Tyler Perry is back with Madea and a host of others for yet another stage play about some 'serious' familial issue. At this point, I am getting a little sick and tired of Madea. Back in high school, Madea was funny. I used to go to the plays, watch the bootlegs and laugh until my stomach felt it was going to crumble. But that was a good 8-10 years ago and as of right now, I am losing all interest for Madea. She/He makes me chuckle at times but really, this woman must be stopped.
Now, as far as I know, Mr. Perry retired Madea. He was done with that character and vowed to move on and do other things. But then suddenly, Madea returned, to my dismay, and I have all of you to blame. It's all your fault.
Tyler brought that fiasco of a woman back because you, the viewing audience wanted her back. I could go on and on about what Mr. Perry is doing to his community by keeping this woman alive but what's the point? Instead of the focus being on Tyler Perry, it should be on all of you church going, pork chop eating, sin Monday-Saturday and repent on Sunday being, laugh 'till you pass out people out there who prefer a man dressed as a weed smoking gun toting woman flaunting across you local playhouse stage in hysterics rather than something real and substantial to watch for entertainment.
I honestly thought about going to see Mr. Perry's new play Madea's Big Happy Family. I heard that it was a good play with an even better message. I can bet that the message was worthwhile but I really doubt that the play was all that good….but I could be wrong. Anyway, the main reasons why I did not go to see the play are;
a. I was in the nail salon getting my regular 2 week fill and was bombarded with conversation about the play. Either the women in the salon had already saw it or they were going to see it that weekend (hence the reason that they were in the nail salon). There was a woman in the salon who started a brief conversation with me. It went a little something like this:
Woman: "Have you seen the play yet?"
Me: "No."
Woman smiles and asks, "So you're going to see it this weekend?"
Me: "No."
Woman shakes head and says, "Yeah, I heard it sold out. You had to get tickets early."
I smile and respond, "No, I didn't try to get tickets. I didn't want to see the play. Madea is getting on my nerves."
The way that woman (and about 6 other ladies) looked at me after that statement, you would've though I cursed Jesus Christ himself. She turned away from me and began whispering to the woman next to her. Conversation over.
b. Tyler Perry is set to direct the upcoming film For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Committing Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf. A man that is to direct a movie based upon the play For Colored Girls cannot be a gallivanting across a stage dressed as a crazed woman. He just can't. In my mind's eye I refuse to believe that such a man, one who is going to turn the wonderful and meaningful stage play For Colored Girls into a motion picture film, can be the insanely dramatic and tongue twisted Madea. Nope, I won't believe it. And as long as I do not go to see any more plays with Madea in them, I can begin to erase that scary image from my memory.
See I like the movies Why Did I Get Married, Daddy's Little Girls, Why Did I Get Married Too, The Family That Preys, etc, etc. I can even enjoy some of the movies that have Madea's character in them such as Diary of a Mad Black Woman and I Can Do Bad All By Myself. In general, I have certain reservations about Tyler Perry but I respect him and his work. I just don't understand how people can still be so gung ho about this Madea character. Let the woman rest. She was funny for a time but now we must let go and let the new workings of Tyler Perry live.
For some reason, the black community needs Madea. We keep watching recordings of the play and laughing as if we have never seen them before. We show them to our children and teach them to find humor in Madea's shenanigans. We just can't move past this woman. And while we are stuck in Madea mode, our children are failing in school, our people are becoming more and more over weight, the intelligence level of our community is dropping lower and lower, our men are becoming more misogynistic than ever, etc. What, if anything, is Madea doing to positively change the black community where we need change the most? Why can't we let this woman rest and let Tyler Perry mature and do the work that we need him to do? What is the deal with Madea anyway? What do you think?
*I really know very little about the play except that Madea is in it...so there is a big chance that the play is fantastic and worthy of a Broadway run (even though I doubt it). To me, this play gives Tyler the oppurtunity to make yet another movie with Madea in it....OH NO!
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