Veteran
actor, Fred Nii Amugi, says the best way forward for the Ghanaian movie
industry is for writers, producers and directors to come up with first-rate
scripts, cast appropriately and use the services of truly professional
technicians.
The actor
was speaking in an interview with Showbiz last Monday, November 9 at a
film event at the Kofi Annan International ICT Training Centre in Accra.
“When
producers stop using amateurs whose knowledge about photography is limited to
coverage of weddings, funerals and parties and decide to rely on trained and
tested Directors of Photography (D.O.Ps), things would change.
There
are too many fake people out there,” the well-known actor pointed out.
He stated
that though some of the challenges currently facing the
Ghanaian movie industry were normal to movie establishments in other
places, film producers here should explore more stories lines with solid
African content and also stop using young people to act elderly roles since
there are competent elderly actors around to help raise standards in the
business.
“I believe
using young people for elderly roles is something that does not speak well of
the industry. “Costume helps to transform the young actors but no matter
how hard they try to change their voices and mannerisms to suit the roles, you
can still tell the difference.
“That’s how
come you would find these so-called ‘elderly’ people in a movie calling a chief
a fool in his palace, meanwhile here in Ghana and Africa, that is not the
practice.
“You can’t
insult a chief or talk to him anyhow. Where in Africa would you see a man
telling his chief he doesn’t think? It’s a joke.” Nii Amugi also stated that
there are too many comedy movies on the market, while real life is not full of
comedy.
“Life is not
just about laughter. There are different moments in life so why do we want to
think about laughter all the time?
“ Life is
more serious than laughter; it’s not a one way road. We always want to restrict
ourselves to one area and that is not helping the industry,” he concluded
Fred Amugi
has starred in many movies and television series over the years. His works
include Beasts of No Nation, The Destiny of Lesser Animals, The
Cursed Ones, Chronicles of Odumkrom The Headmaster, Pieces of Me, Punctured
Hope, In the Eyes of My Husband, M.P. (Madam Pink), Holby City (TV Series),
Tuesday’s Child, Welcome Home and The Other Side of the Rich.
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