Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family and Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allow follows the theme of family. In a Tyler Perry film, the protagonist is a female, who’s going through life struggles, and in the end will learn from her mistakes. Most of those mistakes consist family drama. Same goes for Sirk’s All That Heaven Allow, family being a conflict of the protagonist finding true love. Each film has similarities and differences that centers on this theme and allow audience members to recognize realism within each character.
The similarities in both films comes from the perspective of mother and son conflict. In
Madea’s Big Happy Family, the protagonist Shirley, played by Loretta Devine, was acting and reacting to her son’s, Bryan played by Shad Morris, choice of getting back into the drug dealing game. Tyler Perry’s directional choices, when it came down to shot choices, were very in depth. During this scene with Shirley and Byron, there were close-up shots of their reaction, showing and delivering realism between a mother and son. This applies to Sirk’s All That Heaven Allow between Cary and Ned Scott. They had a distance relationship which lead to him …show more content…
The scene with Madea giving Shirley parental advice goes as the following “Madea: That's right, so if you've been redeemed by the Lord, and somebody does something to you that you don't like, even yo' kids, you can beat the hell outta them and just say, "So?" So that's what I'm'a do. I'm'a beat the hell outta them and say, "So?" And I'm'a bring them over here 'cause you've been redeemed, aight. It makes perfect sense, don't it? Halleluyer! Halleluyer!”. By Madea knowing about Shirley religion, this was her way of communicating so that hopefully a change can
The similarities in both films comes from the perspective of mother and son conflict. In
Madea’s Big Happy Family, the protagonist Shirley, played by Loretta Devine, was acting and reacting to her son’s, Bryan played by Shad Morris, choice of getting back into the drug dealing game. Tyler Perry’s directional choices, when it came down to shot choices, were very in depth. During this scene with Shirley and Byron, there were close-up shots of their reaction, showing and delivering realism between a mother and son. This applies to Sirk’s All That Heaven Allow between Cary and Ned Scott. They had a distance relationship which lead to him …show more content…
The scene with Madea giving Shirley parental advice goes as the following “Madea: That's right, so if you've been redeemed by the Lord, and somebody does something to you that you don't like, even yo' kids, you can beat the hell outta them and just say, "So?" So that's what I'm'a do. I'm'a beat the hell outta them and say, "So?" And I'm'a bring them over here 'cause you've been redeemed, aight. It makes perfect sense, don't it? Halleluyer! Halleluyer!”. By Madea knowing about Shirley religion, this was her way of communicating so that hopefully a change can