An actor I admire

For this blog, I want like to research Tyler Perry. He is my favorite Playwright. He is also a producer, director and actor. I really admire this person for all of his hard work. He has become the one of Hollywood high pay males in the movie industry. He has over $50 million from writing and producing plays for the urban theater circuit. Tyler Perry was born on September 13, 1969, in New Orleans, Louisiana. His birth name is Emmitt Perry Jr. He is one of four children, during his early childhood he had a difficulty from his father. His father would always beat him for no apparent reason. At the age of ten, his friend’s mother molested him. With all abuse he received, he tried an attempt to comment suicide. Just to escape the torment of his father abusive beating. His father would always say or do things to him. His father would always discourage him. He stated that he would hear these voices inside of his head saying, “That’s not true” or, “Don’t believe that” or, “You’re going to make it through this”. He said that at the time he never knew what the voices were, he taught was going crazy. Now at the age of forty he now realizes that the voices were an act of God. The voices always gave him comfort. In his teenage years, Emmitt Perry Jr. decides to change his name, in efforts to get always from his father. He stated that because as a child his father would always be physically and mentally abusive towards him. He could not keep his father's name because Tyler did not want to be anything like him. That is why he changed his name from Emmitt Jr. to Tyler.
Tyler Perry contributes to the movie industry through the use of his plays. Perry never completed high school but he did earn his GED. His plays were mostly based from the journal he kept. This is how he would share his stories. His first play was called I know I’ve Been Changed. Through this play is how he started his playwright career. In 1992, his first play did not make a lot of money. He also tried to host the shows in other cites but had little success. He after all has attempts he want broke. He had no money to his name. Tyler had become a homeless man he eventually started to live in his car. He yet tried again to promote his play in 1998. In Atlanta, he went out and rented the House of Blues for another production of I’ve Been Changed. This time around, he has successfully won the hearts of the audience. Now he is a millionaire with a lot of respect from the black community. One of his most remarkable characters Perry use in his plays in the character Madea. He will dress up as this loud, aggressive old woman.



A traditonally African-American portmanteau for "Mother Dear," and, more famously, an alias of Mabel Simmons, a fictional character created by Tyler Perry who, although she is an elderly grandmother, carries at least five guns in her black handbag at all times, smokes copious amounts of marijuana, and causes bodily harm to/murders people when they upset her. Her most notable catch phrase is "I ain't afraid of the po-po!"



What I find appealing about his works is how he struggle through hardships to get to what he is now today. Because of the success he had in his plays he later corporate that idea into movies. His first film adaption was Diary of a Mad Black Woman. This movie was a big hit. It gross revenue was $50,652,203. In all of his movies, Tyler Perry will always have a role player that is an African American female. This character is usually in a life struggle against their husband or boyfriend. Toward the end of the story, the female character will find a new man that believes in her and loves her. In all his stories, there is always a message that is being spread across. This is why I admire this playwright/ artist very much. Because after watching his movies I will always have that feeling of happiness from the lesson, I learn. I can sometimes relate to Tyler Perry because I grew up in a poor neighborhood back in my early school years. I would always have a hard time going to school with the fear of always thinking I will get shot on the way to school.



After taking this theatre course I have came to realize that all of Tyler Perry's is a broadway. During his play they will often by a musical involve. like I said before I admire Perry's work because his stories is based on real life scenarios. His stories will often give a message that teaches you what goes on in everyday life.