Thursday, August 20, 2009

I Want to be the Asian Tyler Perry

Everywhere I go, I see a new Tyler Perry movie (going straight to DVD) advertised in the streets of NYC. Today I saw a poster for this one...



If any of you don't know who Tyler Perry is.. here's a short description of him from wikipedia..

American playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, and producer of indie films and stage plays. His best-known character is "Madea", who is a physically imposing and overbearing but well-intentioned woman who serves both as comic relief and as the loud voice of conscience for the protagonists of Perry's works.


Anyway.. look at his resume.. he's written so many films. I mean, the titles alone are brilliant.

I Can Do Bad All by Myself (oh word?)
House of Payne (TV) (let me guess.. is the family's last name... Payne?)
The Family That Preys
Meet the Browns (TV)
Why Did I Get Married? (brilliant by the way. I think I fell in love with Kerry Washington)
Why Did I Get Married Too
Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Madea Goes to Jail
Madea's Family Reunion (are you seeing a trend here? This is like the next generation of Ernest movies)
Madea's Class Reunion

Just looking at those titles makes me wonder how this guy doesn't have Emmys or Oscars. An outrage I tell you.

So my friend Jamie and I have this ongoing movie idea. It's starting to cross along the lines of Joy Luck Club, Kentucky Fried Movie, and Black Hawk Down (ok maybe not this one) but it'll be brilliant I tell you. Brilliant!! Move over Titanic.

Anyway, if I was the asian Tyler Perry, you can expect such titles as..

House of Pei
I Can Do Submissive All by Myself
Diary of a Quiet Asian Man
Ming Goes to Chinese School Reunion
Why Did I Get Arranged

I can see it.. I would have a pool of beautiful asian actresses working with a limited and extremely rare asian male talent pool. Jin from LOST, I'm looking at you.

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