Omari Hardwick Talks Tyler Perry's "For Colored Girls..." - HipHollywood.com

[TheKimKyok]

Well in this movie not all the women were Saints...

[JoshLo3340]

Tyler Perry's leading men all have this certain look. Tall, athletic. It's very interesting. Going on the premise that Tyler Perry is gay (can't nobody tell me he's not), you can see how he plays out his own fantasies through the women he casts and how he writes for them.

[naruto1000XL]

thats my cuzzin

[Regenciplus]

This as a good movie. Everything comes from somewhere.

[phreshhtc]

smh he kno he fiine,.!

[cjblood59]

he played a faQ

[BigBroCo]

This movie, though it gave accounts of what some black women go through, was a horrible portrayal of the black man! It adds the many other films that do the same.

[NewbianGem7]

@BigBroCo I think you should dig deeper. I just finished seeing it today...HEAVY stuff, but what I take from it is every tragedy or issue we face comes from somewhere. Yes there are many films like this that portray that image, but I don't think it's purpose was to tarnish Black men's image, it's more complex than that. Peace to you tho.

[BigBroCo]

@NewbianGem7... I agree. I don't think that that was the sole purpose of that movie. But in the film making the points that it was striving to make it depicted an overabundance of negative images of black men. I have dug deeper into the movie but as I try to dig I find impenetrable truths about the depictions of the black men in the film that can't be ignored and that are difficult to get past or overlook.

Thanks for your response though.

God bless!

[guybeleeve]

@BigBroCo i agree Lets make a movie called BLACK WOMEN AINT SHIT and see how they like that.

[tuneisia]

lawd Omari Hardwick 

[aGwEENapple]

"He is really twisted, lost and confused"

HAHAHA, great way to have summed it up Omari!

But my oh my, he's sexy. I loved this sponge soaked up in sexiness since 'Next Air Day' with Mos Def and Donald Faison. OMG, the sexiness was overflowing. -Drool-

[GottaMakeHimSuffer]

@aGwEENapple Plus, he's the most down to Earth man you'd ever want to meet. I worked with him on set for Whitney Houston's new film, Sparkle and he was kind to everyone, including lil ole extra's, like me. lol

[aGwEENapple]

@GottaMakeHimSuffer LOL Wow, that's nice! I bet it's great to watch him acting up close, if you got to do that.

[GottaMakeHimSuffer]

@aGwEENapple Sure was and I sure did! I was close enough to steal a kiss. Good thing I was on my best behavior. lol

[aGwEENapple]

@GottaMakeHimSuffer OMG, you should've stolen that kiss the last day you thought you were going to see him!!! It was probably only a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!! LOL

[GottaMakeHimSuffer]

@aGwEENapple I don't know... film stuff keeps coming here. Two stars I've seen who have made repeat trips are Meagan Good and Shia Le'Bouf from Transformers. But I really hope we made a good impression on Omari!!! lol

[llatimer2]

Mangina eunuch

[KMELIZ21]

omg, he is so fine bet he has a white girl tho :-(

[carmenjones411]

@KMELIZ21 I know right!? An old ugly one at that! lol

[aGwEENapple]

@KMELIZ21 lol, it's actually very sad but every time I see a sexy guy like this it's hard to believe they want to be with black women. I'm a black woman myself. -sigh-

[NewbianGem7]

@KMELIZ21 Let us pray, LOL

[brnsilkysmooth]

"FOR COLORED GIRLS" Movie Review by Dj Smooth

[david2407]

SO DAMN FINE!

[Geezyone]

For Color Purple girls Waiting to Exhale when Brewster Place was enough.

[maybwrongmaybringht]

Time for a movie about men and I've got it.

[JinaBean]

Check out some of his slam poetry!  Sexy, sexy man!

[brnsilkysmooth]

Wow! "FOR COLOR GIRLS" is a hit! I did a movie review. Check it out! A+ 4 star movie. by Dj Smooth : )

[tiffanysnow24]

Looking to see a snippet from the play....check out Tiffany Snow For Colored girls on Youtube.

[SuperBlackthang]

@EbonyLoveAndMarriage TO THE COUCH with you... NOT COACH!

