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8 Filipino Novels that Would Make for Awesome Movies

  • Posted on Aug 15, 2016Nov 4, 2016
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  • RJ Firmeza
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36499263 - closeup of a vintage photography still life with typewriter, folding camera, loupe, roll film, flash bulbs, contact prints and book on a wood table. black and white toned image for a vintage feel.8 Filipino Novels
that Would Make for
Awesome Movies

By RJ Firmeza

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There is no template for the great Filipino novel, but there sure are plenty of great Filipino novels that stand purely on their own merits. They encompass everything from the historical epic, like Rosca’s State of War, the fractured slice of life in Calabia’s Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog, to the more modest coming of age of a girl amid revolution in Apostol’s Gun Dealer’s Daughter.

Here are 8 Pinoy novels we’d love to see adapted into film by any of our visionary directors. Paging direk Lav Diaz for Syjuco’s Ilustrado.

 

8. The Great Philippine Jungle Energy Café by Alfred Yuson

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Via verseisbond.wordpress.com

A masterpiece of surreal literature by Alfred Yuson, the GPJEC is a winner of the Palanca grand prize for the novel in 1987; the story follows the adventures of Leon Kilat, a revolutionary hero, and writer Robert Aguinaldo. Turning this into a film is no joke or easy task, with its disintegrated narrative that has a touch of the avant-garde, and a stupendous array of characters, this project will require a huge fortune to pull off–but it’ll be worth every penny.

 


7. Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco

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Miguel Syjuco’s ambitious Ilustrado won the Palanca Grand Prize for the novel in 2008, and the prestigious Man Asian Literary prize in the same year. This chopsuey-like narrative follows the adventures of Miguel who seeks to find the truth about his mentor, Crispin Salvador’s death. With so many voices in play, and plenty of mediums of storytelling, how does one tell this in filmic language? Definitely something Lav Diaz would want to take on.

 

6. Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog by Edgar Calabia Samar

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A futuristic novel by Edgar Samar, this was long-listed in the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize. The style of the story follows a very quirky and unconventional format, sometimes using email templates as they recount their memories in the imaginary town of Atisan in Laguna. Samar takes inspiration from Haruki Murakami and incorporates that into his writing, but not to the point of complete mimickry. This novel is a slice-of-life of a storyteller trying to tell a story fused with supernatural elements.

 


5. State of War by Ninotchka Rosca

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Ninotchka Rosca’s State of War exposes the long history of the Filipino people back in the pre-Hispanic to the Spanish colonization, then the American invasion. The novel is divided into three chapters: Book of Acts, Book of Numbers, and Book of Revelation. Much of Rosca’s brilliance in writing comes out in the Book of Numbers chapter, which would be a sight to behold, if adapted for film.

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