Arcilla: Weisz concerned with poverty in PH
MANILA, Philippines – “Bourne Legacy” lead actress Rachel Weisz is concerned with the poverty in the Philippines, according to veteran theater actor John Arcilla, who is part of the Hollywood movie currently being shot in Manila.
In an interview with ANC, Arcilla said he had a conversation with Weisz, who was deeply concerned with what she had observed in the country.
“Every break nagkukuwentuhan kami ni Rachel and she’s more concerned with the poverty in the Philippines. She’s asking if the people in the squatters area on the side are just numbers of poor people in the Philippines or are there more. Hindi na ako nahiya, sabi ko they’re a lot... and sabi niya are these the poorest I said no they’re not the poorest,” Arcilla related.
Arcilla is no stranger to international productions having appeared in "Born on the Fourth of July" with Tom Cruise and "McBain" with Christopher Walken.
Nonetheless, he admitted to be thrilled to be part of a big Hollywood movie.
“There’s this kilig... but sometimes you have to control it a little because sometimes you have this feeling you don’t wanna look like a fan... I have to be there as an actor to work with these actors,” he said.
Arcilla said working with a foreign director was a valuable experience for any actor and that the “Bourne” crew had only positive things to say about the shoot.
The fourth installment of the “Bourne” series is filming some of its action sequences in Manila.
The movie, which also stars Jeremy Renner and Ed Norton, is expected to hit theaters later this year. – ANC
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She has not seen a poor? She
She has not seen a poor? She sees those blacks and homeless in the US who continue to receive government welfare. Of course those American punks are different. They drink and use drugs after receiving government help. If she's concerned about the poverty here, then why doesn't she help?
Poverty is easy to solve if you know how to say "NO"
It's just like what Claire Danes said in Vogue magazine after Broken Palace was filmed in Manila. She thinks that Manila is a 'ghastly and weird city." She also said in Premier magazine that Manila "smelled of cockroaches, with rats all over, and that there is no sewerage system, and the people do not have anything - no arms, no legs, no eyes."
And it's all because of Uncle Sam and the West. Uncle Sam is like a drug pusher that uses naive or "female" countries like the Philippines as a market for his "drugs"--junk movies, music, concerts, military equipment, nuclear power plants, etc.
Just recently, PNoy was awarded by Shell with ! billion dollars for the Malampaya Project, 80 kilometers off El Nido, Palawan. But PNoy used half a billion to buy a junk World-War-II ship from Uncle Sam's used-junk dealership, and he ordered another one plus a squadron of F-16s. All for display purposes just like the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant that is now fully paid but useless, thanks to Uncle Sam's salesmen. You have to say "No" to "special offers."
In a few years from now, El Nido will look like the Niger Delta, which Shell trashed through offshore drilling and is now a black sea. Chevron trashed the Amazon too, and they are being ordered to pay 6 billion dollars for trashing it. Only politicians, uncle Sam and his Western goons benefit from such deals. It's like selling your priceless kidneys to corrupt doctors for 5,000 pesos.
That 1 billion dollars could buy 100,000 electric jeepneys to replace rotten smoke-belching jeepneys. Or it could buy 100,000 low-cost homes for 100,000 poor families. Or it could provide education for 500,000 kids. There's so many things PNoy could buy but the money just went to Shell, Chevron and Uncle Sam.
It's just like the time when the British forced Opium into China and made them addicts. Then the French and Americans were able to drug them further and drugged South East Asia too. When the French did that to Vietnam, the US aided them in the Vietnam war and killed 3.5 million Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians. It's just like the Philippines when the US had to kill 1.5 million Filipinos during President Aguinaldo's time in order to make the Philippines its "drug" market.
That's why in China, even little things such as American movies are controlled. They only allow 12 foreign films a year to be broadcasted so that the local industry can thrive and the money doesn't leak out to Uncle Sam. That means only the best Hollywood films are shown in China, and the junk is left for the Philippines to pay for. Filipinos pay also for junk US concerts instead of patronizing local artists, so all the money goes to Uncle Sam.
In China, they also have an internal visa system. They don't allow people from the province to just migrate to the city unless they have a place to stay there. Squatting is a criminal act.
Many poor immigrants don't have the intelligence to foresee that they will be worse off in the city if they are just squatters. Living in a nipa hut in the province with fresh air and a quiet life is much better than a cockroach life in Manila, but provincial people don't know that.
That's why in China, the government guides all the dumb people. In contrast, all the dumb people in the Philippines are allowed to become victims by the government, and it's called it demo-crazy.
They become victims of corrupt officials like Corona who extort money from them because Filipino corrupt officials don't fear the death penalty. In contrast, in China, corrupt officials are immediately sentenced to death. Likewise with drug pushers and traffickers due to their horrifying experience with British opium pushers.
Poverty is easy to solve if you know how to say "no" to drugs and "drugs." Just look at the Chinese. Uncle Sam hates them because they are unyielding. The problem is, PNoy's Chinese side can say "no," but his Benigno Aquino, Jr. side says "yes" to Uncle Sam. You can't go anywhere when you are split like a schizophrenic or bipolar.
The Philippines, just like Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, which were raped by the US, will all have to learn how to say "no" in order to move out of poverty.
American chess grandmaster Bobby Fisher warned the Philippines about the US in Bombo Radyo on September 11, 2001, during the 911 attacks. He said, "Fuck the United States. Cry, you crybabies! Whine, you bastards! Now your time is coming! The US is getting what is coming to it. This is just the beginning."