Who Killed Captain Alex: Uganda's First Action Movie (English Subtitles & Video Joker) - Wakaliwood

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as a fun, surprisingly entertaining low-budget film made better by the live-style commentary.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Official Wakaliwood

Topic

low-budget filmmaking

Format

other

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2023

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From the original HN conversations

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• Live narration lives on in some African countries as the "video joker". The narrator translates as well as adding their own jokes and commentary. You can hear an example in the only surviving copy of the famous Ugandan film "Who Killed Captain Alex?"[0] I thought …

• Forget the trailer, you can watch Who Killed Captain Alex? in its entirety on the official Wakaliwood YouTube channel, complete with hilarious running commentary by VJ Emmie: [VIDEO]

• >no other countries — apart from Korea, Taiwan and Thailand, all then under Japanese influence — adopted such an excellent and fun idea. Some movie theaters in Uganda also have live commentary and translation, provided by "video jokers". You can hear such commentary by VJ …