They're
at it again; the mad rush to imitating each other in a bid to
promoting quackery in the industry, all in the name of setting
standard or simply put; fighting for superiority. A must do what B is
doing and because B has joined, D thinks he should also be a part.
That's the extent of their unprofessional exuberance. Your darling
magazine, National Enquirer looks into this jack of all trades
attitude turning to a bad menace.
Like
they say, there's no harm in trying or attempting to be innovative in
business, but some professions are so technically studious and
intellectually demanding that, any endeavour to undermine its
viability will be tantamount to encouraging half-bakes in that
calling.
Before
now, it was the copycat interest in singing; they all rushed to the
studio to record just because they believe the sudden fame bestowed
on them as movie makers is enough to sell million copy albums if they
dabble into singing; an ungratefully greedy affront that should be
looked into to forestall stimulation of quackery in the industry.
Such
instances like the idea of getting just anybody including illiterates
as auxiliary hands in hospitals, who later sees him/herself as
capable of setting up a clinic and start injecting patients should be
nip in the bud, and the magnanymity of entrusting an office boy/girl
with handling judicial matters should stop as soon as possible; this
liberality in some kind of specialized professions where there are no
regulatory bodies for gate keeping usually breed impostors.
In
Nollywood of late, actors have began to bank on their popularity to
float theatre academy thereby subjecting a profession that ordinarily
requires 4 studious years of reading and practical knowledge in
institutions of higher learning to a pedestal occupation.
Understandably,
many of the super icons who became reference points in some
professions today are mere career-trials who walked tall for being
extra talented; just like the case in our Nollywood and other
industry; but the status quo is better left to natural discoveries
instead of killing the industry with the bogus scheme of making the
corpse walk.
Just
at the right time when the industry has forgotten the old ways of
habouring cumbersome theatrical caucuses which championed ''wishy
washy'' production and churned out substandard films at inception,
some overzealous actors are beginning to put spanner in the works, to
drag the fledging industry backwards again by encouraging dummy
tradition of nurturing half-bake professionals who will be left with
no choice than resulting to compromise of all sorts, in order to make
sure they produce low-quality movies by any means necessary, after
graduation. It is a statement of fact, that, the 3 months certifcate
in possession of these emergency theatre graduates will no doubt
over-boost their morales thereby enlarging the coast of low-grade and
over-ambitious movie producers overnight.
In
the past; celebrities like Genevieve Nnaji, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde,
Tonto Dikeh, Cossy Ojiakor, Segun Arinze and so on have tried and got
their fingers burnt venturing into music; the newest jack of all
trades other wise known as Nollywood's Omni-Knowests are Femi
Adebayo, Funke Akindele, Mercy Aigbe-Gentry, Toyin Aimakhu, Iyabo
Ojo, Yul Edochie and still counting.
With
regards to few theatre graduates which still didn't qualify them for
floating such an academy anyway; make-up artistry, cosmetics and
beauty, barbing, hair dressing, general trading, fashion designing,
spa business, modeling, and others which most of them are known to
plying before the sudden fame from movie making beckons; are free
trade zones, but academy like theatre art and dramatic science as
regarded in some revered tertiary institutions are seriously studious
career course which requires breath taking educational knowlegde to
practice; even though it is also a free for all career where talent
rules. Instead of the misplaced priority manœuvre of setting up a
glorified thatre caucus, it is therefore better to allow flair,
natural aptitude, gift, knack, midas touch and other genious human
traits take its merit on lucky-acts-next-door. The process of running
an academy of such magnitude must be well tidied to safe the
industry's face. Enough is enough of quackery promotion.
Jite
Usman
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