Earning P320 million in 3 weeks, the film's secret sauce not only lies in the film's blockbuster love team, but also in director Petersen Vargas' rich, inspired use of his filmic inspirations
This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.Earning P320 million in 3 weeks, the film's secret sauce not only lies in the film's blockbuster love team, but also in director Petersen Vargas' rich, inspired use of his filmic inspirations, which has raked in P320 million after three weeks in theaters and now approaches its fourth week.
“They were thinking something along the lines of a Moira visual mixtape starring JoshLia, and in hindsight, that sounded like a perfect prompt and strong jump-off point,” Vargas tells me. “It was also personal archives of my own memories, which brought me to the decision to depict Juancho and Zy’s happy memories as mundane digicam home video clips, because that’s how mine look like in my head when I try to remember them,” he adds.
And the surprise of meeting them that day made all of my initial anxieties and worries vanish. They were just professional and warm and fun, both of them ready with a shooting day’s worth of energy and commitment. There was no evidence of friction or tension, just pure natural chemistry and talent. At this point, you’re right, I’m much more used to working on a script not written by me. I like how you put it, “to put faith in the material,” because the requirement before moving on to the next step was always to have some sense of faith with what’s in my hands.
And in order to do that, you’d have to be a consumer of a wide array of things: art, life experiences, music and playlists, books of poetry and stories, films and film reviews, anime and web comics and graphic novels — just about everything you could lay your eyes and hands on. I think this was the first time where the playdate was already officially announced even prior to filming. We started filming end of May, and ended a month and a half after, around mid-July. This meant that we had exactly one month our playdate to do post-production and finish the film. Putting it like that in writing feels crazy, and I couldn’t imagine now how we managed to pull it off!
There were also extensive conversations with my constant collaborator, director of photography Noel Teehankee, on how to depict the past and present visually. Especially for how the past, or specifically how each of the leads remember their own version of the past, is what drives the present-day conflicts of the story.
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