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As the biopic film “Heneral Luna” continues
to trend in the Philippines, another issue concerning another Filipino hero
which was also featured in the movie arises. As a group of college students
asked why Epy Quizon, who portrayed Apolinario Mabini in Heneral Luna, was always
seated in the entire two hours movie.
Just recently actor Jeffrey “Epy”
Quizon shared on Facebook that a group of which he acclaimed were Freshmen
College asked him why his character, Apolinario Mabini, was just sitting during
the whole Heneral Luna movie.
This issue arouse negative feedbacks
from netizens in Social Medias, even stating that schools are to blame because
of their insufficiency in educating students in history classes.
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Apolinario Mabini was the very first
prime minister in the country. He was also a minister of foreign affairs and
the adviser of President Emilio Aguinaldo. Mabini was known as the “Brain of
the Revolution.”
He was afflicted with Polio in 1895
but despite that he still managed to serve the Philippines as a government
official. Mabini was exiled to Guam in 1901. In 1903, Apolinario Mabini died of
cholera, two months after returning to Manila, at the age of 38.
