Nollywood is a sham
Nollywood is a disgrace
Like Nigeria, it's another industry that lacks stew.
It has become too salty, you spit when you taste it.
Like sour mango.
Before now, if someone walks up to you and says, I'm am actor or I'm an actress, they eschew confidence, they ooze admiration!
But now, they give off nothing.
It's like saying, I'm a fuckanizer, I'm an iron bender or I'm a welder.
Infact when I see young people on set with some familiar faces, taking selfies and writing shitty words like...I have arrived...success in a bit... Oscar loading...
I laugh dark!
Go to Instagram...these Korean actors and actresses will make a simple post and get 3million likes in an hour!
Yet, our own legend, Genevieve... Not to take anything from her, because of all the actresses and actors Nollywood has ever produced, I Stan her.
Forgive me..I rephrase... Of all the talents this country has ever produced..not Nollywood, Nollywood can never take the credit for producing Genevieve, she is bigger than the entire Industry.
It only helped her, pushed her and brought her to the throne where she is presently seated.
As I was saying, our own Legend, Genevieve would make an Instagram post and 1 week later, she doesn't even have up to 400k likes...
It's not that she isn't good nor popular... It is the Nigerian and Nollywood syndrome... Dirt by association.
Because she is associated with Nigeria, she is jinxed.
Nigeria is a curse.
Take your optimistic BS and shove it up your ass.
Nothing good can emerge from hell.
Nollywood is a product of this curse.
We don't produce class
We produce shit
That is why an actress like Mercy Johnson, with her caliber and popularity is still taking dead cum roles, Acting shitty roles of a village girl coming to the city for the first time and getting fazed by it!
Goddammit, when will our producers aspire to Game of thrones!
That's too much...when will our producers aspire to into the spider verse... Atleast compete with animation if you can't compete with movies!
When will old dogs in the movie industry aspire to arya or khalesis the mother dragon?
When will our content be as good as Avengers, end game?
When will we act movies like Upside, ...when will our comedians aspire to be like Kevin hart and not Mr Ibu, Charles Awurum or whatever the fuck his name is and their stereotyped, predictable and boring 1 hour 30 minutes of horrible sex!!!
When will Hollywood give us something to own
Something original
Not copyrighted
Why are they waiting for Hollywood before they give us a spitting version, gutter version and decayed version of class!
Maybe if we take the focus from Bobrisky, Regina Daniels and King Tonto, and focus more on creativity and imagination...Maybe, Nollywood can emerge differently from the dark and muddy waters of stale and pathetic.
Maybe it's time to answer a new name, because we have Hollywood and Bollywood, must we be Nollywood... Maybe it's time to leave the woods.
Let's bear a different name because we even bring shame to the woods.
Let's go villa maybe, Nollyvilla or something other than Nolly, maybe... Entervilla or Magicvilla hell,
Lasgiville...since majority of our movies are shot in Lagos.
Then who knows...maybe we can be invited to the party!
Because at this rate, Nollywood will never ever, ever never be great.
If it's not class, its ass and that's what Nollywood has been giving us... Instead of fine art we have fine ass.
Kingdavid Chinaeke Ofunne
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