I was looking through screencaps of El Dorado for an edit when I came across this one:
Talk about them being the polyamorous throuple they so obviously are. Who the sane one in the relationship is probably switches depending on the moment.
Keep reading. You need to know this. Watch it if you need to understand.
But at the end of the movie, the main characters , Miguel, Tulio, and, Chel, abandon their homes to adventure together. They give up gold and luxury so have a life together.
So I always shipped them a lot... I figured all the proof was the famous quote. "Both? Both? Both. Both is good." And I associated it with Tulio and Miguel both being bisexual and polyamorous.
Well as it turns out, the original script was supposed to have them as open gay lovers... Dreamworks originally wanted them to be an actual couple!! It got scrapped but we can agree they were fruity right? So they were still gay lovers but not open.
K so Chel did have that intimate relationship with Tulio that became a bond. She also had that thing with Miguel. I mean like, she kissed him. So...
Miguel x Tulio x Chel is canon and there's nobody who can stop it!
Remembered that one time I rewatched "The Road to El Dorado" for the first time since childhood, also for the first time in English, and I was so in my gay feels bc of Elton John's music and tons of undertones in Tulio and Miguel's relationship that when Miguel said, "I'm sorry about that girl in Barcelona", I thought he confessed cheating on Tulio. Didn't even cross my mind that he could simply mean that he fucked someone Tulio was going out with.
Pros and Cons of playing Road to El Dorado for my class every year the day before spring break:
Pros:
- introduce The Youths to classic DreamWorks animation
- the music is 🔥
- the movie actually does make some effort to show mesoamerican society and the colonial period in a way that's still grade-school appropriate, so I can bill it as educational (seriously do you know how hard it is to find any kid-appropriate movies for my content that feature cultures other than Europe?)
- it's legitimately funny, and none of the kids have seen it, so they actually watch it instead of trying to talk
- I get paid to watch Road to El Dorado six times in a row
Cons:
- I spend my entire spring break painfully reminded of how much I ship the hell out of Miguel and Tulio and how it is a travesty that there isn't more fanfic of them