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What I show here is 'the group of words' that couch "those few words" (below hyperlinked to a GODMOTHERED's iMDB-page) into your vocabulary ... deeper meanings that 'firm the foundations' upon which our lexicon stands ...
The word “Godmother (or #Godfather #Godparent)” is built on ancient words that mean "man-or-woman who Sponsors & |Guarantees one's Baptism (from God + Mother or Father or Parent)" (that is; in infant-baptism, friend(s)-of-the-parents who would help them make sure the new #GodChild (#GodSon #GodDaughter) had a good start on the right path in life.
(in adult-baptism, the Godparent is generally the new-follower's friend who introduced them to the church and who will advise them in the Fellowship ... I dunno---born-&-raised Catholic, 'adult baptism' sounds to me about-like 'when a Jew misheard Lord Jesus's "born from above" as "born again," and imagined it involved crawling back into your mother and reemerging.')
The movie ... it settles all the former fairy-tales and sets the launch for all the new ones!
I can't go much further without SPOILERS, but (after that SPOILER ALERT) I'll review some of the stuff they sorta cover at the above link; & I'll try to avoid 'the big SPOILER (i.e. how it ends), but no guarantees.
It starts with the vivacious Jillian Bell as "Eleanor," a fresh-faced Fairy-Godmother-in-training among a class of 'haggard old' (oh, probably quite lovely in their way) Fairy Godmothers-in-training. Apparently she's not very sociable, because only after one of the Fairy students complains about the problem does Eleanor find out that Fairy-Godmothers haven't been in demand for decades & -that there's a risk that all portals between Earth & 'Motherland' (where the fairies live) will be closed forever!
So later that night, Eleanor breaks into the Motherland mail-room & find the last demand of they received.
As she set off to fulfill that demand in order to restore connections between Earth & Motherland, my mind went off on several tangents:
- Letters to the Fairy Godparents? Why aren't those letters as common as letters to Santa Claus? (sequel idea, huh?)
- Maybe 'Motherland' is an early name for the home of The Q Continuum
- They mentioned that--if the Fairy Godmothering market dried up much more--they'd have to become Tooth Fairies! ... got me thinking maybe there's some sort of hierarchy of 'Fay Folk' there ...
- It's kinda odd how the movie--even though 'God' is right there in the title--edited the Christmas-carols' lyrics to make sure not to mention Christian deities 🤔 Maybe because some of its stars or crew-members don't esteem the carols' holiday myths.
- and--speaking of 'the stars' of GODMOTHERED--
- Why does the above movie-poster list the stars' names the way it does? (If you can't see the poster; even though the poster's picture shows (left-to-right) Jillian Bell & Isla Fisher, it lists them (left-to-right) as "Isla Fisher, Jillian Bell." Maybe it's Disney's corrupt lust for every ticket-buying audience-member they can rope in, with Isla Fisher's audience-pull being slightly stronger than Jillian Bell's 🙄
(... or it could be a director's- or producer's- (or cast majority's) Australian patriotism and/or hate-of-America 🤣) - Why did 'godmother' become the relative-moniker used? I could probably guess some reasons---if it were a non-relative, there'd be no "reason" the fairy should want to help the wisher; but if it were a blood-relative, then the wisher wouldn't even need the Godparent (as they'd have fairy-powers just as strong)
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