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HOAYS; "Not As Good As The Book Syndrome” - Nollywood Reinvented by Nobody: 10:07am On Jul 03, 2014 |
From Jane Eyre to Wuthering Heights and even Harry Potter to Twilight, there is never a movie adaptation of a book that does not seem to suffer from what I shall hence refer as “not as good as the book syndrome” and Biyi Bandele’s adaptation of Half of a Yellow Sun (HOAYS) is no different. source |
Re: HOAYS; "Not As Good As The Book Syndrome” - Nollywood Reinvented by prof800(m): 11:15am On Jul 03, 2014 |
Here we go again... Here we go again.! >>> A book is a book and a film is a film! Hian! It's like looking for the 'chicken' in 'knorr chicken flavour' I'm sure performers of shakespearean plays must have had a hard time meeting up to expectations of the readers. |
Re: HOAYS; "Not As Good As The Book Syndrome” - Nollywood Reinvented by VillageBoi(m): 12:50pm On Jul 03, 2014 |
prof800:Absolutely love that line, it should win quote of the year award. Brilliant. |
Re: HOAYS; "Not As Good As The Book Syndrome” - Nollywood Reinvented by VillageBoi(m): 2:07pm On Jul 03, 2014 |
tony ayo: From Jane Eyre to Wuthering Heights and even Harry Potter to Twilight, there is never a movie adaptation of a book that does not seem to suffer from what I shall hence refer as “not as good as the book syndrome” and Biyi Bandele’s adaptation of Half of a Yellow Sun (HOAYS) is no different.That says it all. As Prof said... book na book, film na film. A cat can never be a dog and a dog can never be a horse! tony ayo: For one it would have been nice if Thandie could have demonstrated a bit more/a slight degree of command over the Igbo tongueThe main people with an issue are Nigerians. Hopefully we Nigerians can learn a very good lesson form this (first of all I have absolutely no issue with Thandie's performance or handling of the language)... As I was saying, our lesson is - we need to stop speaking English with some by-force accent bought at a flea market. If we can complain about her two or three words... then how ridiculous do we think we 'sound' throughout the duration of a feature film with forcing-guy accents? |
Re: HOAYS; "Not As Good As The Book Syndrome” - Nollywood Reinvented by Jayboy124: 4:31pm On Jul 03, 2014 |
VillageBoi: I actually experimented with Engli-Igbo in my last film, which is the normal kinda English we speak every day. I'm kinda bored with our too much fake British/American accent English in our movies. Hopefully, we'll have more local language 'big' film in Nigeria. By the way, we could go through some very long list of actors who played African who might not have spoken exactly the way the people they played spoke. |
Re: HOAYS; "Not As Good As The Book Syndrome” - Nollywood Reinvented by VillageBoi(m): 8:03pm On Jul 03, 2014 |
Jayboy124:Very nice! We should have many, many more films in 'mixed-language' and pidgin since we are far more natural that way. |
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