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  3. WHY DID I GET MARRIED reviewed by Movies That Move We + The New Color Purple

    in Culture, Race & Economy

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    MY THOUGHTS

     

    0:10 Jill scott's character in this film is well known, I have only seen two tyler perry films. One is with a black woman who is with a wife beater, and the other is with a black woman who is using a black man's marriage as a cover for her  mistresshood to a white man .  But it seems he likes to have an abused black woman by a black man. reminds me of "for colored girls"
    3:30 I don't think Zenobia shared why the relationship between jill scott's character and said character's husband bother's her so much. It is clearly negative but she wanted to say more i think
    4:15 Nike,  you found the relationship with the michael j white character side wife funny?
    10:00 Zenobia,  I don't exist in the circles where tyler perry films ar ebeing talked about alot, thanks for mentioning.
    12:05 why have the tyler perry films become more debated now in the espace circles, in either of your opinions?
    13:11 why did you show his image, the character that jill scott's character romances with? is he a hero or something?:) 
    14:49 do both movies explain why the guy who married jill scott 's character marry her in the first place? I don't comprehend based on what you guys said, why he married her, did she  have the body of tyra banks or sade or kerry washington when they married?
    21:17 red tomato:) rotten tomato:) Nike your hilarious, Zenobia, was the second film spinned off unrealistic? 
    23:36 Is the formulaic way of Perry why his alex cross failed so much?
    28:10 all artist display their rearing or the reaction to their rearing in their work. it is inevitable. 
    30:32 Tyler Perry like SPike LEe like Robert Townsend, like the Wayans, like others before , all comprehend the industry and all have influenced it, But each have their own perspective based on their tribe in the village so to speak. the problem isn't that the black experience in the usa is complex, all black people or white people know this. but the black experience in media rarely reflects how complex it is. So black people who don't share another's experience call their ersion a falsehood or leser view, when it is merely a view from a different part of the black community.
    33:35 yes in europe theater was a place for only male thespians, in japanese kubuki as well, 
    35:57 tyler perry comprehended that many of the older  black thespians have followings in the black community or the white community of a certain age and supporting them provides a certain audience, especially of financially affluent blacks
    37:37 great job covering all three films.

    Enjoy the Winter season!

     

     

    THE NEW COLOR PURPLE

     

     

    Usually when people talk about films they go into a what do they think . I will ask more blunt questions. 

    After viewing the trailer for the new color purple, and after seeing the review of why did i get married from movies that move we...

    1) Discarding who produced the film, Would you finance the 2023 color purple film as it is?

    2) Discarding who produced the film, would you finance why did I get married/why did i get married 2? 

     

    Both of my answers to said questions is no. If I owned a studio and I had to give money to make the 2023 color purple or tyler perry's why did i get married produced, I would say no to both. Now comprehend, I gamble the 2023 color purple film will like its predecessor make a ton of money. The original color purple film had a budget of fifteen million and make ninety eight million so black film goers loved the film and I expect them to love the musical with its cast. As for Why did I get married, the first movie i did not find the budget but it made fifty five million. While why did i get married too had a budget of twenty million and made sixty million. 

     

    Now knowing the financial history, I ask if you owned a movie studio and were needed for the films

    1) Discarding the financial profitability of the color purple films plus assuming you knew the profitability, Would you finance the 2023 color purple film as it is?

    2) Discarding the financial profitability of the why did i get marrieds plus assuming you knew the profitability, would you finance why did I get married/why did i get married 2? 

     

    Both of my answers to said questions is no. If I owned a studio and even if I knew these movies will be financially profitable and was needed to get these movies made,  I still will not produce them. 

     

    why this line of thinking? In discussing the preacher's wife I realized something is lacking in discourse in the arts. The owner. Too often people talk about liking a film in the mindset of the customer controls. but the customer doesn't control. The owner controls. No film studio produces all sorts of films, stories. That isn't wrong, that merely shows acceptable bias based on ownership taste. So in the same context, I feel for now the question is not whether I like a film but whether I will put money to a film if I was needed for it to be made. Answering that question reveals the truth about the customer more than the customer question which is foolhardy cause  customers have varying tastes and if enough customers like a movie/theater production/book or some art, it will be financially a success, regardless to those that don't like it. 

