Until recently black actors have been seeing themselves as inferior to their white counterparts .This has created a feeling in the African movie fans that every work of art from the west is always better than that which is made on the African continent .It is true that the movies and modern types of music originated from those parts of the world but the truth is that the African actors are just as good as the rest of them.
Because of this feelings, up to ninety percent of the African movie lovers still see the African works of art as inferior to the rest from the other parts of the world .Therefore every thing possible has to be done to persuade the fans and to make them to understand that the African artists just as good as the artists from the other parts of the world.
Most movie fans in my home town will stand up and leave in the video houses when they learn that the next movie is African without even waiting to know much about the movie .To them, everything African is inferior The fans have a little liking for the for the movies and therefore the western movies continue having a greater following than them. This has affected them psychologically and so they naturally believe that an African art is inferior. The coming of the popular Nigerian movies was expected to change this attitudes but it is happening at a very slow speed.
It is because of this that the movie TEARS OF THE SUN, that was starred by BRUCE WILLIS is good work .African artists acting beside big movie starts from those parts of the world and therefore diffusing this opposite attitudes and psychological complexes that had stuck in the movie fans that African art is inferior to the other arts from the other parts of the world.
The movie talks about soldiers from one western country coming to save a prince in one civil war torn African country .The mission is a success s but most of the foreign soldiers die in the war .They rescue the prince and his people into exile in one neighboring country .
The scenes of a modern battlefield and modern weaponry gives the viewers a hint of what modern warfare would look like and everything military in general ,The consequences of a modern warfare that is.
It is very good work.
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