Tuesday, May 09, 2006
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Fuck Geography, this isnt a travel blog.. Who cares about all those nerdy details ? This is about moviemaking.. well particularly about one movie, called TOO MUCH BEAUTIFUL WOMEN written and directed by the most talented guy I know..yeah that's for the promotion.
So anyway, the whole point is that TOO MUCH BEAUTIFUL WOMEN is supposed an ambitious, artsy and yet interesting and quite commercially viable movie, with better "quality" than Nollywood movies BUT WITH THE SAME BUDGET. And i'm one of the producers.
So this will probably be about cutting plenty of corners. As a matter of fact we started. Hell, we started a long time ago.. But I wont reveal how..... for now, dear reader(s)..
So what have i been doing since i got here ?
Itemizing... contacting people here and there.. translating my pre-prepared documents (i went to film school, yo) to english and stuff.. And saturday we spent the afternoon talking with a producer and an actor/director that are quite established in Nollywood.
Funny how most of their advice was about how we should be arrogant know-it-alls since they saw quite a few guys come here and be like "we'll show you how it's done" and those guys ... hmmm.. failed. They were quite realistic about the how and the why too. Basically the whole thing about the not-so-great technical quality for instance is just that the market doesnt reward it.
Well it actually does, but not enough financially for the distributors/financers to invest more (time, money, energy) in doing better movies.
I can understand that.
Economics rule over everything, people.
Now the thing is, we're not coming to teach anything to anyone. We're coming to do TOO MUCH BEAUTIFUL WOMEN using all the ressources, the inventivity, the tricks we can find, be they from film school or from nollywood veterants (condoms on mics, HOLLA). So don't expect arrogance and naivety (spelling?) from any of us.
As a matter of fact, i wished our director was more naive. so yo, if you read this, WE ARE SUPPOSED TO TELL YOU WHAT CAN BE OR CANNOT BE DONE.
And Koko, the other member of the troika ? well, let's say that Koko probably stands for Cost Killer / Cost Killer. lol (i hope this was funy).
So like yeah, we're moving on, and while i enjoy the time i spend watching the city while we're on traffic, i'm not here for tourism.
You heard about Guerilla Filmmaking ? Well this is Mau Mau Filmmaking..
EVEN CRAZIER.
ps: i juts decided i wont shave before this is done. i know someone who's probably happy about this.
aflakete the wunderkid at 11:40 AM
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at 4:51 PM
Comb & Razor said... As a matter of fact, i wished our director was more naive. so yo, if you read this, WE ARE SUPPOSED TO TELL YOU WHAT CAN BE OR CANNOT BE DONE.
hehehehe... don't worry, i'm reverting to my naive state again. i'm regressing to the days of playing with toy cars and shit!
i was planning not to shave either, but in the end i succumbed to temptation and got a haircut over the weekend. i'll start all over again later, though.-
at 4:53 PM
Comb & Razor said...
Funny how most of their advice was about how we should be arrogant know-it-alls since they saw quite a few guys come here and be like "we'll show you how it's done" and those guys ... hmmm.. failed.
I wish i could tell you how many people have thrown this in my face, too...-
at 6:23 PM
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at 6:31 PM
lauren alyse belle said...
tres interessant!
stop acting like it's not possible for it to be a travel blog as well. include some pictures or something. i'm living vicariously through you right now, homie. besides, you may not be doing touristic things, but you're there (channel ms. celie for christ's sake, "i may be black, i may be ugly, but i'm here!)
you're there. take your time (but hurry up) & enjoy yourself. i mean you're leaving out vital information here, like do naija women got mo ass than congolese women? is the traffic over whelming? whats it look like? let me know!
ok, i'm done being silly.
p.s. you're right.