Watching Again a favourite movie during my High School Years: BAGETS(1984) and its sequel BAGETS 2(1984)
JC Bonnin, William Martinez, Raymond Lauchengco, Aga Muhlach and Herbert Bautista
Directed by Maryo J. Delos Reyes
Written by Jake Tordesillas
Experiencing the forbidden. Experiencing rejection. Hating your parents. Hating the world around you. Discovering what's hot. Discovering what's cool. Discovering your first true love. Discovering who you are. Growing up can be such a wild time. But not when you've got the best guys to hang out with. Five chaste young men immerse themselves in the superficialities and superfluity of adolescence over the course of their last year in high school. But as they make their gradual transition from boyhood to manhood, they realize it is their formidable bond that stands as the real deal. Starring a generation that gave rise to a new youth culture.-imdb
My mind seems to be playing tricks on me. I just can't believe that these two movies were shown the same year, but if that is the case, then 1984 was filled with beautiful socially relevant movies like these two, plus WORKING GIRLS(Ishmael Bernal), 14 GOING STEADY(Joey Gosiengfiao), SISTER STELLA L(Mike De Leon), 'MERIKA(Gil Portes), KAYA KONG ABUTIN ANG LANGIT(Maryo J. Delos Reyes---he had a very busy year) and BULAKLAK SA CITY JAIL(Mario O'Hara).
I love the original BAGETS more than BAGETS 2, but I can't say I don't like the latter. It's just that the story of the original was more moving than the second. Both movies are full of life, but the situations are serious. Most of the people who acted in both movies are showbiz royalty nowadays or at the very least still very much active. The others just a had one time big time break and I'm not talking about the extras.
I can't remember if Bagets was the first movie I saw about drag racing without seat belts, but I surely know about drag racing because I was mixed with a crowd who did that in the past. I wonder how they are now. Are they still alive?
The things tackled in both movies are very real, and the different types of parents were represented on film.
In the second film, they added a religious to a fault type of a mother forcing her son to be a priest. That said son falls for a very liberated artist, who has a very liberated mother.
Bagets is also where William Martinez and Yayo Aguila fell in love. It's just sad it didn't last. They called it quits in 2010. They did have a happy and fruitful marriage. They were blessed with beautiful children, so it was really in their path to be together, but not forever.
If my memory serves me right, the reason I got interested in Bagets was because of Raymond Lauchengco. I love his songs and he is a great actor too. Thanks to him I was able to watch a wonderful movie that is now a thirty-four-year-old classic.
The sequel, for me, was more unruly, messy, disorderly and all those synonyms, than the first. The actors did good and because they included Ms. Cherie Gil as Marilen, it became very interesting. I can't blame Janice(Eula Valdez's role) being jealous of Marilen because the Bagets gang has a reputation(history) of falling for beautiful women old enough to be their mother, aunt or in the case of Cherie, their big sister.
Well, I can say much more, but I'll just say this instead: These two movies hold special places in my heart.
Thanks for your time.
BAGETS
The term "bagets" came from the Filipino word "bagito," which means a "newcomer or a neophyte." The term was said to have been coined by actor William Martinez, who came up with the idea of making a youth-oriented movie in the 1980s.-Jeffrey O. Valisno,May 17, 2011, Businessworld
(in an article talking about the TV5 show Bagets(Just Got Lucky) starring AJ Muhlach, Nadine Lustre
et al Directed by Mark A. Reyes V)
Cast:
William Martinez as Tonton
Raymond Lauchengco as Arnel
JC Bonnin as Toffee (other versions say Topee)
Aga Muhlach as Adie
Herbert Bautista as Gilbert
Jobelle Salvador as Melissa
Yayo Aguila as Rose
Eula Valdez as Janice
Baby Delgado as Ivy
Chanda Romero as Christine
Butch Bautista as Gilbert's dad
Luz Valdez as Gilbert's mom
Rosemarie Gil as Arnel's mom
Romeo Rivera as Arnel's dad
Celia Rodriguez as Adie's mom
Rodolfo "Boy" Garcia as Tonton's dad
Liza Lorena as Toffee's mom
Lita Gutierrez as Tonton's mom
Eddie Arenas as Adie's Stepdad
Robert Campos as Ivy's husband
Produced in the same year as Bagets, Bagets 2 is set in the immediate summer after the events of the first movie, and deals with more of the guys' misadventures as they prepare for college. The film mostly deals with their participation in an arts workshop and inter-personal relationships with three new characters - Wally, Gilbert's cousin and a young man forced by his mother to become a priest; Mikee, a TV director's son looking for his big break, and Ponce, an auto expert-cum-dancer. Also included in the mix is Ruth, Tonton & Toffee's balikbayan cousin.-Wikipedia
Cast:
William Martinez as Tonton
J.C. Bonnin as Toffee/Topee
Herbert Bautista as Gilbert
Raymond Lauchengco as Arnel
Ramon Christopher as Mikee
Cherie Gil as Marinel
Cheska Iñigo as Ruth
Eula Valdez as Janice
Francis Magalona as Ponce aka Pawnshop
Jon Hernandez/John Salvador as Wally
Monette Rivera as Noreen Burgos
Claudette Khan as Emerie Tuazon
Grace Gonzales as Sarah Jane
Mariglen Ordoñez as Glenda
Joy Maniego as Nicolette
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