History Film / AlkitrangDugo

->''"Kahit na tayo'y malayo sa inalkitrang kalye ng Maynila, dito natin mapapatunayang tao pa rin tayo."\\
("Although we're far from the asphalt [paved] roads of Manila, here we prove that we are still human.")''

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* IllGirl: Downplayed. Clarita comes down with a sickness during the first few days of them being stranded on the island, but she gets better.

''Alkitrang Dugo'' (literally ''Asphalt Blood'') is a 1975 Filipino survival film, very loosely based on, or rather as the credits put it, {{inspired by}} the British novel ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'' by William Golding. One of the main differences from the original work is turning the all-boy main characters into boys and girls, and [[AgeLift aging them up]] from children to adolescents, hence there are brief moments of romantic interactions between some of the teen-aged survivors.

''Alkitrang Dugo'' (literally ''Asphalt Blood'') is a 1975 Filipino survival film, very loosely based on, or rather as the credits put it, [[InspiredBy inspired by]] the British novel ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'' by William Golding. One of the main differences from the original work is turning the all-boy main characters into boys and girls, and [[AgeLift aging them up]] from children to adolescents, hence there are brief moments of romantic interactions between some of the teen-aged survivors.

* HollywoodNerd: Nilo, which is a given since he is the movie's version of Piggy. He is fat, wears glasses, and the one who makes logical suggestions to the group.

* AdaptationalBadass: This movie's version of Piggy (Nilo) is able to stand up more on his own without having Ralph (Luis) to come to his aid, and when some of the students tease him, he acts more annoyed than anything. [[spoiler: Although this doesn't stop him from dying, the circumstances surrounding his death is more due to someone's fatal error than anything malicious.]]

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The kids in here aren't as horrible as the boys from the original, and even though Andy does become something of a bloodthirsty, unstable barbarian during the slaughtering of the boar and his attempt to hunt down Luis and Clarita who he ''may'' wanted to kill, he was still nowhere near as how evil Jack became in the book. In the end, the remaining students who were loyal to him began beating him when they find out that [[spoiler: he was involved in the deaths of Angelo and Nilo, which he tried to justify were both accidents. When the boat finally comes to rescue them and the injured Andy tries to stand up, Luis helps him.]]
** [[spoiler: Andy's henchmen also do not murder their Piggy counterpart, who instead died of an accident as mentioned above]].
* AdaptationalVillainy: The kids who were on Luis's side, except for Clarita, eventually side with Andy including Nilo, the movie's Piggy who is seen being fanned and lavished with food by some students as if he was a king while the teens were dancing around in excessive merriment. This is still sort of downplayed in that [[spoiler: they never killed anyone (if you don't count the pig) and Andy was the only one who had blood on his hands by the end of the film.]]

* AHouseDivided: Of course, like the book, the group eventually splits with a few kids considering the more organized but strict Luis as their leader and the more fun-loving but irresponsible Andy as the other. Eventually, some of the kids that chose Luis defected to Andy's side during the pig slaughtering scene, with only Clarita remaining loyal to him.
* BlowThatHorn: At the start of the film, Nilo finds the conch shell which Luis uses to signal for the students to gather around. [[spoiler: This shell also does not shatter unlike in the book, which might also explain why they fared better than the boys and did not descend into full savagery or immorality by the end of the film.]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: A boat finally comes to the rescue while the students jump for joy at the beach. What differs this from the very bittersweet ending of the original is nobody really dwells on the [[InnocenceLost loss of innocence]] nor the deaths of the two fellow students beyond being furious at Andy for having something to do with them.]]

* HalfHeartedHenchman: The two guys of Andy's hunting group eventually out his crimes of [[spoiler: killing Angelo and Nilo when the mob was confronted by Luis. This causes his own followers to turn against him and start beating him. They might've killed him if not for the DeusExMachina coming just in time.]]

* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Angelo, the one who plays the flute, is killed due to being accidentally speared in the chest by Andy's hunting group. Nilo, the movie's Piggy counterpart, dies after falling into a ravine and was later revealed to have been speared in the leg by Andy, presumably by accident as well, causing him to fall into said ravine.]]
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: Nilo, whose body was only discovered to have fallen into a ravine with his glasses hanging by a branch.]]

* MurderByMistake: [[spoiler: Angelo and Nilo were both mistaken for wild animals, and were accidentally speared by Andy's hunting group as a result.]]

* AdaptationalDiversity: Instead of male characters from an all-boys school, there are also female characters since the students apparently attend a co-ed school. A female character by the name of Clarita also acts as Luis's, the Ralph of the movie's MoralityChain and his only devoted follower, playing a major role in keeping things from spiraling down any further.

* MoralityPet: Clarita is this to Luis, often holding him back when he acts violently towards Andy and preventing him from falling to the group's savageness in general.

'''''Alkitrang Dugo''''' (literally ''Asphalt Blood'') is a 1975 Filipino survival film, very loosely based on, or rather as the credits put it, [[InspiredBy inspired by]] the British novel ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'' by William Golding. One of the main differences from the original work is turning the all-boy main characters into boys and girls, and [[AgeLift aging them up]] from children to adolescents, hence there are brief moments of romantic interactions between some of the teen-aged survivors.

* LighterAndSofter: The atrocities that happen in the film are quite tame compared to the book and its 1990 American adaptation. And the murders that ''do'' happen were more or less accidental, instead of them being out of mass hysteria or premeditated. The closest to anyone trying to kill the other was when Andy set fire near a cave where Luis and Clarita were hiding in, and even then, he only meant to smoke them out rather than burn them alive. Then again, it's implied they were going to torture them in the same manner as the pig they hunted had they actually got their hands on them.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: A boat finally comes to the rescue while the students jump for joy at the beach. What differs this from the very bittersweet ending of the original is nobody really dwells on the [[InnocenceLost loss of innocence]] [[spoiler: nor the deaths of the two fellow students beyond being furious at Andy for having something to do with them.]]

* GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath: ''Alkitrang Dugo'' translates to "Asphalt Blood". Specifically, it's the description of blood that has a very dark red color, almost to the point of looking black, hence it's comparison to tar or asphalt.

* GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath: ''Alkitrang Dugo'' translates to "Asphalt Blood".