Things I Learned from Pinoy Movies

Posted by spliceanddice on October 11, 2008 · 1 Comment 

Having been able to watch several Filipino movies in my life, I’ve learned quite a lot of things. Although I’m not an avid viewer, I’ve plucked several grains of ideas and lessons out of these films and willfully accepted them as facts of life. It’s not that original Filipino movies—though some people say it’s an oxymoron—are the only sources of virtues and vices in this side of the world for there are streams of information running elsewhere. It’s that these movies can sometimes make you laugh and cry at the same time; some of them are so good at causing you a moment of madness it’s ridiculous.

For starters, the main protagonists in action films are always either handsome or beautiful, making their sidekicks look more sorry than they actually do. They wear leather jackets and tight jeans, or anything that has long sleeves, creating the impression that they’re such an enigma. Short hair lathered with pomade and long ones washed in oil, they look good even when they’re shot in the chest by the villain who looks like a replica of Jorge Estregan or Paquito Diaz. And these cinematic heroes do get laid by a damsel in distress just before a bunch of hoodlums stage an attack with long rifles.

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One Response to “Things I Learned from Pinoy Movies”
  1. Ednathan Thadeu Andrada says:
    October 28, 2008 at 3:44 pm

    I have a feeling our action films use a template that goes way back to the studio days of the 50s. For some reason, directors and producers alike seem to operate on a set of rules that supposedly define ‘Philippine Action Movies’ and they just could not shrug it off up to this day. I’m not saying it’s bad, but there’s certainly a lot of room for innovation.

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