Coastal Leadership Academy
Tyler Perry
Company success and biography
Madelynn Guistwite
Leadership 1
George Groff
January 11, 2017
Madelynn Guistwite
Mr.Groff
Leadership
09 January 2017
Tyler Perry
“I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on your with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement.” Tyler Perry was born on September 13, 1969, in New Orleans, Louisiana. When Perry was a child he suffered from abuse at the hands of his father. The abuse got so bad that at one point Tyler tried to commit suicide to escape the abuse of his father. At the age of 16 Perry changed his name from Emmitt Perry Jr. to Tyler Perry. He also dropped out of high school to later earn
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Perry based the character off his mother and other women in his life at the time. He even plays the character himself while he dresses in drag. “What i found in plays is that this character-as irreverent as she is-is very disarming. She makes you very comfortable”
“So what if i’ve used her as is as a tool to get people to laugh and relax so that i can talk about god, talk about faith, mention the name Jesus in my films. And it has worked; it’s served its purpose very well. i’ve seen lots of people who don’t go to church, who have no concept of god, who have never really thought about it, begin to change their lives because of something that was said in the film or something the character invited them to see.”
Tyler Perry’s film I can do Bad all by Myself shows a role of family as well as faith. “April ignores the needs of her niece and nephews, Sandino gives his love and support to them, as if they were his own flesh and blood.” Many films by Perry cover family issues and always has a lesson to be learned. He wants the take away to be
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With all good for films there comes the bad. Perry has been criticized since he started working. he creates films with all African American casts. and in his recent works he has created at television series Too Close to home. This show unlike the rest of his work has an all white cast. Tyler Perry has been criticized for years by not having white actors as main characters in his cast. However he is now being criticized for having an all white cast. Many critics say that Perry’s movies prove stereotypes correct in his movies. Todd Boyd says”Perry’s productions demonize educated, successful African