Jasmine Adel
Despite everything that is going on in the world around us, we cannot ignore the "Mother's Day", an occasion that many women are waiting for, not to give back, but rather to reap the fruit of what they have given in love with the pleasures of their livers and enjoy their presence around them "comfort and support."
And if we had been brought up on certain patterns of mothers that were immortalized by cinema until they were expected and consumed with the passage of time, but as everything changes around us, the nature of maternal roles has changed clearly during recent years, which we will try to monitor here to find out the difference between the roles of the mother in cinema and drama Egyptian between past and present.
The melodrama
Looking at the most famous examples of mothers who were presented in the fifties and sixties, we can put the late artist Amina Rizk and Firdous Mohamed at the top of the list, as they used to present the role of a loving mother who has a heart of gold that does not know anger or reproach, providing everything she can to her children, and if she used to do it with something From melodrama and crush.
Likewise, many black and white actresses went like Aziza Helmy and Amal Zayed, but that does not negate the presence of some stars who fell outside the flock and presented another style of mothers, who starred through them and continued to play throughout their career.
Among those actresses, Aqila Ratib, who presented the role of the mother with a lot of lightness and simplicity, as in "Zizi's family", "Wedding Night" and other films, and there is also Mary Munib, who professionalized the role of the mother who cares about the interests of her children to the point of suffocating, which turns her into protectors tormenting wives and husbands Her children, which she presented with some comedy, made the audience forgive her cruelty and accept her flaws, as stated in films such as "The Story of a Passport" and "This is Love."
Unlike other cruel mothers, they practiced their conviction with conviction, specializing in presenting that category of past Zozo and a beautiful white and Alevi state, and they seem to find their roles to the degree that convinced the viewers to alienate them in advance and always.
Comedy
In the seventies and eighties the dignity of Mukhtar rose to the throne of motherhood in an amazing mixture of kindness and sheer tenderness with an unparalleled lightness of light, which I did with an easy and abstaining performance that convinced viewers that this is most likely her true personality as a mother.
We watched this with films such as "O Lord, Born", "The Grandchild", "Amira My Love I" and "The Parents are a Charity", and with her advancing age, she only added to her maternity, so that she became the last thing she left in the memory of her fans, her iconic role as "Mama Nouna" in the series "He was raised in attribution," and her role in the movie "Al-Farah", which left a clear impact on everyone despite being a secondary one.
Reality imposes itself
With the mid-eighties and the entry of the nineties, the stars of the time of black and white began to accept the role of the mother after the old age, but the path they chose to embody that differs from what the previous generation pursued, so they preferred the trend to realism and revealed another aspect of motherhood more honest.
Let us see for the first time clearly the experience of the mother, who was forced by circumstances to hold everyone responsible and confront responsibility, despite the difficult circumstances and the difficulty of living, including Souad Hosni in the movie "Gharib in my Home" and "The Shepherd and the Women", and Najlaa Fathi in the "supermarket" and "Garage" ".
The drama
In the late 1990s and the beginning of the millennium, the space given to mothers in the cinema shrank, at a time when their roles in the drama came in support of the male hero in his journey to achieve himself, so that the mothers would return again to the housewife slave that takes care of the family, although this does not mean that the roles of mothers did not succeed in gaining Love the audience.
We saw Abla Kamel in one of her best roles and the character of "Fatima Koushari" in "I will not live in the djellab of my father", and Souad Nasr in "Diaries and Nice", and because of this almost prevalent stereotypes brightened the extraordinary roles that came out of the box as we saw Hoda Sultan in "Al-Wedad" and Arabesque is the mother of prestige and presence that no one can overlook.
Abla Kamel also presented an amazing model for the mother in the series “Hadith Al-Sabah and Al-Masaa”, where she played the role of Sheikha Jalila, which everyone counts, and despite everything she knows and can achieve, she treats every son and daughter of her children in a special way without stereotyping or claiming but uniquely.
Mothers are not angels
The drama continued to expand the circle occupied by mothers, especially after another generation of first-class actresses grew up and it became natural for them to play this role after their era ended with the roles of young women. But with the change that has taken place around us and the rise of social media as the world has become a truly small village, drama makers have taken it upon themselves to introduce mothers in a new dress.
If we see examples of single and divorced mothers who live alone without fear of being stigmatized by society, admit to their mistakes that they committed against themselves or the right of their children, mothers who do not know the absolute truth and do not pretend that, they experience life in its sweet and bitter way, and it falsely at times and survives at other times.
This is what was presented in abundance and diversity calculated for its makers in recent years, so the models came as signs of drama, so we saw Anushka in the "Grand Hotel", His Excellency Zayed in "A Hot Wave", and Sawsan Badr in "The Joys of the Dome", and a victory in "That", and Yusra in the "Account" It collects, "Dalal Abdel Aziz in" the seventh neighbor ", and finally Rania Youssef in" Miss Farah ".