Thru the years our movie industry has been growing and evolving in different ways that would define our movies as unique unlike those of the movies from other countries. Although at some point we have experienced a decline, even now I would say that we are evolving but experiencing a decline at the same time. We are growing in terms of movie production and quality but we are experiencing a decline in the number of movies we are showing to the public when there are a lot of potentials in the independent movie industry. We are showing at least ten movies internationally when there is more than that created a year. I guess the problem with us today is that we refuse to love our own and instead we indulge ourselves to American movies. When we watch Filipino movies they seem to have a general theme on their whole story. The main character is always brave, good looking and poor, just by watching old Robin Paddila and Fernando Poe Junior movies which for me is one of the best films even if they tend to redo the plot in his different movies. The main character will meet his leading lady and be stunned with her exceeding beauty, there are usually famous pairs that are always together in different movies but they are usually paired with each other whether it be a love or action story like Susan Roces and Fernando Poe Jr, Vilma Santos and Edgar Mortiz, Sharon Cuneta and Gabby Conception among others. Their love is tried and tested, there will be trials whether someone would be falling out of love, another woman or guy, one of them would have amnesia. The antagonist of the story is always rich, whether that guy is a drug dealer, someone who owns a lot of land, or a politician. The place where the real action happens is always a warehouse or a big mansion owned by the bad guy, they would usually fight here because the hero would rescue his love from the bad guy and the bad guy usually kidnap or have a confrontation in their own territory. The fight is always a hundred against one, at this point the hero would face impossible odds and still win even if they win in the most impossible ways. The hero will now face the bad guy, whether it would be thru a fist fight or a gun battle the hero will always win. The police will arrive after the hero has settled the problem, the police would always be late and useless because the hero will always handle everything by himself no matter the odds and the police would always be late although in some movies the arrive just in time just to be killed by the bad guy resulting in the hero doing everything himself. Our movies are mostly like this because this is how we define our society, as a bunch of underdogs aiming for the win. These movies sell a lot to the masses because they could see themselves in these movies, they want to believe that they are the hero, that they can face impossible odds and succeed I mean who wouldn’t want to do that. These stories that we create for the masses gives them hope and even a temporary reprieve to their everyday lives so in a way this style of movies that makes our industry unique is dependent on each other. The masses want to watch these types of movies because they see themselves in these movies while these movies make a lot of money from these people and since its so effective and it sells to the masses they replicate this style numerous times, but it is so effective why would they want to change from that direction? Although there have been some attempts and it has been successful as well in some degree like Darna although she is a superhero compared to that of a normal person and I am sure that Judy Ann Santos had a role before that made her as the heroine doing exactly the way a male role would do. Before this has been the norm in movies although today there is still a glimpse of the plot being like this but we have evolved and have made different and hopefully independent and unique ways. My only fear is that we copy too much from movies of other countries, western movies mostly and ignoring in making our own unique films.
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