[movies} Flight of the Intruder

[ice_of_dreams]

So I was watching an old movie in HBO about the Vietnam war.

THere was this conversation

MP: here's my son
[plays tape recorder]: sana naaalala mo ako, ako ang kasama mo noon.... eto ang anak mo (translation: I hope you remember me, I was with you before, this is your son... boy cries in the background)
marine: how do you know it's your son?
MP: I don't know, but if she wants it to be my son, right? It's okay right?
marine: sure. So what's she like?
MP: She's BUTT ugly man. But she has a good body. At least you know she's all right, man. Unlike those pretty girls, you never know. I think I could love an ugly girl.

Coming back from puerto galera where half of the foreigners had a filipina on his arm it was kind of strange...

And hearing tagalog when I was expecting vietnamese was even stranger. I find tagalog in movies in the weirdest places. Constantine, a couple of other movies, this one. Especially the older movies. circa 1990's lots of tagalog pretending to be asian.

Comments

[deleonjh.livejournal.com]

The Constantine one makes sense since it helps to explain why the family was so ready to use an exorcist. Also, Richard Gere's character gets robbed as a child by some Filipino street toughs and a Filipino cook briefly shouts at Sean Connery in The Rock. I still remember what he said: "Huy, hayop! Puta! Putang ina mo!" Those are just the examples off the top of my head.

[deleonjh.livejournal.com]

Forgot to mention, the Richard Gere movie is An Officer and a Gentleman.

[ice-of-dreams.livejournal.com]

I haven't watched this yet

[ice-of-dreams.livejournal.com]

The Constantine one was semi strange to me since it was a mexican place. Well it kind of looked spanish to me/Mexican.

Besides it was the demon which used Filipino and said "papatayin kita!"

Oh, there was this one movie. There was a lady cook who was tending the house and she told the family "Ayun! Sumusuka *retches* *retches* Anong pinakain mo dun?" I just can't remember what movie that was tho.

[deleonjh.livejournal.com]

Oops, I forgot I even left this message, I barely use LJ now. The Constantine family is clearly Filipino, there's a Philippine flag in the kitchen. I don't think you'd find too much difference between what a Mexican family would have in their house and what a Filipino family would in Los Angeles, they'd both have stuff like Virgin Mary statues and such. I think most viewers would have assumed that the family was Mexican, actually, especially since the movie was set in LA.

Too bad you can't remember that other movie though.

[ice-of-dreams.livejournal.com]

Probably. but becuase of that I'd have to watch constantine again. :P

I'll go check later on and see, I'm sure you're right though (duh) but I hate being wrong ;p