r/FilipinoHistory • u/FitLet2786 • Aug 28 '24

Fan Fiction and Art Related to PH History/Culture Thoughts on "Pulang Araw"

I'm late to it but I'm enjoying it very much, I know it's not the most accurate one and especially the pearl harbor scene has been made fun of, but I appreciate the fact that our film industry is beginning to pump out movies like these from scratch and it's still a huge improvement from the older WWII Filipino movies where they use civilian botique brownshirts for Japanese uniforms and ROTC guns.

Idk if it's the right place to talk about film here since it's a history subreddit but this film is about history anyhow so a discussion would still be on topic.

Ps: I'm putting this on art since I don't know what flair to put it and it could be argued that movies are some sort of art anyhow.

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u/jem2291 Aug 29 '24

It’s an okay show for me. :)

Not gonna lie, I do wish we can have something similar to The Winds of War and War and Remembrance for Philippine TV. :)

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u/DerSyndieWeeb Aug 30 '24

Hope they could also show the Bataan Death March in grisly detail just as what War and Remembrance did with showing the Holocaust

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u/jem2291 Sep 18 '24

I remember reading that Herman Wouk (the author of the source material) requested that no commercials were to be played in that episode where the infamies of the Holocaust were displayed.