Nollywood And Animal Cruelty

Pet lovers far outnumber vegetarians in most parts of the world.  No producer wants to offend a potential customer.

Typical Nigerian Simpleton heh? I beg your pardon that i refuse to let the views of a minority number of people influence the way i feel about things. And calling me a simpleton will not change that fact.
And i still stand by my ealier statement that if u are bothered by the animal cruelty, then hit fast forward.

And to refer to calling me a typical Nigerian simpleton. obviously you have not lived in Nigeria, or if you did you have lived a very priviledged live there, not to say that there is anything wrong with that. It's just that many Nigerians have experienced or have killed an animal in their backyard. maybe a chicken, or the killing of a cow for a large event or a goat even and so on.  So How is killing an animal in a movie different or cruel?
The film makers depict reality, as a lot of people have posted, so are you going to bring the nigerian population to task for the way they get their food in real life?

This notion of animal cruelty is an inconsequential topic that should not even be an issue, instead try to focus on more important and urgent things facing Nigeria today.

@ Wale

I guess thanks for giving me that opportunity, but next time make yourself clearer and you do not need to start calling people names in trying to get your view across. first i was a simpleton, now i'm a chauvunist, for expressing my own views? for someone who claims to respect people's views, you are certainly not showing me that, so I will do you one better and call you a hypocrite.

I respect every bodies view, but i do not see the sense in cahing something for the benefit of a minority. it does not make sense artistically, financially and what every "lly" you want to think of. while it is all humane or nice, or wahtever you want to call it.
I think the people who created the VCR and DVD player also respected people's views, that is why they included the fast forward button. And i'm getting really tired of saying it, but if it bothers anybody, fast froward through the scene or don't watch the movie.

After all, every movie industry has something that will offend a minority. Just the other day, i was telling somebody that Hollywood is really gratitous with it's explicit sex scenes in almost all it's movies, And now that I'm past my hormonal adolescence, it really annoys me and I feel detracts from the movie, because it is not needed at all in most cases to progress the plot, but you don't see me complaining about it or saying change it. you kno what i do? i either fast forward or close my eyes and bear through it.

Bollywood has an overdose of singing and dancing that sometimes grates on my nerves but you know what i do? i either fast forward thorugh it, close my eyes and ears or bear it.

So my advice? if the Nigerian movie industry or "nollywood" has scenes that bother you or anybody else, you know what? fast forward through it or do whatever you want to do.

Just don't go on forums calling people simpletons or chauvunists cause they do not see the sense in complaining about something so inconsequential.
next time please read whatever post you want to comment on carefully before writing down whatever just pops into your head otherwise you will seem like the simpleton you accuse people of being.

Have a nice day.

Fortunately, Nollywood is not like that.  Shooting a movie is a one week rush job here. 

All of a sudden, some of our people became concerned with Animal rights. What next is on their agenda? Time for PETA to open an office in Nigeria, to curb these 'senseless' killing of animals in movies. Killing them should be performed n a more 'humane' (with a knife, I suppose) and not in a barbaric manner.

eaten by who? oh boy i fear you o
I definitely would not like to live in the same area as some people on here, killing people wont be a bad thing to them really

Twist it as much as you can but actually killing an animal in a film is unnecessary

if u actually examine it, biting the chicken heads off is probably more humane for the chicken than cutting it's neck with a knife.
bloody hell, hmm maybe we should start killing animals like barbarians instead killing it with a knife in an abattoir

if you also "examine it" urinating in your front garden is probably better than urinating in the loo, it make the land more fertile

What is a "humane" way to kill an animal?  Slicing the neck ever so gently with a very sharp knife? 

Abeg, make them tell us what the humane way it is to kill an animal? Maybe, the portrayal of a chicken being killed with the bite of one's teeth could be considered barbaric, but is it not the same as killing it with a knife?

For those who are so concerned with animal rights, like PETA, I have to ask, arent plants also living organisms? If so, why kill them? What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

I think the 'ripping off of a chicken's head on live tv/nollywood movie' thingy should horrify and shock any rational person. i don't consider myself a sensitive person, but such scenes aren't nice at all.

and yes, ripping off a chicken's head with your teeth actually is barbaric/uncivilized 

@ loverbwoy. firstly, someoe=ne has to tell me how u quote from people and have it in those nice green boxes. please.
secondly, what I'm saying is, nobody would kill a chicken even if for a movie and not eat it, especially in Nigeria.
please don't confuse my unconcern with the killing of animals to killing of humans, it's a whole other level man, and that is a stretch and you kno it, so don't even go there. Let me put it this way, animals are there for us humans to eat, and whatever philosphy you as a Nigerian man subscribes to will collaborate my statement.
it might be unnecessay to kill an animal in a movie, but it's not barbaric.
Tell me this, now i'm no physicist, but which has more force and kills quicker. A jaw clamping down on something or a knife slicing a neck. it's just like comparing the guillotine to using a cutlass to slice someone's neck, there's no comparision. As somebody who has killed chickens before, I can tell you that sometimes, when u slice their neck, it can become very messy and the chicken doesnt die immediately and instead you force it to bleed to death, so in the end which is more humane, since that is what you are going for right.

fact, a lot of things that are considered barbaric today, were more humane than methods used today. Hanging was considered barbaric, but it was more humane that the electric chair for example, so please stop throwing barbaric out there like it is common currency.

The thing is, when people use words like uncivilised and barbaric to refer to things a majority of their own people do, then i start to worry where their definition of those terms come from.
I definately advocate peeing in your front garden, it's the cool thing to cool.