A maritime lawyer by profession, sometimes called Frog Prince of the Philippines with currently more than a thousand of collectible frog items. Like the frogs with a reputation for leaping that is well deserved, jump with me to my froglandia as we travel and explore the world seeking symbols of divine powers of love, fertility, regeneration, rebirth, immortality, and transformation.
"Hayop . . . Hayuuup .
. . Hayuuupppp!" – Nora Aunor, Ina Ka ng Anak Mo
(1979) - a 1979 Filipino film and an official entry to the1979 Metro Manila Film Festival. The story portrays the everyday life of Renata (Lolita Rodriguez) and her daughter Ester (Nora Aunor), who is married to Luis (Raoul Aragonn).
Unfortunately, Ester and her mother get into a heated argument
resulting to Renata feeling emotional about it. She then confides to
Luis about her problems, which results to one night of passionate union.
Nora's first movie under the direction of Lino Brocka and an entry to
the 1979 Metro Manila Film Fest. It was also the first and the only
collaboration and acting duel between two of the greatest actresses of
the Philippine Cinema; Nora AUnor and Lolita Rodriguez. Both actresses
were recognized as Best Actress at the film fest award's night.
Top pinoy movielines #11 "My brother is not a
pig! My brother is not a pig! Ang kapatid ko ay tao, hindi baboy damo!"
– Nora Aunor, Minsa'y Isang Gamugamo (1976) - a 1976 Filipino film
classic and an official entry to the 1976 Metro Manila
Film Festival. It is a story of a young woman who wanted to go to
America despite of brutal murder of American soldiers to some Filipinos,
chose to keep quiet until a tragedy struck their family and changed her
whole perspective about America. The film openly criticized the
American existence in the Philippines. The film won five awards at the
25th FAMAS Awards including the best Picture, director and screenplay.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vUSzeqKzAY
To
film addicts, have you seen Thy Womb? A film about a Badjao midwife’s
quest to find her husband a second wife who can bear him a child. Nora
Aunor and Brillante Mendoza were named MMFF Best Actress and Best
Director, respectively But their film was inexplicably snubbed for the
Best Picture prize despite winning five other awards perhaps due to poor
boxoffice tickets sales. Well, art is obviously different from profits.
