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AS Alexander McCall Smith writes in the opening of his best-selling novel “Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Botswana, at the foot of Kgale Hill.” Though her cases tend to dwell on sins like philandering and low-level insurance scams, her greatest mystery these days is whether her story can translate to film.
Precious Ramotswe has no blue steel pistol, just two desks, two chairs, a telephone and an old typewriter. Her tiny white van is incapable of high-speed chases and fiery stunts. Then there is Mma Ramotswe herself. (Mma is a local honorific.) Film sleuths usually exude chiseled sexiness and a noir persona. But as Mr. McCall Smith puts it, Precious Ramotswe is “the fat lady detective”: rounded, not chiseled; softhearted, not dark.
Would anyone watch a film about a “traditionally built” (as she puts it) shamus whose main preoccupation is contemplating her cases under an acacia tree?
The director allows that it could be a stretch. “Because of the addiction to action in American cinema, the cut-to-the-chase excitement of American film, I think it’s unlikely that this will work in a movie theater,” he said as shooting of “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” concluded one late afternoon in a dusty Gaborone schoolyard. “This is not an easy film to make. In fact it’s been incredibly hard.”
But Mr. Minghella, the Oscar-winning director and writer of and is making it anyway, even though it may ultimately wind up on television. In the end, he said, he just couldn’t let someone else do it.
Continue reading the main story“It’s been one of those processes of slow seduction,” he said, “mostly by Botswana itself.”
Many who have read Mr. McCall Smith’s spare 1998 novel about Precious Ramotswe’s foray into detective work, or the seven sequels that have followed, will know what Mr. Minghella means. Woven into the novels’ accessible mysteries is a loving portrait of Botswana as a wondrous nation, a place of infinite skies, rooted people and gentle habits that Western society foolishly discarded decades ago.
The tales are fiction, of course, and to some extent so is the portrayal of Botswana, save the endless skies. In modern Africa, riven by AIDS, destitution and dictatorship, very little is innocent anymore. But Botswana is as close as it comes, a haven spared many of colonialism’s horrors and eased into relative prosperity and democracy by the wealth of diamonds and a history devoid (mostly) of brutality.
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Against a torrent of stories about Africa, Mma Ramotswe is a refreshingly new character, said Jill Scott, the Philadelphia-born R&B singer and poet who plays the lead role, and who put on pounds for the part. “She’s a firm believer in justice. She has a strong, definitive way of thinking — right is right, and wrong is wrong. And she believes enough in herself that she will fix the wrong, that she will make it good.”
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“You have to love Botswana, because that’s how she feels,” she continued. “And if you see it more than one day, you’ll see why she loves it.”
Ms. Scott is joined by Anika Noni Rose, who plays Precious’s fussbudget secretary, Grace Makutsi. Lucian Msamati, the London dramatic actor, is J. L .B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe’s shy suitor.
Even at the start, Mr. Minghella said, the notion that an overweight lady detective would play well on film seemed unlikely. And the idea that “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” could be made in Botswana, which had never been host to a major film shoot, seemed far fetched at best. But as he and others describe it, bringing the story to film became a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts, a labor of love that overcame considerable obstacles.
The catalyst was Amy J. Moore, a New York independent producer who had worked and traveled in southern Africa, off and on, for two decades. Ms. Moore first came to Botswana as a student in the mid-1980s, “before the roads were tarred,” and fell in love. Later she headed a South African venture promoting African films, then took a play with an African cast to Off Broadway. In 2000 a friend gave her a novel set in Botswana by a Scottish writer obscure at the time, and she fell in love again.
“I was struck by an absolute fable,” she said, “that leading a good life is possible; that being a good person is possible; that being a good neighbor is possible; that truth can exist alongside beauty. I thought, this African book can teach the Western world a lot.”
Mma Ramotswe’s series of adventures would not become a literary hit for another year, perhaps, Ms. Moore said, because people only began flocking to tales of kindness and morality after the shock of the Sept. 11 attacks. She flew to Edinburgh, found 13 copies of “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” in a bookshop and bought them all. Then she went to Mr. McCall Smith and bought the film rights to the first book and its successors. Afterward she went to London and to Mr. Minghella, whom she knew from earlier work, and handed him the novel over tea.
