This time Mrs Franis asked us to analyse a film. So i chose the last one i had seen in cinimar!!

Brief Synopsis

Sophie is getting married and wants her father to walk her down the Aisle, but the catch is she doesn’t know who he is! So she reads her mums diary and finds out ‘there were three guys all around the same time.’ So Sophie invited them all, without her mum knowing, thinking she will know who he is when she sees him!

Things take off when they all arrive. Sophie hides them in the old goat shed and her mum soon hears something up there, so goes to investigate. She sees all the men, but how they were years ago. She doesn’t believe her eyes and breaks into song. She falls through the roof and sees them but doesn’t understand why they are there, and doesn’t stay around long enough to find out. Sophie doesn’t know her mum knows about the men and while her mum is tearing her hair out, Sophie is trying to find out which one is her father. She can’t decide, so says they can all walk her down the aisle but she is still left with how she is going to tell two of them that they can’t!

On the day of the marriage the whole plot is turned up-side-down when Sophie and Sky don’t get married at all, and it’s Sophie’s mum, Donna and the man who only ever had eyes for her, Sam Carmichael are the pair who get married. A shock comes out when Harry Bright let’s out he’s gay, and Bill Anderson ‘takes a chance’ on Rosie!

How the character is represented

Donna Sheridan played by Meryl Streep is portrayed as a head strong women, (which is shown in the fact she remains unmarried) who secretly wants to be looked after and be taken care of by an even more head strong man who knows what she wants, even though she is afraid to admit it for people thinking she is weak and can’t look after herself.

Most of the time Donna is drowned out in tatty old blue dungarees, which are broken and falling apart. They mirror the shape of her hotel. The dungarees also give her a laid back, hippie feel which helps emphasis her wild youth and transition into the relaxed but hectic older age.

How the character contributes to narrative

Meryl Streep makes Donna a very funny character. She is so laid back and goes with the flow, although she is a slap dash kind of person, and this is shown by the state of her hotel. Although she tries her best to keep the hotel running, she just has to keep mending things and doesn’t anticipate what will happen next, which makes her quit a airy fairy type of lady. So although all her worries are slowly building up, Donna seems to have quit a small tension span to one thing, and her mind keeps jumping from episode to episode. Meryl creates a character who desperately wants the best for her daughter but doesn’t want to be alone! And some on the cracks of her worries are beginning to show, until she is swept away by Sam.