00:00Many of my favorite Latin soap operas have used that famous resource of having the same actor play the role
00:06of the father or mother of the protagonist they are portraying.
00:09Of course, it's obvious that some children look very much like their parents,
00:14but here we're talking about clones who at most just change their clothes or hairstyle.
00:20It's as if these characters were the result of the genetic material of a single person.
00:25Very often, this extremely faithful resemblance ends up serving as a convenient plot device.
00:32That's the case in Cassandra, which uses the fact that the supposed gypsy girl is so identical to her mother
00:38that it would be impossible for the grandfather to look at her and not discover the whole truth.
00:44The same happens with Juan, son of Francisco Alcazar, in Corazon Salvaje.
00:50His identity could easily have been revealed to anyone who had known his late father.
00:57But there are also cases where this makes absolutely no sense,
01:02such as the mother of Esperanza in Nunca Te Oviderai.
01:06She dies right at the beginning and is played by Edith Gonzalez, wearing a ridiculous wig.
01:12There was no reason for Esperanza to be identical to her mother.
01:16It serves no purpose in the plot.
01:18At least she didn't inherit the hair.
01:21Thank God.
01:23In Danya Barbara, we see a slightly different but equally absurd case.
01:28The young version of Barbara was exactly the same as her daughter Maricela.
01:32The only difference was the eye color.
01:35Barbara's were blue.
01:37And just look at how terribly fake those blue contact lenses looked on the actress in that dark scene.
01:44It wasn't necessary, since whether they were identical or not wouldn't have made the slightest difference to the story.
01:51Here in Brazil, this cliché was also used.
01:54One example is the SBT telenovela Your Eyes.
01:59Marina is murdered by the villain in the first phase.
02:02Years later, we see that her daughter Renata is exactly like her, except she doesn't take baths.
02:09By the way, this is one of the many versions of La Gata.
02:14And to show you that even the best telenovelas fall into this cliché?
02:20Even the king of the cattle drank from this fountain, casting a big-name actor to play the father of
02:25Bruno Manzenga at the beginning of the story showing the past.
02:29But going back to the Mexican ones, how can we forget Marimar's mother, who only appears in a photo?
02:37The fact that the daughter is another clone of the mother who doesn't bathe serves absolutely no purpose.
02:43Because even with the resemblance being rubbed in his face, the idiot father still doesn't believe the other woman is
02:50his daughter until he's almost at death's door.
02:55Of course, I can't mention all the telenovelas that used this device, because there are so many, so feel free
03:01to leave other examples in the comments.
03:03Until the next video in the Telenovela Clichés series.
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