“Frankly, I wasn’t particularly excited by the prospect of the book,” Mr. Minghella said. But “before I knew it, I had finished the book,” he continued. “And like millions of others I was hooked.”
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It took six more years, however, to bring the story to film. Mirage Productions, the London filmmaking outfit run by Mr. Minghella and the director Sydney Pollack, took on the project. But there remained the central questions of where ”Detective Agency” would be filmed, and how the production — by Hollywood standards, a shoestring affair — would be financed.
Ms. Moore, a producer on the project, argued that Mma Ramotswe’s story could only be made in Botswana. Mr. Minghella, who had shot films in Africa before — notably “The English Patient,” in Tunisia — was skeptical. After all, a major film had never been made in Botswana. Equipment would have to be imported, and stars and crews fed and housed, at considerable expense.
Then, in 2004, Ms. Moore took Mr. Minghella to the Makgadikgadi Pans, a vast salt flat in northern Botswana. They camped out beneath a Milky Way that was a luminous stripe across the sky, with stars that glistened like buckets of salt tossed on black velvet.
That trip was a turning point, but in the end the government of Botswana sealed the deal to make “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” on location and not in a Johannesburg back lot, contributing $5 million to finance it. In return Botswana received not only the economic benefits of housing and servicing a major film but also hands-on training in moviemaking that officials hope will sow the seeds of a film industry. Botswana is also counting on a tourism benefit from the film: the Kgale Hill set that includes Mma Ramotswe’s office is being preserved and will become part of a “Ladies’ Detective Agency” tour for those drawn to Botswana by Mr. Smith’s stories.
Mr. Minghella, who writes the screenplays for all his films, said he regards himself as much as a screenwriter as a director. But for this movie he teamed with Richard Curtis, who wrote and helped write the screen version of to bring a light touch to the characters. The novel’s fans will recognize the cadence of Botwanan English, with its charming formality and and “ehs” and “izzists?” that punctuate everyday conversation.
But the screenplay is considerably funnier than the book, in a gentle, wry way, and Ms. Rose’s Grace Makutsi, in 1950s eyeglasses and fright-wig hair, takes on a major role as the comic anchor. Mr. Minghella also moves much of the action outdoors, where Botswana’s scenery and charms like a troupe of native dancers can be shown to best effect.
Filming was not always smooth, Mr. Minghella said, mostly because the process was largely new to Batswana crews and extras. “These are generous people,” he said. “You ask for a chair, and they’ll bring you three tables.” But there was an upside to making a film with novices, he said, including a natural purity of expression that most Western actors must manufacture.
“We know too much about the result of being photographed,” he said. “We have reality TV shows. We’re a self-conscious people. But there’s a great absence of neurosis here. There’s something in this culture where committing to an idea seems very simple.”
Like Mma Ramotswe herself “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” film is simple and straightforward. “It rewards our passion and appetite for mystery and thrillers without bringing all the concomitant rubbish of violence and cruelty,” Mr. Minghella said. “It’s not about misanthropy in an ugly world. It’s about venial sins in a good world.”
So will that sell on the silver screen? Ms. Moore believes so; Botswana’s physical beauty and the depth of the book’s characters will carry the film, she said.
Mr. Minghella guesses not. “I don’t think that ‘The English Patient’ would work in today’s cinema,” he said. “Too slow-moving, too melancholic.”
While he did not rule out a theatrical run, it appears likely that “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” will wind up on the BBC, and later on American cable.
Which may not be so bad. If Mma Ramotswe plays well on the small screen, there are high hopes that she will reappear in a mini-series, recounting Mr. McCall Smith’s sequels and more. And Ms. Scott could become Botswana’s face to the world.
“That’s a hard one to swallow,” she said. “But it would be an honor.”
Correction: October 14, 2007 An article on Sept. 23 about the movie adaptation of “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” referred incorrectly to the film career of Jill Scott, who plays Mma Ramotswe in the film. Ms. Scott portrayed the blues artist Big Mama Thornton in “Hounddog” and also was in “Why Did I Get Married,” released on Friday. “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” is not her film debut.
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