{"id":1635,"date":"2007-12-24T14:00:44","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T22:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willdoherty.org\/wordpress\/?p=1635"},"modified":"2024-09-23T20:18:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T20:18:09","slug":"nollywood-film-plots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/?p=1635","title":{"rendered":"Nollywood Film Plots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>December 24, 2007, Heritage Hotel, Oshogbo, Nigeria<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plot elements of Nollywood films&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Male honor, public humiliation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gifts among family members, particularly from men seeking daughters in marriage<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sin of sex outside marriage<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Evil of non-Christian devil magic<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Overriding importance of marriage and marriage into &#8220;good family&#8221;, to the point of parent-forced marriages going awry, children escaping arranged marriage for love marriages<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Evil aunt taking care of orphaned nieces, abusing them over her spoiled daughter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The wealth and vice of the big city, the modern ways in conflict with tradition<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The prevalence of fraudulent activity (419 law, FCEE agency to counter fraud)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bandits and violence<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Foreigners as bandits, negative influence on Nigerians who travel abroad<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Submission of women, women like children, only to serve and comfort husband<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Domestic violence and abuse<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Value of foreign education in business<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Importance of flashy car, especially Mercedes (sensual car cinematography)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pregnancy and miscarriages, but little of early childraising<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lack of funds for life-saving medical treatment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hysterical grief of women at loss of loved one<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tendency to pair lighter-skinned women with darker-skinned men<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Importance of forgiveness for past wrongs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 24, 2007, Heritage Hotel, Oshogbo, Nigeria Plot elements of Nollywood films&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,79,157,228],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-film","category-nigeria","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16436,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions\/16436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}