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Timeline[edit]

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July 8, 1892 - Daniel Águila y Teodoro was born in Tondo, Manila.
1898 - Daniel's first recollection, meeting his father Artemio, a captain in the KKK in Morong. They are betrayed by Simeon Garrido who thereafter marries Daniel's mother, Isabel. Monica Salvación "Sally" Llamas is also born on this year.
1918 - Daniel joins the army with the rank of Lieutenant and was assigned to Cotabato to ward off the Moro Rebellion. He meets Farida, the niece of Datu Khalid, with whom he later briefly starts a relationship with. Simeon, now a Senator, visits Cotabato with the aim of stealing ancestral lands from the Iranuns and other tribes. Datu Khalid calls off the engagement of Farida and Ibrāhīm due to the latter's stance on the sale of Muslim ancestral lands. Isabel and Martin, Simeon's son, dies at the hands of Ibrāhīm and the juramentados; Daniel shoots Ibrāhīm point-blank after the former tried to attack the latter.
1919 - Osman Águila is born.
1924 - Daniel, now a Captain, is assigned to Laguna where he meets flapper lawyer Sally Llamas, then the counsel for the heretic and seditionist Arcadio Cuevas. At her deathbed, Farida informs Daniel that their dalliance produced a son. Daniel takes custody of the child and marries Sally.
1925 - Mari L. Águila is born.
1936 - Osman is in his senior year in high school and is a victim of bullying by the teachers and his classmates. Osman, being half-Muslim, feels alienated even from his own family. Lilian T. Garrido, Simeon's remaining child, visits the Águilas and confesses to Daniel that her father raped her repeatedly, beginning when she was 12. She first seeks the help of Daniel, and thereafter tries to seduce him. Failing at seducing Daniel, Lilian ends up having an incestous relationship with Osman. She thereafter returns to Simeon and dismisses whatever she and Osman had. In Osman's despair at being alienated once more, he runs away from home. Meanwhile, Simeon tries to convince Daniel to carry on the family business and to enter politics, but is sharply rebuked by Daniel.
1945 - The Philippines is in the last phase of World War II. Mari was assigned to Nueva Ecija and was captured by Huk rebels. Their leader, Basilio, wants Daniel, now a Colonel under the USAFFE, to combine his force with that of Basilio's in order to raid a Japanese garrison. Mari is smitten with one of the Huks, Diwata, but the latter dies during the raid. Basilio, instead of being commended, is arrested by members of the USAFFE. To free him, Daniel and Mari does the unthinkhable and seeks the help of Simeon, who at this point has collaborated with the Spaniards, the Americans and the Japanese. Daniel and Mari find out that Simeon had suffered a stroke in the heat of sex and is at death's door.
1953 - Mari decides to enter politics under the ticket of the then rising politician Ramon Magsaysay, but discovers that the support of a wildly popular candidate is not enough to secure public office and cuts backdoor deals to garner even more support. 61-year old Daniel starts an illicit affair with 25-year old Elvira and almost left his family and everything he had behind to be with her. However, tragedy struck Daniel twice - first, Osman returns from the Korean War and has both legs amputated as a result thereof; and second, Elvira leaves Daniel and decides to call it quits.
1955 - Sally succumbs to tuberculosis after years of smoking cigarettes.
1969 - Raúl, Vic Águila's son, joins activists protesting the corruption in the society and its politicians. Raúl uncovers Mari's corruption as a Senator and shares the evidence with Margo Cepeda, the activists' leader. Mari blackmails Margo, threatening to expose her infidelity if she does not retract her allegations against Mari. Margo recants her statements and the activist group falls apart. Raúl, being disillusioned by Margo turning tail, commits suicide.
1972 - Daniel, with the help of his grandson Karim, escapes the city life he has grown disillusioned with to Cotabato.
1975 - Fighting breaks out in Cotobato which forces Daniel to evacuate from the village he lives in. With some Christian missionaries, Daniel decides to move to Bohol in the Visayas.
1977 - After numerous visits by the Aetas, Daniel decides to live with them at the age of 85.
August 1978 - The cotta Daniel stayed in was burned down, leading to Karim and others assuming that he had perished in the incident.
July 8, 1980 - August 1980 - Present time, Mari decides to look for Daniel.

