I recently saw two films, and the motivation had to do with the disparity of scores between Rotten Tomatoes' reviewers and the audience:
Rotten Tomatoes Box Office My Rating
Reviewers Audiences
Bad Boys for Life 77 97 #1 B
Quezon's Game 33 100 ?? B+
The song, Bad Boys, incidentally, was released in 1987 by the Jamaican reggae band Inner Circle, and was picked up by the TV show Cops. It is now the theme song for the Bad Boys franchise, which will see a #4, for the closing credits said so. For example, there is already a trailer. When? Perhaps in 2022, or, if history means anything, probably as late as 2023. I'll stop here, for you will hear about the film from various sources.
In the late 1930's both Quezon and the highest ranked American civilian in Manila, Paul McNutt (a prominent law professor who was tabbed to run for U.S. President) were on the cover of Time. The Holocaust heroism matter, however, never made any international headlines.
A third important individual in this constellation of heroes was to-be-5-star general who led World War II in Europe, Lt. Col. Dwight Eisenhower. What confused me about his presence was that in the movie Ike's wife looked Filipino-ish, not at all like Mamie. Turns out that David Bianco played Eisenhower, and his real wife is Jennifer Blair, who is Filipino, also served as his screen wife. Confusing casting.
Rosen has lived in the Philippines and is married to one, Lorena. One day he wondered why a young Filipino girl was singing Hava Nagila, having no idea what it meant, leading to the whole story.
Like 1917 being a crusade of director Sam Mendes, Quezon's Game is solely due to Rosen, who was responsible for the whole production, and his family. The premiere date was matched to the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz. This is a screenplay that was produced in the style of Casablanca, and enlightens most of the world about an embattled and sick (with tuberculosis) Philippine President, who did what he thought was right at a time when his supporters were anything but and the United States blind to what was happening.
The bottom line is that he saved more Jews than Oskar Schindler (left). While only a little more than 1200, the goal was 10,000, which had to come to a stop because the Japanese conquered the Philippines in 1941. Many Jews left because of the attack, but a few become prominent citizens.
The film has won 23 international awards. The odds are high that you were not aware of all this happening. Go see the film. Here is current President Rodrigo Duterte visiting the "Open Doors" Monument at the Holocaust Memorial park in Israel in honor of Manuel Quezon:
ALERT: A 7.7 earthquake just occurred in Montego Bay between Cuba and Jamaica:
Tsunami?
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Rotten Tomatoes Box Office My Rating
Reviewers Audiences
Bad Boys for Life 77 97 #1 B
Quezon's Game 33 100 ?? B+
Bad Boys for Life was an enjoyable film. It was better than what one would imagine from Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. After the first two, beginning in 1995, I expected #3 to be flippant...which it was to some degree. I was not looking forward to all those car chases and gunshots...which occurred. However, the dialogue, the quirky surprises, the maturity...quite an evolution.
The song, Bad Boys, incidentally, was released in 1987 by the Jamaican reggae band Inner Circle, and was picked up by the TV show Cops. It is now the theme song for the Bad Boys franchise, which will see a #4, for the closing credits said so. For example, there is already a trailer. When? Perhaps in 2022, or, if history means anything, probably as late as 2023. I'll stop here, for you will hear about the film from various sources.
Quezon's Game is not even on Box Office Mojo's weekend list, and there are 71 films being tracked. Release has been limited, but, as it is a smash hit in the Philippines, with excellent audience responses, you can expect to more and more see this movie in your artsy theaters. When I went to it this past weekend, I was one of only three in the audience.
The movie is a 2018 production directed and everything'd by Matthew Rosen about the quest of ailing Philippine President Manuel Quezon on his attempt to shelter in the Philippines German/Austrian Jews fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938. This was a period when the USA was either not fully aware of Hitler's plan to exterminate prominent Jews, or was so anti-semitic then as to almost not care.
In the late 1930's both Quezon and the highest ranked American civilian in Manila, Paul McNutt (a prominent law professor who was tabbed to run for U.S. President) were on the cover of Time. The Holocaust heroism matter, however, never made any international headlines.
Rosen has lived in the Philippines and is married to one, Lorena. One day he wondered why a young Filipino girl was singing Hava Nagila, having no idea what it meant, leading to the whole story.
Like 1917 being a crusade of director Sam Mendes, Quezon's Game is solely due to Rosen, who was responsible for the whole production, and his family. The premiere date was matched to the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz. This is a screenplay that was produced in the style of Casablanca, and enlightens most of the world about an embattled and sick (with tuberculosis) Philippine President, who did what he thought was right at a time when his supporters were anything but and the United States blind to what was happening.
The bottom line is that he saved more Jews than Oskar Schindler (left). While only a little more than 1200, the goal was 10,000, which had to come to a stop because the Japanese conquered the Philippines in 1941. Many Jews left because of the attack, but a few become prominent citizens.The film has won 23 international awards. The odds are high that you were not aware of all this happening. Go see the film. Here is current President Rodrigo Duterte visiting the "Open Doors" Monument at the Holocaust Memorial park in Israel in honor of Manuel Quezon:
ALERT: A 7.7 earthquake just occurred in Montego Bay between Cuba and Jamaica:
Tsunami?
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