I've been at my sons sports events all evening... I'm tired and I can no longer endure such banter. Black folks don't need to argue no more... Let's just get this money straight (collectively) - Hold some purse strings and you can write your own DAMN movies, what's up? Good Night!

[EbonyLoveAndMarriage]

@SuperBlackthang Put your money where your big mouth is and get it CRACKING- There are 100 movies in me and not ONE IS DEGENERATE!

[Geezyone]

The formula is simple: all the Black women are saint/all the Black men are devils. Tyler, you're still a piece of shyt

[EandA23]

@Geezyone I cosign Tyler Perry is a coon and Omari plays a down low gay man in the movie.

[SuperBlackthang]

Hi @Geezyone, simple economics here. Black woman hold the black purse strings so you wanna sell to them what they will buy. The fantasy in black women ,minds isTHEY man (or ex-man) is why she may  talk too much, eat too much, sleep too late, buy the white man's foreign sweatshop shoes, clothes (basically merchandise), write bad checks, rob Peter to pay Paul, talk on the phone too much, won't read a economics book to save 'JESUS' life, holler too much at they babies.... shwewww!

[JinaBean]

@Geezyone Then please explain Tasha Smith's role in "Daddy's Little Girls" because she was NOT a saint!

[Geezyone]

@JinaBean She was under the influence of an evil Black man, it wasn't her fault

[JinaBean]

@Geezyone That's not what I got from it. I thought that her character put herself in that position because she was a selfish woman and it had nothing to do with a man, or else she would have stayed with "good guy" Idris Elba!

[chalottie3]

can you say dammmmmmmmmmmmn

[1234mizzy]

ohh he is fine and he plays janet jacksons husband in da movie.

[8XKP]

I wanna take you home baby!!

[alightofsunshine4u]

Well its not the first time it has been brought to the screen..The first time for colored girls..but looks good!

[AIYOKELIN1]

what he meant to say about his character is that he's gay..(in the movie) i heard

[BuffyunaTV]

Great, so all the men will be bad.

[IkilledColMustard]

Here's why I probably think this will be good.......Tyler Perry didn't write it.

[flymarinesoldier]

another "Waiting to Exhale"

damn:(

[HamptonBluTV]

@flymarinesoldier Are you kidding....For Colored Girls is NOTHING LIKE Waiting to Exhale...much deeper and richer. Just because you see a mainly black female cast does not automatically make it "waiting to exhale" --- plus the poems that inspired this film was written way before Waiting to Exhale was even thought of....

[SuperBlackthang]

You are so right @HamptonBluTV

I was thinking that the main reason the story was so rich, is because it was written from the soul of a woman that was living the reality of being Black in America up until 1974. We have all got to realize the seriousness of why poems, art, movies, etc. was so RICH back then. This story came out of "the struggle" of the times. I'm loving this history lesson.

[EbonyLoveAndMarriage]

@SuperBlackthang How much do you know about the black female who wrote the play? The story didn't come out the STRUGGLE Of the times.. it came out of the imagination of a suicidal black female with mental issues who grew up privileged and had a failed marriage. One of her idols is SUSAN B. ANTHONY who said, "She sometimes argued that educated white women would be better voters than "ignorant" black men or immigrant men." she even portrayed the vote of freedmen as threatening safety of WW.

[SuperBlackthang]

Hi @EbonyLoveAndMarriage thank you for your comment. I welcome your school of thought, it's your right. Now, to directly answer your question, I don't KNOW Ntozake Shange yet that fact is irrelevant. I think it impossible to get to KNOW everyone that utilizes their freedom to the expression of any ART form be it poetry, music... Your discriminatory undertones regarding a person who obviously STRUGGLED enough to experience hardship is appalling. My.

[EbonyLoveAndMarriage]

@SuperBlackthang My UNDERTONES are not "discriminatory" - I am forthright and straight forward in what I said. There is nothing to hide. Have you bothered to do your research on the creator's history? You talked about it being a lesson in HISTORY- the play was not a telling of HISTORY or OUR STORY, but a creation out of the imagination of a black female's mind who tried to kill herself FOUR TIMES= mental illness. You can find her speaking on her mental illness rt. here on YT

[SuperBlackthang]

@EbonyLoveAndMarriage your undertones are very 'discriminatory' because the very LOW tone that I read into what you state is that a person that has attempted suicide i.e. having mental illness, should not bother to write poetry... that is what I am hearing from your tirade. The history that I refer to is that of the book -ITSELF- written of poetry, in the early 70's by a black woman (you know, happened yesteryear, thereby history). Wow, can we get you to catch up here?

