I am really getting tired of the "at least he's hiring black actors", and I've said it in the past myself, as recently as last month.
What the fuck does it matter if he keeps hiring black actors when he's causing so much damage to the black image through coon-ass stereotypes? I'll say it flat the fuck out: Tyler Perry's mindless, plot-holed crap is not that much better than your average Black Embarrassment Television bullshit video. He just has Jesus messages infused in his nonsense instead of "money and hoes".
Sorry; that excerpt didn't really capture everything he saidlegacyMay 26 2011, 22:11:22 UTC
He addresses that in the full interview, saying something along the lines of expecting Tyler Perry to work outside of his genre to... eh, I'll cite him:
“Tyler has found his genre. The problem with being African-American in film as a producer, you have to be so worried about stepping on toes. We have just a few outlets in terms of the dimensions we are as a people. We zero in because there are not enough dimensions of what we do.”
So basically, the politics of black identity in media are too demanding; sure Tyler produces films that are "niggerish" and full of "buffoonery" (in Powell's own words), but faulting Tyler for a) the realities of Hollywood and b) not being able to/interested in showing all aspects of black life in America is Spike Lee calling the kettle black. He mentioned how whites get positive and negative images of themselves, but blacks aren't. So, I think he gets the the critique against Perry, but at the same time, isn't willing to throw him or his genre under the bus for the good they do accomplish [in his eyes].
Re: Sorry; that excerpt didn't really capture everything he saidbatty_galMay 26 2011, 22:46:07 UTC
You're right, whites can get away with shit humor (Deuce Bigalow and Mall Cop, anyone?), but when there's only one type of "black humor" being released over and over again (the Madea movies, Soul Plane, Big Mama's House, Norbit, etc.), and a person who has made it is continuing to play into it instead of doing something out of the box, it's time to throw some shit under the bus. Fuck Tyler Perry's genre.
Clifton is a thug, but I agree with this completely. Both of them fail at portraying the black community in the correct way, so it's really a stalemate. Tyler Perry has a way of telling the same hood story over and over again, and as for spike... is spike even still relevant in 2011? I find Ice Cube's recent productions to be better than both of these fools.
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What the fuck does it matter if he keeps hiring black actors when he's causing so much damage to the black image through coon-ass stereotypes? I'll say it flat the fuck out: Tyler Perry's mindless, plot-holed crap is not that much better than your average Black Embarrassment Television bullshit video. He just has Jesus messages infused in his nonsense instead of "money and hoes".
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“Tyler has found his genre. The problem with being African-American in film as a producer, you have to be so worried about stepping on toes. We have just a few outlets in terms of the dimensions we are as a people. We zero in because there are not enough dimensions of what we do.”
So basically, the politics of black identity in media are too demanding; sure Tyler produces films that are "niggerish" and full of "buffoonery" (in Powell's own words), but faulting Tyler for a) the realities of Hollywood and b) not being able to/interested in showing all aspects of black life in America is Spike Lee calling the kettle black. He mentioned how whites get positive and negative images of themselves, but blacks aren't. So, I think he gets the the critique against Perry, but at the same time, isn't willing to throw him or his genre under the bus for the good they do accomplish [in his eyes].Reply
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Basically.
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Oh and by the way, do I detect the faint aroma of sour grapes on my palette?
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