I first watched the film 'Heneral Luna' last summer vacation, my dad insists that we should watch this historical biopic movie beside the fact that we are interested about history, this movie became a trending topic on the internet and it was the philippine entry on '88th. “He must be the bravest man I’ve ever seen or the looniest lunatic this side of Frisco!” an American proclaims after Luna single-handedly charges the front line. 11ABM - CEO English For Academic Purposes 'Heneral Luna' Reaction Paper. There’s frequent grandstanding and staring off into the distance as the movie aspires to epicness. The film, directed by Jerrold Tarog, portrays the general as a Patton-esque figure, bucking authority and doubters, all for love of country. “General Luna, you may be a military genius, but you do not understand politics,” one of those skeptics whines. This war is in your hands.”) Cue the sweeping orchestral music.īattles are waged, speeches are made and foreign enemies soon become the least of Luna’s problems: Bureaucrats, cowards and other homegrown spoilsports continually try to sabotage his unconventional plans. Set during the Philippine-American war, a short-tempered Filipino general faces an enemy more formidable than the American army: his own treacherous c. Early in the story he’s given command of the military. But really, when a film works this hard to rouse you, there’s no shame in just giving in.Ī patriotic biopic that veers toward propaganda, “Heneral Luna” is about Antonio Luna, who in the late 1800s led the Philippine Revolutionary Army during the Philippine-American War. The issue was about the presence of Americans and. It opens with the beginning of hostilities with the American colonizers, and ends with the assassination of Luna on Ja period in which Luna served as Supreme Chief of the Army under the First Philippine Republic. It revolved not only about the war against the Americans, but mainly on the conflict among Filipinos. Heneral Luna is a 2015 Filipino historical biopic film depicting General Antonio Lunas leadership of the Philippine during the Philippine-American War.
Antonio Luna, the brilliant and brusque strategist whose. I’m only a little embarrassed at liking “ Heneral Luna,” an audaciously manipulative movie that’s more involving than it should be. The story took place during the Philippine-American War, focusing on the leadership of Heneral Luna to the Philippine Revolutionary Army. One of the most expensive and highest-grossing Filipino films of all time, Heneral Luna is a rousing, warts-and-all portrait of Gen.