“IDOL”:
Hero/Villain [Bida/Kontrabida];
D’ Bayani S. Makapili True Story;
I’m Gonna Blow Off Your Head With My Bullets Coz Your Tombstone Is Already Made, I Even Paid For It, Coz I Wanna Dance Over Your Grave In The Cemetery, You Animal!
[Pasasabugin Ko Ang Ulo Mo Sa Mga Bala Ko Dahil Gawa Na Ang Lapida Mo, Ako Pa Ang Nagbayad, Dahil Gusto Kong Magsayaw Sa Ibabaw Ng Puntod Mo Sa Sementeryo, Hayop Ka!!!]
Bayani S. Makapili is an ordinary brown chap who is a big fan of action movies, especially the ones starring Bida, the #1 action hero in the land.
One fateful day, Bayani Makapili's life imitates that of his idol, but with different results. Playing with the form of the action film and examining the culture of the action hero in Philippine film, “Idol” is an action-comedy-musical meta-movie.
41st Pesaro International Film Festival, 2005
4th La Palma International Digital Film Festival, 2005
SYNOPSIS
BAYANI MAKAPILI is an ordinary brown chap who is a big fan of action movies, especially the ones starring HERO [BIDA], the #1 action hero in the land.
One fateful day, Bayani Makapili's life imitates that of his idol Hero, but with different results. Firstly, he is able to prevent a bank from being robbed, but instead of being hailed as a hero, he is thrown out by the police as a mere spectator. Then, his wife and son is massacred, but his revenge plan fails to the point that he is now being tortured by the gang of murderers. Until the real Hero arrives, fresh from the television.
Hero gets rid of the crooks and saves the day. Bayani Makapili volunteers to be Hero's sidekick, determined to leave the memory of his dead family behind.
We are then presented 5 & 1/2 different endings, depending on Hero's reply and its varying consequences --- from being catapulted to a topsy-turvy universe where the forces of good and evil are reversed, to a gathering of Villains, Hero's arch-enemies, that reaches the ultimate showdown of this action-comedy-musical meta-movie.
CAST
Introducing
JOLOGS as Bayani S. Makapili
Starring
ROBIN POE LAPID JR. as Bida (The Hero)
Featuring
LAKAMBINI PARALUMAN as The Leading Lady
with YOUR FAVORITE SURPRISE GUEST STARS!!!
Production Management, Assistant Direction, Production Design, Casting, & Choreography by
SIGRID BERNARDO
Opening Animation by
RICHIE GERONIA
Editing, Special Effects, & Additional Animation by
GATLA GUNAWIN
Direction, Screenplay, Cinematography, & Music by KHAVN DE LA CRUZ
GALLERY