     

    MY REASONS... in a nutshell

    My top five movies answer explains my reasoning well but I  will be explicit. The color purple is not the kind of story I want to see based on the time period.  The why did I get married's black marital situations I don't want to finance. 

     

    TOP FIVE MOVIES I WILL PRODUCE

    https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10653-the-upside-from-movies-that-move-we/?do=findComment&comment=64110

     

    some more film discussion

     

    https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10681-the-preachers-wife-review-from-movies-that-move-we/

     

  8. The Jewish Literary Mafia

    in Black Literature

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    @Troy Me neither and if any of said people tried to do something about it, it failed or at least didn't result in a goal of reducing white jewish communal power in the literary industry of the usa. If any of said people didn't try then they are doing one of the problems with many strategems. The people who utter them or preach them or... prosyletize them to others, didn't actually live them or execute them. Unwillingness to lead by example is one of the saddest diseases among humans. 

  11. Agree or Disagree?

    in Culture, Race & Economy

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    @Cynique

    many opined when a female will state something:) 

     

    I enjoyed the following 

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     She doesn't necessarily need the verbal BS or the perspiration-tinged smell of stale cologne to arouse her. 

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      In the future Artificial intelligence may even become a factor, rearing its ugly head, making things hard.  😜

    funny

     

    The thing that inspired me to post was all the positions [ not needing a man, male inability, the greatness of sex toys] were stated by the women in the video. 

     

  13. The role of black literature in the 21st century

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    @aMhayes I think many black writers have, the problem is getting those black visions of black history into the possession of black youth. I was lucky, my parents made sure I didn't need any white created media. I Didn't and don't need disney/hollywood film studios/tv shows. but most black people growing up have no black artistic cultural base, so it takes college or later for them to actually be exposed to the wide black culture from the british colonies or the usa from them. 

  14. Horror roundtable

    in Black Literature

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    Some times I thought had good points

    21:15 thanks for the point on simplicity with advertising, a good hook
    25:40 thanks for the marketing for a team of writers
    29:50 nice admittance to the basics
    34:50 bookfunnel [ https://bookfunnel.com/ ]
    40:23 let world building unfold when you are a character driven writer
    47:10 watch out for the flow of fear in horror
    48:17 what is in the dark is the key, the unknown,all concur
    50:35 nothing is unsolvable
    51:15 for writing teams you need to know when to moveon for the best of the team
    54:30 you want to go where your readers are, and your readers are everywhere. . . what do they want from me and how can my books be seen
     

     

     

  16. The Preacher's Wife review from Movies that Move we

    in Culture, Race & Economy

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    @Pioneer1 he was thinking it will be a hit. It makes sense to me. .. the sad thing about the film business is most films earn less than what is made to make them, this is a historical fact.  Second, the competition matters in the film buisness. any film that came out during episodes  7/8/9 oepning weeks of star wars got hammered. 

     

    PReacher's wife came out in 1996. December, who came out around the same time. 

    Jerry maguire came out before. mars attakcs. I can see how preacher's wife was ok but then scream came out five days later. that probably was the killer. Many black people love horror movies. So, the white audience just got finished with jerry maguire which is a romance. And then scream 1 came out and that drained many others. so I Can see how preacher's wife was hurt. 

    And lastly, Movies where the black ticket buyer comes out heavily in my memory: malcolm x which is a biography made triple its money /the lion king of disney / black panther of disney /girl's trip which is a comedy/get out which is a horror film/coming to america which is a comedy. I am probably missing something/posse which made  six times its money which is a western/new jack city made five times its money is a street crime film/waiting to exhale which made four times its money is a  drama but a collection of stories/... i can't recall a film centered around a black married couple being among the most ticket sold films involving black people. And I think you love the films of the 1970s, forgive me if it wasn't you but another, but in the 1970s, again, none of the films are marital dramas. Coffee/shaft/superfly/three the hard way / and others, none are marital dramas. so the black ticket buyer has yet to be given a black marital drama on its own that they are willing to go to the movies to see. So this film was a gamble based on black movie buyers habits and even with denzel washington + whitney houston it wasn't able to get black ticket buyers.

