Fact, fiction, and Antonio Luna
What I disagree with in Jerrold Tarog’s portrayal of Philippine hero Gen. Antonio Luna in his film Heneral Luna, portrayed to great effect by John Arcilla, is a line that appears at the beginning: “This is fiction based on facts.”
For a while there, I braced myself—Is the film going to put Luna in some make-believe world? Is he, like Abraham Lincoln in Timur Bekmambetov’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, going to be slaying vampires? Is he, like Oscar Wilde in Gyles Brandreth’s The Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries, going to be a sleuth? Is he, like Adolf Hitler in Timur Vermes’s Look Who's Back, going to wake up in from a deep, long slumber in ?
But in a blink, the next few lines explained it only took some creative license in rearranging the order of events, such as the battles in the many towns across Luzon, from Pampanga to Cavite to Intramuros. I have no doubt that much of the banter as well as the conversations was imagined to supply the missing details from direct quotes and written accounts and word of mouth culled from intensive
Retired UP Professor of English Vivencio R. Jose passed on at around p.m of December 6 in his ancestral house in San Nicolas, Gapan, Nueva Ecija. He is the founding Director of UP’s PhD Philippine Studies Program (reorganized years later as the UP Diliman Tri-College PhD Philippine Studies program). He also served as Director, UP Press. Later, he served as Chair, Department of English and Comparative Literature (UP Diliman, ), Dean, College of Arts and Letters (UP Diliman, ), and Secretary of the University and of the Board of Regents (UP System, August December ).
He is the author of The Rise and Fall of Antonio Luna (Philippine Social Sciences and Humanities Review 36, and Solar Publishing, ) and Heneral Luna: The Story Behind the Movie (Anvil, ). The Rise and Fall of Antonio Luna became the basis for the well-regarded film “Heneral Luna”, directed by Jerrold Tarog and produced by Artikulo Uno Productions (). Dr. Jose also worked as a consultant for the United Nations University (Tokyo) and UNESCO (Paris).
Of The Rise and Fall of Antonio Luna, says John N. Schumacher: &#;…it is welcome as the first scholarly full-length biography of this major f
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KINAADMAN XVII () ANTONIO LUNA THE RISE AND FALL OF ANTONIO LUNA, By Vivencio R. sity of the Philippines, Press. Quezon City. , xviii, p., photos, bibliog., index (18x26 cm.) This is an award-winning biography of one of the famous generals of the Philippines revolution, General Antonio Luna. The book is divided into four parts. The first presents the historical milieu where Antonio Luna grew up and how he made his mark in history as a reformer. The second describes Luna’s role in the Revolution and his efforts to aid in the prosecution of the war against the Americas using his efforts to aid in the prosecution of the war against the Americans using his knowledge of military science. The third part analyzes the nature of American imperialism and its consequent impact in the Philippines. And the fourth part is an assessment of Luna’s beliefs and ideals, his mysterious death and the aftermath. The central focus of the biography is to correct distortions about Antonio Luna by placing him in proper historical perspective: presenting, analyzing and evaluating his role in the Filipino struggle for nation freedom. The topical but chronological
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Retired UP Diliman professor Vivencio R. Jose passed away on Dec. 6 in Gapan, Nueva Ecija.
Jose served as the founding director of UP’s PhD Philippine studies program, reorganized later as UPD’s Tri-College PhD Philippine studies program. He served as chair of the UPD Department of English and Comparative Literature (), dean of the UPD College of Arts and Letters (), and secretary of the University and the UP Board of Regents (August December ). He also served as UP Press director in the s.
Jose started serving the University in as instructor of English in the then College of Arts and Sciences. In and , he was given additional assignments as publication editor of the Department of English and Comparative Literature and editor of the Philippine Social Sciences and Humanities Review, respectively.
To assist in the then UP seven-point agenda, Jose was appointed in as chair of the President’s Committee on the Improvement of English Teaching, a position he held until
In January , Jose’s service to the University (as Professor 12) was extended beyond the retirement age. From June 1, to May 31, , he was appointed as a professorial lecturer.
Jose was conferred
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