Philippine cinema has never been one that is deeply related with literature. Except for adaptations of Jose Rizal's Noli me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, Francisco Baltazar's Florante at Laura, and other revered texts of national importance, adaptations are mostly limited to popular comics and romance novels. Perhaps the reason why there is that gaping separation between cinema and literature in the country is because literature, except for the texts that are used for school and the comics and romance novels that are used for escapism, is unprofitable. Consequently, cinema based on literature is also unprofitable, catering only to the sophisticated and the learned elite and not to the general movie-going populace. Ligo na Ü, Lapit na Me (Star-Crossed Love), based on Eros Atalia's bestselling...
- 10/2/2011
- Screen Anarchy
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