How has the image of the stepmother in the cinema changed: bad guy and a cool girlfriend from the seductive girlfriend

In folklore, the image of the stepmother is almost always associated with evil, but we use this word to determine the social role of a person who has no biological mother in life. And in life, we know examples when an indigenous mother shows persecution. Is it unfair? Leave it, but where and why did this archetype fix?

We describe the example of cartoons and cinema, how the image of the stepmother has changed: a bad man and the mother of a seductive part.

Jealous stepmother

The first relationship with the stepmother expresses emotions such as jealousy and self. In most fairy tale, his stepmother is quite young and as a rule for her first marriage for her husband’s children. He perceives them as a threat to his position, so he acts as a competitor. Grimhilda from Snow White, Gotel of Rapunzel Legend or Lady Tremiain of Cinderella. Usually, the steps are not even named as in Russian fairy tales. For example, in Morozko, Non -non -non -non -nonser throws the girl out of the house, does not want to feed an extra mouth, but when he returns with gifts, he uses his daughter who does not return from the frost test. In spite of the power, the stepmother usually moves not only to physically eliminate the threat, but also in defective personalities that make efforts to get a feature of the step -girl (stepmother) -beauty or magical power.

Unfortunately, the image of a jealous stepmother is almost unchanged. It is enough to compare the Disney versions of the Snow White of 1937 and 2025s. It would be more interesting that the new version of the new version made the scriptwriters a magic mirror that pushed the main antagonist of history to eliminate the stepmother to eliminate Snow White. This will correspond to the agenda that women are the men’s world (mirror), not women’s friends, but their rivals.

In the last series “Good American Family ından based on real history, a stepmother’s stepmother has been shown a much thinner and more complex image. After the death of his daughter, his wife Christine and Michael Barnett adopt Natalia with Dragism, but at some point, she starts to suspect that her non -indigenous daughter is actually an adult.

The series was shot, so we define ourselves with Christine, who sees a threat to the girl and even jealous of her husband. He does not take off his anger, tries to imitate his age in documents, forces him to lie and resists others. Moreover, in the last chapters, we probably understand that it was wrong, but we do not return him: the girl suffered from lies and persecution.

Seductive stepmother

If his stepmother was delivered to the step girl, the stepmother’s stepmother leaned his step -son to a sinful connection. In the cinema, this is a beautiful woman who is older or older with her. In such lands, he usually marries for money, but after his husband’s death, he decides to strengthen the situation by submitting to his son’s surroundings. A similar motive is found in many legends. For example, in the Fedra myth that gave inflammation of his step -son Hippolytus, but rejected, he slandered the young man and did not get ashamed and he committed himself and went after his lover. As you can see, the main weapon of the stepmother in these stories is sexuality, so the films of this plan contain erotic elements, but the type of tragic end is melodrama.

This is how the events emerge in the “Heart Queen” of 2019. Although he is not a blood relative of his stepmother and his step -son, officially incest. True, here the emotions of heroes are mutual and happiness is prevented by the prejudices of society. Similar topics about forbidden love appear in Isabelle Jupper and Louis Garrelem and “Annem” films with Eve Green and “Chrevo” and “Birth” films with Nicole Kidman. Moreover, the last two is interesting that the woman is reborn in another body (child), but in a relationship with her husband, which consists of remembering her past life.

Against this background, Kim Beisinger stands out with a “step -mother an alien”. Genrerov is a comedy with science fiction elements affecting the plan. The alien Seleste is trying to seduce physics to take research that the planet is the key to the liberation of the planet. The stepmother and stepmother do not compete here. Moreover, the girl, on the contrary, helps Celeste to stay in their families.

Saver Step Mother

The Russian proverb said, “The good mother of the good, but the mother is not relative.” In the absence of blood relatives, a conflict is often built on issues with a good stepmother. In this context, two films, the same “Step Mother, are interesting. In the Soviet painting, Tatyana Doronina’s hero learns that she was a girl from her husband’s first wife, and now she was forced to move to her father’s father’s house in connection with her mother’s death. Despite the fact that a woman’s secret life wounded a woman, she tries to contact a step -girl who is silent because of stress. Love that becomes a language that two souls can speak.

In an American film with the same name, the situation is a bit different. His wife gets sick from his first marriage, so the father decides to introduce children to the stepmother. Here, the conflict was built not on the relationship between stepmother and children, but on the stepmother and mother. Hero Susan Sarandon is not ready to agree with a deadly diagnosis and wants to live and the presence of a young, successful and cheerful stepmother doubts himself. He doesn’t want to lose him, and the idea that there is a spare and the children will forget him, make him crazy. Only after learning more closely the hero of Julia Roberts, he realizes that he will be safe and comfortable, even if he had no children.

Stepmother with friends

In folklord, you can find another kind of good stepmother who has become very popular in cinema for the last few years. It is distinguished by uncertain behaviors and pretends to be an enemy at the beginning, but in fact it is a hidden assistant.

In the film “Excellent Toy”, a girl made by Lindsay Lohan for her birthday takes a Barbie baby as a gift, but she doesn’t please her, because she really misses the last mother. The baby comes to life magically and turns into a real woman. Like all Barbie, the hero of Tyra Banks is cheerful, but the girl who tries to get rid of it and set it to work. Together they wander around the shops and communicate too much, and over time the girl understands that she perceives her as her best friend. Thus, the magic does not end, it helps to establish relationships with the widow.

Another wonderful example is not a real bad guy in the new interpretation, but a bad man of Malefisent, a woman with a wounded heart. A loved one betrayed Malefyste, so he decided to take revenge on all people. When the girl finds herself in her hand, she cannot resist his kindness and sincerity. Malefisent scolds it and removes it, but it always comes to save to protect it during the danger. Finally, trust between them and becomes friends.