Premier Draws Huge Crowd, By Gboko J. Stewart
Published: 27 February, 2009
Benhamin Seequel, Director
After over two years of filming, the movie, Million Dollars Scandal, finally premiered last Friday at Rivoli Cinema with a record turnout.
Million Dollars Scandal began filming in early 2006 and was delayed due to some financial and location problems.
In an exclusive interview with the Daily Observer, the director, Benjamin Seequel, said some Liberian eyes were not open to the movie business so “they refused to let you use their homes for filming”. He also added that owing to the unwillingness of some Liberians to invest in the movie industry, there had been some impediments facing the industry. He lamented that due to the failure to enforce the copyright laws, mass production of Liberian movies were commonplace.
Benjamin also called on Liberian television stations to pay more attention to Liberian movies instead of Nigerian.
He disclosed that the idea to make a movie came to him after the civil conflict that ousted former Liberian president Charles Taylor from Liberia. According to him, the movie is about ex-combatants who were jobless after the conflict even though they went through the DDRR process, but people did not trust them because they were former fighters.
Benjamin, who played the major character Stone in the movie, was an ex-combatant along with his colleagues who were jobless. While going to work in a taxi after his car had broken down, a representative left his briefcase which had an amount of L$456,000 in it. Stone took the man's briefcase. Taking the money home, his wife urged him not to carry it back. But because he was an honest person, he decided to carry the money back to the representative's office where he was rewarded with a job and a brand new car.
Having been given a job, he is hated by his workmate because he is an ex-combatant. To tarnish his reputation, his workmate decided to steal the 14 million dollars their boss had kept in the office. All eyes are now turned to Stone.
Million Dollars Scandal parts 1 & 2 will be launched in March
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