Take one down-on-her-luck heroine around which the rest of the film’s characters will be united. You have three options:
- Wealthy with a disrespectful male partner
- Career-driven and single
- Poor single mother
Under no circumstances can you mix elements of each category: this shows the audience that money does not equal happiness.
If you chose option one you now have a choice to make the heroine:
- End the movie single and happy.
- End the movie with a man who is of a lower socioeconomic class, but good.
If you chose option two you have an easy decision:
- The heroine meets a man of lower socioeconomic class (bonus points for children) and learns the real priorities of life.
If you chose option three you have more choices:
- Give the heroine an achievement (business, school, etc.) that shows she will not need to rely on a man for the rest of her life.
- Send the heroine a man of similar socioeconomic class to teach her that she is worth the love he has to give.
Add Madea. She can take the form of great-aunt to the heroine, odd neighbor who ultimately wants the heroine to succeed, or accomplice (in option one) to throwing hot grits in the wealthy-but-abusive man’s face.
Finishing touches to your movie can include cameos by Maya Angelou, the acting debut of young R&B heartthrob who also appears on the soundtrack, and Oprah’s arrival at your film’s premier.
Congratulations! You now have your very own Tyler Perry movie.
Everyone of us have a story to tell its just the type and manor in which we would choose to tell. I was a young adopted color girl who in 1986 got pregnant by a well known principal son who just happen to be white. The struggles and the hardships i suffered didnt just begin with a pregnancy but also finding out that i was adopted. All these events shaped my life and the person that i am now.