Thread: Tyler Perry: Responding to Spike Lee's 'Coonery' Criticism

quote: Originally posted by Kocolicious: @Brotha Huey...Oh yea? Well. Just so you know...I may be the only other person who kinda "liked" monster ball. Don't hit me! Not necessary, I was just stating the reference(s) from imdb.com.

@Brotha Huey...Oh yea? Well. Just so you know...I may be the only other person who kinda "liked" monster ball. Don't hit me!

ok ok ok people. First of all, not everyone is a Malcolm X or a Madea. Look first off, lets accept that within the African Diaspora we have personality types and characters of all types. Why are we really arguing about this when we all know on the real that we have all of these types of people in our community. The reality of the matter is that we need balance in the images of African-Americans portrayed in film. Also let's get something...

quote: Originally posted by Cholly: quote: Originally posted by EbonyRose: Oh yeah!! No 'coonery', 'baffonery', or 'exploitation' involved in THAT storyline, is there!?! ------------------------------------------------ Spike should have asked T. Perry to partcipitate in this project! Possible movie title: Madea: the life and times of a southern female pimp. You crazy! quote: Originally posted by Huey: ER, do you...

quote: Originally posted by EbonyRose: Oh yeah!! No 'coonery', 'baffonery', or 'exploitation' involved in THAT storyline, is there!?! ------------------------------------------------ Spike should have asked T. Perry to partcipitate in this project! Possible movie title: Madea: the life and times of a southern female pimp.

It's amazing to see posts bashing Spike Lee's movies to defend Tyler Perry. Spike Lee is a trailblazing pioneer, both in opportunities for black film and in the kinds of movies he's made. Tyler Perry figured out a way to turn the chitlin' circuit into an empire, and while I can respect his accomplishments (for the reasons I pointed out earlier), filmicly it's still the chitlin' circuit. There are those of us who...

quote: Originally posted by James Wesley Chester: I think I see what Spike Lee is trying to say, but,... I think Spike Lee is wrong. The behavior Spike Lee is characterizing has no redeeming features...,except it gives African Americans a job. Slavery did that. There societal value in all of the film work by Tyler Perry...that I have seen. The same is true of the work of Spike Lee. Much of Spike Lee's work contains 'detested...

What character has Spike presented/rendered that matches the buffoonery of Madea? Can you imagine Tyler Perry doing Malcolm X?---kresge I didn't say Lee's work 'matched' Perry's. I did say Lee's work has embarrassed me. As for 'Malcolm X', I don't want to see that treated in a comedy. I wouldn't want to see a production of 'Malcolm X' by Freeman Gosden and Charles...

I think Spike has more than a little point. Why does Hollywood "green light" all of TP's shows? And how does TP square Madea w/ Deuteronomy 22:5 "The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God." I think TP's films are gross (movies full of rape, incest, domestic violence, STD's, et al) and...

....It is ACT_ ing Right??? Spoke didn't have to do that Geraldine and Ali - A CLASSIC!!