I once made this very particular research, concerning the reason why most Nigerians especially the students do not treat nigerian movies just as thy embrace the foreign ones. I do not know whether anybody has discovered this, that most Nigerians do treat their own movies with so much contempt.
Some has has attributed this lacklustre on the part of Nigerians to yheir own thing to the LOW LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE EXHIBITED IN VARIOUS nigerian movies. There are no new innovations that can trigger peoples interest. Most people I have encountered do say that watching Nigerian movies makes them think so low, it reduces their thinking faculty. And that is true because Nigerian movies lack what I can call the INHERENT FACTORS IN MOVIES. i.e something that can spur the audiences to action. Movies are meant for nothing but to EnTerTAIN, educate and probably to inform. So any movie that lacks any of these important criteria becomes uninteresting.
In movies the only thing that keeps the peoples drive alive and active is the phenomenon of SUSPENSE. Suspene is the act creating an act of curiosity in the mind of the viewers. A person watching a NIGERIAN MOVIE, can tell you what will happen in the next period of time. Infact some people can tell you what happens
in a movie just from the name of the MOVIE, probably by mere seeing the characters involved. The secret to anything entertaining to take people unawares, telling me what I know already or what I am expecting can never be entertain. It might educate or inform me, but that does not make any meaning at all. Enteainment is the prime target in any movie.
That is not all, Nigerian movies also lack ORIGINALITY IN INTENT. Even though it is just a dramatization of something that has happened or a fictious story, there should be some level of originality at least. We understand that some things are difficult to act or dramatise, probably by virtue of that being hazardous such as road accidents, killing, swimming, etc or things that are unethical and immoral as having s..x. These things are difficult to dramatise, but there is a way to make them look real and original.
Those are the things that keeps the viewer going. I wonder why do we watch foreign movies if not to learn the Way they do theirs. There no gain doubting the fact that Nigeria is still developing, and asuch we may be technologically backward. Yes, that is true, but these are the areas where we can imitate our predecessors, the developed world. If we do not know we go there and learn it and come and integrate it into our own system. That is the essence of sending people abroad to study.
We shall stop here for now...thank you. We will appreciate you, if you have any clue as to why NiGERIAN MOVIES ARE UNDERVALUED BY MOST NIGERIANS, JUST DROP YOUR SAY BELOW AS a comment. Your voice does count.!
Some has has attributed this lacklustre on the part of Nigerians to yheir own thing to the LOW LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE EXHIBITED IN VARIOUS nigerian movies. There are no new innovations that can trigger peoples interest. Most people I have encountered do say that watching Nigerian movies makes them think so low, it reduces their thinking faculty. And that is true because Nigerian movies lack what I can call the INHERENT FACTORS IN MOVIES. i.e something that can spur the audiences to action. Movies are meant for nothing but to EnTerTAIN, educate and probably to inform. So any movie that lacks any of these important criteria becomes uninteresting.
In movies the only thing that keeps the peoples drive alive and active is the phenomenon of SUSPENSE. Suspene is the act creating an act of curiosity in the mind of the viewers. A person watching a NIGERIAN MOVIE, can tell you what will happen in the next period of time. Infact some people can tell you what happens
in a movie just from the name of the MOVIE, probably by mere seeing the characters involved. The secret to anything entertaining to take people unawares, telling me what I know already or what I am expecting can never be entertain. It might educate or inform me, but that does not make any meaning at all. Enteainment is the prime target in any movie.
That is not all, Nigerian movies also lack ORIGINALITY IN INTENT. Even though it is just a dramatization of something that has happened or a fictious story, there should be some level of originality at least. We understand that some things are difficult to act or dramatise, probably by virtue of that being hazardous such as road accidents, killing, swimming, etc or things that are unethical and immoral as having s..x. These things are difficult to dramatise, but there is a way to make them look real and original.
Those are the things that keeps the viewer going. I wonder why do we watch foreign movies if not to learn the Way they do theirs. There no gain doubting the fact that Nigeria is still developing, and asuch we may be technologically backward. Yes, that is true, but these are the areas where we can imitate our predecessors, the developed world. If we do not know we go there and learn it and come and integrate it into our own system. That is the essence of sending people abroad to study.
We shall stop here for now...thank you. We will appreciate you, if you have any clue as to why NiGERIAN MOVIES ARE UNDERVALUED BY MOST NIGERIANS, JUST DROP YOUR SAY BELOW AS a comment. Your voice does count.!
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