Heritage lost (and found again)
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| Aldrin Cardon |
I belatedly caught Jim Paredes of the Apo Hiking Society in a talk radio program one rainy night last week, when he mentioned something like Philippine arts’ stunted growth due to its being just a mirror image of its western granddaddies.
Although Philippine arts has built a legacy with past music and films worth their salt, there is no denying it continues to wallow in everything pegged from their foreign “inspirations.” This is why even some of the country’s top movie producers did not bother to preserve their past movies which should have spoken for our growth in culture and as a people.
A flashback hit me when a friend, who used to do apprentice job at Regal Films, once declared how they “discovered” reels and reels of old films down a place where they pee during busy working nights.
It was a nightmare, he said, seeing the reels soaking wet in their own urine. Most of the films, mostly B-movies made after the notorious era of “pito-pito” movies (films completed in seven days, some of them without the use of formal scripts) of the 1980s..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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