What Kind Of Movie Do You Want Nigerians To Make?

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Cushango (m)
NIGERIANS MOVIES ABOUT THE CREATION OF THE 'UNITED STATES AND KINGDOMS" OF AFRI
« #96 on: January 20, 2008, 07:34 AM »

HOW ABOUT A MOVIE ABOUT THE UNIFICATION OF ALL THE WEST AFRICAN 'ECOWAS' NATIONS INTO THE WORLD'S FIRST BLACK SUPERPOWER SINCE THE BLACK MOORS (WHO RULED FROM NIGERIA TO SPAIN.

Let's start with the movie.

1.  The worlds large nations like India, China, The North American Union (coming sooner than we think, from Central America to Canada -- a single nation of about 500,000,000 people), Europe begin to form 'polar' superpowers.
African nations are targeted for exploitation.

2.  Large super-powers create divisions among Africans (as in Kenya, ect, ) in order to keep Africans weak and divided.

3.  A great African CONSCIOUSNESS (before a leader emerges) overtakes the African maind.  Finally,  we begin to feel thretened.  A SYSTEM OF LEADERS EMERGE, THEY PROPOSE THE REVIVAL OF THE ANCIENT NOK-WAGADU, GHANA, MALI, SONGHAI EMPIRES, AND 'FOREST KINGDOMS' ALL IN ONE.

4.  The "UNITED STATES AND KINGDOMS OF AFRICA" is created.

5.  All Nigerians, Ghanians, and other West Africans living miserable lives of racism and oppression in places like Europe, return to rebuild the new African super-power.

6.  Diaspora Africans with skills and talent (from the US, Britain, Latin America, Caribbean -- WHO ARE PRESENTLY ALL OVER AFRICA AS TEACHERS, DOCTORS, ENGINEERS, AGRICULTURISTS) organize to help rebuild Africa.

7.  Tens of thousands of former workers for America's great industries (now moved overseas) move to West Africa to help with the industrialization process by applying their skills.  The help build a strong industrial base in Africa.

8.  Africa's towns, villages and cities are rebuilt using African architecture and MODERNIZED VERSIONS OF AFRICAN STYLE HOUSES.

9.  Africa's money now in foreign banks are returned home for African development.

10.  The 'UNITED STATES AND KINGDOMS' OF AFRICA ESTABLISHES AN AFRICANIST/PAN-AFRICANIST IDEOLOGY.

11.  The union rebuilds infrastructure throughout West Africa.

12.  The educational, cultural, manufacturing and information sectors are greatly improved.

13.  The Union encourages POPULATION EXPANSION because they realize that the SLAVE TRADE DISTROYED THE POPULATION OF THE REGIOIN FROM SENEGAL TO ANGOLA -- AND AFRICA'S POTENTIAL POPULATION SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABOUT 4 BILLION PEOPLE TODAY, were it not for the 50,000,000 to 100,000,000 who were captured, perished during the Atlantic crossing or sent to the Americas.

14.  The United States and Kingdoms of Africa takes every step to build A STRONG EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AND A STRONG SYSTEM OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR THE INVENTION AND CREATION OF NEW PRODUCTS.

15.  Every effort is made to develop a strong health system for the people's 1,500,000,000 (one billion, five hundred million people) who live on the continent as well as in the Americas.

This would make a great movie -- FORTUNATELY, this idea is in the minds of many people in Africa and the Diaspora.  Many of us are not wasting our time wasting energy but are working for the day when Africa will stand at the top of the world as a continent of united regions ( UNITES STATES AND KINGDOMS OF WEST AFRICA, EAST/CENTRAL AFRICAN FEDERATION, SOUTHERN AFRICAN UNION OF STATES, AND OTHERS)

In order for Africa not to be 'partitioned' and colonized again by today's new 'parasite' colonialists, Africa and Africans globally must unite on working to create larger, stronger, more populous, economically and militarily powerful states on the African continent.

