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Noel is having a Danny Zialcita retrospective. The video copies are of poor quality, but the dialogue is crisp enough to make one endure the faded or browning visuals. If you like quotable movies, the Zialcita oeuvre provides enough zingers to keep you reciting for days. His movies are really screwball comedies disguised as melodramas.

Scenes from Mahinhin Vs Mahinhin starring Dindo Fernando and Ronaldo Valdez as two gay men who realize that they’ve been keeping the same man, played by Edu Manzano.

At the restaurant where Dindo and Ronaldo face off for the first time upon learning of their sharing arrangement.

Dindo: (to waiter) Bigyan mo ako ng inumin ng tunay na lalake.

Ronaldo: Waiter, cancel that order. Baka magasgas ang lalamunan ng aking bisita. Make that a margarita instead.

Dindo: (to waiter) Bigyan mo tuloy ako ng bibingka—yung maraming itlog na maalat, ha?

Ronaldo: Waiter, ‘yung itlog, by all means ibigay sa kanya. Pero yung bibingka! Jusko! Hindi sanay ang tiyan! Baka magkalat yan dito! Give him a hotdog instead. Yung jumbo ha? (waving off waiter) O sige na, evaporate! I want to have a full view of Miss Billy de Gracia.

After the confrontation, Ronaldo instructs his lawyer.
Ronaldo: I want this Billy de Gracia exterminated, eradicated, mutilated, erased!

Next confrontation:
Ronaldo: Sukdulang isasangla ko ang kaluluwa ko sa impiyerno!
Dindo: Bakit?
Ronaldo: Nandoon ang Misis mo, di ba? Pwes, kakausapin ko si Mephistopheles!
Dindo: Sino naman yon?
Ronaldo: Ang demonyo! Ignoranta! Pababalikin ko ang Misis mo!

That’s it, we’re going to start saying “Ignoranta!”