00:00Come suffer with me in this video because it's time for us to compare the toxic level
00:04of the male leads in the soap operas Topacio and Esmeralda, in the sad scene where the
00:10male protagonist rejects the son and blames the female protagonist for choosing the baby
00:15over him.
00:17Jorge Luis went to look for Topacio shortly after she gave birth, after having asked her
00:22to give up the child when it was born at the very beginning of the pregnancy.
00:26He thought that child was the result of an abuse that had never actually happened, and
00:31the macho man couldn't stand the idea of raising a son who wasn't from his own loins.
00:36But anyway, Topacio complains that he stayed away throughout the entire pregnancy, and
00:42only decided to look for her at that moment.
00:44He says she knew his reasons, and she replies that she couldn't have separated herself
00:49from that being who was born from her, and who needed her much more than her ex-husband
00:54did.
00:55The Chernobyl heartthrob complains that she chose to stay with the child.
01:02Topacio says she doesn't regret her decision, and that if she couldn't give up the child
01:07before, even less so now that he had already been born.
01:11She describes how beautiful it was to take care of the child, feel his warmth, and protect
01:16him.
01:17She assures him that the child was also his.
01:20Topacio fills of hope, and despite everything, tries to make Jorge Luis see the baby.
01:26With the baby crying in the background, she asks him to open his heart and says it would
01:31be enough to approach the crib to love the child.
01:34The man cries, but he doesn't give in.
01:37He just keeps repeating that he can't.
01:39Topacio finally loses her patience and asks why he even came there, that she was managing
01:45to forget him and he ended up ruining everything by showing up just to pull that stunt, basically.
01:52In the Mexican version, Esmeralda from 1997, the scene is basically the same.
01:57I couldn't find the beginning of this Topacio scene, but I believe it was similar to this
02:02one, him going to offer her alimony as her ex-husband.
02:07Esmeralda refuses, saying she didn't need his money.
02:11He tells her he has already broken up with Graciela and that he can only think about her.
02:16From here on, the scene follows like the previous version we saw, and she replies that only after
02:22all those months he says he thinks so much about her?
02:27He says she knows why, and she says you can't ask a woman to choose between her child and
02:33a man, even if that man was the love of her life.
02:36And despite the similarity in the dialogues, we can notice that Leticia Calderon's performance
02:42leans more toward a woman who is hardened and more assertive when speaking, unlike Topacio,
02:47who throughout the entire scene, adopts a sweeter posture, but that's characteristic
02:52of Mexican productions, which usually sprinkle an extra layer of sugar, so to speak, on the
02:57scenes of their remakes.
02:59He wants her to confirm that he really was the love of her life, and she replies that she
03:04already knew she still loved him.
03:06But she says now this love needed to be shared with her son, and Jose Armando's posture changes.
03:12She reproduces Topacio's line about the love she felt when taking care and protecting the
03:18baby, and that he was also Jose Armando's son.
03:21She tries to make her ex approach the crib to see the child, saying it would be enough
03:26to meet the baby to feel all that love.
03:29This version has a very sad line.
03:32Since he was born, I've been dreaming the day you would come to meet him.
03:35She even says she couldn't see the baby and asks Jose Armando to see him for her, but he
03:41pulls away with his crocodile tears, saying he can't.
03:45She tells him to leave and says she was already managing to forget him.
03:49Esmeralda even tells him to never come back.
03:52He tries to make one last effort to approach, but I think his feet were tied because he can't.
03:58After he leaves, she promises her son that she will have surgery so that she can see him
04:03and that she will always take care of him, that she will never abandon him.
04:07For me, whoever didn't want to come back to this scene was me, because I hate watching
04:13this moment.
04:13But that's it until the next video.
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