The movie project had a story line that involved betrayal of
trust, sexual escapades, greed and an eventual discovery of treasure which
triggered the excesses of human malevolence until the laws of power were
applied to eliminate the relevance of one another thus an application of the
Machiavellian law of the survival of the fittest,
However, while the movie project was underway, the appointed
Executive Producers succeeded in negotiating for the sum of 5 million naira
with a reputable business house. Suddenly the synopses of the movie project
broke loose and flooded out into real life, thus submerging the crew of the
Movie Project in real time. The news of the 5 million naira deal triggered the
betrayal of trust… and even threats to human lives were sustained, until things
fell apart and the center could no longer hold.
The truth was that the movie project reflected the crew’s
actual characteristics in which each crew member deposited himself in the
contrast of THE GOOD, THE BAD and THE UGLY.
The director went on his way to have a soiree of sexual
paradise with his actor- girl-friend rather openly and this undermined the
whole project, as his bad manners and bad attitude contributed to the lack of
harmony between the Executive Producers, the entire crew and himself. Out of frustration the director went all out
to extort money from unsuspecting prospective actors, which was uncalled for in
the name of a MOVIE ACADEMY.
The Executive
Producers who succeeded in striking a 5 million naira deal with a reputable company apropos the
sponsorship of the movie project, out of greed decided to bring in their own ad hoc movie company to oversee all
others or possibly out-Herod Herod,
including the otherwise pitiable director who initiated the Movie
Project. And they were all hell bent on the principles of Machiavelli or
perhaps a coup de grace.
The Media and Publicity Manager decided to suspend the
website and all related social networks of the Movie Project, when he found out
that everything had gone messy, and also had nothing to gain from the activity,
and for the fact that he had not been paid.
The Movie Project had two script writers. One was a
professional and an already published writer, while the other could hardly
wield the pen. The unprofessional one was the director’s brother and he had
strong misunderstandings with the professional script writer. The
unprofessional script writer advocated for a diluted story hypothesis while the
professional script writer advocated for the concentrated story theory. The
professional script writer however deliberately kept mute when his theory of
concentration was nipped in the bud at every stage by the unworthy rival. And
this invariably made the Movie Project to advance at a snail speed.
The professional script writer was willing to work even when
he was denied acknowledgement from the first printed samples. The
unprofessional script writer was more willing to kill characters than he was
willing to create them.
However, a journalist who was brought into the Movie Project
by the Publicity Manager, went all out on his way to blackmail his good friends
– the Publicity Manager, the Production Manager and the Professional Script
Writer – by discrediting these people at their backs and joining hands with the
movie director to continue the Movie Project using all fraudulent means at
their joint disposal. This journalist is currently on the run as his conscience
is no longer clear among the crew members. His name is Mmege.
One of the actors, a tall young man, acquired the video
trailer of the initial footage in his phone, and succeeded in convincing a
Business House to release a sum of one million naira on sponsoring the Movie
Project. However this actor liaised with the production-manager-on-shooting
schedule to run the deal on their own selfish ends, but the information leaked
to the Whole House, The director on learning about this teamed up with them to
cover the mess without ado. In fact the director forbade anyone from discussing
the matter since this development had come into his custody.
The Production Manager on the Movie Project, who was also a
gate crasher in movie management process, decided to HIJACK the whole project
in his own imagined powers and manage it to make unseen millions.
Meantime all the viewers that came for auditioning are still
watching spellbound, hoping for a miraculous rejuvenation of the Movie Project.
However one or two truly benevolent veterans of the movie project have learnt
bitter lessons, that “NAIJA NO DE CARRY LAST OOOO whether in good or in bad.”
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