Tyler Perry Mastery

To become a common household name in any entertainment industry would be considered rewarding and a sense of accomplishment. In film, the idea of an audience member already knowing a directors “style” and there sense of direction, but wanting more in various genres, is a sense of mastery. A master is considered a well-rounded individual that has reached a strong knowing in their passion or field of study. In film, directors that have reached that intellect of mastery grow within themselves to continue that name by creating what they believe audiences want.
Tyler Perry, Director, writer, screenwriter, producer, and entrepreneur, has touched many lives from his heartwarming stage plays to his many films in diverse genres. Beginning in the
In his next play I Can Do Bad All By Myself, he introduced a legendary character named Madea, who is Perry dressed up as a woman. He went beyond what critiques and audiences might say about his character choices. Perry presented what the creative strategies described as serendipity: “the occurrence of something we are not expecting” (Greene 2012). Perry presented Madea as a character that audiences can relate to. This strategy opened many opportunities to more sold out plays and venues that help transition him into movies. This risk began a booming epidemic for many filmmakers in going out of their comfort zone in creating
Coltrane would feel self-conscious and would learn other solo artists’ style so that when he had to perform, he knew what to do to please his audiences. This made him feel uncomfortable and created “some problems in his work” (Greene 2012). Since Coltrane wanted to please his audiences, his way of what there perception of Jazz was not working in his favor. When he moved and worked with other audiences until he started his own band, his work soared into greatness. Perry wanted to please audiences with his plays; however, some didn’t have as much attraction as others. With this, his way of how audiences would react to plays was not working for him, so he began to edit some of his plays in a way that he knew was great and that fit his personal style. They both had the mindset of not letting the what-if’s affect their work, when in the beginning of their careers it did. In the end, they both became revolutionary in their time and changed the outlook of their passions into reality, which made them