The movie was really good. Then, adults and children would sit and see movies comfortably without you holding remote control tight.

This show that his lips are sagging with age

Businessideas:

This is not the beginning of nollywood,this ignorance has to stop.
This beautiful film at best is the beginning of the English-Igbo genre of Nigerian films

Explain or shift.

Click 'like' if you believe that Igbos are the ones dat got Nollywood to limelight.

iamnicer:


LOT OF PEOPLE COMMENTING DIDNT ACTUALLY WATCHED THE MOVIE THO

THIS MOVIE WAS EVERYTHING BACK THEN

Oooh please!

Nneka the Pretty Serpent was the real everything.........

luvinhubby:


Explain or shift.

You see.That is the problem with you young ones,lack of humility.
I just mentioned and listed films that are Nigerian films even with national popularity and you can easily and humbly read about them online.
There are films like Block busters like Aiye by Hubert Ogunde Group,Taxi Driver by Ade Love the father of the popular Afolayan brothers, Duro Ladipo group that were the awada kerikeri group, Baba Sala with that film he was shown committing suicide in a train track and so many other films of Nigerian actors and theater you may be too young to know and can easily read on.
Nollywood never started with living in bondage and it is pure ignorance to say that publicly.
The English-Igbo genre of Nigerian films came to the table very very very late and that's why it lacked depth like the preexisting genre of Nigerian films led by the Hubert Ogunde et al.
I just corrected and educated you with love

Businessideas:

This is not the beginning of nollywood,this ignorance has to stop.
This beautiful film at best is the beginning of the English-Igbo genre of Nigerian films coming several decades after the Baba Sala,Ade Love,Hubert Ogunde etc of Nollywood

lol revisionist at work, note there is soap opera which is different from nollywood eg new masquerade. nollywood started with living in bondage

Businessideas:

You see.That is the problem with you young ones,lack of humility.
I just mentioned and listed films that are Nigerian films even with national popularity and you can easily and humbly read about them online.
There are films like Block busters like Aiye by Hubert Ogunde Group,Taxi Driver by Ade Love the father of the popular Afolayan brothers, Duro Ladipo group that were the awards kerikeri group, Baba Sala with that film he was shown committing suicide in a train track and so many other films of Nigerian actors and theater you may be too young to know and can easily read on.
Nollywood never started with living in bondag

u don carry afonja wahala come here abi ogunde film no be for national theatre he dey show him own ,living bondage is the first Nigerian home video without it u won't know tonto dike INI Edo so u can go to hell with ur witch witch ogunde film

iamnicer:


LOT OF PEOPLE COMMENTING DIDNT ACTUALLY WATCHED THE MOVIE THO

THIS MOVIE WAS EVERYTHING BACK THEN

EVERYTHING!!! I mean you would even peep through the window

soberdrunk:
Back when Nigerian movies made sense and the storylines were 'original', not all these 'mimicked' Hollywood movies they put out these days.........

the English nollywood i do not watch anymore but i do watch yoruba movies till date...

Andy o buru na ikpotaghi nwunye gi ta i nwuo, i cant forget that line

Businessideas:

You see.That is the problem with you young ones,lack of humility.
I just mentioned and listed films that are Nigerian films even with national popularity and you can easily and humbly read about them online.
There are films like Block busters like Aiye by Hubert Ogunde Group,Taxi Driver by Ade Love the father of the popular Afolayan brothers, Duro Ladipo group that were the awards kerikeri group, Baba Sala with that film he was shown committing suicide in a train track and so many other films of Nigerian actors and theater you may be too young to know and can easily read on.
Nollywood never started with living in bondag

Baba sala was more of a tv comedy series, chief Hubert Ogunde was more of stage drama, Ade love was produced for tvs mainly.
Living in bondage was done as a commercial project and distributed as a home movie, the commercialisation was the intro into the movie world in Nigeria.

You do not know me, so stop referring to me as 'young one'.

nnokwa042:
u don carry afonja wahala come here abi ogundbe film no be for national theatre he dey show him own ,living bondage is the first Nigerian home video without it u won't know tonto dike INI Edo so u can go to hell with ur witch witch ogunde film

It's not tribalism because that's not my forte and I am not your regular young ones on Nairaland.
Even the epic 'Things Fall Apart' by Pete Edochie came before Living in Bondage',Soaps like Village Headmaster, Basi & Company, New Masquerade came before Living in bondage,except you want to say you have fact that they are not Nigerian films, so I am educating you on your poor history of Nigerian entertainment.Remember,you can not blackmail truth.

luvinhubby:


Baba sala was more of a tv comedy series, chief Hubert Ogunde was more of stage drama, Ade love was produced for tvs mainly.
Living in bondage was done as a commercial project and distributed as a home movie, the commercialisation was the intro into the movie world in Nigeria.

You do not know me, so stop referring to me as 'young one'.

They are Nigerian films. The concept of Nollywood as controversial as the name is,refers to Nigerian films so why abridge the history of the existence of Nigerian films industry.

Late Alade Aromire pioneered movies being made into VHS. Movies like 'Aiye' by late Ogunde are in VHS and sure came before 'Living in Bondage. I beg to differ that 'Living in Bondage brought Nollywood to the World's Map.

Nbote:
Living in bondage!!(Clap 3 times)
Part 1 Part 2!!(Clap 2 times)
Merit don die!! (Clap 3 times)
Na who kill am!! (Clap 3 times)
Na Andy Kill am!! (Clap 3 times)
Becos of Wetin!! (Clap 3 times)
Becos of Blood money!! (Clap 3 times)
Clap for Andy!! Clap for Andy!!
Him don do bad thing!! Him don do bad thing!!

