GMA Teenifies Lupin, Rips Off Sailormoon, Indiana Jones, Lara Croft
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For years, ailing Philippine TV network GMA has gotten away with blatantly insulting the intelligence of the lower classes with their tasteless drama and fantasy offerings. This year, that strategy will backfire. First, they give the classic role of Lupin III to a kid far too young and inexperienced to play the globetrotting noble scoundrel. […]Click here to continue reading "GMA Teenifies Lupin, Rips Off Sailormoon, Indiana Jones, Lara Croft"...GMA Teenifies Lupin, Rips Off Sailormoon, Indiana Jones, Lara Croft
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Lol, pinoys, support your fellow Filipinos instead of judging them quickly! The show haven’t even started yet and all we hear is that Pinoys know nothing but to “imitate”, “copy” and “rip-off”?
Someone even said that the foreigners or the international community will look down upon the Filipinos because of GMA 7 “copycat” shows, like c’mon…
Before anyone of us Filipinos say that its nothing but a “copy”, “imitation” or “rip-off” of some other country’s show, let’s go digg and do a little research shall we?
I will repeat this, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, and even the US of A all did it before and are continually doing it.
We Filipinos are so quick to say that “we copied this from the US” when it was in fact the other way around.
Plain BS and crab-mentality attitude again. Kaya hindi umaasenso ang pinoy, puro kontra ang alam.
Watch it first from beginning to end before you judge or “criticize” it.
Sheesh…
There’s creativity building on the past, there’s bringing new concepts to new audiences, and then there’s just monkey-see-monkey-do. Super Twins and Asian Treasures are clearly monkey-see-monkey-do. They’re classic examples of cargo cult marketing — copying form to substitute for substance.
At least Tia Carrere didn’t actually dress like Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider ripoff Relic Hunter.
Also, the casting of Richard Gutierrez as Lupin clearly sacrifices authenticity in favor of cookie-cutter thinking (“Young audience? Young actor!”). As Jerry Polence pointed out to me just now, sassy Filipino comedian Vic Sotto would make a far more convincing Lupin.
hey mike i think you’re entitled to your own opinion i take no offense and right copying is not only done here what i’m really looking for is substance besides i don’t see them really copying lara croft(still hoping)honestly i watch gma shows mainly if angel’s in them i think she can be way better but probably our local networks just lack creativity that’s why to copy or not has somehow lowered my expectations in them and it’s not angel’s fault that if you’re young, pretty and talented like her there’s really not much to expect nowadays from the gods of this business so sad but true