saw part 1 last night

I cannot remember laughing so hard for a movie in a while


trailer



I'm watching it thinking, wow this little kid is one of the best comedic actors I've ever seen...



i kept thinking of gary coleman or emmanuel lewis for some reason too


turns out he's an adult with genetic condition......which keeps him young looking and a certain size

yo..this DUDE is BRILLIANT




'I am hustling Dada"

Yep, him and his brother are class acts. there's more where that came from.

LOL..
They aren't brothers...but they are funny!

Yeah I seen lots of their films. Crack me up each time

didn't notice the first time I watched this how raw some parts are......

gonna print up a t-shirt with the scenes of him counting money

"I'm a hustling Dada, I do business"


Loved baby police 1.....the other parts seem to not be so good.

if anybody can recommend their favorite film featuring this guy....I'd appreciate it. He's in a bunch of titles but this one has been the only one that makes me laugh so hard my stomach hurts..

also first nollywood film that I sat all the way through...

@D,

You are Haitian for real

My bootleg guy is African and sells all sorts of Nollywood movies at his wife's hair salon on Parkside Ave. His number one customers in Flatbush for Nollywood stuff are Haitians. Every time I go in there, there's a buncha Haitians asking for part two of such and such a movie or part three of "the one where the wife catches him with the mistress..."

I like Nigerian movies too but the audio can get loud and uneven though... There's certain actors and actresses I like to see in them too. Like, I know which one is gonna be good based on the characters on the cover.

I think the reason many Haitians love these movies (at least from what my Haitian friends tell me) is that the lifestyles, settings, characters and scenarios depicted in Nigeria are very similar to those in Haiti.

For some of my AA friends that I've tried to get hooked on the movies, they just don't get it, plus the accents stump some folks.

I love them though.

BG


I came here when I was 3-4 years old. the ONLY thing I remember about living in Haiti was my grandmother(RIP)

I swung through a family function and an older family friend had stacks of these films....


I kid you not, the moment I sat down to watch Baby Police...and they showed some of the settings...I had like a flashback or something. I felt VERY familiar with the setting....and from what I've been told..I was a little round headed trouble maker as a kid just like the character of the film......though not quite on that level.


At cookouts and such.....I meet people who knew me as a little kid and one of my nicknames was "Little General"........


I've known people from a bunch of different countries in Africa and never felt compelled to watch more than 5 minutes of any of these films...
the uneven audio and the themes are foreign to me......but I guess I can relate to mischievous kids.

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I think NJ Haitians are catching up to knowing about these Nollywood flicks, Brooklyn Haitians are more advanced and always have been.

The stores selling these flicks are popping up all over the place and I didn't think there were THAT many Nigerians in Jersey....so it must be other Africans and Caribbean folks buying them like hotcakes.


There's a small contingent of Haitian films but it's pretty amateurish.


...and the person who told you about the connection, I'd agree....

Haitians and Ghanians seem to have the strongest cultural connections but the stuff depicted in the Nollywood films.....outside of 2-3 things....you'd think it was Haiti i
Older Haitians and those who grew up there....LOVE these films...


*kicking myself for not seeing this trend 5 years ago and cashing in!!1

Thanks BP


one of the stores out here have professional looking dvd cases, so it would be good to see what's worth purchasing before I buy. thank you.


I wonder if there's been exchange of Black actors from over here to Nollywood and vica versa .

seems like it would make business sense as the foreign actor could be
written in to the story as a "foreign student/worker"....and it would help expand his/her fanbase.


I always respected the Cosby show, because he'd have black people from EVERYWHERE on his show from Miriam Makeeba to BB King, his daughter's in-laws were Caribbean....

Mr Ibu
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Mr Ibu II
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Also here some more:
Full Movies..(All in one, not in bits)

Brain Box 1
Brain Box -- Part 1


Lagos Boyz
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Okwu Na Uka(In English)
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

thanks again,Black -pride