NOW THAT WOULD BE A GREAT MOVIE -- ADD THAT TO MAKING MOVIES ABOUT THE NOK-WAGADU KINGDOM, the Ghana Empire, Songhai, Mali and others.  Movies about the journey of Meci to the Americas about 3113 B.C. (a sacred day to the Mandinga Indians of Mexico and to Blacks in the AMERICAS, BECAUSE THAT IS THE DAY THAT Meci sailed from West Africa in 12 ships and settled in Mexico, where he built a pyramid and religios site).

What about movies about the Cush and Khemites -- the very ancient ancestors of most Nigerians who established the world's first civilizations in the Sahara and in Cush and Egypt?

After all, anyone who has been looking at movies from Asia will notice that REVIVING THE MEMORY OF ASIAN CULTURE THROUGH MOVIES IS OCCURRING AND HAS BEEN FOR MANY DECADES.

One can watch Bo Dae Jong (Korean War series ) about the Korean struggle during the 800's AD, the very time that Nubia-Cush had defeated the people who came in from across the Red Sea and tried to impose their culture and slavery on Sudanese, (these invaders were able to start slavery in Africa despite their defeat by Emperor Kalydosos of Nubia).

HOW ABOUT MOVIES ABOUT THE BENIN CIVILIZATION AND SYSTEM OF KINGSHIP, THE TAKING OF BENINS GREAT AND MAGNIFICENT BRONZE WORKS, OR THE MAGNIFICENT CIVILIZATION OF BENIN AND THE BUILDING OF THE 'BENIN IYA' (BENIN WALL) OVER 2000 YEARS AGO?

Robbie Lex
Re: What Kind Of Movie Do You Want Nigerians To Make?
« #97 on: January 22, 2008, 02:58 PM »

sorry there was an error scroll down for my comments
Ima Ero (m)
Re: What Kind Of Movie Do You Want Nigerians To Make?
« #98 on: January 22, 2008, 03:04 PM »

Excellent commentary !
Robbie Lex
Re: What Kind Of Movie Do You Want Nigerians To Make?
« #99 on: January 22, 2008, 03:14 PM »

I don't think the genre of a movie really matters, if it did how will you explain a grown man watching cartoons, lol.
Generally people will always have their preferences to movies, for example I'm a die hard "who dunnit"type of thriller fan so naturally every one on this thread will give a type of movie they would like to see, be it epic, romance, horror, adventure,

I don't think Nollywood has a money problem, infact i  believe big budget movies shouldn't be done in Nigeria for a while, Surprised???well i just do not believe  the audience is ready, film watching is like dating, there's a period of the chase and the period of the shakara, before romance begins. I think nollywood got tired of the chase in the days of the first few films that were made, when we the expecting audience eyed nollywood from afar wondering and chattering about it,  now the norm in nollywood is to do really bad movies and shove it down our throats.
, it's going to take a lot of wooing and chasing and flirting to get them back,  and the best way to do that is with
good medium and small budget movies that will gradually make the audience have faith in nollywood.


Storylines aren't  the problem either, honestly most amercian movies are kind of cliche if you ask me.
 Theres the typical boy meets girl kind of story, the lets save the world from mass destruction kind of story, the conspiracy kind of of story where its the last person you expect that's the killer, honestly i can't remember the last foreign movie i watched and didn't know what was going to happen in the end, the key thing in movies is not what you tell but how you tell it,  it doesn't matter if people can predict the story just take them through an unforgettable journey till they reach the end.


There are two major senses at work when you're watching a movie, your eyes and your ears. The audience takes in everything, the things they see and what they hear. If you want people to connect to your movie then you have to connect to their eyes and their ears by feeding them with the right kind of things that will make your characters believable.

