Maxines Baby The Tyler Perry Story Trailer

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This documentary film entails the success story and life of iconic movie actor and director Tyler Perry.
Transcript
00:00 What filmmaker has had five movies open number one
00:02 of the box office in the last four years?
00:04 Spielberg, Tarantino, Scorsese?
00:08 No, this record belongs to Tyler Perry.
00:11 How do you feel right now, sir?
00:12 - My problem, a lot of things in life
00:13 is I float above it.
00:14 That's just from childhood, that's from abuse.
00:16 So every moment, it's like, you're okay, you're safe.
00:18 It's just emotion, it's just feeling, it's love.
00:21 - Emmett Perry Jr. was his birth name.
00:26 He changed the name to Tyler Perry
00:27 because he had an estranged relationship with his dad.
00:31 - I just could not understand how this man could look at me
00:33 and hate me with such passion.
00:36 - He had some horrific experiences
00:38 that ultimately led to the characters he created
00:41 and the imagination that he had.
00:43 - We were so broke, we used to share burgers
00:47 and talk about these great dreams that he had.
00:50 - As all these people tell me what I would never be,
00:53 nobody said what I could be.
00:56 - The thing that's amazing about Tyler
00:58 is he broke every rule.
01:00 - A studio executive said to him,
01:01 "Black people don't go to the movies."
01:03 They were just wrong on every count when it came to Tyler.
01:06 - Tyler was making hit after hit
01:09 and finally people had to wake up.
01:12 - My mother said, "Don't you ever let anybody
01:14 "tell you who you are, you know who you are."
01:16 - I can't watch it without cringing.
01:18 - I think you crossed the line.
01:20 - What I will not do is change
01:22 because some critics think it's not art.
01:25 (dramatic music)
01:27 - Do not play him small because he is not just
01:30 some lucky Negro turned black man.
01:33 There was no denying the talent and the power of Tyler Perry.
01:38 - He paid attention to an audience that people ignored.
01:41 - Raise up Tyler Perry, rise up!
01:45 - In the middle of all of this success,
01:47 I'm dealing with my mother slowly dying.
01:49 I couldn't find my way out of it.
01:53 - Everything that went wrong in your life
01:56 is what made everything go right.
01:58 - For this moment to happen for me
02:02 is beyond anything I could have ever imagined.
02:04 - He was resilient.
02:07 He fought the demons, the dream snatchers, the haters.
02:12 People saying, "You're not gonna become."
02:13 I have to become.
02:14 And he became.
02:17 - Tyler, I just wanna tell you how blessed I am
02:21 to have a son like you.
02:23 (dramatic music)
02:26 [MUSIC PLAYING]