FOR BLACKS ONLY (Some question about Tyler Perry PLAYS?)?
I think that I have got to be one of the only African American who thinks Tyler Perry's plays are POORLY WRITTEN PIECES OF ..(DO-DO)! There are a few "feel good" scenes which are (typically) mostly church scenes! However, his stereotypes of women as either overly weak, (the victim character) or overbearing (his Medea character) are OVER THE TOP!! His males are depicted as either "so damn nice and sweet" that they are not real men or they are just THE DEVIL (the villians). Another problem is that most of his plays STEAL from other plays. (The Color Purple, Roots, & Beloved)
Unlike his screen plays, the music in his stage plays are ussually irrelevant to the plot and what is worse he OFTEN breaks character to talk to the audience.
TYLER PERRY'S PLAYS ARE NOT LEGIT BLACK THEATRE
REASONS:
1. There is no subtlity to his characters.
2. The message & themes of the play are ussually on the surface there are no secondary or subplots.
3. They depend heavily on stereotypes.
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19 hours ago
4. Most of his Morality plays PREACH TO HARD, they do not leave the audience with much to think about or ponder on!
5. Many of his plays steal to much from other plays, his works do not stand on it's own.
6. Tylar doesn't seem to have an "honest" grasp of the human condition.
7. He also depends to heavily on LOW-BROW humor....Fart Jokes, silly wise cracks about shooting someone, snatching weaves and etc.
19 hours ago
KoKo, I understand that a play most have some type of conflict and in plays that have a "man vs. man" conflict there most be a good and a bad guy! However, in most sopisticated DRAMA's (which his plays ussually are) the characters are more "well-rounded" most of the characters are not PURELY GOOD or PURELY EVIL! They are mostly right or left of the center
2007-06-12
07:20:27
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Andre L
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