[EbonyLoveAndMarriage]

@SuperBlackthang Tyler Perry ( another victim of abuse/ psychological issues behind that ) is taking the work from the imagination of a mentally ill black female & bringing HIS victimization & psychology to it, ON THE BIG SCREEN.. GIANT MONSTROUS IMAGERY of black males being the cause of all the black female's problems. This after years of stupid CNN BW are lonely & miserable "specials" & Black people are MONSTERS movies like Precious-- NOT HEALTHY ENTERTAINMENT FOR BLACK PEOPLE! NOT AT ALL!

[SuperBlackthang]

@EbonyLoveAndMarriage Tyler Perry simply writes one GENRE of an art form. He does not -nor can he by any means- speak or write about ALL black people. Now, I would challenge you to find black, white, asian, latino people who share a background of being a part of the american melting pot to not have some type of PSYCHOLOGICAL issue. Dysfunction is what the country is built upon, thanks for adding your mental issues to the melting pot. I mean, really, calm down. Seriously! To the coach with you.

[EbonyLoveAndMarriage]

@SuperBlackthang You are correct, he specializes in the genre of PREDICTABLE, trite, black degeneracy & misery films... BLACK FEMALE VICTIMS/BLACK MALE MONSTER INFERIORITY FLICKS! Baaam! There you go!

You can save the melodrama- no one suggested he should make films about ALL black people- but how about some black people doing something OTHER than acting out NEGATIVE STEREOTYPES! There is no "American MELTING pot" - its an assimilation GRINDER- hence YOUR mental issues. :-)

[JinaBean]

@EbonyLoveAndMarriage On the issue of directors/screenwriters, how do you feel about "Waiting to Exhale"? How would you compare Tyler Perry to Forrest Whitaker? Whitney Houston financed "Waiting to Exhale". Is that different from Reubon Cannon financing "for colored girls"? FYI: Oprah was a bit scared and anxious about Tyler taking on this film. If you don't like them, that's cool. Do not berate people who do support his films.

[EbonyLoveAndMarriage]

@JinaBean 1) WHO did I "berate" for supporting this black inferiority flick?

2. Waiting to xhale, Color Purple etc. are all movies that I would NOT sit and watch, unless I wanted to analyze the phenomenon of films that capitalize on black female LONELINESS, victimization & poor choices. THANKFULLY, Forrest Whitaker does not have a BODY of work in that genre. Neither does Whitney. Reuben Cannon? I think he finances ANYTHING judging by his TP associations. Oprah- SUPPORTS BI FLICKS TOO! Precious

[JinaBean]

@EbonyLoveAndMarriage

1.) The audience that does support black films.

2.) Whitney Houston does not have a body of work (which means, in Hollywood, at least five films to her name in a starring/supporting role)/

3.) Oops, someone for Mr. Whitaker was in Jason's Lyric and A Rage in Harlem. If you want to include a person who never appears in the movie, we can include The Experiment. I enjoy Mr. Whitaker as an entertainer/director, but he does have a body of work in this genre...

[JinaBean]

@EbonyLoveAndMarriage All successful A-List black actors and actresses do!

[JinaBean]

Oops, my bad...someone "forgot" Mr. Whitaker...I am so tired right now. :)

[JinaBean]

@EbonyLoveAndMarriage As for Oprah, she also produced Daughters of the Dust, which was an independent feature that most black people don't even know. Talk about exploitation, did you ever see Sankofa. Good film, right?! The filmmaker/producer never paid those actors their rightful due because of greed. Even when you DO find an black artistic film, there's always corruption somewhere. Who's fault is that? Can't always be about "global system of Racism/White Supremacy". We share the blame!

[EbonyLoveAndMarriage]

@SuperBlackthang ACTUALLY, I find it APPALLING that black people in the current day, seem to lack the ability to analyze what is put before them with a CRITICAL EYE & Analyze WHO is bringing something to you and why and how something may or may not benefit or harm you. This is why there are so many DEGENERATE images of black people made into ENTERTAINMENT for the whole world, because black people seem NOT TO CARE OR UNDERSTAND!

