Episode of Law Order on Somali Pirates and Sayid M.Abdulla..

[Gheelle.T]

A tourist yacht cruising the coast of Somalia opens fire on an unarmed boat, killing a sheikh and his wife. The incident sets in play an international grab for power, an illegal arms deal and a hunt for terrorists. Captain Ross finds himself at the tragic center of the conflict, galvanizing the assistance of Major Case detectives Goren, Eames and Nichols.

 

 

[nuune]

This season alone, there are 12 Somali Pirates movies coming soon, the film industry is making money using our Somali Pirates

[Gheelle.T]

Sad thing is that they are using none Somali actors.

[Archdemos]

interesting, nuune know any of the working titles? 12 seems allot for just 1 season.

[Che -Guevara]

Now Cowke will brag Puntland was on TV-Good Lord.

 

Unemployed Somali actors should form union.

[Chimera]

^How about we create our own major films and tv-shows about our rich history and culture comparable to the thriving Korean or Chinese industry and control our own image instead? How is it that Somali entrepreneurs can invest in the creation of films like the Da Vinci Code, but not a decent Somali one? Why is that talented directors like Mo Ali are to busy directing Shank films instead of one dealing with the Somali community?

 

btw has anyone seen the 1985 epic film the ''Somalia Dervishes'' with a duration time of four-hours & 40-minutes and a budget of $1.8 million (which today would be equivalant to around $10-15 million), that is spoken off in this contemporary Kentucky New Era article? It sounds impressive with production levels similar to classic films like Zulu.

[ailamos]

nice ending to the tourist yacht scene

[Chocolate and Honey]

LOL! The whole thing was comical. And they had all the facts wrong, like the Father marrying his seventh wife, the son keeping his creamated(LOL!) father on his desk, the Terrorists in Puntland, the made up language?

Whats worse is the actor, sounding more British at times. At least the sister was pretty.

[NASSIR]

Indeed, another movie that's testimony to how our image is rendered in a manner that humiliates our psyche. Quality picture aided by the possession of a market power sells but the storyline, as usual, is devoid of respect for others, a repeated script and scenerio that is figuritively tantamount to an invading army that justifies its brutality of the locals as humanitarian and the spread of democracy through the channels of its own media. Even if we make our own movies, to build the leverage to challenge and sway the superior firepower of the western film industry and its economies of scale requires a huge capital to attract the expertise and an audience to build that ever lasting brand whose soft power your posterity can reap? You can also put it that it is all business and free markets with a large and diverse participants locked in an arbitrage, however, the distorted rendering of our true story, culture, physical appearance has a large ethnocentric audience quite steeped in their self-absorption of us vs them.

[Jacpher]

Here's the full episode

 

Just another hollywood drama. Nothing could be further from the truth. A little Wikipedia search could have helped.

[Muriidi]

every country has "uncivilized/cawaan" people ,every country has "qarmuun" , and sometimes the combination of stink and cawaanimo !

let's just call them :somaliland,puntland and o.n.l.f.

instead of letting them get lost in the vast majority of muslims ...we gave them names, "governments" , news headlines and even foreign affairs (jaaliyad) + the authority to terrorize somali citizens abroad ,so they won't miss out on the action back home ...

 

g'day mate :

 

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