These flaws humanized Luna and made him a character worthy of sympathy, said Mr. Luna, as portrayed in this film, is as flawed as the quintessential Shakespearean tragic hero - for all his being a good general, he also had a foul mouth and a hair-trigger temper which didn’t make him popular among his contemporaries. when Heneral Luna, (played by actor John Arcilla) trying to tell a British train conductor that he was comandeering his train, gives up and tells his men, “ Puñeta! Hulihin niyo na ’yan nauubusan ako ng Ingles” (Arrest that fellow already I have run out of English). Tarog’s script avoids the use of “high” Filipino and offers the occasional comic relief - e.g. Tarog went on to revise the script and translate it into colloquial Tagalog - he wanted Heneral Luna to speak to as many audience members as possible - and two years later the film was made. The script, written in English, languished unmade for 17 years before young director Jerrold Tarog (Senior Year, Cinemalaya’s Sana Dati) came into the picture. It chronicles the events leading up to Luna’s assassination.
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It turns out that 1998 was a good year for heroes - that was also the year Eduardo Alfredo “E.A.” Perez Rocha, along with Henry Hunt Francia, wrote a script telling the story of a contemporary of Rizal, Antonio Luna - a revolutionary general considered one of the most brilliant Filipino military officers during the Filipino-American war (1899-1902). The P80-million film starring Cesar Montano was the most expensive historical film at that time. Jose Rizal, directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya, was an entry in the Metro Manila Film Festival. It was in 1998 when Philippine cinema last saw a successful film based on a National Hero. Heneral Luna has also been chosen to represent the country in the Best Foreign Film category at the Oscars in 2016. By its third week, it was again being screened in 100 cinemas, and the film - made for P80 million - has grossed over P163 million (as of Sept. When the number of cinemas dwindled to 40, Heneral Luna’s cast, crew and production staff turned to social media to plead: please keep film in the theaters. The major theater companies in the country had to pull out the movie after the first few days to give way for more lucrative foreign films like The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials. Clearly, it wasn’t getting enough attention. 9 in 100 cinemas nationwide, dropping to 70 in the days that followed.
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Produced by Artikulo Uno Productions, Inc., the film opened on Sept. The bio-pic was on the verge of being pulled from theaters before making a successful comeback, thanks to social media.
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UNLIKE THE BLOODY assassination scene where katipuneros shoot and stab the lead character to death, Heneral Luna - the film - fought back and triumphed.