When it comes to the best war films out there, plenty of popular titles come to mind. Maybe you think of Saving Private Ryan or Dunkirk or many of those other movies that take you right into the middle of the action. However, new 2024 release The Six Triple Eight tells a different war story that most haven’t heard before. I wanted to know more about why the movie was chosen by director Tyler Perry, and he graciously shared with me what he wants people to talk away from his dramatic WWII film.
The latest film from director Tyler Perry to hit the Netflix schedule tells the story of the only Women's Army Corps unit of color during the Second World War and how these women contributed to the war effort by sorting through seventeen million pieces of mail that hadn’t been delivered to soldiers on the frontline or to their families back home. Wild right? So, when I had the chance to talk with Tyler Perry about the significance of this film and what he wants people who didn’t know about the 6888 to take away from it, his response was simple.
The latest film from director Tyler Perry to hit the Netflix schedule tells the story of the only Women's Army Corps unit of color during the Second World War and how these women contributed to the war effort by sorting through seventeen million pieces of mail that hadn’t been delivered to soldiers on the frontline or to their families back home. Wild right? So, when I had the chance to talk with Tyler Perry about the significance of this film and what he wants people who didn’t know about the 6888 to take away from it, his response was simple.
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00:00i almost wish the movie was longer so i could have seen the friendships formed for it and something that i really wanted to talk about was you know just for someone like me who didn't who had really no idea that this even existed wasn't really a history nerd but i i had just never been taught in school
00:16is what's what's the one thing that you want someone to get out of this film when they watch it just just to understand that there a lot there's a lot of different kinds of history that make up american history
00:26and it's all very important and all these stories matter every one of them they shouldn't be banned or brushed aside or not taught i think for little girls to know that 855 women were in world war ii
00:39little black girls little white girls i mean this speaks to the volume of the the value of what women can do so i think it's all important that we know that