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Saturday, March 21, 2009

Tyler Perry's Brokeback Mountain


"People feel the images [in his movies] are very stereotypical, and black people are frustrated because they feel we should be more evolved. But there are very few black images in Hollywood, so black people are going to his movies. That's the dichotomy. Tyler Perry is making money.''


- Viola Davis, Oscar Nominee

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TYLER PERRY AS MADEA ''These characters are simply tools to make people laugh,'' the writer-director-actor says. ''And I know for a fact that they have helped, inspired, and encouraged millions of people.''


AAPP says: I am so tired of Tyler Perry's Madea Character. I don't get why so many black woman love his character. I don'rt get why tyler Perry needs to keep dressing up acting like a woman and acting like a fool.
This character is nothing less than an overgrown black man acting out his issues in a granny outfit.

As Benjamin Svetkey, Margeaux Watson, Alynda Wheat noted in their recent article, about Tyler Perry; If you happened to buy a ticket to Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail without knowing what you were getting into, you might think you'd stumbled onto a cheery comedy about an overgrown granny with anger-management issues. A black Mrs. Doubtfire, say, with car chases and reefer jokes. You'd never suspect that you had strayed into the midst of a culture war — one that's been simmering inside the African-American community since before blackface. ''I loved working with Tyler Perry, but he's a controversial, complicated figure,'' says Viola Davis, who costarred in Madea Goes to Jail and recently snagged an Oscar nomination for Doubt. ''People feel the images [in his movies] are very stereotypical, and black people are frustrated because they feel we should be more evolved. But there are very few black images in Hollywood, so black people are going to his movies. That's the dichotomy. Tyler Perry is making money.''

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