Tuesday, February 10, 2004




This is the logo of the new project im currently in pre-production now. I just cant believe it! I just took a few hours off from finishing the final cut of the Jungle movie and suddenly a new idea pops up.. Test shots came in and they prove very promising. I already did a few minutes of a teaser trailer. More on this as it develops.

Im doing some optical line-ups and it?s not a very exciting thing to do. But I want to do it myself to insure that the proper elements come together. The television was on and I spotted some new commercials. After being exposed for a couple of minutes I shut it off After seeing two ads that sold white pigmentation formulas I realized how blatantly the advertising companies dwell on and provoke our insecurities. That no man would desire a girl with black under arms or that a girl with white complexion is infinitely more superior than the one with dark skin.

The actors were yapping about how they get turned off by this and that in a girl, mostly artificial things. They didn?t even stop to look at the mirror and check what do they have to mouth off such insensitive remarks! Yes its just a commercial, But no, its not just a commercial, its something more.

Later in class, we talked about it and I told the girls how would they feel if the guy they really liked suddenly leaned on the table and said, ? I get turned off by black underarms in a girl! ?

FLIM: ? Do you get it? So never mind if you?re a brilliant and intelligent woman who reads a lot of books and has special skills as a chef. Never mind if you have a very decent personality, and a very helpful nature. Never mind if you just climbed Mount Everest with one hand tied behind your back and juggling a pair of pompoms on your left toe, YOU?RE NOTHING BECAUSE YOU HAVE BLACK UNDERARMS!!!!!! ?

All the girls cheered. Then this tall and dusky girl talked.

GIRL: ? Sir, I may be dark but I feel pretty! ?

FLIM: " Of course you are! AND NO CHEAP COMMERCIAL CAN TELL YOU OTHERWISE! DON?T BELIEVE THAT CRAP ABOUT WHITE COMPLEXIONED GIRLS BEING HOT! GIVE IT FIVE TO SEVEN YEARS AND YOU CAN SEE THEIR SKIN WART OVER OR DISPLAY ALL THE STRETCH MARKS IN CHRISTENDOM!?

A man who will dump you because you have black underarms and have a black complexion is not even worth thinking about! What would happen to you if you do get this guy and you get married and are settled comfortably, and then one day you look at the mirror and see that your under arm suddenly became black?

Would you leave him alone with the new pretty maid with the white underarm?

And how do you get black underarms anyway? ?

GIRL: ? If you put deodorants on them.?

FLIM: " DEODORANTS? AS IN THOSE THINGS THAT ARE BEING SOLD USING THIS GUY WHO SMELLS OR SEES THE GIRLS UNDERARMS AND THEN MAKES A FACE? SO YOU GET BLACK UNDER ARMS BECAUSE OF AN EARLIER INSECURITY THE ADVERTISERS FOSTERED ON YOU!?

The girls nod in agreement.

FLIM: " THOSE COMMERCIALS WOULD TELL YOU THAT YOURE NOT PRETTY ENOUGH! YOURE NOT TALL ENOUGH. YOURE NOT THIN ENOUGH AND ALL THAT SHIT!UNTIL YOU BUY THEIR PRODUCT. AND THEN AFTER USING IT THE BOY YOU LIKE IS GOING TO MOZZY UP TO YOU AND GIVE YOU THAT MILLION PESO SMILE!THAT'S THE BIGGEST BULLSHIT BEING DUMPES TO US NEXT TO THE IDIOT WHO CONVINCED US TO BASE OUR MONETARY LEVEL ON FOREIGN CURRENCIES INSTEAD OF OUR GOLD DEPOSITS! WELL DONT YOU BUY IT AND DON?T BUY THEIR PRODUCTS!

We are flawed and insecure human beings with dozens of neurosis AS IS! And we dont need this cut troath companies adding to our misery!"

GIRL: ? Sir, I wish you?re running for office. We?d vote you! ?

There was a huge cheer. They do have their moments. Not many but they do have them!