OK, here we go.
Now, I know that we only really choose to study English because we quite often get to watch films in lessons, but, with Things Fall Apart, we've picked a wrong'un. Those of you whose hopes were briefly raised by Mr Roberts' promise of purchasing a film to show you (see below) will only have those hopes dashed on the floor like a red-eyed rat (Ch. 8) when you realize that the 'trailer' is not in fact the carefully thought through promotional material of a major Hollywood production company, but rather the product of somebody with too much time on their hands cutting together bits of '300' and 'Pirates of the Caribbean'.
There has been an actual adaptation of Things Fall Apart, but a quick look at the following video will reveal why we won't be investing time and effort in this series put together by the Nigerian Broadcasting Company:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7FS95IcRNU
Now. Here comes the competition bit, concentrate.
The theme tune of NBC's production is brilliant (I've been humming it to myself for weeks) but not exactly apt for the subject matter (far too cheery). So, my set and anyone else who wants to join in, here's your task: COME UP WITH A BETTER THEME TUNE. You can post a link to a video or just name the track.
Happy thinking...
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Hmm, no takers? OK, I'll get the ball rolling but I expect you guys (especially 12EN ASc1) to run with it.
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...a much more downbeat song - 'Homeless' by Ladysmth Black Mambazo. Ok, ok, they're a South African group drawing on the traditions of the Zulu people who are many miles (geographically and metaphorically) from the Ibo, but we can recognize in this song the same kind of joy in nature (as displayed in the recurring image of "moonlight shaking on a midnight lake") and awareness of mortality (exemplified in the threatening refrain "many dead tonight; it could be you") as we see in Things Fall Apart. Also the video's pretty amusing in a fairly racist way, but hey, it was the 80's...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5tngHfemWc
...Or, in keeping with the Nigerian Broadcasting Company approach of making the title nice and prominent in the lyrics, we could go with 'I Fall Apart' from the Vanilla Sky soundtrack. It's attributed to a certain 'Julianna Gianni' but is actually sung by Cameron Diaz herself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMsuvr_rXzs
What a retarded adaptation of a wonderful book. xD
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