Let it be known I criticized the movie Plane before it was cool. Though it was tounge-in-cheek because it's an OK movie and represents Jolo as well as a Hollywood movie can be said to represent Jolo. Now Senator, actor, and pardoned criminal Robinhood Padilla wants the movie banned and condemned because he says it represents the Philippines in a bad light. According to Padilla the MTRCB said they would enact his proposal.
Senator Robin Padilla on Saturday said that he received a response from the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) to ban the movie "Plane" from screening in local theaters.
"Yes. They told me, they talked to the distributor. And now we want to write to the producer himself," Padilla said in an interview with DWIZ.
The former action star said he met with the agency headed by chairperson Diorella "Lala" Sotto-Antonio in his office last Friday.
Holy moly they are going to be writing to the producer?? That would be.....a whole bunch of people including the star of the movie!!!
Will Padilla and the MTRCB really be writing to and perhaps speaking with them? And what will each party say? It's too ridiculous to comprehend especially since the movie has made double its budget and a sequel is in the works.
The most interesting response to Padilla's call to ban the movie is from the Director's Guild of the Philippines. Note how Philstar uses the same graphic to illustrate both of these articles. But admittedly they do have the better headline.
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https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2023/02/20/2246350/why-trolls-historical-revisionism-allowed-filipino-directors-question-banning-hollywood-film-planeThe Directors' Guild of the Philippines (DGPI) opposed the government’s plan to stop the theatrical release of the controversial Hollywood movie “Plane.” In a statement released on their Facebook page, DGPI said that the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) already approved its release but politicians are just opposing it. “A proposed ban on the public exhibition of the film 'Plane' has been making the rounds of the news cycle,” DGPI said. "The Directors' Guild of the Philippines (DGPI) opposes to stop the showing of this movie, as we believe agency and free choice must remain with the public, rather than imposed by politicians. To out rightly ban the film, especially one already approved the MTRCB, is a cure much worse that the illness itself, injurious to free expression and sets a precedent for films to be held hostage by imagined slights to our country’s reputation,” it added. The DGPI also compared the movie to the fake news and troll armies who are revising history. "If the state can tolerate free expressions for trolls, fake news, and historical revisionism without worrying about their effect on the country's prestige, then the state can do the same for a work that members of the foreign press have regarded as mindless B-movie entertainment rather that a reliable commentary on our country's affairs,” it said. “We support allowing the film to screen, informing the public of any problematic claims it makes, inviting open debate, or simply ignoring the film altogether. But we stand against censorship or banning the exhibition of this film from screening,” it added. The petition was signed by DGPI president Mark Meily, board members Carlos Siguon-Reyna, Perci Intalan, Ed Lejano, Marlon Rivera, Roni Berfubi, Keith Sicat and Remton Zuasola.
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What? Banning a movie is a free speech issue? Where were these guys when the MTRCB banned
Uncharted, Abominable, and that Netflix show
Pine Gap because they BRIEFLY showed China's 9-dash line?? Why can't the state tolerate China's 9-dash line being shown briefly in a film? In some cases it was very relevant. But since these directors cannot be called upon to uphold free expression at all times they are not relevant at all.
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