERALLY TOOK HER CHARACTER AWAY
Her squeek is terrible please. It's bad. It's so bad. It sounds like if Isabella wanted to to it but she was actually a stuck up bitch and like 20000% worse
Wdtab: this is the only part in the movie where she whispered(not really). Not emphatic towards Bruno in the slightest. Also, speaking in past tense for half her first verse. 0/10. How dare they
Camilo: I didn't even notice him bro. Hes literally my favorite (with Dolores and Bruno and Mirabel and Antonio) and he's invisible.
Wdtab: his lyrics aren't bad, his voice just doesn't fit it. "Isabella your boyfriend's here" is actually pretty good When he talks about rats (not along his back. They're just an army here) he does a funny haha thing with his voice. 6/10
(+ fish lady: lyrics terrible. The fat guy idk: FUNKY FUNNY LYRICS. ONE GOOD THING IN THIS DUB. Priest looking baldie: eh)
Antonio: I just love him. Little boi. Baby. He's gonna grow up to be like Bruno and Camilo. Gremlin in the making. 8/10 deducted 2 points because I hate the Hungarian language. Also Hungary.
Julieta: still has no lines. I love her tho 7/10
Agustín: lines where? Anyway, funky man. Love him. 7/10
Isabella: no. Absolutely not. How dare you.
Wdtab: Bruno ENCOURAGED her to follow her dreams in this translation. Absolutely terrible. She sounds whiny. 3/10
Luisa: so uh. No? Thanks. Sure, could have been worse. Still bad.
In surface pressure: still bad. Lyrics are not very good. 4/10
Mirabel: Ah yes, let's make the main character (who is not white.) Sound like a generic 30 year old white woman recovering from drug addiction.
Wdtab: why. She barely has lines. How can you make it so bad. 0/10 "come now, whisper their (the vision's) meaning to me Bruno" sounds weird.
Bruno: LOOK. ITS MY FAVOURITE RAT MA- oh they ruined him. The wood knocking superstition is bad too. 4/10
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I want to tell you all a bit about what is currently happening in Hungary because once again the government chose Pride Month (which is in July here) to attack the lgbtq+ community. Three news from just the past week: queer books are wrapped in plastic in bookshops, a bench painted in rainbow colours started a war in Budapest, and a law about retirement was modified to specifically exclude trans women. I'm sure others posted about these, probably could put it better than me, but here it is in one place.
Books: two years ago the government passed a so-called "child protection" law, but it's most commonly reffered to as the anti-gay law. The law is supposed to protect children, but it bans all media depictions of anything that would "promote homosexuality" or different gender identities.
The law is hard to understand on purpose, to make it unclear what is against the law and what isn't, resulting in the censoring of everything even remotely not cishet in fear of accidentally breaking the law. One notable example of this is commercials on tv. All media "promoting" homosexuality or gender change has to have an age restriction on it, including commercials. But since it is unclear what this means, now all tv ads have a 12+ rating, on every channel.
Previously bookstores which sell lgbt themed books had to make this clear and separate these books, which resulted in many bookstores having signs on their doors saying they sell these books. Some bookstores were fined for failure to comply.
Last week people started noticing that in the biggest bookstore chain, Libri, certain books were wrapped in clear plastic. This all happened because of the anti-gay law. Books including lgbtq characters are now wrapped in plastic and cannot be sold at the YA section of the store, they are moved to the adult section, regardless of the topic. Multiple writers called this out on social media, finding their own books wrapped up and moved.
Once again, since the law in unclear, Libri is wrapping up random books, because there is no clear guideline what goes against the law and what doesn't.
From literally two hours ago: one of the biggest bookstore chains, Líra, was just fined for 12 million forints (approx. 35k dollars) for selling Heartstopper without the wrapping, in the YA section.
The Bench: last Thursday, Amnesty International, with the permission of the mayor of the district, painted a bench in Budapest rainbow colours.
This was supposed to symbolise love and acceptance, especially during Pride Month. Since then, the bench was painted 6 more times. First, two men belonging to the neonazi fanclub of the local football club painted the bench the club colours, green and white. Amnesty International filed a police report, and painted the bench back to the rainbow colours.
Then the bench was painted green and white by two football fans yet again, this time with the message "stop lmbtq". After this, someone painted it back to brown, and left a note saying "I just want to be a bench. Which is good for everyone. To you. To them. To us."
After this Amnesty International repainted it with the rainbow colours. Then just today, a right-wing party, Mi Hazánk painted it red-white-green, the national colours, and stated that they will offer protection to the football fans, they will do the sane painting to any rainbow coloured anything they find anywhere in the country, and if anyone paints over it, they will file a police report for damaging a national symbol.
update: just a few hours after the last painting, unknown people wrapped the bench in plastic, with the message "Lately LGBTQ+ content can only be in public in wrapping", referencing the plastic wrapped books
The transphobic retirement law: back in 2010, Fidesz, the current ruling party made a promise during its campaign, which since then became a law. Currently this "Nők40" (Women40) law allows women to retire after 40 years of work, including time spent raising a child, as a way to honour women.
In 2006 the EU ruled that transgender people are entitled to retirement according to the gender they are when retiring. In line with this, earlier this year a Hungarian court ruled in favour of a trans woman, allowing her to retire after 40 years of work, due to the Nök40 law. It is worth noting that she has legally changed her gender in all her offical papers in 2013, and only found out in 2021 that the pension payer still had her registered as a man, and due the transphobic Law 33 passed in 2020, the pension payer refused to correct her gender. The court later ruled in her favour though, and she can retire.
Now, a member of Fidesz argues that this ruling is "a gross provocation and a slap in the face of the legal system". She urged lawmakers to changed the law and make it clear what they mean by women, reminding everyone that Fidesz still maintains that there are only two biological genders.
This was yesterday. By today, a change in the law was prepared. The announcement said the law has been clear for everyone with common sense, but to avoid any "sensitized" judge using this legal loophole, they are now amending it so it stated the early retirement is for everyone who "worked as a woman for 40 years". They claim now nobody can just decide to suddenly want to be a woman for early retirement after working as a man for 39 years. Because obviously early retirement, in a country where it is impossible to make ends meet just on pension alone, is the main reason someone would "decide" to be trans. Obviously.
so, this is where we're at in Hungary, two days before the Budapest Pride Parade. another Pride Month, another attack on lgbtq rights. I don't really have a point with this, I don't want to guilt trip anyone. Just spreading the word, since we rarely read about non-usamerican news.
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