I am a Nigerian and I'll like to talk about a few things which as been going on in Hollywood that I have not been happy about.In case you don't know, District 9 is one of the movies that was hitting the box office chats and still is for some weeks now.District 9 is a 2009 science fiction directed by Niell Blomkamp written by Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell and released August 14,2009. Nigerians in this movie are portrayed as voodoo experts,gangstars,drug dealers,pimps,prostitutes,cannibals and an unintelligent bunch of weapon traffickers but this movie was shot in a location in Chiawelo Sorreto South Africa. By daring to depict the world's largest number of black souls in such a despicable manner, Niell and Terri plunges their audiences globally into the paradox of distorted world views of not just Nigeria but South Africa and the African continent as a whole whatever good, satire or allegorical outcome they wanted. Let us not forget that this same Nigeria produced Africa's first nobel price Laurete for Literature by Professor Wole Soyinka, Phillip Emeagwali is regarded as one of the fathers of internet and the Asas of recent memory winning prestigious awards all over the world are not from space unlike the aliens of District 9.Please don't get me wrong District 9 is a great movie and it is not everyday that movies made in Africa are in the American Box Office charts.Ikpomuosam 'IK' Osakioduwu,current host of the Big Brother Africa TV show going on on South Africa is a Nigerian.But all these facts are what the makers ignored.Perhaps, more instructively, this is a caution to film makers in the future. Please rate and comment this it will mean a lot
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i´m not nigerian but i understand and totally agree with what you are saying.
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