Promoting FMA and the Pilipino culture

[99medic]

What do you fellow FMA practitioners think if we persuade the director Gene Cagayon, (the director of The Debut). To do a epic remake of Lapu-Lapu?

Not just a release to DVD movie but an epic movie like: The Patriot, and Braveheart.

I bet that FMA will be promoted in a big way and Pilipinos especially here in the US will finally get recognition that we deserve.

[Sheldon Bedell]

That would be great but how do we go about it

[Buwaya]

What do you fellow FMA practitioners think if we persuade the director Gene Cagayon, (the director of The Debut). To do a epic remake of Lapu-Lapu?

Not just a release to DVD movie but an epic movie like: The Patriot, and Braveheart.

I bet that FMA will be promoted in a big way and Pilipinos especially here in the US will finally get recognition that we deserve.
Persauding is one thing. Funding is another. Epic film equals epic budjet, and I think that crew is still trying to pay off the debut.

And I don't know if I'd want the director of the Debut to do a Pinoy war epic. Not that I doubt his work, but a john hughes-esque film like the Debut doesn't equal war epic in my mind. Not that I have another suggestion for a director.

I'd rather see a film about the Moro-American war, the Katipunan, Sultan Kudarat, the WW2 bolo battalions, or a cinderella man-esqe Pinoy boxer movie than something about Lapu-Lapu.

Thats just me.

[Buwaya]

I bet that FMA will be promoted in a big way and Pilipinos especially here in the US will finally get recognition that we deserve.
Want to give recognition to Pilipinos in the States?

Do a film about the Pilipinos who fought in the American Revolution.

Do a film about the Pilipinos who started the shrimping industry in Louisiana in the 1500's.

Do a film about the 300 years of galleon trade between Manilla and Acapulco.

Do a film about the Philippine American war and Benevolent Assimilation.

Do a film about the first wave of Philippine Migrant workers and the prejudice they experianced when they first came to the United States.

Do a film about the Pilipino soldiers who fought in WW2, and the thousands that have since died without ever seeing benefits from the American goverment.

[99medic]

Want to give recognition to Pilipinos in the States?

Do a film about the Pilipinos who fought in the American Revolution.

Do a film about the Pilipinos who started the shrimping industry in Louisiana in the 1500's.

Do a film about the 300 years of galleon trade between Manilla and Acapulco.

Do a film about the Philippine American war and Benevolent Assimilation.

Do a film about the first wave of Philippine Migrant workers and the prejudice they experianced when they first came to the United States.


Do a film about the Pilipino soldiers who fought in WW2, and the thousands that have since died without ever seeing benefits from the American goverment.

I agree on this one. The WWII movie The Great Raid portarayed the Pilipino guerrilla fighters as incompetent. Which we all know is ********.

[99medic]

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quote=Sheldon Bedell]That would be great but how do we go about it[/QUOTE]

Not really sure, I'm just trowing it out there to see if anybody here have any ideas.

[arnisador]

It'd take a lot of funding to get a major movie made...at least tens of millions of dollars. I don't see a source for this! Still, it'd be neat.

[Phadrus00]

What do you fellow FMA practitioners think if we persuade the director Gene Cagayon, (the director of The Debut). To do a epic remake of Lapu-Lapu?

Not just a release to DVD movie but an epic movie like: The Patriot, and Braveheart.

I bet that FMA will be promoted in a big way and Pilipinos especially here in the US will finally get recognition that we deserve.

What a GREAT idea! Movies and Television really are the gateway into Western Culture. As FMA's I think we all face the frustration of the lack of awareness and appreciation of how rich and amazing the South East Asian Martial Arts are!

I think the "Hook" here has got to be a context that American audiences can relate too. Although I think the history of The Phillipine people is loaded with epic stories to tell, many of them will be lost to an American Audience.

The "less than Epic" way of approaching this would be to make a movie about an American competing in an Internation Stick-Fighting competition (insert paralles to Bloodsprot here! *grin*). It would allow the movie to give a hero to connect with as well as an opportunity to show off the complexity and beauty of the Art. I mean if Antonia Banderas can promote the Tango surely we can get Christian Bale to promote Stick-fighting! *evil grin*

An "Epic" story might be something similar to "Windtalkers" perhaps focussing in on the role that Phillipino soldiers played in the pacific theater in WWII. I see it as "Saving Private Ryan" meets "Windtalkers" meets "Bat 21". A platoon of crack Phillipino Soldiers leads a Captain into enemy territory to rescue a fallen comrade. They must get in and get out with ultimate stealth as the fallen comrade has highly classified information, blah blah blah... There woud be lots of incredible fight scenes of Kris vs. sword, etc. *Ar Ar Ar AR*!

Now if we could get George Clooney.....

Rob