Abigail Brown
Professor Morrison
April 14th, 2011

Diary Of a Mad Black Woman and Family Reunion tow movies that hit top charts. Tyler Perry has directed and starred in his own movies ranging from romance to comedy. He comes from every aspect, he isn’t afraid to do what other directors are afraid, deep heart felt movies about love and how forgiveness can change a lot. From he started in 1992 when he saved us his little twelve thousand dollars only thirty people came out to his show, but look what determination and focus can bring you. He is a mutli-millionaire now. So far he has written, directed and starred in eleven of his movies and counting, I never get tired of this movies they bring such a change each and every time.
His plots were catchy but he changes them up from time to time, so when you think you got he switches it up on you. He goes for all audiences young and old. Diary of a mad black woman was very dramatic and in every way full of laughter and family reunion the same way he does so well with storytelling showing you from the beginning to the end.

Diary of a Mad Black woman started off with the happiness in the beginning and showing how loving they are, he basically narrated the first part, then he shows the truth. I would think that this man has been married to a bunch of different woman and they all broke his heart or something because of the way he writes and directs as it if was him. When her husband literally drags her out of the house by her feet kicking and screaming, it is amazing when a director can capture that raw emotion of the screen and make you feel it. I like the camera angles that he uses, when the door was shut in her face and she banged on the door, then she walked down the steps, he took from far away and then brought it up close. He captured Shemar Moore’s emotion by the u-haul truck and then just switched back to her screaming at the door.

Even when actor Kimberly Elise kicked him out of the vehicle, she drove off by herself crying angrily in the night air. Tyler uses so much different emotion in his movies because after she gets to her grandmother’s house, it switches from angry emotions to pure humor. One thing Tyler can bring to this audience is laughter. Madea, who is Tyler himself change the whole mood of the situation.

Family Reunion was the same bitter sweet combo, in this film he used a lot of similar things that he uses in most of his movies. This movie had more plots and a lot more difficult scenes a whole lot more emotion. Here he used himself so much in this film he played as Madea her brother, and the nephew which I believe is a lot to take on in a movie roll. In court where it is supposed to be serious he had laugher coming out of every scene. Taking in the troubled teenager Tyler, showed what love can do to people it is amazing how we can change people’s life. He has this amazing movie still where he gets everybody in the same place ,when they were in the car driving home from the court house Tyler acting as the lawyer also as his mother he was sitting next to himself having a great conversation. He is an amazing actor for that. His style is so sleek and different; I believe that is why he is so successful today. You have to brilliant and talented to do what he has done to the film making business.

In both these movie he used the same kinds of angle when it came to the camera, I love it so much. In family reunion when the girl was about to leave her husband because he kept beating her in the middle of the night, I love how the suspense builds up where she is looking for her clothes and trying to put them on and watch for him at the same time till she got too into putting on the clothes then she looked around and there he was sitting up in the bed, then Tyler has her flash back to all the other times he has beaten her over and over again, and what seemed to be a calm scene changed drastically to crying and screaming.

Just the same in family reunion when he husband was putting his wife out for little mistress, the wife screamed and carried on, but when she got to her grandmother’s house that quickly changed as Tyler carry a lot of humor in his movies. He likes to go back and pay with the time line in his movies. As a director you have to know your target audience and he does so great because he goes from young to old, he targets everyone. I can guarantee plenty of people can relate to his movies because we are from all different walks of life and being able to relate and understand each other is what makes us humane. That is one of the reasons I respect him as a director he can take both our life stories and throw them together showing the good, the bad, and the ugly but I’m sure when it is finished I understand you a little more. I appreciate movies that show life, sometimes we feel our life is so hard and horrible yet there are others that have much worse. Tyler takes that to show and teach everyone a lesson. Something happened to me as a young girl growing and trust me I hated my father and my step brother for years simply because my father believed me and watching his film taught me to forgive and let go of things, I’m bitter with him but guess what he is fine living his life. Tyler’s movies always teach a lesson he uses humor and every recipe on the book but at the end of the movie trust me you will learn something. Diary of a mad black woman was more for adults yet a child could watch because he opened up the audience adding more humor and lessons that a younger generation could learn from and understand as well. He uses a point of view for both stories, we as a audience saw each person from every angle. Family Reunion for adults but he widened the range as well that the younger generation is able to view the movie and understand as well. All together he is a great director, His movies are viewable for all audiences and has a lot of emotion, humor and realness after all the gory movies we need something that realness and that what Tyler Perry brings us