Nollywood has grown into the third largest film industry in the world in terms of output, churning out three movies every day. The film-makers tap into audiences’ aspirations and concerns: domestic strife, sex scandals, marital infidelity, financial swindling, Christianity, witchcraft. It is popular despite its startlingly shoddy production quality: convulsive camera work and poor lighting are de rigeur, and tinny, electronic synthesizer music often drowns out the dialogue.
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[A Hollywood blockbuster] starts with destruction and ends with destruction. It’s nothing. Voom, voom, voom – effects! Rah, rah, rah, bring things down and bring them up again. Blah, blah, blah, aliens are fighting and eating rubbish. What do you learn from it? Nothing. Here, you get a moral, something touches your soul, something touches your spirit, it’s like preaching a message.
Okey Ogunjiofor in Witt/Nollywood
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