    And I will add cause film is a collective art project. 

    Maybe the casting was bad but I don't mean in terms of acting but how fanbases can have expectations on actors. I don't think the whitney houston or denzel washington fanbases like their placement. I wonder if denzel wasn't the hsuband and whitney the wife while courtney b vance was th eangel would this movie gone differently. Denzel at that itme is the black man who gets the girl so to speak and maybe the fact that he wasn't, had an negative effect onhis fanbase. when i saw him on stage side viola davis, even though troy is not the gentlest black man, black women enjoy him as the husband. I heard thigns from the audience. 

    Courtney b vance is in a lovely marriage from my vantage point to angela bassett, he is a nice looking guy right? but, the film legend of denzel is so great that myabe that choice, which i imagine denzel liked, to not get the girl , cost the film. 

    I have said it before baout the WIZ, if diana ross layed the good witch of the north and let stephanie mills be the dorothy on film, i think the wiz becomes a huge hit. I think black women/girls/females would had responded greater to a little black girl in such a big budgeted film, being utterly cute and loveable and pretty and the winner over a black grown women in her 40s pretending to be girlish. 

    casting matters and is usually underrated by many when they assess films, sometimes it can be that simple. 

     

  23. The inevitability of debt

    in Culture, Race & Economy

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    @frankster

    Well, I don't know the quantity but I am certain through the three letter organizations the usa has killed many throughout all humanity, in or outside the usa. That is force. 

     

    The roman empire's government was always one. The closest government i can think of to the roman empire in modernity is sudan's before their official split. Before Sudan split into two sudan,  they were two heads in one government, the southern head controlled the south and the northern head controlled the north but both were needed in all international affairs, they still had one embassy. Both sides were consulted by all outside governments. And the head of the south sudan or north sudan were not in the capitol.  THis was what happened in Rome. Rome split into a two headed government, sometimes four headed, but always one body. The parts of the body had their capitols everywhere but Rome, which degraded as a city even though it was still the official capitol. Nova Roma, is the name of constantinople by the roman people themselves. But the key is, Constantine ended the multiple parts, thus why he wanted a new capitol city representing this new restructuring. 

     

    Now why is the comparison you made false. Well, the usa is an offshoot of the british empire. The USA is like the visigothic empire or the holy roman empire of charlemagne. Which is an offshoot of the roman empire based in its northern colony germany. remember the franks came from the lands most call germany today. and germany was to the roman empire what the 13 colonies were to britain.

     

    Brasil has had four capitol cities while its government changed from a regal to a military junta to some form of elected official: salvador in bahia, rio de janeiro, sao paulo, brasilia. Each capitol change reflected a change in brasilian government in the same way nova roma represented a change in the roman empire's government.

    But, the government of the british empire was never going to be new york. 

     

    I agree 100% to you that the roman empire is dead, it died in my eyes when the last roman empire died fighting the city state of nova roma from the ottomans. But, the culture of the roman empire like most grand empires, outlast its existence. We see this in the british empire even now [ the love of english in modern humanity comes from the bitish empire who emphasized that]and it will be for the usa empire as well [all the governments with elected officials plus the international organizations will exist in the future in ways based on the usa's influence]. Empire's culture outlast empires.  I argue against you to where the roman empire lives on. In my view, all of europe mimicks the roman empire in various ways. To restate the roman empire lives on in all of europe, but it was very influential to every corner of europe, so it is warranted. Yes the vatican speaks the latin language of the roman empire. But I argue, Nova Roma , istanbul or constantinople, is the biggest reflection to what old rome looked like, a truly multiracial city. And istanbul is the most populated city in europe or at least is running an easy second. The parisian arrondissments is clearly an allusion to the roman city planning. 

     

    The vatican does have alot of banking activities but don't underestimate religion. I have seen things, the religious aspect of the roman catholic church matters to many. admittedly not me, but its more than just a bank. 

     

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