just the paragraphs?, what of the capital letters at the beginning of sentences and other grammatical rules?. well, i didn't know some pple are taking this forum to be a waec examining one. i come to relax myself and not to sit for english examinations! help with the paragraphs if u can pls.

my deliberate omission of capital letters is a matter of stylistic license which does not significantly tamper with the readability of my writing, though.

my drawing attention to your lack of paragraphs is not motivated by pedantic (or petty) obsession with "grammatical rules" but by the fact that long, dense blocks of text without paragraphs are fvcking hard to read and most people will not punish their eyes by trying to penetrate them.

i'm just trying to give you some advice to help you get your point across effectively, but if you'd rather the majority of people just skip your post, go ahead... do you!

Some of us will need panadol before this afternooon is over.

Go and fetch ya Dictionary my friend.........

BTW Couch dey free make we siddon watch this grammatical movie unfold

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this has nothing to do with Genny oh, but I am having a party at my house and invited a few friends. I am forcing them to watch two naija movies, warriors heat and then blood sisters (i did it on purpose)

among the gang is a DOP, did some stuff y'all have probably seen, Hostel?
well we just finished watching and i said, what do you think of the actress he said "she was trying too hard"

see, from someone who looks through the camera all the time and knows who tries to hard. I said it before that Genny emotes.

Okay, even is Regina is not a good actress, Nonso diobi, desmond, ezuronye mike put the lousy in lousy acting but they are huge stars abi? so if regina brings her body and beauty and american accent back, genny will be out.
idumota is looking for superficial people.

nice namedrop! (without a name)

but as much as your friend (Milan?) "looks through the camera," i would hardly look to a DP to judge acting... most of them care a lot more about light than they do about actors.

not that your friend's opinion is not valid, just as a human being--but it's kinda lame to bring up the fact that he was the DP on Hostel!... like that somehow makes him the gold standard authority in judging the quality of acting.

You no de rest? You just de take style de become a correct trouble maker o!

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you know me naa...

Me, I have seen Hostel jare: Is the guy DP for 1 or 2? I think he is a good people. No mind Takestyle who thinks DPs are looking out for lighting! Which kind Takestyle be dis one sef?

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You don confirm am! Two seconds later na him you reply! Chei, Takestyle no de rest o!

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the same person shot Hostel 1 and 2.

i haven't watched either one of them, but i've seen clips and yes... the cinematography is effective.

but what does that have to do with acting?

it's like saying "my friend is a makeup artist and she did Ben Affleck's makeup on Reindeer Games, so you know she knows good acting!"

it's not exactly the same as saying "the (late) great Sydney Pollack said that Genny is trying too hard"... that is an argument that packs a punch, but using the DP on a B-level horror movie as your authority to judge acting? what does one thing have to do with the other?


mind you: i am not even particularly claiming Genny does not "try to hard"... as i have made clear a number of times before, i am not really a fan of her or her performances. i'm not her enemy, either... mostly i am indifferent.

what i am NOT indifferent to, though, is bad arguments. i will endeavor to expose those wherever i find them.

my dear takestyle, a DP is first and foremost a DIRECTOR. its not all abt light. they also influence blocking.
1. it was not a name drop, rather it was a way of saying from someone a number of us know by his work and so might respect his opinon.
2. I know a number of DPs who will not circle a take because the actor was not effective. what u see through the camera and the monitor is different from what you see with your real eyes. anyways, my main purpose it to get others to be objective and not fan-jective. i love liz benson, but there are times when she sterotypes a character.

takestyle, u get problem. if it were u that knew milan, u'd have built an argument for his B level movies. mind u, Mil does not DP anything that is not horror or highly stylized. . its his choice

yeah... a Director of Photography is first and foremost a DIRECTOR.

a Managing Director of a bank is also first and foremost a DIRECTOR... i wouldnt' call on him as an authority to judge acting, though!

please... that is a semantic bait-and-switch and it holds no water whatsover.

even though a DP "influences blocking," blocking is still mostly the director's determination. and even then, blocking is not really about acting either, so your point still fails.

i must say: for someone who claims to work in Hollywood, you almost consistently show a completely wrong-headed understanding about how various departments and trades in the profession work. it's kinda fascinating, actually.

dude shot some Eli Roth pictures. and we all know Eli's movies are all known for their phenomenal acting and mystifying sensitivity to the nuances of the human spirit!

riiiiiiiiiiight.

hate to break it to you, mama... but the HOSTEL movies ain't exactly The Bridges of Madison County. what they are, however, is but highly-stylized violence porn. not exactly something i would bring up in a discussion about *acting*

ummmmm.... what?

that doesn't even make sense to me. what are you saying?

I beg jo, carry yourself go. You made a very crazy point above that DP are all about light, and I said no, with just a few examples. I did not say a DP is an authority, but their opinion counts a lot, back to the issue of circling a take, f the Dp decides that the actor is tying too much, they will retake. period thus even though he is nit an authority, he does have an opinion having looked at actors for a long time he knows who trying too hard and who is not.

2. whether Hostel is crap or not, I did not mention Mil to get admiration from anyone, I mentioned him in the context of a different eye and a different opinion. whether the movies are bad or not, he makes good money, he treks between US and prague like here the bathroom and he is happy like hell.

na u and me wey dey struggle and come to NR to talk.

I thought u knew all about film making, you don't understand the theory of a 'circle take?'

actually, i never said the DP was "all about light"

i said most DPs care more about light than they do about acting. a fact you have so far failed to debunk.

the DP's job is to create a pretty (or at least effective) picture... regardless of the quality of the acting contained therein.

and no director worth her salt would allow a DP just decide to retake without her say-so.

y'know why?

because the evaluation of the acting performance is really not the DP's domain.


so because he makes good money and travels the world, his opinion on acting is one that should make us all stop in our tracks and listen with baited breath?

typical Naija mentality... "he has more money than you, and thus he is right."

*kisses teeth*


i know what a circle take is... i was confused not by your terminology but by your grammar.