Nollywood: How Will I Fare in Hollywood?
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2012
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Oye: Ogun Journal of Arts
Abstract
This paper in a way contradicts the much-glorified Nigerian home movie in the sense that no matter its pride of place in our local environment, there is need for international assessment. A good movie is the product of genuine knowledge of the art of film making beyond the peddling of cameras; the content of a film and the theatricality of it determines the quality of that film. The Nigerian home movie as it were is a courageous initiative of a party video agent, whose job was to capture merrymaking at parties with little or no theatrical artistic excellence; that humble beginning has continued to be its albatross. This accounts for a high level misconception in the Nigerian movie kingdom where any form of narrative dialogue is considered ‘acting’. The second slapstick is that the Nigerian movie director has little or no professional pride in the area of casting and imaginative theatrical directing; hence any model or fine-face takes a lead role in the Nigerian home movie. Some observers believe it is a phase that will pass, but this paper is of the view that, that ‘time’ will depend on the willingness of the present crop of movie makers to expose themselves to the arts of the theatre as the human emotions plotted into a captivating story is still what the enthusiasts watch in films.