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Killer bewu Laa'show

Author: Faf
Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2003
Date/Time: 17:32 GMT
Permanent URL: http://dotfaf.com/archives/20030211_killer_bewu_laashow.php
Growing up in Ghana in the 80s and early 90s... I almost pissed my pants when i say this picture (below) and a whole host of others[1].

lionstrikelarge.jpg
The good guy is always called "Blowman" and the bad guy "Killer". Even if they're only pulling insurance scams. The thing is i didnt get to watch many movies in cinemas growing up cos it was s'posed to be where the bad boys hung out. And my parents "didnt want me smoking wee". But then of course it all boils down to there being little form of [enforced] censorship in cinemas back in the day.

The cinemas were mostly made of wooden blanks boarded together.... so kids could peek thru and watch porn. Now woe betides you if you get caught. In Ghana then (and now)... anybody NOT on bad terms with your parents could chastise you if you go wrong. That includes people who dont know your parents. You'll get knocked over and slapped.... and of course even if you could report the beating to your parents, what d'u say? "I got caught watching Doggymatronix at Odei's Cinema"? Dont think so.

Ok now i'm drifting, but seeing all those pictures has brought back memories... but i'm not coughing up $125 for those shit drawings... cos underneath all that intro... that's what they are.. shit drawings.

I wonder if they'll buy the similar drawings i made of Rambo in Classes 1 thru 3? I wasnt that good... but the aim wasnt to be good but to send a hint ot the teacher that they were as boring as FTSE100 (Hint: cockney rhyming slang)


Comments on this entry:

Author: Doobs
Date/Time: February 11, 2003 8:03 PM
URL: http://odobea.dotfaf.com

Oooooh! I remember them pictures. I saw my first Bruce Lee movie in one a dem awam cinemas.


Author: Ethilda
Date/Time: February 11, 2003 9:12 PM
Email: sounddiva911@hotmail.com
URL: http://www.blackplanet.com/NuBiAn_Princesz

i don't know why anybody would want to buy thses picture/paintings they are so unnatural, unrelistic and most of all it's cartoonish. I was born in Ghana, but everytime i go watch movie I had to make sure that my mum would neevr findout or that i knwo anyone at the movie


Author: Di
Date/Time: March 30, 2003 7:19 AM

actually, in Kumasi, the good guy is called "jack" and the bad guy is called "killer" hmm, we have all grown up a lot.



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