Why Can't We Make A Classic Epic Nigerian Movie?

At this day & age we still can't make good special effects in our movies.if 4 example we r 2 make an epic movie wit sorcery & d lot,hw exactly r we 2 do it.Its like d film,akers r too scared 2 look 4 investor 2 help them make somethin that would put Nigeria on d map 4 good.A southAfrican movie won an Academy award 4 d best foreign film.when r we goin 2 be able 2 do d same??

why do people keep on bringing up the fact that a South African film won an Academy Award?

what on earth does that have to do with Nigeria?

do you honestly believe South Africa and Nigeria are on the same level?

nonsense. that is totally irrelevant.

even when Nigeria was known as the so-called "Giant of Africa" and South Africa was in the grips of apartheid, South Africa's film industry and infrastructure was still light years ahead of Nigeria's, and it remains so today.

Things Fall Apart was a TV series, not a movie.

you're changing the subject now.

i never said that the Nigerian movie industry should not aspire to greatness. of course they should; everybody should aspire to be great in any activity they engage in.

the point was that trying to measure the success (or lack thereof) of Nigeria's film industry against South Africa's is completely unrealistic and pointless, because South Africa's film industry is--and always has been--far, far, far ahead of Nigeria's.

(for one thing, South Africa actually has a *film* industry while Nigeria has a *video* market)

"Nollywood is more than a decade old"

do you realize that South Africa's film industry is almost a century old?

i mean, 100 years!

i don't think Nollywood is altogether stagnant, by the way. . . i'll agree that the progress is slow as hell, but i don't think you can say that today the industry is on the same level it was back in 1994.

no . . . there is progress. go watch a home video from 1995 and compare it to one from today.

granted, there is still a long, long, long way to go . . . but it's not as if the industry hasn't moved at all.

Ok, maybe I am not being clear enough. In 1995, 10 movies might be released a week. Out of that 10, u would have prolly 5 very good ones with good story lines. Nowadays, 200 movies would be released a week and u can barely pick out 20 good ones. I wont really be too excited about that kind of progress.

cause making an epic requires a huge amount of commitment,funding and near excellent script writers and also government participation all of which is lacking in the nigerian movie scene,the yoruba artise and the ibo artise andto a lesser extent the hausa artise are not united and they kind of do more stuffs along tribal lines, to make an epic ll need ten s of millions of naira which the government is not willing to fund,neither is any private individual ready to fund as well,the alaba boys are understandable scared cause of copyright

because we lack common sense and the expertise!

but its been well over ten years ago now,


we have all the common and even uncommon sense, these guys are not politicians ,so where are they going to raise like20,30,40 million naira or more for an epic movie whike the threat of piracy is a sword of damocles hanging over their head

It's simple - the movie industry sucks.

They've been way too concerned with quantity than we are with quality.  Notice we isntead of they, meaning they don't care about their customers.  They feel as long as they continue to purge out movies they'll continue to cash in.  As a result of this they won't bother too much with the content of the homvies being created by them.

I guess the drive for quick returns and lack of patience as well as professionalism in some quarters are some factors.It takes years to make most films in the US. Until we realise that there isn't any short cut to success ( same attitude with our sports especially football).
These things take time and planning. is the movie industry ready for a change

Some great works have actually come of Nigeria e.g. Mind Bending by Lola Fanikayode (TV Series) I call it great because of the quality of idea; plot; the cast; the setting and the quality of audio & video.

There were a couple of films from Hubert Ogunde: Aiye & some other one that had cats in the film.

I refuse to agree with those who compare ages i.e. S.A. started a century ago & Nigeria stated a decade ago. The truth of the matter is, if you had defined your end goal, achieving it becomes less difficult. Nollywood simply hasnt defined their destination & that is evident in the lack of quality; poverty of ideas; lack of training (anybody feels that can also act).

We are in an age where 10 years in practice can be compared to a century in practice because Technological advancement has shortened the years but you can have the best cutting edge technology in your hands, if you don't know what to do with it, you are no diff from a moron.

My perceived observation of Nollywood is a quick money making venture, so we can have 1,000 pages on naiarland on Nollywood & nothing will change.

If the objective doesnt change, there will be no Nollywood in a decades time!!!

Have you ever been to Alaba Int Market?? The markerters record Audio on =N=10 CDs (Quote Me).As long as such pratices continue, the industry is doomed.

My people, lets stop comparing ourselves with other nations, its disgraceful to do so. Why? We are not commited to Excelence. Simple!!

just like you know my mind, to seek for funds to produced a good movie is a problem.

Note that there are few professionals in the movie industry. I am not talking about actors here , I am talking about studio work,videography, cinematography, effects and others. How many of you have bought any movie recently? Only video club owners buy movies and offcourse the movies many at times and re not worth watching again. How many SA films are quite tight because personally I have not watched any SA film apart from some parts of Sarafina.