Life - Take 0 - Part1

I love movies. I love watching them, I love reading about them but more than anything, I love watching them being made, in my opinion, this is way more interesting than the end product. What I especially love in the movie making process is the CUT and the TAKES.

The actor flubs a line, director yells CUT

The actress isn't emoting as she should? CUT

The story is not going the in right direction? CUT.

CUT is the chance to work the kinks out and once they feel they are ready to go again, you hear the call

Alice in wonderland, Scene 4, Take 2

Alice has just been given the chance for a do-over.

Sweet!

I wonder what life will be like if we all a chance to CUT!


“Okay, moving to Las Vegas is not what I thought it would be. Director? Producer. . . anybody? Do you mind if we went back to the day I bought my ticket? Yeah, that morning, I'm can buy the Oshogbo Ticket instead”

Alrighty then!

Travelling with Sisi Scene 7, Take 2

Viola! It’s all been erased!

Sounds cool, huh? I know.

Before I really got into movies, I used to be fascinated with turning back time. If you are wondering what mistakes I’ve made in the past. . . don’t. This is not about me, it’s about 2 people, whose story I can’t stop thinking about. Every day, every hour, every minute, I think "How differently things could have turned out, How happier they would have both been, if someone had yelled CUT when it started to go downhill.

Their Story

A guy, we’ll call him Niyi meets this girl Hadiza, while studying in abroad. They fall madly in love. . . he has no qualms showing it but she a little bit on the reserved side. I think unlike him, she is more grounded and does not allow her emotions to overshadow the many factors against them. For one, she’s Hausa and he is Yoruba, She is the first girl in her family to go to beyond secondary school. . . in a foreign country no less. She does not want to abuse that opportunity by allowing love to distract and He. . . well, he was a man.

He manages to convince her that love conquers all, True love never dies and all the other love clichés. She relents and goes with the flow. He was right. . . or at least somewhat right, their love conquers their family objections, friends’ misgivings and society’s rules. They got married. Had a lovely Honeymoon and prepared to live happily ever after in his hometown in Ogun state. She got a job as a teacher in one of the local school, he worked for his father.

Everything was perfect. . .