Hot-Take(s): Tyler Perry’s Film-making
• Every romantic-drama film of Tyler Perry’s is a remix of the plots from the previous films. He doesn’t have much range (if at all) in the scope of writing romantic dramas.
• His comedy films (particularly with Madea as the central or most notable character within them) are subpar and bland and have a home in the hearts of baby boomers, early milennials and church-goers who have no real range in knowing what’s objectively funny due to the constraints of them being deeply religious and/or prude and pretentious.
• A returning theme in Perry’s romance-dramas is the need for Black women to be the damsel in the distress that ultimately finds peace in their redemption after enduring hardship with men for certain lengths. While, in theory, his efforts are meant to be noble in the sense that he shows the resilience of the Black woman/women in the aftermath of adversity, it fails to hold up and essentially depicts them as feeble (without the adversity); which can be interpreted as misogynistic in a way considering that it can imply that women are only strong when they channel soundness in the presence of men (whether their abusive or manipulative).
