I don’t know if I’m the only person who has noticed this.
While watching Tayong Dalawa, I realized that one of its writers might have been a fan of classic 1950s/1960s movies.
The evidence? Interestingly, all the leading female characters were apparently named after famous Hollywood actresses:
- Actress: Kim Chiu
Character name: Audrey
Named after: Audrey Hepburn - Actress: Helen Gamboa
Character name: Elizabeth/Mamita
Named after: Elizabeth Taylor - Actress: Agot Isidro
Character name: Ingrid
Named after: Ingrid Bergman - Actress: Cherry Pie Picache
Character name: Marlene
Named after: Marlene Dietrich - Actress: Gina Pareno
Character name: Lola Gets/Rita
Named after: Rita Moreno - Assunta de Rossi
Character name: Greta
Named after: Greta Garbo
This reminds me of Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay, where all the leading male characters were given Russian names.
Anyone knows if there’s another telenovela (other than these two) with similar naming schemes?
#1 by Aji on 23 June 2009 - 14:24
Wow! Somebody has a lot of time on their hands eh.
#2 by titopao on 23 June 2009 - 15:07
Hahaha…not really. This one was a scheduled post (apparently a new feature of Wordpress), I’d only write this in bits and then assign a future date
#3 by Coolwaterworks on 15 July 2009 - 18:03
In a previous telenovela, all the characters’ names were of the high school classmates of one writer… This writer is the link to your observations.
#4 by titopao on 16 July 2009 - 09:21
I didn’t know that
I better start researching who wrote all these three telenovelas, that’s the best way of identifying our, uh, “suspect” 