Notes[edit]

The film contains a mistake in its timeline in that Daniel is stated as being born on 1892, but he is mentioned to have had his first vivid memory at the age 6 when he met his father. However, the period depicted was not 1898 but rather 1897 as Simeon mentions that Andres Bonifacio and Emilio Aguinaldo were still fighting wars on different fronts. This is further supported by the production notes on the film^[1] as the Tondo setting was filmed in Binondo which was made to look like 1897. Thus, this event occured prior to the Tejeros Convention and the Pact of Biak na Bato. This places Daniel's age at roughly 4+1⁄2 years old.

The mistake rears its head again during the present setting, as Daniel's 88th birthday was supposed to have been celebrated on July 8, 1978 - coinciding with the period within which the script for Águila was written. However, Daniel could not have celebrated his 88th birthday in the same period as he would have just been 86 years old by then.

Daniel also misstates that he was 75 years old when the Aetas first turned to him for help, although the English subtitles do correct this mistake by stating he was 85.

Daniel is not the only character whose age has a discrepenacy. When Mari decided to run for a seat in the House of Representatives in 1953, Daniel remarks that Mari is barely or is not even 27 years old yet. However, as was established in the timeline, Mari by this point in time is already 27-28 years old.

Reference[edit]

References

^ Banal, Chelo R. (February 3, 1980). "AT A COST OF P5M AND A CAST OF THOUSANDS, TWO YEARS IN THE MAKING AND THREE HOURS AND A HALF LONG, "AGUILA" SOARS THROUGH THE PRIVATE LIFE OF A FILIPINO AND THE HISTORY OF HIS COUNTRY". Philippine Panorama. Intramuros: Manila Bulletin. Retrieved October 26, 2019.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Gardo Versace (talk • contribs) 27 October 2019 (UTC)

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Unrelated drafts[edit]

This talk page had contained drafts for articles about several other films. These were removed in this edit on the ground that they were not relatd to helping improve the article Aguila (film). Such drafts should be posted, if at all, in their own pages, probably iun the Draft: or User: namespace at first, where they can be reveiweed and improved before being moved to the main article space. See WP:AFC for details. Please do not include such unrelated content on this talk page in future. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 00:07, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@DESiegel: I'm sorry for that. Won't happen again. I had to place it here because I didn't know where else to place those drafts. I thought it would be ok considering this page is a FPJ movie and those drafts were likewise FPJ movies After they were deleted, I created the pages and have added references to the same. Was planning on creating them at a later date because I wanted to find more references and also because I'm currently busy reviewing for a board exam. Rest assured, drafts that are unrelated to the main article would be the least of your problems with me going forward. Real sorry for the mess. Warmest regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gardo Versace (talk • contribs) 15 November 2019 (UTC)

Gardo Versace, (please try to remember to sign your talk page posts by typing four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your message) I was the one who deleted those drafts. Don't worry, they can be retrieved from the page's history when you are ready to take them to their own draft pages. This page is for discussing how to improve the attached article, nothing else, not even a general discussion about the subject of the article is allowed if it's not connected in some way to an effort to improve it. You are obviously a good faith contributor making very helpful contributions to the encyclopedia, so there isn't much here to apologise for; mistakes are what we learn from. DESiegel deserves my thanks for adding this note, which I should have added so you wouldn't be caught off-guard to see your hard work apparently gone. BTW, the least of your problems with me means the exact opposite of what you intended; it actually reads as a threat that you are going to cause so much problems going forward that this issue wouldn't even be worth mentioning by the time you are done. Cheers! Usedtobecool ^TALK ✨ 12:44, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Usedtobecool: Thank you for understanding why I did what I did and for recognizing the work I put into these drafts. Will take note of the four tildes and will keep it close to the vest. Also, my apologies again if it sounded like a threat, my intention though was to say that me doing it agin would not be a problem anymore going forward as I will be more circumspect with my editing. I've certainly learned from my mistake here and I thank you Usedtobecool for pointing that one out and giving me a chance to learn. Warmest regards

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[1] Banal, Chelo R. (February 3, 1980). "AT A COST OF P5M AND A CAST OF THOUSANDS, TWO YEARS IN THE MAKING AND THREE HOURS AND A HALF LONG, "AGUILA" SOARS THROUGH THE PRIVATE LIFE OF A FILIPINO AND THE HISTORY OF HIS COUNTRY". Philippine Panorama. Intramuros: Manila Bulletin. Retrieved October 26, 2019.

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