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alicentsultana · 4 months

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I don't usually post anything beside hotd, mc, the tudors, but

Today I fell in one of my favorite obsessions from when I was younger, this brazilian soap novel called O Clone (the clone), it's a 2001 novel and I watched it much later when I was a teen, but I remember how it influenced and still influences generations and other novel productions.

A quick dive into the plot: Jade lives in Brazil with her mother, who is sick, but her entire family is from Morocco and still lives there. Her mother dies, she goes back to Fez to live with her uncle Ali , cousin Latifa and his governess. Latifah is a little older than her and is like ideal muslim girl (this is an early 2000 production), uncle Ali is arranging a marriage for her, and his chosen groom is Said, it is revealed that Said and Latifah can't marry because plot reasons and so, to not lose the contract, uncle Ali marries Latifah to Said's older brother and later arranges Jade marriage with Said as a way to punish and keep her in line, however she is in love with Lucas and doesn't want to get married. Many events later, she is still married to Said and has a daughter with him, she still is in love with Lucas, and her run away plots always fails because Lucas never moves a finger to be with her. They end up together anyway.

The thing is - Jade, the main character, should have been with her first husband, Said.

So Said is far from the ideal man, he can be forceful and even threatening (as most galant men were written to be at the time this was made), but he was crazy for her and loved Jade very much. Jade often times deceived and used him, but he never left her without anything and always forgave her, until he too got tired of it.

When they got back together in the second half of the novel it was like -- the novel could have ended there I wouldn't mind because they actually worked to get through their differences and were fighting to get back together, they would get over their grievances and past fights to make the most of their story, because Said still loved her, and because Jade finally saw how great he actually was and how she can actually fall in love him.

And then of course she is impulsive once more and goes after one of the other guys (the clone) because she wants her teen fantasy back.

I cannot blame her but the entire novel she passes as childish and immature because of a dream, that already proved to be an illusion, something she couldn't have had. And she could have been better written and better worked if the screenwriter had allowed it.

At the time, the director and screenwriter, the brilliant Gloria Perez was going through a heavy and harsh moment in life, and she wrote the clone as a way to cope with this moment (the death of her daughter), also, Jade's actress was dating the actor who played her romantic interest, and I believe Gloria didn't want to ruin the public preference over them against a better plot of Jade accepting Said over Lucas.

Anyway, Gloria kind of redeemed herself with another great prodution of hers years later so I will let it pass. Call me too rational but, in my head, Jade should have always been with Said.

#the clone wasn't even that good #it was full of stereotypes about the middle east but #overall it was great #and still a major pop culture moment here in brazil so #o clone #jade #said #giovanna antonelli #inshallah muito ouro #pictures aren't mine

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braziliangifs · 5 months

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