Friday, March 04, 2005
Diary of a Mad Black Woman
If you can believe it, I have been working on typing this post since Tuesday morning. THAT's what kind of week it's been. BUSY!!! BUT, I really wanted to put this up here, so ... here goes:
First of all, I'll start by saying that I haven't even seen the movie yet. But I am TOTALLY going to go ... as soon as my schedule will allow! I want to hear from any of you about the latest that you've heard or seen of Diary of a Mad Black Woman. It was #1 in the theaters last weekend.
Now, with that potential misconception put out there at the very beginning of this blog, let me tell you that Tyler Perry ROCKS!! I saw Madea's Family Reuniona few weeks ago. That was my first Tyler Perry experience.
I have to tell you this. When I saw the DVD cover for Madea's Family Reunion back a few weeks ago, I was CONVINCED that I would HATE the movie. I tell you this because you may be looking at the previews for Diary of a Mad Black Woman, and you might be thinking that it's just NOT your type of movie. Please give it a chance!!
I loved (LOVED!) Madea's Family Reunion. So, I borrowed the DVD for Madea's Class Reunion and finally had a chance to watch it on Monday (our snow day off of school) evening. I liked the Class Reunion even a little bit better than Family Reunion, because he does more impressions of scenes from The Color Purple, one of my all-time favorite, I-could-watch-it-again-and-again movies!!
Just so that you know, the character named Madea IS Tyler Perry. He often plays two or three characters in a show. Madea is this 60-something grandmother person who has QUITE a personality. She's SOOO funny!! This is a picture of Tyler in costume as Madea.
Now, the only thing that I am wondering about is this: All of the Tyler Perry DVD's that are out are actually videos made from stage plays that he has produced and taken on tour. This man does improv like most of us breathe. When he is on stage, he frequently takes the entire story in a different direction by changing his lines and going off on some wild tangent (refer back to my Color Purple comment ... he often starts with a Celie or Sophia quote and goes from there!) You can often tell that the other actors on the stage with him are at a loss as to what to say next because he has eliminated the appropriateness of their next line. They often have a difficult time holding in their laughter!! Well ... in the movie version of Diary of a Mad Black Woman, I can't imagine that aspect of his work to be so obvious. I'll have to wait and see.
So - all this to say that I can't WAIT to go see Diary of a Mad Black Woman, and I can already tell you that I recommend it to you, too!!
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