The truth is people do not really identify with the characters in the Nigerian movies, Directors, writers, the whole nollywood making lot do not pay attention to details,

in movies everything matters, from the colour of the rug to the books on the shelves, in a movie nothing is meant to be there by accident, everything on the screen builds the character,  too much detail can kill your character by making them fake, (this is now being splashed across most Nigerian sitcoms and soaps, where everything is over done, )

There is no such thing as a villain in a movie, villains belong in fairytales,
people have their reasons for being bad and a good movie will show it, we never fall in love with the bad guys in Nigerian movies because they are unreal, they just do not exist, but i have a thing for Lex luther even though he is the cause of mayham in smallville, Bad guys can be sexy and good girls can be irritating, a good movie will show that.
I want to be able to choose who i like in a movie, not be told who to like, this is the bad guy, this is the good girl, with movies my eyes and ears should tell me what to choose, there are no rules,

And that takes me down to words, where the Nigerian problem originates from, words aka dialouge, since words build the characters, then the wrong words will lead to badly portrayed characters, badly portrayed characters will lead to bad acting, and bad acting = bad movie,

I think screen writing is probably the hardest type of writing, with prose it's easy to tell your reader what a character is feeling with movies you only have words and very few words at that.
A screenwriter has to be able to write with his eyes and his ears, he should be able to transform the thoughts and feelings of the character into words, words that will make me believe this person is real and not an actress. The right words remove the actress from the actress and instead i see the character in the actress, suddenly I'm not watching Omotola or RMD, but I'm watching this character who has a story to tell,

I'm still yet to watch one movie with this very simple but always absent qualities, in an attempt to achieve greatness in Nollywood we forget the important little details,  I don't need to see one million cars to know a man is rich, little things like his watch, his dress sense, even the book he is reading can tell me who he is,

Some directors have come close, like Tunde kelani for example, even Amaka Igwe isn't bad at all,
excuse my harshness but i am a natural critic, it would have been my alternate career choice if such existed,

Nollywood has promise has good story's, but the emphasis shouldn't be on big budgets of twisted stroy lines but should be on the foundation, remember , the eyes and the ears!!!

Cheers





Ima Ero (m)
Re: What Kind Of Movie Do You Want Nigerians To Make?
« #100 on: January 22, 2008, 03:24 PM »

Excellent Commentary Robie Lex !
Robbie Lex
Re: What Kind Of Movie Do You Want Nigerians To Make?
« #101 on: January 22, 2008, 03:37 PM »

Quote from: Ima Ero on January 22, 2008, 03:24 PM
Excellent Commentary Robie Lex !

 Thanks
femo2000 (m)
Re: What Kind Of Movie Do You Want Nigerians To Make?
« #102 on: January 22, 2008, 03:45 PM »

Ngerian Producers should make films like

Airforce 1, passenger 57, US Marshall or Titanic Cry Lips sealed

I guess  they would need the Federal Govt Allocation to make such films in NIgeria.

Make them try to even do Nigerian Garfield1&2 or Tom & Jerry ahhhhhhhh ooops Grin Huh Cry
MC Usman (m)
Re: What Kind Of Movie Do You Want Nigerians To Make?
« #103 on: February 26, 2008, 06:15 PM »

none
delib
Re: What Kind Of Movie Do You Want Nigerians To Make?
« #104 on: February 29, 2008, 09:39 AM »

movies that portrays or heritage
origina9ja (f)
Re: What Kind Of Movie Do You Want Nigerians To Make?
« #105 on: May 25, 2008, 06:05 PM »

@Betty605
Less romantic movie.
[b][/b]u talkin about less romantic Huh they dnt have anything romantic movie anyway
even sometimes when they need someone 2 act as a school sexy girl they put sum woman that is older than my mum
the own thing is just messed up
all need help in every aspect
@sesun, i meant they really need help at every aspect Tongue   
Kosol (m)
Re: What Kind Of Movie Do You Want Nigerians To Make?
« #106 on: May 25, 2008, 06:18 PM »

In Nigeria today, the kind of movies that are produced answer to the strength of technologies at our disposal. It's not that we don't have writers who can make great stories but we need to have at cheaper rates the instruments (quality) with which to bring those great ideas to reality. That's when we will be able to dictate the kind of movies that are to be made in Nigeria
Seun (m)
Re: What Kind Of Movie Do You Want Nigerians To Make?
« #107 on: May 26, 2008, 07:26 AM »

Let them make movies with good storylines at least.  You don't need billions for that.
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