This article was posted on the IMDb's studio briefing page, and frankly, it is not something to be proud of, is it?
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Philippine Movie Industry "Now Clinically Dead," Says Director
The Filipino film industry which only recently turned out more than 200 films a year, will produce only about 25 in 2006 and faces extinction without government support, a top director said Saturday. As reported by the Philippine Star, director Joel Lamangan told a forum in Quezon City, "The movie industry is now clinically dead." He warned that unless film producers receive government backing, foreigners will eventually produce movies depicting Filipinos, and "the country will lose its soul." He demonstrated the lack of government support by noting that at international film festivals in which Filipino films compete, producers have to pay for the meals of Philippine embassy officials in attendance.
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There are a few blog readers out there who sent me e-mails (you know who you are) telling me off. Some of them are asking me why I say things on my blog, why I criticize Filipino movies, why I say awful things about their favorite programs.
There's your answer. Need I say more? This precious entertainment industry of began her descent began in the 1990's when those profit-hungry directors and producers began to make those sleazy seven-day softcore pornography movies starring Ynez Veneracion, Angela Velez, Rosanna Roces, and all the other brainless boldies that came and went without any name at all.
Nextly, the already suffering industry received another blow from the growth of the CD and DVD pirates. The emergence of these illegal vendors sealed the fate of the industry.
Then it got worse with these Film festival garbage when everybody involved cried foul.
So how can anybody expect this dead industry to rise up? It should start with the ordinary people like us. We should make it known that we, the audience, are sick and tired of seeing the same kind of garbage on our television and silver screens. These producers need our money, and money is hard to come by nowadays; so the movie makers should give us proper reasons for us to give them our money.
Let's face it. All of these shows and movies they're coming up with is just not enough. Don't just aim for the money, kids... AIM FOR THE WORLD.
If you want our money, DO BETTER.
2 comments:
In the words of Victor Lazslo: "Welcome back to the fight."
I hope you can see the problem with Filipino audiences nowadays is that they do not aim high. There was one person who told me: "alam mo, hindi kaya ng pilipino ang level ng Hollywood. We should be happy with what we have." I beleive this saying is complete garbage! Who are these people to say na hindi natin kaya ang level ng hollywood? Kesyo napakataas daw ng budget ng mga movies na ito. I say different. I say kaya natin abutin o di kaya'y malampasan ang level ng Hollywood and we can do this even without the big-budget special effects. We can do this with driving storylines, exciting and original (uncopied) plot twists, and intriguing and amazing character studies.
Spread the word and share your ideas. We, the audience, are the entertainment industry's only hope.
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