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What's so demanding about a kiss?

Moved to property section.

They can prevent conception from taking place and collect DNA evidence for a possible rape trial.

I guess men are more mature. :d

If she's not interested today, she may be interested tomorrow, after thinking.
"Thinking" is something women should be encouraged to do more frequently.

Champions of what?

Why should she not think about it? Is it not a big step? Don't big steps require caution?

Have you connected the webcam to your PC?
Have you downloaded astra32? Have you installed it?
Have you executed it with your webcam still connected?
Have you found out the name and model of the webcam?

I don't want to see your post until you can answer "yes" to each of these questions.

When i hear Nigerians being attacked or deported back home , i wonder if foreign nationals are deported or harassed here.

Why should they be harassed deported when they entered into the country legally?

What happened to our own interesting soaps?

(1) They stopped being interesting (2) it costs more to produce a TV show than to buy one.

Example: a movie that teaches a woman to "obey her husband" even when he beats her everyday.

In addition to that, you can "take things personally" without assaulting people. It is not acceptable.

No mamaput, there is no excuse for assault or rape. not raping is no reason for respect, it's the law, and it is a good law. If a woman disrespects a man by yabbing him, he should yab her back. The punishment must fit the crime. And, no, you cannot defend rape and assault on my website. I'll rather ban you.

have you been to the website?

Because the answer is obvious, right? Visually (cinematography. set design) Bollywood is very close to Hollywood.

(1) People are superstitious and (2) Maybe they are not as free with you as you think they are?

Meaning what?

I was just wondering who has the best story about how Nairaland has changed his/her life.

Have you gotten a job through Nairaland? A husband? House? Salvation? Deliverance? Bliss?

Hmmm, I've been playing the movie in my head.
Without real weapons, the fights don't seem realistic.
They look ridiculous in my mind, and that's bad.

I watched that stage play (The Unprofitable Servant) on VHS. It was a humble beginning.

I think it's the best ones that are tragedies - because they're trying to serve as morality tales.
Unfortunately, the typee of morality they promote is too primitive to be useful to educated people.

How can all of you be so sure that your scripts and stories are "good"?
I find your self-confidence disturbing! How do you define "good" anyway?

What I heard is that there's nothing special about amazing grace; it just happens to be shot on film.

Do you know how many weeks of his life would have been lost to system restore if i didn't step in?

how do they hunt? by clobbering animals with clubs?

Almost! 'Poisoned clubs' would do just nicely. One can safely choreograph a PG fight with that.

animal skins and leaves for garments; that's a lot of money (and skill) that goes into costume design and construction, no?

Yes, that's what I thought at first. But then a DIY answer came to me:
You supply the actors with some basic clothing and just use superglue to cover their clothes with dried leaves. It would appear as if they are dressed entirely in dried leaves. A very convenient solution right?

that level of primitivism would probably be pre-lingual, would it not?

Yes, language may be the biggest problem. All the effective films featuring primitive tribes that I can remember (Apocalypto, The Gods Must Be Crazy) used subtitles. (1) If they speak perfect English, it's not convincing. (2) If they speak bad English, the way they speak will be criticized like 10000BC. (3) If the movie is subtitled, some people will not want to watch it. (4) I will explore the 'pre-lingual' era option; can a story be told without words? (5) What am I talking about? Pocahontas spoke and sang in perfect English (no, it's not the same; the native Indians were not that primitive)

Why would anyone sell a working battery?

have you given thought to the kind of locations/sets you are going to employ
in order to portray "an African village far far away a pretty long time ago"?

Funny that you should ask, because it's something I threw in a few days before I started writing the current outline. I just thought "wouldn't it be convenient to shoot the entire movie in a village?" I rewrote the logline to reflect that, and I got nice feedback.

Actually, it won't be that hard to get a village with lots of trees, a river, a small hill not too far away, mud or thatch huts, et cetera. Many Christian films about missionaries films are shot in remote villages. This can be part of the draw of this movie.

so then the option is to find suitable traditional dwellings where (if?) they still exist. <<YEP!>>
the challenge there is to make sure that they have sufficient electrical outlets for your use.

Power supply is also quite easy - I'll just bring along a cheap portable generator, some fuel, and maybe a fully charged inverter when (which makes less noise). We don't have power supply anywhere in Nigeria, remember?

But I'm trying to portray a really primitive human settlement, which can conveniently explain why they don't fight with bows and arrows, cutlasses, or anything that cuts - they have not been invented yet. But what will my characters wear? (Animal skins?? Leaves?) Where will they live? (In trees?) And how will they hunt animals or grow their food if they don't have cutting tools? (We'll see!)

They are especially popular in other African countries.
Nollywood is to Africa what Hollywood is to the world.
Start here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Nigeria