Friday 8 August 2014

The making of a movie Amazon BY OFONIME UDOTU

The making of a movie Amazon BY OFONIME UDOTU

She is propelled by the passion to alleviate the plight of women in a male dominated society. The gospel, according to her, is that women should be liberated from the shackles of domestic violence and social slavery. And she is poised to create an electric impact that women should not be treated as second class citizens in marital and paternal families as they form a sizeable segment of the populace whose elementary human rights are disdainfully denied.

Princess Goodness James is not a greenhorn in the movie, nay entertainment industry. Long before her recent debut, The Women’s Right, she had played pivotal roles in other movies; such as The Knight (2004), Last Information (2005), Love Champ (2005), Nine Wives (2006), and Ekaette (2006).

The Women’s Right is a dramatized allegory of a woman who has suffered violence in the valley and shadow of death in the hands of a cruel and selfish husband, who has been used, abused and exploited; and denied the opportunity to use her God- given talents to serve humanity. Despite domestic hostilities, she does her best to express undiluted love and absolute submissiveness to her myopic, pleasure-seeking husband who is an apostle of the prejudicial chauvinism, and believes that women’s freedom should be regimented in the dungeon of a demented spouse.

The movie depicts why women should not be “free in chain” but should be given opportunities in leadership positions and wherever she can exhibit her talents. While advising women to be disciplined and obedient to their husbands, it condemns maltreatment, divorce and relegation of the womenfolk to the background with stigmatized status. It condemns prostitution and use of women as source of comfort even as women’s role in nation–building is an indispensable rudiment for societal peace. Women’s talents should not be pigeonholed in their wondrously sculptured bodies which some use to lure men into dangerous and compromising positions; but only to litter their paths with broken hearts of men.   It also berates the use by women of what they have to get what they want: power, wealth, influence and status.

The movie star’s passion centres on equal rights for women which men who cannot see beyond their selfish imagination see it as a taboo. They only see women in the lenses of the Ashanti proverb: “a wife is like a blanket; when you cover yourself with it, it irritates you, and yet if you cast it aside you feel cold.”  In their reasoning, women are just a necessary evil.  It is this practice that Princess James condemns in her work.  She is not a lone traveler on this feminist terrain. Marilyn French, an American feminist writer has pointed out that “whatever they may be in public, whatever their relations with men, in their relationship with women all men are rapists, and that’s all they are.  They rape us with their eyes, their laws and codes”

A movie that amply showcases the uncommon transformation of our digital governor, Chief (DR.) Godswill Akpabio (CON) is set for public presentation.  The work is of a classic genre and it sermonizes patriotism by an iconic democrat who is focused on his work, not minding those who are trying to demonize him as history will vindicate the just.

A 2006 graduate of Accounting of Imo State University, Princess James is a versatile and enterprising person. Her radio programme: “Business Window” designed for advertising good and service on Anambra Broadcasting Station was wonderful and exciting. She is also the Chief Executive Officer of Prigon Global Resources and has triumphed in all her endeavours.  It is her intense campaign against gender based violence like wife-battering and negative cultural practices that this movie Amazon is out to carve a niche for herself and cleanse the society of these moral impurities.

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