Tyler Perry’s secret to success is his ability to “involve” others!

I read an article that posed a question in regard to the current film that Perry is promoting.  “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf” is the first movie from Perry’s 34th Street Films production company, which is distributed by Lionsgate. The project is an adaptation of the acclaimed Ntozake Shange play and serves as Perry’s directorial debut. “For Colored Girls” is also significant because it serves as Perry’s first time adapting another playwright’s work. The article asks its readers if this film will win Tyler any respect. Lets allow ourselves to reflect on this question....

The article can be found at:
Cummings, Jozen. (2010, Sept. 16). Re: ‘For Colored Girls’ Trailer: Will the Movie Win Tyler Perry Any Respect?  Retrieved Oct. 2, 2010 from wsj.com.
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/09/16/for-colored-girls-trailer-will-the-movie-win-tyler-perry-any-respect/.

Perry’s work on screen serves as a spiritual medium to help shape cultural consciousness.  His actions to relay a positive spiritual message serves as the birth to a new era of film making. A new era of incorporating the church, a lesson, a moral decision, some type of climatic martyr to emotionally involve his audience. The greatest blessing that Perry has as a writer and film maker is his ability to involve others to help them relate to whats happening on and off screen. Ask yourself can a person with this work ethic and talent ever lose?

His reputation, connections, relationships with people also his incredible relationship with studios and in the film industry allow him these opportunities. With two sitcoms (House of Payne and Meet the Browns), airing concurrently on TBS, Perry has also been on the road doing broadway shows while casting for the film, “For Colored Girls.”  This dramatic project is yet another piece which allows Perry a stage to give battered, broken women a voice.

Directing an all-star cast of black actresses, which includes Whoopi Goldberg, Phylicia Rashad, Janet Jackson, Anika Noni Rose, Kerry Washington, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise, Macy Gray, and Loretta Devine. Perry's work ethic shows that team work is an important quality to have. Without having effective abilities to work in a team, Perry wouldn’t have been allowed to work on so many projects. The truth is that Perry allows forms of creative expression to be exploited in his films. Offering music and spiritual themes to be included in all his projects.

In Madea’s Family Reunion there was the message that the elders gave to the younger generation as they danced and gambled not truly appreciating being in the presence of family. In I Can Do Bad All by myself there were several scenes where characters break out in song and where a preacher and his congregation relate to provide testimony of the events and trials that took place in the film. In Meet the Browns, Why did I get Married, Diary of a Mad Black woman, The family that preys, Daddy’s little girls, etc., there were life lessons to be learned. Of all the effective ways to get audience participation and include positive themes Perry has mastered the power of offering people something that they need to hear. It seems as if Hollywood is following Perry. He has a dedicated audience of church goers who support him by going to theatre’s in record numbers. They Load their church and community buses to go out and support him.  

A film maker with Perry’s resume must have the ability to effectively communicate with clients, investors and effectively manage to work with people and get his vision across to the rest of the team. Lack of team work wouldn’t allow Perry to be as successful as he is and he wouldn’t have such a rewarding reputation in hollywood.