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Lights camera action! Film today is a great way for stories to be told, that’s why I chose to take up digital filmmaking and video production as my major. The professional I chose to talk about and who has a huge impact in the filmmaking business is Tyler Perry. We will talk about his early life to get a good understanding to what made him the man he is today. We will also talk about his success and how it affected not only him but the world. Finally, we will talk about what he accomplished outside of the filmmaking business. Mr. Perry had a rough upbringing and suffered abuse by his father. He was born Emmitt Perry Jr. on September 13, 1969, in New Orleans. He had three siblings and was abused by his father for years. Mr. Perry once said …show more content…

He was abused so bad that, he attempted to commit suicide to escape his difficult situation. When Mr. Perry was sixteen he changed his last name to Tyler to separate himself from his father. He even dropped out of high school, but he eventually went back and got his general equivalency diploma, or GED. He went through a lot of jobs before he found his passion for writing. He started to write letters to himself about his difficult experiences. Later, these same letters became the basis for his paly I KNOW I’VE BEEN CHANGED. The show talked about child abuse and forgiveness. Mr. Perry always used forgiveness as a theme for all his projects, to represent his Christian faith. The show only lasted for a weekend and drew in about 30 people. He had saved up $12,000 to debut the show, he directed, produced, and starred in. The show was performed in an Atlanta theater in 1992. He invested everything into the show for it to turn into a flop. He never gave up on his passion so he tried other cities and it turned out the same. Mr. Perry was broke and worked odd jobs to continue his passion. Through all this Mr. Perry was homeless living out of his car for a while. Mr. Perry is six-foot-five and he was sleeping in a Geo …show more content…

Perry had an excellent acting career as well. In his 2000 play he brought out the his most famous character Madea she appeared in I CAN DO BAD ALL BY MYSELF. Madea was based of Tyler Perry mother and several other mature women in his life. Madea was a woman who took no bull crap from nobody and who was always packing. Mr. Perry played the iconic character himself. He would wear a long drag dress and a gray short wig. He also created a character who he played himself called joe. This character was based of Mr. Perry father. Joe was just like how Mr. Perry described his father a man who answer to everything was to be it out of you, even though he made joe a funny and iconic character he made sure to have that similarity there. In 2005 35,000 people seen his show according to his website. His character Madea created a huge following. Making in appearances in several of his plays. Including some of his biggest production Madea’s Family Reunion (2002) and Madea’s Class Reunion

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