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In Reply to: List posted by jbmcb on December 30, 2005 at 00:09:09:
mean, from your list, just one (Sahara hardly qualifies 'cause it's just a location w/out any African theme, right?).
It seems the second largest continent doesn't hold much interest for us outside of the safari-theme. The people themselves, their struggles, colonial history and post-colonial history...
I wonder if it's because it wouldn't be a very pretty picture and upset many Western countries' self-opinions as that of "civilizers?"
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> (Sahara hardly qualifies 'cause it's just a location w/out any African theme, right?).Actually one of the main plot lines is a disease that's killing off several villages, with a whole Mugabi dictator-figure, corporate corruption, and tribal warfare subplot. It could have been a decent movie if it was a bit more Spielberg/Raiders of the Lost Ark, and a bit less Michael Bay/anything by Michael Bay :)
> It seems the second largest continent doesn't hold much interest for us outside of the safari-theme. The people themselves, their struggles, colonial history and post-colonial history...
I think it's difficult to pull a cohesive narrative out of such turmoil. You need to focus on a single event, as in Hotel Rwanda, but the events leading up to the plot of the film would be somewhat lost on the viewers. Doing a sweeping epic would be long and confusing. I think Roots is a good example on how you could do such a complicated topic. A single movie wouldn't be comprehensive enough, a miniseries would be perfect.
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