For some years now, Philippine movies have been aired in many channels like my TV Africa, more, series and these movies have attracted lots of people in Nigeria.
The movies sometimes seems they have same story line. So this thread would bring a few popular facts about Filipino movies
1. Characters in Filipino movies are usually ripped right off the pages of Scriptwriting and are rarely based on real people. There’s the Cheating Husband, the Long Suffering Wife/Mother/Female Figure, the Vile Mistress, the Kontrabida (“Villain”), the Young Ingénue, the Love Team, the Macho Playboy Action Hero, the Sidekick, the Poor Virtuous Hero/Heroine who Triumphs Over Everything, the Rebellious Teen, the Precocious Child etc. etc. We particularly loathe the Sidekick who apparently has nothing better to do with his or her life except to follow and comment on the lead characters’ lives.
2. As a general rule, acting requires actors to know how to demonstrate a number of expressions and gestures to convey a variety of emotions. This is not necessary in the Philippines. Most Filipino actors only have one facial expression to depict anger, triumph, sadness, happiness or frustration. We call it the “OMG I’m constipated” look, because of the fact that the actor looks, well, constipated. Dingdong Dantes is a known practitioner.
3. Most Filipino movies do not have plots. They are a series of “quotable quotes” cobbled together to bear some resemblance to a real movie in a freaky, ugly, Frankensteinish way. We’re big fans of “quotable quotes”, really, but a movie cannot be made up of mostly over-the-top, cheesy, dramatic lines. It’s tiring, it’s silly and it sacrifices plot for unrealistic stupidity.
4. Most Filipino comedies aren't funny Or they can start out funny, then the big producers would make sequel after sequel where they would rehash the same joke over and over again until it stops being funny and just becomes annoying.
5. Movies in the Philippines are generally filled with crying and it seems women can't do anything in the movies cause they're too emotional.
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