Since 1999, when he first débuted Madea, in the theatre piece “I Can Do Bad All By Myself,” Perry has played his own matriarch, wearing a gray press-and-curl wig and a muumuu and covering his six-foot-five frame with a stuffed suit. But no one has stared down the barrel of her cultural menace more often than Perry himself. In nearly a dozen stage plays, and in as many movies, Madea has taken aim at no-good freeloaders and goody-goody authorities, all while spreading a hard-headed traditionalism herself. She pulls the pistol out of her purse as effortlessly as sane old ladies produce those awful strawberry bonbons. Has any contemporary commercial artist learned this lesson quite like Tyler Perry? His most famous character, the brusque grandmother Madea, packs an assault rifle and a Glock. Creators, with their special hubris, are at constant risk of being swallowed by the act of creation they give their inventions fabulous power and, in the process, lose control of them.
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