A: So Abidemi, we've been talking about art and culture in your country ofNigeria. What about film, do you have a movie industry?
阿比德米,我们一直在讨论你的祖国尼日利亚的艺术和文化。那电影呢,尼日利亚有电影业吗?
B: Oh, wow! It's a great question. Yes, we do. Nigeria has a movie industrythat's called Nollywood.
哇哦!这真是个好问题。我们当然有电影业。尼日利亚的电影业被称为“奈莱坞”。
A: Nollywood?
“奈莱坞”?
B: Yeah, Nollywood. Can you guess? Nigeria, Hollywood — Nollywood.
对,“奈莱坞”。你能猜猜吗?尼日利亚和好莱坞的结合,就是“奈莱坞”。
A: Nollywood.
“奈莱坞”。
B: So I think, I've read that Nollywood is actually the number threeproducing movie industry in the world. After Hollywood, maybe Bollywood isnumber one, Hollywood is number two and Nollywood is number three.
B: Yes, so we produce a lot of movies every year. And actually, a lot ofthese movies I know I watch a lot of them in YouTube or the internet. And someof our stars, some of the actresses and actors are actually going to othercountries like Ghana, they are doing movies with them, collaborating with Ghanaand maybe the Benin Republic, neighboring countries to Nigeria. And someactually have moved over to the United States. A little bit, they are startingto, and collaborating with some people there as well. So it is booming andpeople that are involved in that industry are making more and more and moremoney each year. To the point that before maybe 20 years ago, if a child said tohis or her parent that, "I want to be an actor or actress", that was the worstjob you could ever do and they would be like, "Why?" But now, it's actuallysomething that parents are, “Alright, okay, you want to be an actor like thisperson or that person?” It's not so bad anymore because they can make money, ifthey make it, so yeah.
A: So Bollywood has a very distinct kind of image of you know, the music andthe dancing and Hollywood kind of has also like you know the action and bang,bang type movies.
宝莱坞的情况非常不同,宝莱坞电影充满了歌舞场景,而好莱坞电影则是动作大片。
B: Yes.
对。
A: So, can you describe what a Nollywood movie is like?
你能形容一下奈莱坞的电影吗?
B: That's a great question. I think Nollywood is closer to Hollywood in thefact that we don't have as much the kind of dancing and music and the musicalvalue that Bollywood has. Nigerian movies are more dramas, I would say. Therethey try to make action movies but it's not quite to the level of Hollywood justas yet. So it's more drama, it's about life stories, things that are happeningin Nigeria and one thing that I've heard and that I've noticed in Nigerianmovies is the fact that they try to present people that live rich lives. Nigeriais still a developing country, so many people don't have access to some thingsso movies tend to present people that are well-off, that live in big houses,drive big cars and can travel abroad, have education. So you have that themegoing through a lot of these movies where maybe somebody, a poor girl, she meetsa rich man or vice versa.
B: So, it's more for fantasy to get people to think of a different life thatanything is possible. That if you, maybe if you try or maybe some day you mightmeet your prince charming, or what not. So there is that aspect to it, yes.