Being wealthy does not mean you are:

• smart
• business savvy
• better than anyone else

Tyler Perry is very open and honest about one thing when it comes to his movies. This is his quote. I super serve my base.

He knows exactly who likes his movies and what they like and he makes movies for them. He doesn’t give a fuck his words about what anyone outside of his base audience thinks of his products.

I think his movies are shit, but I am not in his base audience clearly neither are you

Now, with all that said , there has never been a correlation between the quality of a movie and it’s financial success. yes many great movies are financially successful but pulling numbers out of my ass 10 times that terrible movies are equally financially successful.

Also, a lot of making money in movies is about understanding the finances and business of making movies. Perry has mastered the ecosystem of movie sales.

Tyler Perry does not need anyone else’s validation for his work.

/places microphone back on mic stand

Filmmaking works best as a collaborative medium.

When one guy is in charge of the film and everybody working with them is so in awe of them (or financially beholden to them) that they’re afraid to say no, afraid to tell him his ideas are dumb … then his dumb ideas will make it into the film and make it worse.

You also often see it with really big-name directors. Their early films are amazing, but once they have their huge reputation and people are afraid to push back on their bad ideas, their later films can end up being bad, or at least weird.

Tyler Perry is very savvy and knows what works and what doesn’t work.

His movies aren’t made for you. They are made for a specific niche who consumes Perry’s movies no matter what.

Perry doesn’t care if the public at large thinks his movies is bad. All he cares about is catering to his niche.

Please invest in reading www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-anatomy-of-genres … & then see movies through new eyes, “eyes to see”.

You’ll be astonished at how high a percentage of movies are bad, once one understands what he’s giving, in that, about the 14 genres that the West has anchored on, & why each genre concentrates only on 1 specific dimension of human-meaning.

( & that was the genius of Star Wars: it included multiple-genres of stuff into its Space Western genre, which it created, from scratch )

Truby’s other book, “The Anatomy of Story” is also required for anybody wanting to make story work properly.

People who won’t learn from the best-of-the-best, never reach their true-potential, because they’re hobbling their leverage.

Ego consistently hobbles leverage, in order to assert that it didn’t “need” any other.

That’s like ignoring math, while designing aircraft: incompetent.

Stand on the heads of giants, & reach farther into the “sky” of our potential.

Those 2 books ought be required-reading in highschool.

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There is an extremely thorough (and long) video on this topic. I didn’t think I’d finish it or even watch half when I clicked it, but this guy is very informative and presents the info in a straightforward yet engaging way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpgqWZyAJtM

If you still noped out on that runtime, here is my less professional summary:

Ultimately it is about the race to the bottom of enshittification that we are experiencing in all aspects of life, and “art” transforming into “content” is chief among them. Perry’s built in audience is huge, yet one that is practically never pandered to: conservative black women. He’s not even particularly good at this and the way he does it is problematic, but it’s enough that he is attempting at all. His rise to being ridiculously OP and successful is propped up by black excellence truthers even though they may or may not actually like his content. He has spun his truly impressive success into deals with streaming services and deteriorated from mediocre to literal slop that rapidly produces enough episodes to get into syndication immediately, because the deals are signed for 100 episodes. Since he writes, directs, produces, and often acts in all these projects, and because the unknown actors do not grt a chance over several years of popularity to renegotiate their contracts even if thr show gets popular, he takes the lion’s share of the profits. 2 lion’s shares really.

He also makes some fascinating points about how he…kinda CAN’T get more deep with it. To start looking deeper about the topics he discusses would entail stripping away the patriarchy of the black Christian church, or to point a finger towards the societal problems and cycles of abuse that cause the villains of his stories (usually black men) to act the way they do. And as a true believer in capitalism, he can’t do that. Making his characters deeper may requirw addressing the ways that he’s a queer man one way or another, whether he’s gay, gender fluid, or both, which he can’t do as the church has a don’t ask don’t tell policy. So he’s stuck in a pretend world of bootstraps, one dimensional villains, and not just forgiving the cycles of abuse, but buying into it as a strength.

If even that is Tl; Dr: it’s the story of every other billionaire, really. He makes his money off of exploiting others. Usually young black people who are hungry for success. Just sucks that he can’t have empathy since he literally started from the bottom like the people he manipulates, unlike every other billionaire.