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Pastor AIO:
If there was no war in africa before the white man came then who were people like Shango fighting?  Chickens?

Good one

Be grateful for what you have. Quit complaining, there are thousands who would rather trade places with you.

Playing interracial marriage for slapstick laughsBy LyndaGorov Los Angeles : CA : USA | 1 day ago 1 0 Views: 450 [ Close Window ] « Prev Next » Image

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Director Rick Famuyiwa
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Director does his thing.See All Images Forget social relevance. The first thing on writer-director Rick Famuyiwa’s mind is funny. Then maybe he’ll get around to making statements that matter.
When co-writing “Our Family Wedding,” for instance, Famuyiwa says he concentrated on characters the audience could relate to – but who would also make them laugh. Still, he knew that throwing black and brown together might also give the raucous romantic comedy a certain underlying gravitas.
“You make films and people take from them what they will and they come with their own personal experiences,” Famuyiwa said. “For someone, it might just be, ‘I’m going to a really funny film and I ate my popcorn and my hotdog.’ And someone else might feel a particular kinship with a particular character or situation.


http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/5375448-playing-interracial-marriage-for-slapstick-laughs
“I’m of the school that I don’t necessarily try to make a statement,” he added. “But everything comes from your own personal background.”
Famuyiwa, for the record, is a first generation Nigerian-American who grew up in the Inglewood section of Los Angeles. Sometimes the name throws folks. He’s gotten, “I thought you’d be Japanese” more than once – although less so with each film. Those include the sleeper hit “The Wood” and “Brown Sugar,” both starring Taye DiggsTaye Diggs, who has a small part in “Our Family Wedding.” Famuyiwa also wrote the screenplay for 2007’s “Talk Radio,” with Don CheadleDon Cheadle.
“The first press junket for my first film was the NABJ [National Association of Black Journalists] and I walked in and everyone was like, ‘Oh, ok,’” he said, laughing. “You could tell they were ready to start grilling me on, ‘How do you know this stuff?’ Then it was, ‘Oh, he’s actually African-American.’ “
Famuyiwa started writing the script for his latest movie in the middle of the 2008 presidential elections, when there was debate whether Latinos would vote for a black president. “I can’t say the time didn’t feel right for a film like this,” he said, noting that sometimes movies with minorities in the leads take on extra significance only because there are so few of them to start.
The black experience represents half of the Los Angeles-set “Our Family Wedding,” the Latino experience the other. The movie stars America Ferrera of “Ugly Betty” fame and Lance Gross of Tyler PerryTyler Perry’s “House of Payne” as a couple of college students whose unexpected plans to wed have their fathers throwing fits and getting into fisticuffs. Carlos Mencia plays one dad, a successful garage shop owner/family man who has a city contract to tow cars. Academy Award-winner Forest WhitakerForest Whitaker plays the other, an equally successful disc jockey and ladies man.
The movie was written with Ferrera in mind. Whitaker (“The Last King of Scotland,” “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai” and TVs “ER” and “Blue Shield” among so many other muscular, masculine parts) was a less obvious choice. In fact the actor’s interest caught Famuyiwa off guard.
“His agent called me up and said, ‘Have you ever thought about Forest for something like this?’ he said “I was like, ‘Are you serious, he would want to do a comedy?’ I’d seen him on “Saturday Night Live and when the idea was brought to my attention, it just immediately clicked.’
That’s Whitaker on screen doing pratfalls and making funny faces. And, yes, that’s him as – how to put this delicately – the object of a Viagra-chomping goat’s affections.
“Comedy is about tension; tension is about truth,” said Famuyiwa, 36, who was a double major in cinema/television production and critical studies at the University of Southern California. “Forest can be such a master of his craft. I knew he could get to the truth of his character. Plus getting him mauled and humped by a goat just seemed a funnier image to me than if a stand-up comedian was in his place.”
That’s the broadest image in a fairly broad comedy. Famuyiwa conceded, “We dance around the line; I don’t know if we went over it.” That’s particularly true with regards to the film’s racial aspects, especially with how the grandmothers react to the intended interracial couple and how the fathers one-up name-call like grade school kids. Still, he says moviegoers have come up to him after screenings to say they’ve experienced the exact same things in their own families.
“Yes, there is broadness in aspects of the film, but when there’s an underlying truth is when you go for it,” he said.
The truth, for instance, is that in Nigerian society the goat is a big celebration piece. Then Famuyiwa found out it’s the same in Mexican celebrations and the celebrations of many other cultures. The goat was in and staying in.
“I felt I could introduce that because it came from personal experience,” he said. “I could push that joke. I can only hope people will be in on it.”

oyb:
dede i no sabi grammer jo    - i remember one fine  thread where i had so much fun making fun of his english gaffes - that thread was the genesis of debosky's sig - the man who invented grammer

which thread is that? Debosky would be a contender among the candidates that speak big english on board. Ultimately, Jakumo might emerge the winner.

ghettochyk:
what are u confused about?

Read your initial views and tell me what the message is all about.

