Saturday, March 4, 2017

2017 New York Festivals World’s Best TV and Films Finalist: "SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME" is the lone Asian Finalist

I have to admit local Pinoy showbiz has somewhat bored me lately. When it should be flying high because it has apparently entered the dawning of a new Golden Age, it has turned somewhat icky instead. When it reached its Golden Age in the 1970's to 80's, it allowed itself to be priced out of its mass market with the externally-machinated ruse of introduction of multiplexes (Bollywood maintained its status as the biggest film industry in the world by maintaining its low popular prices while the second biggest in the world at that time, the Filipino film industry, priced out the masses and nosedived into gloom, contented like an innocent fool with the fostered fake news of competition & piracy). It has lately started being the top Asian telenovela draw in many parts of the world but the sad Pinoy story rears its head again. Soft power is power, & Pinoy showbiz soft power was never allowed to blossom fully. Why? There will always be Pinoys, who, for varying wicked reasons, will spoil the show for somebody else's soft power. Inferiority complex, mendicancy & cluelessness, it was never a pretty sight.

But the tides continue to roll. Pinoys are a cultural power, no matter how low their self-regard. At least.


10 comments:

  1. Hahaha Pinoy! Dakilang uto-uto!

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  2. Noong sabihan sila taasan nila presyo dahil modern na ang mga sinehan, napalatak agad mga Pinoy. Pera na, piyesta na. Hayun, every year, pag MMFF, tataasan nila ang takilya price hanggang wala nang masang nanunuod sa kanila. Mga mayaman na lang maykaya bumili tiket e Hollywood films lang gusto so Hollywood films lang nabuhay

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    1. Ngayong kaya na ng masa ang bumili, uto-uto pa rin sila

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  3. Mass media including showbiz is used for manipulation of the masses. Nothing new about that but it's really a spectacle watching how Pinoys are toyed around in the big leagues. They are unable to protect themselves but instead participate in fooling themselves to advance another agenda. They should learn lessons from the Indians

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    1. Not only had Bollywood remained the biggest film industry in the world, but they are the top rating producers of Asian telenovelas

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    2. Sa Indonesia 4 of the Top 10 programs are Indian

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  4. Wow, ang galing ng GMA. Lone Asian nominee yan

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  5. Maski sa labas may kanya-kanyang pala ang GMA at ABSCBN. Pag sa rating may Nielsen ang isa at Kantar ang kabila. Pag awards abroad may International Emmy ang isa, may New York Festival naman ang kabila

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  6. Tinatalo ng Pinoy films ang maraming Hollywood films, in fact, kaya wala nang Philippine boxoffice results sa Boxofficemojo kasi nahahalata ang trend na the top office gross is a draw between the locals & Hollywood...Yong pagsira sa Golden Age ng Pilipinas noong 1980's was instigated by Hollywood to wrest control of the box-office kasi yong mayayaman na lang ang can afford ang manuod & the rich usually go for Hollywood films mostly. Kaya biglang Hollywood hits dominated the Pinoy boxoffice at a time na mahirap pa ang tao...Pero nakarecover na ang Pinoy film industry at nawawala na naman ang control nila...kaya tinitira ang Abscbn kasi dahil sa mga hit nito. Na pina-facilitate ng bagong Abscbn management na di nahahalata hinihila siya sa ilong

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    1. Since there are more Hollywood films released, it still leads in the the total gross, but the number of topgrosser per week, halos pareho sila ng Pinoy. This was clear in the Boxofficemojo tables because they listed the number 1 topgrosser per week

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