October 7, 2009
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I can't seem to find a source online for the script of the original movie, so I'll have to recite it best as I can from memory.
The scene is a pool, with three women sitting together. One of the women is average size, the other is a "little" bigger than average, and the last one has a body that most women (who care greatly about their body shape) would probably kill to have.
For the sake of easy clarity, I shall refer to the first woman as A, the second as B, and the third as S.
As the women are talking, they happen to notice some Africans (three, I believe) at the pool as well (Nigerians, I think).
The men notice the women and walk over to them (I think the third one shows up mid-conversation, so it's 2 men approaching three women).
B, used to not being noticed, immediately looks down rejected, particularly since S, used to attention, immediately starts showing off her body.
The men, however, aren't interested in S. They try to start conversing with B, but S butts in. I remember at one point, she remarks (thinking the men are interested in her body, which she is fully prostituting for free by now, as much of a contradiction as that is), "You like what you see?"
It seems, at least the message that this movie was trying to convey, that Nigerians like bigger women. Therefore, the hierarchy that the U. S. has established is reversed - the skinny woman is given looks of oddity and passed over in favor of the more appealing woman on the scene.
At some point, the third Nigerian comes back to catch up with his friends, notices S and remarks in one of the native languages of Nigeria, "What is wrong with her? Is she sick??"
I've never seen the movie in full, but I will forever adore it for that scene alone.
I came across these two articles while looking for the movie. I would definitely suggest checking them out. I need to watch some of the movie mentioned in them at some point.
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