Friday, August 21, 2015

9. BAYANI

Superman, Batman, Wonderwoman, The Incredibles and Spiderman... These are our so called "Heroes" while we are still crawling and young. Well, what does a hero mean? A hero is someone that is idolized by a lot of people because of their overwhelming courage. People look up to these heroes because they can do a lot of extraordinary things that we, normal people cant. Being a "Bayani" (Hero in tagalog) is what we all talked about in the Forum (Bayani Ba 'To? Heroism for Millenials).


The forum started with Ms. Elizabeth Reyes' speech about "Heroism”. Next is the award winning film director (also the director of Heneral Luna), Jerrold Tarog that gave a speech about his goals on why he pushed through in directing the film Heneral Luna, his struggles, and on "why" we should Heneral Luna, and the present generations stature when it comes to “HISTORICAL FILMS” (which is very eye-opening for me). Next is the MOUTHWATERING 12-minute movie preview followed by the full online trailer. THE 12-minute preview makes me want to watch the movie even more, the quality of the movie and its story line is very interesting and impressive. Watching the trailer makes me want to continue it in the cinemas (rest assured that I would definitely watch it because it is so good and they told us that if the film becomes a big hit, they would continue the planned trilogy starring Paolo Avelino as Manuel Quezon). Next is Sir. Xiao Chua, a historian that told that “HEROES ARE HUMANS TOO” (another eye-opening speech), he told about the adventures, struggles and mistakes that these heroes made. But what made them unique is because they chose our country rather than their personal desires, fought for their country instead of theirselves. Sir. Xiao showed us that these bayani’s that we adore and look up to are just like us! They also have their hobbies and they also commited mistakes with accord to their positions. Next is the “open forum”, questions were asked and those questions are answered by the people who are good at the said film like the historian Sir Xiao, the director Jerrold Tarog, the leader of the dakila group, the head of APC’s history department, and lastly, the actor, Heneral Luna himself, Mr. John Arcilla. Those questions gave us a lot of information on “why does a filipino need to be a bayani?”, and lastly, the rap that the Dakila Group leader sang… It was very meaningful because it is jam packed with the present reality. After the forum, I thought that “I SHOULD BECOME A BAYANI BY SIMPLE MEANS.”. Outside the APC Auditorium, people crowded over the picnic kiosk because they are giving away free picnic (EVERYONE LOVES FOOD).

The Forum made me realize a lot of things. The forum should be done in all schools to open this generations eyes to the real meaning of being a bayani and so that they will learn how to appreciate these Historical Films.

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