In Popular Culture
In addition to hosting major businesses in the Philippines, EDSA is featured in the local films Darna, Tanging Ina Mo, and several others.
EDSA is also featured in the The Bourne Legacy. Portions of the Magallanes Interchange to Taft Avenue were featured in a car chase wherein Aaron Cross, played by Jeremy Renner, jumps from the Taft Avenue footbridge to a plying bus.
The song Handog ng Pilipino sa Mundo" (lit. "The Gift of the Filipinos to the World") is a 1986 song recorded in Filipino by a supergroup composed of 15 Filipino artists, written by Jim Paredes. The song became the anthem of the bloodless People Power Revolution. The lyrics of the song are inscribed on a wall of the Our Lady of EDSA Shrine, the center of the revolution.
Every February 25, the day of the EDSA People Power Revolution, the statues in the People Power Monument in the White Plains junction were repainted and yellow flag are placed on their hands.
EDSA is also continuously used in political campaigns by several politicians, particularly those who had been involved in the EDSA Revolution such as Joseph Estrada and Benigno Aquino III.
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