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Africa then and now.

posted 15 years ago by mike-848
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It's amazing but if there was a remake, they could still present an African country in 2009 looking and feeling like the African country in this film from 1980 and it would still be believable.

[–] mail-2775 14 years ago

You are correct. That's because Africa is the only continent that does not advance (yes, I am including Antarctica).

[–] The24thFoot 14 years ago

If it wasent so serious it would actually be funny. Africa today is pretty much exactly the way it was when the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, etc left in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. They havent advanced one bit ... heck they even went backwards in some cases (Zimbabwe/Rhodesia and South Africa).

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[–] tetsuo 14 years ago

Yeah, its possible with the smaller African countries(Sierra leone etc.).

Difficult fo rthe bigger ones(DRC, Nigeria etc.).

Africa now is probably a lot worse than Africa in 1980. AIDS, massive bloody wars(Second Congo war, Angola), crazy cannibalistic wars(Liberia, Sierra Leone) etc.

[–] xenopharb 9 years ago

The countries are similar but with five to ten times the population.

[–] tropicaldiver2001 8 years ago

The Dogs of War was filmed in part in Belize, in the Caribbean. I've been there and it is very run down and mostly populated by black people. It imparted the atmosphere of western Africa.

[–] remobzca-64510 7 years ago

For the record, It was filmed in Belize which was at the time a BRITISH COLONY located in CENTRAL AMERICA.

Belize is the only English speaking Country in Latin America but is a member of CARICOM. Considering it was a British Colony it had closer ties with the Caribbean than Latin America in many ways.

The population was between 250,000 - 300,000 back then. It looked run down because the British took more out of the Country (resources) than building it up like they did in Barbados.

Belize did not gain independence from Britain until September 21, 1981 and this film was done about a year before that.