I think they had Cher show up because they wanted to work in the song Fernando somehow and they just didn't think about the fact that it made very little sense to have Sophie's grandma's big number be about her reconciliation with some guy introduced in this movie solely for this song, rather than, you know, her reconciliation with her granddaughter. Or her daughter, if they had left Donna alive.
Plus they dropped the tavern-owner-as-surrogate-mother plotline entirely once Cher showed up. Maybe they figured she'd served her purpose once she turned the farmhouse over to Donna? But they could have gotten so much more out of it.
Basically I think this is an example of filmmakers prioritizing heterosexual courtship over bonds between women even though the set-up means that focusing on the family relationships would make so much more sense and also offer way more emotional payoff than "Suddenly, Fernando!"
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Date: 2019-01-21 03:23 am (UTC)Plus they dropped the tavern-owner-as-surrogate-mother plotline entirely once Cher showed up. Maybe they figured she'd served her purpose once she turned the farmhouse over to Donna? But they could have gotten so much more out of it.
Basically I think this is an example of filmmakers prioritizing heterosexual courtship over bonds between women even though the set-up means that focusing on the family relationships would make so much more sense and also offer way more emotional payoff than "Suddenly, Fernando!"