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Mar 31, 2013 12:51:28 GMT -5
Post by mabalasik on Mar 31, 2013 12:51:28 GMT -5
"El Presidente" is based on Aguinaldo's own memoirs so no way it's "fair and balanced".
But this wasn't much better history-wise, particularly on the whole Cavite shenanigans. It's all very frustrating.
This follows the same outline as "Bayani" from 1992, life to death biopic. A movie in the style of "Bayaning Third World" would be ideal for Bonifacio, he would fit the question of "can we really know the real man (probably not)" even more than Rizal because of the paucity of primary historical sources, and what sources we have are by other people and highly biased, pro or anti. And unlike Rizal or Aguinaldo, Bonifacio can't speak for himself because he left no sources of his own.
The lead actor previously was in "Ang Paglilitis ni Bonifacio", presumably why this one rushed the whole trial part. Come on.
A movie finally shows Bonifacio fighting a battle somewhere other than San Juan (San Mateo) but the timeline is muddled.
Also he was killed Julius Caesar style in this movie, not shot. which explains the kids' rhyme about him.
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Post by mabalasik on Nov 29, 2010 6:52:07 GMT -5
I'm reading that book too. It's good but I believe he puts too much emphasis on the Katagalugan Katipunan council of Tondo, confusing it with the Supreme Council ("Kataastaasang Kapulungan"), as the "third party" in the Magdalo-Magdiwang inter-council disputes. Bonifacio was a Tondo guy but he wasn't a member of the Katagalugan council, it had its own officers ( kasaysayan-kkk.info/studies.kkk.mla.table.1.htm). He wasn't formally affiliated with any junior council. The author also says the "Katagalugan council" or "Tondo" group left a long shadow, resulting in Sakay's Republika ng Katagalugan, etc. Well yeah, the "maka-Bonifacio" or "Bonifacista" people tended to believe in "Haring Bayang Katagalugan" rather than "Filipinas", but it's a mistake to group them by council. Also it's relatively old and other people like retired Prof. Milagros Guerrero of UP have written more clearly on the importance of Katagalugan.
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Post by mabalasik on Oct 22, 2010 9:31:14 GMT -5
The timetable's very near Bonifacio's death, but the scene is set now. It's living history, where the audience gets to encounter Andres, Oryang, Jacinto, and some Katipuneros. By "very near" his death, is he supposed to be in Cavite in the scene? Why is Jacinto there? Or is this set in the Morong/Balara/Metro Manila area? According to Alvarez's The Katipunan and the Revolution, the insignia mentioned earlier in the thread was invented for and used by both the Magdalo and Magdiwang so their officers would be recognized by either faction. So if Bonifacio is in Cavite in the scene, have him wear the cuff insignia. But if he's, say, leaving for Cavite shortly, he shouldn't wear it yet. Alvarez also says the Magdiwang uniform was supposed to be a black shirt and red pants, while the Magdalo uniform was just rayadillo. But at the time (first few months of the war), few were able to comply. If the play requires it, you could have a few Magdiwang people (officers?) wearing black and red to contrast with the Magdalo in rayadillo, and Bonifacio's own men in plain white. In his own memoirs Julio Nakpil, one of Bonifacio's aides, called the 'Bonifacio unit' in Balara poorly armed and disorganized when he joined them in November 1896. But Alvarez (or rather, Ramon Bernardo and Genaro de los Reyes, whose accounts he integrates with his own) says Bonifacio organized the various Katipunan mountain bases in and around Metro Manila by appointing generals, or approving the appointments that the men suggested, for each base. De los Reyes himself calls Bonifacio "Generalissimo". Months ago there was an independent film about Bonifacio's trial, Ang Paglilitis ni Andres Bonifacio. Here's the trailer. I haven't watched it and I don't know if the costumes are accurate. But if they have the "classic KKK flag" during the trial scenes, I don't expect the costumes to be accurate either. Bonifacio is wearing a uniform in this scene:
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Post by mabalasik on Oct 22, 2010 5:08:15 GMT -5
Hello, just registered. Gregorio Zaide wrote in one of his books that Bonifacio wore a Barong Tagalog in Balintawak just like in the Monumento. But the accounts in Santiago Alvarez's The Katipunan and the Revolution state he had to change clothes at least once because it was raining hard. So it's not implausible he wore 'peasant clothes' during the first days of the Revolution like the iconic image of him. Did he wear the coat and tie everyday in his warehouse job? As for later, I guess he wore the same style of clothes as Jacinto and Sakay (see photo) Basically what Raymond Red used for Sakay. I imagine Bonifacio looking like this in Cavite and possibly in Morong and Balara, only with the red kerchief for iconic purposes. The reason why some Katipuneros wore red pants was to pass themselves off as devotees of St. Bartholomew, as an excuse to carry bolos. Or that's what I've read. So we need not be revisionist in stating that they didn't ever wear red pants.
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