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In Reply to: Lumumba: seldom will you see a more posted by tinear on December 29, 2005 at 14:50:58:

> Quick... name how many African theme films (with the exception of Out of Africa) you've heard of or seen?
I love these games! Here goes:
African Queen
Blackhawk Down
Casablanca
Heart Of Darkness
Hotel Rwanda
Roots
Sahara
When We Were Kings (More or less)
Zulu
Then there's all the biblical epics set in Egypt, and the WWII films.
That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

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Guess I should have said "modern African" which would - tinear 05:28:30 12/30/05 (1)
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?"
- Modern history - jbmcb 11:24:31 12/30/05 (0)
  > (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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