Spike Lee Compares Tyler Perry To Amos and Andy

I remember the treatment of IR in Lee's films:WW are bad. Along with Jungle Fever,there is Mo Better Blues,He Got Game,Malcolm X,and Miracle at St.Anna. The relationships don't last long since one of them either leaves or dies. Also on Perry's films there is ever a IR.

 

Spend a lot of time on BlackMenVent do you?

 

The reason why "Rosewood" didn't do well with black audiences is it didn't have a happy ending.

Who wants to see white people kill and destroy a once successful black town?

Not a feel good movie.

 

Movies of Black defeat in historical events don't do well in movies. Which is the reason some Black exploitation movies flourished.

 

They waited outside because they had limited theaters. I know, because I was one of the people in line. I love Spike Lee's work and I've never seen or would want to see a Tyler Perry movie. But I've accepted the fact that his work and comedy is popular among Black people. I've never seen it, but I doubt it is "coonery". But I also think Spike and image conscious Black people need to come to grips with that past and accept that art and it's place in Black comedy; whether it's JJ from Good times or House of Pain.

A blogger on hater site said it best (yes I read hater site)

Tyler came up from NOTHING,..(HOMLESS,SLEEPING IN HIS CAR FOR A YEARS!!!!!!!)to a multi-millionaire that has his OWN production company in hollywood.

 

Ive peeked into a "Diary Of A Mad Black Woman" theater and saw nothing but a bunch of ghetto heathens

 

:-?

 

lol @ some of you defending Tyler Perry

This dude produces some of the most stereotypical shit about blacks, and you're all on his nuts.Then you have the temerity to get angry when you see whites/non blacks laughing and portraying blacks a certain way in the media.
Who cares how much dough Tyler Perry makes?Stephen Fetchet(sp) became the first black actor to become a millionaire, and his whole career was based on stereotypes about blacks.

Comparing Tyler Perry to Spike Lee ,is like trying to compare Clarence Thomas to Thurgood Marshall.Blacks need to support shows like The Game(which just got canceled).Showing blacks in a normal light and not playing up stereotypes like sambo perry.

 

I have seen a few of Tyler Perry movies (mostly on cable) and I believe the black people who are against his movies feel he is bringing out our "dirty laundry".

He also seem to have something against black people who are well off or rich and make them into villains even though Tyler Perry himself is now successful.

His primary audience is black women and that is a cash cow.

 

Sistakom got a point on this one