How can I marry someone who does not believe that Jesus Christ is not Divine? And why would I now, decide to 'compromise' for what reason? Love or money? Neither!

agitator:
when a judge gives judgment by saying "the [b]jury finds" in a Nigerian court an he's the only judge.[/b]

Funny! They are trying to hard to imitate oyibo, just like some Nigerian musicians. What happened to originality?
As for lovepotion which is common in Nollywood, the same Nollywood which showcases juju and black magic has been blamed for fueling the rise in ritual killing in Uganda. I saw that on ABC 20/20

Interfaith marriage is a no no for me.

Sometimes it works, dunno how they do that and how they raise their children. Abdou Diouf, the former president of Senegal is a muslim, his wife is Catholic.

oloriede:
someone wrote there is one at palmgrove, pls where is the place.
thanks.

and it is for the good reason.  to better the life of anyone my family might decide to pick and also i need the address cos i want to be sending cloths and shoes to them.

thanks.

You dont have to broadcast your good intentions for them.

Andre Uweh:
I think there should be a vocabulary contest between Patrick, Kosovo and Dede1. Who do you think will win?.

And Jakumo!

y me:
i cant help but laugh at that statement
well all the same they are nigerians
God bless them

Funny!

Nimshi:
It matters all when you state "evidently" when nothing is evident.

Paul's 'argument' isn't relevant to the JW position: there were many resurrections in the bible.

In fact, resurrections were pretty much commonplace events then, like meeting your friends on the street.

Lazarus? The son of the widow? And several sevral other nameless people who were resurrected in the bible. What makes one more resurrection special?
.

The resurrection of Jesus Christ is special, because unlike the other ones that took place in the Holy Bible, He never did die again. Rather, He resurrected to Heaven. Lazarus, the son of the widow and the rest who were resurrected eventually died.

Jesus Christ is the only Way to Heaven. He says in John 14:6 (New International Version)

"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+14%3A6&version=NIV

And proofs? He died and Rose again bodily from the grave.

well, if she cant cook, she gotta learn how to cook.

Take them to a Church for deliverance.

In high school, some students who got into trouble with the school authorities would be instructed to bring in their parents. In some cases, these students would hire strangers (like cyclists) to pose as their fathers in nice outfits and some money to 'seal the deal' While the principal would reproach the students in front of their fake fathers, the men would lament that their son has brought disgrace to them. No teacher knew about it, but some of the students knew that it was all fake.

Eventually, one of the teachers found out about it, so when an announcement was made that some students had to bring in their father, one of the teachers said, 'Bring your REAL father, not your FAKE father"

Some 'independent' women who insist on retaining their maiden name during the course of their marriage are the same who would insist on claiming back their former husband's name in the event of an unfortunate divorce, so that their last name would correspond with that of their children born during the union.

Good question. We wanna show off to our family and friends that we have been 'abroad', hence the allure in traveling to the western nation.

[quote author=oyinda. link=topic=8179.msg5542250#msg5542250 date=1266543031]lol. it maybe be disrespectful to the yoruba man. but to the somali man or the ghanaian man, it's normal and the way it should be. different cultures, different ways of life and different definitions of respect  [/quote]I'd like to think that we were referring to women in the Nigerian context, not those from places where it is readily accepted for a woman to still bear her maiden name.

Tope4all:
It is [b]un-African for a legitimate wife to even engage in extramarital affairs[/b] let alone having child from the union. i would never and anybody thay can bear such situation is a psychotic

Adultery is a taboo worldwide not just in Africa.

[quote author=oyinda. link=topic=8179.msg5541415#msg5541415 date=1266530134]in your previous post, u say that she is "sorely lacking respect to her husband"
and here u say it's no big deal"wetin consin me"

[b]where exactly do u stand on the issue?  [/b]i personally think it depends on the culture and the individuals involved in the partnership.[/quote]My statements that any lady who still keeps her maiden name as her last name after marriage is 'sorely lacking respect to her husband' and that I wouldnt be bothered by it is mutually inclusive. It means that while I am not in the position to tell the woman to revert to her new name (wetin concern me), it's still sorely disrespectful to her husband.

Native names from my culture. Point of correction, Linda means pretty.

[quote author=oyinda. link=topic=8179.msg5535596#msg5535596 date=1266469571]women in many parts of East Africa (Somalia etc) retain their maiden name. likewise women from some cultures in Ghana.
not every society in the world is patrilineal.[/quote]I know or have read that the Ashanti's of Ghana are strictly matrilineal. And wetin consin me if a woman decides to retain her maiden name after marriage?

[quote author=tpia. link=topic=8179.msg5535549#msg5535549 date=1266467471]very weird- in some parts of Africa, the woman not only retains her maiden name throughout marriage, but every child receives a different surname even if they're from the same father and mother.[/quote]And what part of Africa is that?

Forgive as the Lord says. Meanwhile read this topic I posted a while back.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-13738.0.html

A woman who retains her maiden name after her marriage is sorely lacking respect to her husband.