Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Elcano & Magellan: Distorting The Past of Filipinos

It has been three hundred and thirty-three years since the Spaniards colonized our beloved country. We have just read stories of oppression which leads to several acts of a bloody revolution until the time we have gotten our freedom on June 12, 1898.

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Until I have read some news that there was an animated movie produced by Dibulitoon Studio and Elkano DibulitoonAIE about Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastian Elcano's circumnavigation. Many netizens, especially Filipinos, reacted on Twitter about the movie. Showing in Philippine theaters in January 2020.

Here's the trailer from the movie Elcano & Magellan:



Dibulitoon Studio and Elkano Dibulitoon AIE made these two conquestadors as heroes and Lapu-Lapu as the main antagonist. Elcano & Magellan the movie are attempting to poison the well of all their audiences to make Elcano and Magellan as heroes – and Lapu-Lapu as the loser. A comment coming from a Filipino netizen said the Elcano & Magellan the movie retitled as “The Colonisation of the Philippines and the Start of Three Hundred Years of Suffering”.

This animated movie romanticizes the adventure of these two conquestadors like they patterned the storyline to Strawhat Luffy (Mugiwara) as good navigators who are in favor of good and justice.

The movie is trying to distort our history and they did not know what happened at that time when the Spaniards colonized us – filled with terror and tyranny. These producers are trying to make money and gave the bad side of the story accounted to Lapu-Lapu. They are glorifying Magellan’s Expedition but please do not mess the history – we Filipinos will never forget how the Spaniards maltreated us in the past.

I know some people will say: “Past is past…we shall move on. Let the movie be shown here in the Philippines.” Ask yourself, are you really reading Philippine History? Is it the storyline of that movie tells you the truth? Is it worth watching the movie insulting the history of Lapu-Lapu?

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