We consume ANY GOD DAMNED THING with A BLACK FACE on it-WAKE UP!

[SuperBlackthang]

@EbonyLoveAndMarriage Now, that we have you on the coach - therapy, let's get you a few prescriptions. First we will start by advising you of an acronym that might be able to assist with your delusional paranoia regarding entertainment arts. Always remember M.E.D.I.A. stands for Mad ~ European ~ Devils ~ In ~ ACTION. Secondly, let's deal with what seems to be overexposure to environmental stressors within the semi-fruitless use of your spare time. Try some financial investment courses.

[EbonyLoveAndMarriage]

@SuperBlackthang Apparenlty you are a delusional little creature and YOU are off of YOUR meds.. I don't touch that crap! The one who should be on the couch is YOU.. what YOU are trying to classify as "delusional paranoia" with your ad-hominem logical fallacies & strawman arguments is actually this thing those of us who are SANE like to call ANALYTICAL THINKING and/ or CRITICAL thinking- both of which you might try one you are mentally healed. Look up Dr. Frances Cress Welsing- 40 year PSYCLGIST

[SuperBlackthang]

To be honest @EbonyLoveAndMarriage we both need to be on MEDS for sitting on YouTube arguing with a complete stranger. Ha Your passion about this topic leads me to believe that you are in your part of the world working diligently to help change the reality of millions of people around the globe. Your fervency regarding the issue would have me to also applaud you for being self made, possibly a multi-millionaire. I look forward to the 100 movies. YES this is a CHARGE. Get 'ur done sweetie. Kudos.

[JinaBean]

@EbonyLoveAndMarriage The play is based on poems that came out of a writing group in Los Angeles. Ntozake Shange did not write most of the poems, but pieced them together to create this wonderful script. Yes, she grew up privileged. So what? Sounds like you are hating to me. It may come off as male-bashing, but these were situations that black women were going through during the 1970s...

[JinaBean]

@EbonyLoveandMarriage Just like pedophilia, domestic violence and crack dominated the black community in the 1980s (just to cover Precious). I don't know if you've seen the movie yet, but many FEMALE characters in the film come to the realization that they are partially responsible for their own failures. This movie, like the play, is about self-love and self-actualization, not male-bashing. Stop looking at the superficial and dive a bit deeper in reality.

[JinaBean]

@EbonyLoveAndMarriage Oops, SF Bay area, not Los Angeles. My bad!

[EbonyLoveAndMarriage]

@HamptonBluTV have you seen the film to know that it is nothing like the Color Purple? Are you aware that there are things in the Color Purple movie that go directly against what was written in the book?

I suggest going to WarontheHorizon(dot)com & purchasing a DVD called, "Feminism, Lesbianism & the Making of the Black Widow"

[JinaBean]

@HamptonBluTV Some people are so ignorant that they do not even study up on their own comments. The movie is NOTHING like "Waiting to Exhale" except Loretta Devine is in it!

[HamptonBluTV]

@flymarinesoldier sorry for typo..."were written"

[classyfemale94]

@flymarinesoldier you need to watch the preview of this movie., and THEN say this movie is another Waiting To Exhale.,smh

[EbonyLoveAndMarriage]

@classyfemale94 NO YOU DON'T.. the film is based on the play.. if you have read the play, you know what's coming.. the play was only 60 pages long.. and you get a 2 hr. film from it.. one of the men threw his children out of a 5th story window! you have BM BEATING BW= COLOR PURPLE, Homosexuality= PRECIOUS/ COLOR PURPLE, created by a male victim of sexual abuse= Tyler, Lee Daniels, Oprah Winfrey-color purple, whoopi- defends white pedophiles & racist white men ( Polanski, Ted Danson) NO THANKS

[JinaBean]

Hi @EbonyLoveAndMarriage Actually, "a nite with beau willie brown" is in the play, not added to the movie. That particular story was based on an incident that happened to one of the original poets (a Latina) in Long Beach. My student thesis was on the play, or more precisely, choreopoem. The DL situation was brought in because it is an issue that we deal with in the black community today, especially with the high HIV cases in black women.

