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Princeiyk1980

RAMSEY HOUAH AND HIS ABA MADE AMERICAN ACCENT
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In my piece about Majid Michel, I wrote that Ramsey Nouah’s biggest flaw as an actor was his Aba-made American accent which stopped him from embodying a lot of roles, and some people are accusing me of shading him.

I did not shade him. I critiqued his acting. But if insist on saying that I shaded him, then so be it.

(I also want to point out that to critique and to criticise are not the same thing)

According to Ramsey’s biography, he was born to a Lebanese father and a Nigerian mother from Ondo state in Nigeria. And he was born and bred in Lagos.

He never went to school abroad, lived abroad, or worked abroad.

And, even though his father was a foreigner, he wasn’t rich enough to enrol him in foreign schools in Nigeria. This is also why Ramsey struggled to further his education and had to begin acting to raise the necessary funds.

The man was 100% Nigerian-made.

So, where did he get his accent?

I wrote Aba because that was the distribution centre for Nigerian home videos back in the day. Or maybe I should have written Onitsha instead, as in 51, Iweka road, Onitsha. But I doubt that would have stopped you from saying that I shaded him.

These same people also claim that Ramsey was a better actor than Majid. 

Sorry, but I beg to differ.

If as an actor you cannot act any role that is given to you, then you are not a good actor. You are mediocre at best.

In his prime, Ramsey only shone when he was playing the city lover boy or the well-to-do/educated bachelor or married man. Because those were the roles that fit his aesthetics and accent.

Any time he stepped out of those roles - which he barely did - he was not believable. 

In those days we would say, “This role nor fit am”. 

Moreover, it’s funny that these same people agreed that Majid could act any role and in the same breath want to argue that Ramsey who couldn’t drop his phoney to act the village boy was a better actor. 

Can’t you see your bias? And the easy pass you give to mediocrity?

No wonder our storylines have barely evolved. And that little growth is thanks to social media and globalisation. If it were left for the average Nigerian consumer, we’d still be stuck at movies where Patience Ozokwor brings a village girl into her son’s matrimonial home because his wife hasn’t conceived yet. Or where Rita Dominic enters prison with one wig and spends 18 years there still wearing that same wig. Or where a maiden from the 1800s has acrylic nails.

To make matters worse, Nigerian movie makers have indentified the existence of this bias and are milking it.

For example, Toyin Abraham’s movies are terrible and have no business being released in theatres but she does it anyway because she knows that her hardcore fans will go and watch them.

Was it not Mercy Aigbe that released a movie last year and the people who paid to go and see it started complaining afterwards that the movie was terrible and more suitable for YouTube? 

Tomorrow, you will still use your hard-earned money to go and buy tickets to watch one low-budget movie by with your fave and starring your faves and start crying afterwards that you wasted your money.

With that being said, Ramsey could have been a great actor. In fact, he could have been a legend but he never became so. And he never did because he never stepped out of his comfort zone. All he did was act the same role over and over again in different formats and settings.

The only reason we remember him today is because he was in A LOT of movies: in fact hundreds of them. Plus he is fine man. But talent wise? Sorry, but he was not close to being among the best.

And if Beverly Naya and Osas Ighodaro insist on following the same path and holding on to an accent that does not allow them to merge with the character fully, they will end up with the same legacy: remembered for appearing in plenty of movies but not for their memorable roles.

And if that bothers you, then so be it.

Peace ✌🏽.
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JustJokes

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