TYLER PERRY FAN: Why
you always hating on Tyler Perry?
ME: Because he’s a
horrible writer and director and his shit movies are always the same.
TP FAN: Well
I like his movies. They’re uplifting, and I don’t think they’re all the same.
ME: Every single Tyler
Perry movie is filled with exploitive pseudo-Christian beliefs and stereotypes,
and they always have the same theme. Some woman getting dumped or physically and
mentally abused by her misogynistic asshole husband or boyfriend (usually an
incestuous pedophile) until she goes to see Madea who has a “spiritual” talk with her, throws in
some amusing erroneous Bible quotes and helps her to find herself. And of
course, Madea reminds the woman that the surest route to eternal joy is through
subservience to a good man…with strong Christian values.
TP FAN:
He tries to offer positive female role models. I think that’s a good thing.
ME: Oh, my bad. You mean positive role models
like the one where the female character cheats on her husband, gets raped,
becomes addicted to drugs, and in the end is seen as a miserable lonely loser
who’s become HIV Positive and
deserving of her fate. Or maybe you meant the one where the professional Black
woman in an effort to get to the top, cheats on her husband, this time with a White
man only to realize in the end she was being used but she’s too proud to admit
it. Surely you don’t mean the positive role of the aunt who was so self-indulgent
and consumed by her career that she missed the signs of her pedophile boyfriend’s
abuse of her niece while in her care.
TP FAN: Well
you’re just picky and in the minority. Everyone I know loves Tyler Perry’s
movies.
ME: True and proof
positive that there’s just no accounting for taste.
TP FAN: I
think you’re just bitter. What if everyone felt your way? I think we should
support Black creativity.
ME: Again, please
don’t mention creativity when speaking of this man but let me ask this
question. Do you think White people go to see every movie just because it’s
made by a White person? If Black artist want support from the community shouldn’t
they be accountable and held to some type of standard? Besides, at this point
his filthy rich hypocritical prosperity gospel believing ass has a built-in
audience who will buy any garbage he puts out. They literally get bussed to his
movies from church…after second service of course.
TP FAN:
Um, ok. But I still think you’re just a hater
ME: I’m not hating on
the man. In fact, I appreciate and am inspired by the business model he created
and the fact that he hires African-Americans almost exclusively. He’s a great industry
role model and donates to many African-American mentorship programs. And I do
enjoy the fact that he keeps Cicely Tyson employed on a regular. I just think
his shit movies suck and perhaps he should cede some creativity to others. Why
is it that every single thing the man does is written, directed and produced by Tyler Perry?
TP FAN: Well
I guess there’s just no convincing you. Let’s agree to disagree, I’m out.
ME: No problem, good
talking with you. Hallelujer!
I don't consider myself to be a TP 'fan'. I refuse to see another Made a anything. If you've seen one....but, I do applause the fact that he does employee people of color in an industry that wouldn't otherwise give them half a chance. He'll never produce anything award worthy and I think he knows that.
ReplyDeleteHis movies are so bad that I think it's deliberate. It has to be. In holding out hope that the brother has a bigger plan that only he knows. He's definitely no Spike Lee.