Why the hell is Tyler Perry rich (and famous)?

I KNOW! I KNOW!!
 The question begs itself because Tyler Perry never opens with blockbusters and yet he's rich and famous. Makes a LOT of movies and makes money off those movies even though they are never blockbusters.
 Oh, I should probably mention, Tyler Perry mainly seems to make "Movies for Black Folk."
 The answer to this question you have to come to the movie "Precious" with me. 
SPOILER ALERT: Movie “Precious”.
The movie “Precious” was a racial cross-over hit.  White people were being drawn to it as much as its Black target audience was.  Due to my nature* I was third row center.  Black teens and early twenties were on my left and Liberal Whites were on my right.  How did I know they were Liberals?  Their reactions to certain scenes.  Liberals seem to think the world exists in a rosy glow.  Conservatives know the sh*t is piled high on every side.
*My nature:  I’m a little bit of everything except Oriental.  Black, White, Injun, Hispanic – everyone but the Asians.  It was just getting too full to include EVERYONE!  This means I’ve been dipped in a LOT of cultures.  Sometimes by force, other times by blood.  Anyway ...
The lead character in the movie “Precious” is a fat, under-educated, possibly retarded, pregnant, AIDS infected black girl living “in the ghettos” as we used to say.  In the movie she is hit and hit violently twice.
The first time she was hit, the Black kids in the theater to my left cheered and screamed out, “YEAH!  HIT HER AGAIN!”  The White people to my right looked at the Black teenagers with shock.  They were stunned by the lack of empathy toward the young girl.
The second time the girl gets hit, the young Blacks to my Left are again cheering while the middle-aged White Liberals to my Right are again shocked to this immersion into this aspect of Black society.
Me?  I’m laughing at the White people’s lack of understanding of the world.
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When I got back to the office, I related what happened at the movie to a Black woman I worked with.  Instantly she was angry and she shook a finger in my face and spitting fire said, “This is EXACTLY why I don’t take my kids to see Black movies when they first come out!”  I was confused, but she continued.  “I do NOT want my kids thinking THIS is who we are!  So we wait until the second week, after that trash clears out, before we go see the movies.”  Oddly enough, when I related the theater experience to another Black woman a little later on, I received a similar reaction:  Never take family to the opening week of a Black movie.
Instantly I understood why Tyler Perry is rich and famous even though his movies do not break records when they we come out.
Tyler Perry’s movie successes are not measured in opening weekend, record-breaking presentations.  Instead, Black families are waiting for the Black hoods to go in and present a false narrative of the general Black life, and then once they are gone, about the third or fourth weekend, the Black families go and watch Tyler’s movies.
Spielberg makes $100-million opening weekend.  Perry makes $100-million opening in months, across several weekends.
Spielberg comes out strong, then loses as LOT of his audience the second week, then more the next weekend and finally on the fourth weekend is barely seeing a soul.  Perry sees the same numbers across the month:  Black hoods first, followed by Black middle income and families after the first two weeks.
Therefore, and thus, Tyler Perry becomes rich.
It all makes sense.
Tyler Perry makes good movies of all types, but the Blacks who see his movies tailor their viewing of the movie to how much of the Ghetto they want to deal with when watching his shows.
Crazy.  Well, at least to those in rode colored glasses.  Simply crazy.
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