Nollywood actress and filmmaker has come out to compare the Nigerian film industry to Hollywood. She recently claimed that Nollywood has more original stories than Hollywood, and fans have been reacting.
According to her, amid criticisms about the predictability of Nollywood movies, Nigerians should know that predictability doesn’t necessarily take anything away from a film’s quality.
Omoni added that even if viewers can predict how the movie will end, as long as it is well told, they will still enjoy value for their time and money.
Her words, “A story can be predictable, but if it’s well told, people will still watch it and enjoy it.
“It’s not just Nigerians or Africans watching. People from all over the world are tuning in to enjoy our stories.
Stories have never really been our problem. I feel like in this part of the world, we have actually more original stories than outside of Nigeria. I dare say that Nollywood has more original stories than Hollywood.”
WOW.
Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in The New York Times. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition for the term, which has made it a subject to several controversies.
The origin of the term “Nollywood” remains unclear; Jonathan Haynes traced the earliest usage of the word to a 2002 article by Matt Steinglass in the New York Times, where it was used to describe Nigerian cinema.
Charles Igwe noted that Norimitsu Onishi also used the name in a September 2002 article he wrote for the New York Times. The term continues to be used in the media to refer to the Nigerian film industry, with its definition later assumed to be a portmanteau of the words “Nigeria” and “Hollywood”, the American major film hub.
Film-making in Nigeria is divided largely along regional, and marginally ethnic and religious lines. Thus, there are distinct film industries – each seeking to portray the concern of the particular section and ethnicity it represents. However, there is the English-language film industry which is a melting pot for filmmaking and filmmakers from most of the regional industries.
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