The Movie adaptation of Wole Soyinka’s play, Death and the King’s horseman has some questionable scenes that have gotten its critics talking. There are details about this scene that were not revealed explicitly on screen.
These details answer the whys people are asking. Why was nudity necessary in this movie? Why was a sex scene necessary in this movie?
As our entertainment industry expands there are certain attributes we begin to copy from the western scene. Nudity is one of those. Nudity sells in entertainment, but this flimsy reason is not solely responsible for the addition of controversial scenes in Elesin Oba.
The scenes were necessary to the plot line and the character revelation of Odunlade Adekola who played the role of the king’s horseman. His case was that of a willing soul and weak body. There’s no better way to describe what drains the potent of a man’s physical strength than his love for a woman or women.
This is a Samson and Delilah case. The luxury of feminine attention he was getting due to his position held back his resolve to leave the world. There has always been a spiritual connection between a man’s downfall and his worship of women.
To drive this narrative, the movie had to feature scenes that depicted Elesin as a lover of women. Hence the necessity of the nudity and sex scenes.