Thursday, June 5, 2008

Lobo-tomized ABS-CBN

Is it safe to assume that network giant ABS-CBN has run out of creative ideas? If so, they better hire a new creative team pronto.
They’re not just ripping off successful gimmicks of the competition, they are also ripping off not-so-popular, straight-to-video movies that at least four persons have seen.
I’m talking about Lobo, the insanely successful tele-series about a hot white she-wolf (played by Angel Locsin). What little I have seen convinced me that it was ripped off from an obscure film titled Blood and Chocolate. It also tells a story about hot white she-wolf and her attraction to a human hottie (cue Piolo’s role here). In the end, she was forced to decide between her community of wolves (led by dark wolf Olivier Martinez) and the human got in the way.
My doubts were confirmed by a cousin, a pirated DVD nut, who also saw the obscure film (which was packaged as one of those “in-ones” things – 10-in-1, 20-in-1). She has her copy of Blood and Chocolate in a six-in-one DVD package (meaning, six movies in one DVD).
“There are scenes that are straight from the movie,” she said in disgust.
What’s next, an orphaned boy wizard with a lightning bolt scar? Or, to skirt some copyright infringement cases that might follow, a coming of age story about a girl who discovered her lupine qualities on the onset of puberty when she was savagely attacked by a wolf (ala Ginger Snaps).
Or maybe a story about the murderous kama-kama (dwarf) possessively guarding his horde of gold.
Really, I never thought I’d see the day that we would be borrowing myths from the West. Maybe, people are just tired of good ol’ siokoy and tikbalang, so we have to borrow mythical creatures from other countries.
Nessie, anyone?

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