omar22:


ITS A MOVIE!!!! what has heritage got to do with anything, common guys when are we going to stop nip-picking at everything Forest Whitaker and Kerry Washington sound nothing like an African let alone east african who have very thick African accent, they both got 5 stars! whats with the focus on Thandie atleast she is half African, what about Anika Noni Rose? all am saying the movie wants to sell a Nigerian story to the rest of world and the best we could do is complain and mummur! Common guys if I have £20m to invest into movies about a part of Nigerian History am sorry the key roles has to be played by top dogs of the movie screen. Atleast it takes courage to learn how to speak like an African< I would like to see any of our Nollywood artist mostly Ibo or Yoruba to speak with an Hause accent?

CFCfan: Wow! I'm definitely going to watch this movie. The billions of Naira spent on this movie is sure worth it; but the director should have cast actresses like Tonto Dikeh, Genevieve and Rita Dominic.

U235weapongrade: i hope they went to nsukka to cover those streets/closes she mentioned.....

jackbauersballs: That Houseboy played Moses in 'The Block'

And I'm so looking forward to see Chiwetalu play an Ibo man

Red_Card: we are talking about a reasonable movie here and u are mentioning Nkiru Sylvanus? Wetin u smoke? Pls lets get serious. The trailer is good, lets just pray it doesn't get snubbed @d Oscars 2014 for best foreign film @least even if it's just a nomination. The cast and crew did a good job. Lest I forget, could it be that Genevieve Nnaji's scenes were trully cut off?

manchy7531:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wF4wU6HuUk&feature=youtu.be

can wait to lay my hands on a copy. Enjoy!!

Ikengawo:

so this book, milestone achievement in Nigerian, Igbo and black history, and clearly well made movie should be denounced by Nigerians because of what? an accent? Now we've done something wrong abi?

stillwater: Thandie's accent is alright. Remember her character is British trained, so her accent is british/Igbo.

some-girl:


I have a major problem with the accents.
Good actors should learn accents and should be convincing. Non Africans like to believe we all speak the same, sound alike and look alike. Makes life easy for them especially foreign directors of African movies.
These same people would get offended when their accents are faked incorrectly.
Mel Gibson's and Russell Crowe's attempts at Scottish and Nottinghamshire accents respectively were criticized, although theirs were errors that would go unnoticed by those who aren't familiar with the accents.
Thandie and Noni Rose didn't even make any attempt to sound Nigerian. They seemed to have decided that any accent they could manage that sounded remotely African would suffice.

coogar:

the target audience won't know the difference and that's the most important thing. who cares if the accent is not igbotic? how would the investment generate profit if nonso diobi and chioma chukwuka were the main actors all because you want to preserve the igbo accent??

ekwah:

You my friend, are the biggest Ignoramus I have encountered yet.
Clearly, you are the one who is very confused here. You better you wake up from your slumber now?! or else....

some-girl:

what part of my post suggested that I had a problem with the actors and their accents not being "Igbo"??

coogar:

if the story is about biafra, in what accent would you expect them to speak? hausa or wollof?

some-girl:



Manufacturing information is a major reason people fail comprehension tests. You are the one who just suggested that the accents should be Igbo.
Read my post again.... take your time this time.

some-girl:

Manufacturing information is a major reason people fail comprehension tests. You are the one who just suggested that the accents should be Igbo.
Read my post again.... take your time this time.

coogar:

i don't need to read your post a second time unless you don't even have a grasp of what you wrote. you want the actors to speak with the correct accent which is igbo.

you cited the case of mel gibson and russell crowe getting criticised because they couldn't cut it with the scottish or the nottinghamshire accent.

what else could you have meant?

manny4life:


Bros, I think you misunderstood her..

Here is the last part she wrote, she was stressing about the "Nigerian Accent", and not the Igbo accent.

Thandie and Noni Rose didn't even make any attempt to sound Nigerian. They seemed to have decided that any accent they could manage that sounded remotely African would suffice.

manny4life:
Bros, I think you misunderstood her..

Here is the last part she wrote, she was stressing about the "Nigerian Accent", and not the Igbo accent.

Thandie and Noni Rose didn't even make any attempt to sound Nigerian. They seemed to have decided that any accent they could manage that sounded remotely African would suffice.

coogar:

then she's confused....

robin hood was about a bandit in nottingham and she cited the example of russell crowe getting hammered for not speaking in their accent. half of the yellow sun is an igbo story - it then implies she had a problem with their accent because the actors couldn't speak in igbo accent.

there's nothing called african accent....

some-girl:

Help somebody! Anybody!

coogar:

then she's confused....

robin hood was about a bandit in nottingham and she cited the example of russell crowe getting hammered for not speaking in their accent. half of the yellow sun is an igbo story - it then implies she had a problem with their accent because the actors couldn't speak in igbo accent.

there's nothing called african accent....

manny4life:
Haba, you never give up.. Btw, Robin Hood was a good movie. That it's an Igbo story doesn't mean she wanted the cast to be Igbo, all she was saying like you reiterated robin hood and Russell crowe, the both of them could have at least tried to portray a Nigerian accent.

As for "African Accent", I don't know about you, but African have their own accent. Ghanians speak totally different from Nigerians, and Sierra Leone speak differently from Cameroonians. Even me sef can identify who a Ghanian and Cameroonian is from their accent.

I believe her argument was simply that they just tried to speak anything African as supposed to something Nigerian.

coogar:

i never said she wanted them to be igbo but she wanted them to speak the igbo accent as the story was set in igbo.

coogar:

is there a language called "african"? if there's none then how can you have an african accent?

coogar:

if that's what she meant then she did a horrible job getting her message across. she didn't need the "robin hood" example then as it's the wrong analogy.

manny4life:
oogar, ahh... I know you can argue. Though wrong to you, you suppose understand what she's talking about. Anyway sha, me sef I'm done with this argument because accent or not, this movie is absolutely awesome for a trivial issue like accent to ruin it.

manny4life:
Well, that's not what I deducted from her, she NEVER wanted them to speak in Igbo accents, but at least try and speak the Nigerian accent. If you're still persistent on the Igbo thingy, well to each their own...

You're seriously very funny, did language fall from the sky? Aren't there people who are Africans, Europeans, Asians, etc who created their "LANGUAGE"? I don't get your logic sometimes, Asians, Europeans, Africans, Caribbeans, Middle easterners, etc have their own accent. Language like in Nigeria, we speak English (universal language), but the way I speak my own English is not the same way a Ghanian will speak the same English. So no, language is totally different from accent, you don't need language to speak an accent.

For instance I'm trying to learn Spanish, when I'm done, my Spanish accent will be way different from the Hispanics. Even in the Hispanic race, the Puerto Ricans speak differently from Mexicans, YET, it's the same Spanish language but with different accents to it.

Coogar, ahh... I know you can argue. Though wrong to you, you suppose understand what she's talking about. Anyway sha, me sef I'm done with this argument because accent or not, this movie is absolutely awesome for a trivial issue like accent to ruin it.

shymexx: African accent, Nigerian accent, Igbo accent blah blah.

Have you got any B/C-list actress good enough to take Thandie Newton's place?

The only actress of naija origin who's close, Sophie Okonedo, had other commitments to a bigger budget movie called; After Earth.

If you don't like the accent, you might as well go get your medieval nollywood actors and their ancient cameras to shoot a remix.

coogar:

sophie okonedo is a very good actress - she killed it in hotel rwanda!