Can we all get along? Tyler Perry and Spike Lee are at each other's throats again. Perry, whose latest installation in the "Madea" series is due to hit the silver screens in May, offered some tough words for his critics, specifically Spike Lee: "Spike can go straight to hell." Wow. Tough words. Quite frankly, I am a little sick of Madea now and it's time for Perry to bury her. She has overstayed her welcome.
Tyler Perry, director, writer and star of Madea's Big Happy Family and all of the films in the popular Madea series, offered some harsh words to his critics in the entertainment industry, in particular filmmaker Spike Lee. "I'm so sick of hearing about damn Spike Lee," Perry said during a press conference Tuesday in Beverly Hills, Calif. "Spike can go straight to hell! You can print that. I am sick of him talking about me, I am sick of him saying, ‘this is a coon, this is a buffoon.' I am sick of him talking about black people going to see movies. This is what he said: ‘you vote by what you see,' as if black people don't know what they want to see." Source
Seriously, I can't seem to picture Madea as anything but a buffoon. What about David Mann? He's the guy who always wear the brightly-colored clothes in his movies. I think in "Meet the Browns" he was one of Madea's baby daddies. That's in the tradition of "Sanford & Son," an era long gone. If Tyler Perry is getting so touchy about this, it simply means it's getting under his skin and there's some truth to Lee's assertions. Why not find the best in the black experience in this country and make a movie around it instead of treating us as the butt of jokes?
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