[EbonyLoveAndMarriage]

@JinaBean i Suggest you do some more research on the REALITY of HIV -not the common mythology and there have been homosexual males marrying females for THOUSANDS OF YEARS! Most especially in the European culture- Please explain to me why Black people beat the LIVING HELL out of these issues, but never bother to examine the source or question WHY they are fed a constant all you can eat media buffet of "down low" Hiv, you all have herpes, get a white man/woman- gang thug drug propaganda?

[JinaBean]

@EbonyLoveAndMarriage Well, as a teaching artist that specializes in health education, I use the data coming from the CDC, as well as the national AIDS/HIV campaign in D.C. It is not the main factor, as there are older black women who are just now developing HIV/AIDS due to drugs use during the 70s and 80s. HOWEVER, trusting your husband who is sleeping with other people WITHOUT protection, regardless of gender, is a huge reason for major HIV/AIDS cases for black women now...

[JinaBean]

@EbonyLoveAndMarriage DL behavior has been around forever. It's the way that we treat it in this day and age, where men don't want to admit they are gay/bi because black society, in general, is so homophobic. The media is only reporting what we already know within our own community. Also, black men went through the increase during late 80s and through the 90s. Black women went through the increase during the late 90s and is now just starting to level out. THAT'S the reality of HIV!

[EbonyLoveAndMarriage]

@JinaBean The source of EVERY one of the issues that you mention comes a the RESULT of living under a global system of Racism/White Supremacy which dominates EVERY area of people activity: Sex, Labor, Law, Economics, Education, Religion, War, Entertainment and Politics- YET, I don't see black people rushing to make those movies, to talk about THAT issue or respecting others who say it MUST be talked about. I see black people COMPLAINING when its brought up & DEFENDING the Racists/YT Supremacist

[JinaBean]

@EbonyLoveAndMarriage Bamboozled! The good thing about all of this is that there can be open dialogue without insulting people, most of the time. Truth of the matter is that the play is about 7 women who are trying to find love for themselves when they've given love to everyone else BUT themselves. The movie added a few more characters, but the same themes applied. Good issues and discussion topics for ladies' groups to chat about. :)

[EbonyLoveAndMarriage]

@flymarinesoldier INDEED, another Jewvie where black males and females are at warfare with each other, the black male is the cause of all the black females problems and pain.. he is a monster, a brute.. like the Color Purple & Precious and ner the sight of a happy, complimentary, functional black male/female relationship doth exist. I WILL NOT SUPPORT IT.. in the same way that I gave NO support to Precious, Monsters Ball, etc.

[EbonyLoveAndMarriage]

@EbonyLoveAndMarriage ALSO take note of the massive effeminization of black males - in the media, through chemicals.. the white sex assault is ON.. why are we being programmed constantly to see black males as anything OTHER than masculine? Every major black male actor virtually, has donned a dress, makeup and wigs- emasculanization.. then we get the "down low" circus on Oprah, then Eddie Long, RHW of Atlanta & FOR COLORED GIRLS- with its stereotypical "DL Brutha"- BARF- ENOUGH! +irr propaganda

[SuperBlackthang]

@EbonyLoveAndMarriage Lastly, follow up each prescription with the following: Mind control is the easiest way to control a people when one can't be in a BILLION places at one time. YOU control your mind and no one else. The ILLUSION stops when you no longer believe. It seems that YOU are the one programmed because you've taken on the belief that THESE MOVIES are the BLACK reality. That is impossible. We are too BROAD a people to be taken down by A MOVIE... How could we come this far? WE STAND.

[melissav6]

damn he is fine. i cannot even tell what he is saying I am not focused. let me rewind 10 more times!LOL

[vanitysadeparis]

@melissav6 I don't care what he's saying! Let's just LOOK at him!! LOL.

[melissav6]

@vanitysadeparis i like how you are thinking.. lets watch him some more! ;)

[vanitysadeparis]

@melissav6 Uh-huh! :D

[ronal80inho]

best role i liked 4 him was in gildiron gang with the rock n xebit

[CaramelCutie79]

Omari is a real man...sexy and humble!

[PlatnumEyez]

I want him. I want him NOW.

[tasha1985]

@PlatnumEyez

Fa real.

[UrLvr4Lf]

Very Handsome GUY!

[diva8679]

Mmmm YES HE IS

[MakeLoveNoBabiez]

SEXY MAN!