00:00Former Senator Grace will give us, I think, anecdotes and other recollections about your father, no?
00:09Yeah, which I think Susan Tagle, the manager of FPGA, has helped craft.
00:17Magandang-magandang hapon po sa inyong lahat.
00:21Nakaka-impress na kahit bumabagyo,
00:24ay nandito pa rin ang mga talagang tumatangkilik ng pelikula at mga film buffs.
00:30Nakikita ko may mga kabataan.
00:32Congratulations, Ms. Joanne, for putting this together, especially the book.
00:37And this is, we know how you loved Philippine cinema and its creatives, actors, and also those behind the scenes.
00:46And I think it's proof that we are all here today because you are loved back.
00:51Thank you for always promoting Philippine cinema.
00:55You know, the measure, they say, of a great filmmaker is not so much the number of films that he
01:01creates,
01:02but the memories that he leaves behind for his viewers.
01:07And I think that's also what FPGA is about.
01:12Actually po, ito yung na-feature dito ay Ang Panday.
01:16Ang Panday po ay unang pinalabas noong 1980.
01:21Ngayon, nung mga panahon po na yun, ang Film Festival ay malaking-malaking event.
01:26Ang mga pelikula na lumabas noon ay minsan isang gamo-gamo,
01:31Burlesque Queen, Inchang, I think.
01:36At maraming mga magagaling na pelikula.
01:39Pero naisip ni FPGA, ang Pasko ay para sa pamilya.
01:45Sana may pagkakataon na magsama, hindi lang yung mga magulang, kundi pati kanilang mga anak.
01:53So, thus, Panday was born.
01:56So this is how he made it.
01:57Now, here are a few anecdotes about it.
02:01So, alam niyo kung napanood niyo yung Panday.
02:04Ang ginawa ko, tinawagan ko talaga yung dating set designer ni FPGA.
02:08Para malaman ko kung papano.
02:10Remember ha, palagi tayong kapos sa budget.
02:14Kapos tayo sa teknolohiya.
02:16Ayon kay Susan Tagle, it was to produce Panday 4.
02:21So, ibig sabihin, hindi Panday 1 to.
02:23Panday 4, it was about 4 to 5 million pesos at that time.
02:29So, if you include inflation, by now it's about 40 to 50 million pesos.
02:34But if you want it to be epic with the technology that we have now,
02:39that will be around 80 to 150 million pesos, apparently.
02:43So now, tinanong ko yung set designer,
02:46papano niyo, ano yung mga hindi mo makakalimutan dun sa Panday?
02:50Okay, sorry, I have to speak with my hands.
02:52So, if you don't mind, I will put this first on the side.
02:55Sabi niya, yung lumulubog si Panday sa buhangin,
03:03dahil natatalo siya ng agimat ni Lizardo.
03:07So, lumulubog.
03:08So, papano kaya natin gagawin niya na hahawi ang buhangin, ano, at lulubog siya.
03:13So, sabi niya, Lando, halika dito.
03:15Kumuha ka ng drum, baon mo sa buhangin,
03:20tapos pumasok ka doon.
03:22Kasi payat yun eh.
03:23Okay?
03:24Tapos, papatong ako sa balikat mo.
03:27Okay?
03:28So, habang lumulubog ako, dahan-dahan kang bumabang ganon.
03:31Tapos, yung bintilador, para yung buhangin.
03:34Diba?
03:35Kunyari, linilipad na ganyan.
03:36So, ito na, bumababa na si FPJ.
03:39Eh, kaso, medyo mabigat si FPJ, diba?
03:42Talagang, eh, maliit lang yung ano niya.
03:44So, yung bababa na ganon, okay.
03:47Eh, dapat, ano siya, aahon ulit.
03:50Hindi na kaya.
03:51So, sabi niya, kumuha ka ng stuntman, medyo kasha dyan.
03:55Para siya naman yung umangat.
03:57That's one.
03:58Number two, if you watch the scene with Rosemary Hill, she was the witch, eh, in one of the pandays.
04:04Correct?
04:05Okay.
04:06Kumakita mo doon, colored yung cave na parang may mga, ibat-ibang, basta ibat-ibang kulay at may mga usok
04:13ganyan.
04:13And that is exactly the picture in my Grimm's Brothers book, that FPJ, I think it was Snow White or
04:24one of the, actually, hindi Grimm's Brothers.
04:26Basta, it was the storybook from when I was a child, that when my dad saw it, pwede yan.
04:31Ang isa pang ginawa niya, sabi niya kay Lando, Lando, gumawa ka ng kubo, dyan titira yung aswang.
04:37Nung ginawa na yung kubo, sabi niya, actually, maganda yung kubo mo.
04:42Ang problema lang, eh, parang masyadong maganda.
04:46Dapat, para sa aswang, lagyan mo ng parang mga, mga kahoy na hindi, ano, mga patsi-patsi dyan, ganyan.
04:54So when it was finished, not only did they have like trusses out in all directions, may mga patay na
05:00ibon na nakatusok doon.
05:03So this is the imagination of FPJ as a director that collaborated, not just director, pati yung musical score kay
05:12Arnani Cuenco, sinabi niya kung anong dapat mga ilagay.
05:16At huli na lang ito.
05:18Again, Lando was doing the kubo and they entrusted the stuntmen to do the aswang floating in the air.
05:25So wala si Lando doon, nandun sa Ilocosur kasi yung mga stuntmen.
05:30Biglang may emergency call.
05:32Lando, pumunta ka ng Ilocosur doon sa siyudad kasi napatid yung tali ng aswang kasi dapat lumulutang yun, eh.
05:44So apparently, they were using, and I don't know how true this is, it's like a nylon thing that was
05:49like the one that they used for guitars.
05:51But that there's a certain way of knotting it so that it doesn't break.
05:55So these are a few things.
05:57So ladies and gentlemen, here in the Philippines, we have advocates like Joan, we have Rosel, and we have many
06:08others that continue to produce even with the tight budget that they have.
06:12Even with the lack of technology, but because Filipinos love movies, we have the creativity, and we have the ingenuity,
06:22but most of all, we have the grit to be able to complete a film.
06:26In FPJ's movies, he never asked his audience to be heroes.
06:34People love Panday because he invited each and every one of them to be one.
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