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Old 08-24-2004, 12:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Sola
You oviously have your history upside down. And your figures too. You think if Igbo movies sold more, marketers who make movies just for the money (and not the art) would stop making it? Think about it again.
Me too o, I wonder about this backwards history of the Nigerian movie industry. But I agree with the general sentiment--I'd still buy these English movies if some were in Igbo with good subtitles. I've got nothing against movies in English, but our own languages are so much more interesting and I think that people fluent in those languages are able to produce movies with much more sophisticated dialogue and plotting than when they struggle with English. Sub-titles and translations may never do full justice, but I'm guessing that the restriction of writing in a second language is partly responsible for the sub-standard scripts that get produced in Nigeria.
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