Since the 5 hours director's cut of Peque Gallaga's
ORO PLATA MATA no longer exists, here are some scenes that I noticed complete in the recent Pelikula at Lipunan shown last February.
1. The party scene of Maggie (Sandy Andolong) is extended, the ballroom scene is much much longer, you can see one of the guest nun dancing and one of Maggie's Aunt.
2. The children getting some food on the main table of the kitchen.
3. The band in the party scene has a close-up shot before the long, long, ballroom scene. Love, love this scene!
4. Manny Castaneda has a dialogue while clearing the wheel chair of Mona Lisa.
5. More dialogue from the guests in panic before the party was cut short because of the announcement of the war!
6. The prayer scene of the Lorenzo & Ojeda clan in the Plata section at the hacienda is longer.
7. When the two guests arrived in the villa, Jo Russell (Maya Valdez) & Viring (Lorli Villanueva) after they were entertained by Inday Lorenzo (Fides Asencio), there was a shot of Melchor (Abbo dela Cruz) and one of the servants in dark background that looks so creepy in the window that probably signals the incoming disaster that will befall the two clans!
8. The soldiers led by Hermes (Ronnie Lazaro) jump naked in the river while an Ilonggo song was being played in the background, check out Madeleine Gallaga, Peque's wife has a cameo here.
9. And oh, the pack-up scene in the villa before the outstanding exodus scene.........the graphic love scenes of the two servants, Melchor giving instructions outside of the house, Inday Lorenzo praying while Estrella is closing the window already. Peque asked the late Ishmael Bernal if he could make the exodus scene much longer, that scene probably was already lost in the first cut that he made.
10. Now the Mata section, the animals were being butchered for the meal of the two families. The surgery scene by one of the soldiers is hard to stomach but shown without cuts. Maya Valdez and Robert Antonio's love scene at the falls is explicitly shown.
11. Cherie Gil is hot, hot in her love scene with Ronnie Lazaro. Her character is more fleshed out from being naive to becoming confuse and sex slave.
12. The massacre scene is much gorier where you can see the piled up bodies.
13. Kuh Ledesma's head literally blown into pieces before the final party scene.
Darn! I want the dvd of this Gallaga masterpiece!