If U didn't sing and play to dis kiddies playground song culled from Living in Bondage movie den U shld address me as Uncle.. Andy was wretched and was convinced by his friend Paulo to join d big boys by joining their ritual brotherhood to gain riches. He did and ended up using his beautiful wife Merritt as d sacrificial lamb.. Her ghost ended up haunting d living daylight put of dem.

Aswear

Businessideas:

You see.That is the problem with you young ones,lack of humility.
I just mentioned and listed films that are Nigerian films even with national popularity and you can easily and humbly read about them online.
There are films like Block busters like Aiye by Hubert Ogunde Group,Taxi Driver by Ade Love the father of the popular Afolayan brothers, Duro Ladipo group that were the awada kerikeri group, Baba Sala with that film he was shown committing suicide in a train track and so many other films of Nigerian actors and theater you may be too young to know and can easily read on.
Nollywood never started with living in bondage and it is pure ignorance to say that publicly.
The English-Igbo genre of Nigerian films came to the table very very very late and that's why it lacked depth like the preexisting genre of Nigerian films led by the Hubert Ogunde et al.
I just corrected and educated you with love

Am nt really sure u understand the term HOME MOVIE

Andy Okeke;Andy Okeke
Ihe ojoo niile m mere n'uwa
Gbaghara mu oo

All dis indomie n egg generation go comment pass

Businessideas:

This is not the beginning of nollywood,this ignorance has to stop.
This beautiful film at best is the beginning of the English-Igbo genre of Nigerian films coming several decades after the Baba Sala,Ade Love,Hubert Ogunde etc of Nollywood

we don't know those ones u mentioned now... nollywood is igbo creation , yorubas are still playing supporting roles go back to ijebu

lordyugo:


Am nt really sure u understand the term HOME MOVIE

Please don't bring in a completely different line of argument.My emphasis is on the history of Nollywood as symbolism of the Nigerian films industry.Celluloid technology and other older technology existed before the era of mass dubbing and it doesn't mean that the era of home video birthed Nollywood.
If you want to bring another argument on home video,let us first agree on the fact that it's completely false to say Living in bondage is the beginning of Nollywood

arbass:
Late Alade Aromire pioneered movies being made into VHS. Movies like 'Aiye' by late Ogunde are in VHS and sure came before 'Living in Bondage. I beg to differ that 'Living in Bondage brought Nollywood to the World's Map.

You can beg and differ all you like, Living in Bondage brought Nollywood to the World's Map.
If you like name movies made before Nigeria got her independence, Living in Bondage is still the pacesetter.
Cry if E pain you.

ELKHALIFAISIS:
we don't know those ones u mentioned now... nollywood is igbo creation , yorubas are still playing supporting roles go back to ijebu

Okay I see a small boy on the thread I expect should be intellectual.
Nollywood is a national heritage and it didn't start with Living in Bondage.
As you can see, others,even Samanja , from the north,were players in the Nollywood project before the English-Igbo genre of Nollywood.
It's a national shame if our young ones like you have a poor sense of our national history,hence I am intervening to educate you.Like I said,I don't do tribalism because I was born and raised among all the beautiful Nigerian tribes and there was no Nairaland to corrupt my patriotism when I was your age

Na Mama Born em

steppins:

You can beg and differ all you like, Living in Bondage brought Nollywood to the World's Map.
If you like name movies made before Nigeria got her independence, Living in Bondage is still the pacesetter.
Cry if E pain you.

You can argue that it is pacesetter of Home movie and most likely the English-Igbo genre of Nigerian films but definitely not Nollywood.
As at when it came,Nigeria and Nigerians have made their mark in the entertainment world.
Please read about the likes of Campbell, Olu Jacobs etc who are Nigerians who have acted in major international films and the great artists that represented Nigeria globally before , during and after Festac '77. It's insulting to delete their efforts and contributions because you weren't born then

Businessideas:

Please don't bring in a completely different line of argument.My emphasis is on the history of Nollywood as symbolism of the Nigerian films industry.Celluloid technology and other older technology existed before the era of mass dubbing and it doesn't mean that the era of home video birthed Nollywood.
If you want to bring another argument on home video,let us first agree on the fact that it's completely false to say Living in bondage is the beginning of Nollywood

Nope u r mixing apples nd oranges
Kenneth ws concise wit his assertion ,living in bondage was the first home movie nd d birth of nollywood and nobody ever said nigeria was lacking in theater artistry like stage plays, drama series on local tvs etc
Home movie is simply the commercialization of a movie industry(nollywood) and living in bondage ws the birth of it .
Nollywood is a movie industry and all the stage dramas on theatres nd plays on tv nvr translated to a movie industry

soberdrunk:
Back when Nigerian movies made sense and the storylines were 'original', not all these 'mimicked' Hollywood movies they put out these days.........

very irritating. Just saw the ones they copies from Merlin and spider man

Chief Omego :Andy jisie obi gi ike

Andy: Ma na chief, ikowasirim ihea ofuma

When you know what it takes someone to be very rich, you will prefer to remain a poor man. Kanaya O Kanayo
Kenneth Okonkwo, you two are fine gentlemen that were my neighbors in the 90s
Glad, seeing what you two did become.

Businessideas:

This is not the beginning of nollywood,this ignorance has to stop.
This beautiful film at best is the beginning of the English-Igbo genre of Nigerian films coming several decades after the Baba Sala,Ade Love,Hubert Ogunde etc of Nollywood.
This is how history is being corrupted and centuries later people will be parading different history of the same country.O ga o.
Even Nollywood itself is older than Kenneth Okonkwo himself.

must u bring tribalism in everything? because Igbo's were kinda applauded for d movie u want to show us say u knw history pass us. my friend living in bondage is d first official nollywoood movie dt we watched. go and hang ur self... bad belle