Twenty years ago, Tyler Perry caught Hollywood completely by surprise when his romantic comedy at a low budget “Journal of a Mad Black” opened $ 22 million at the American box office. Although the criticisms saved the film, he received an A + Cinemascore sterling of public surveys, thus indicating that Perry knew precisely what this badly served segment of African-American moviegoers had desperately wanted. After this amazing success, Perry had left for races, producing at least one film per year – a rhythm that is even more surprising when you take into account The myriad of television series He began to produce in 2007. Tyler Perry, whose operations base is an Atlanta studio which bears his name, is an entertainment industry.
Although Perry does not seem to be disturbed by his lack of critical renown, he sometimes tried to put on a prestige film with the type of socially important pedigree which is going well with the voters of the Oscars. As a producer, he tasted the success of the Oscars via “Precious :: based on the novel” Push ‘by Sapphire “in 2009, but struck in 2010 when he missed an adaptation of the choreopoema of Ntozake Shange” for girls colorful “.
14 years later after this misstep, Perry again reached more respect than his fans base, and perhaps a little love of the academy, with “The Six Triple Eight”, a drama inspiring from the second World War on entirely black women and all women 6888TH Central Directory Battalion. With a budget of $ 70 million and a star casting that includes Kerry Washington, Sam Waterston and Oprah Winfrey, it is easily the most ambitious film project in Perry. Although he received more favorable criticism than usual, “The Six Triple Eight” failed to take over the voters from the Oscars when he received a limited theatrical release in early December 2024. Unsurprisingly, however, however, however, This turned out to be extremely popular when he started broadcasting on Netflix two weeks later, accumulating 52.4 million views in his first four weeks (exceed His success with “Mea Culpa” Earlier in the year).
Many viewers are now impatient to find out more about the 68888th Battalion (I hope they can also save a few hours for Anthony Hemingway Drama of the aviators of Tuskegee “Red Tails”, “ Also). Surprisingly, Perry’s deep Hollywood treatment in this story has not exaggerated many of the most memorable elements in the film.
The Six Triple Eight is based on the history of 6888th central postal directory battalion
“The Six Triple Eight” is inspired by the article by the American army historian Kevin M. Hymel “Fighting a Two-Front War”, which the magazine of history of the Second World War published in 2019 . The battalion was born via the efforts of the African-American educator Mary McLeod Bethune, whose determination to involve black women in the war effort led her to successfully put pressure the first lady Eleanor Roosevelt to create unity in 1944.
Bringing the story of the 6888th before the cameras was a passionate project for the producer and political militant (and the wife of the Honorable Netflix Ted Sarandos) Nicole before, whose mother told her about the battalion when she was a little girl. As before said Tudum de Netflix::
“My parents would have liked” the six triple eight “because they [were] Great believers to pass the stick, and they always thought you cannot teach people to pass the stick if they do not understand the stick itself, and they do not understand the story behind the stick that they transfer. “”
Once the project is officially in development, it has not wasteped time involving Perry. Disclaimed to hear about the exploits of the 68888th for the first time, Perry immediately signed to write and make the film.
What was the 6888th Battalion?
The 6888TH Central Postal Delivery Battalion was formed in 1944 to provide help directly necessary to sort a massive turner -up of letters not delivered to and from soldiers serving abroad. Women, who have enlisted by the body of American army women, were sent to the basic formation in Georgia, then posted in a suburbs of Birmingham, England. As illustrated in the film, they were forced to transform the abandoned and infested buildings of rats into a post office and a barracks.
Although he had to face the double blow ignorant of the racism and sexism of their male superiors, the 68888Th turned out to be phenomenally effective to break the backlog in Birmingham and, later, an even greater backlog in Le Havre , In France. In both places, they have delivered well before the scheduled date, providing an essential service to maintain morale of the troops because they risked their lives to save the free world.
Who was the real major charitable organization Adams?
Regardless of what they thought of the “six triple Eight” overall, most criticisms agreed that the most dynamic element of the film was the representation of Kerry Washington of major charity Adams. Born on December 5, 1918 in Kittrell, North Carolina, Adams was encouraged at the start of childhood by her parents to assess education and personal results. She made them extraordinarily proud by becoming the highest rank of African-American women in the American army (as Lieutenant-Colonel) at the end of the Second World War and, when they return home, to become a champion education and civil rights.
By reading his story, it is impossible to say that Washington has surpassing Adams. She was really incredible. The incidents in which Adams resists an army to the troubled army (Nick Harris) and General Halt harmful (Dean Norris) really played exactly as they are represented. Yes, she told Halt that her attempt to place the 6888th under the responsibility of a white male officer would be finished “on my corpse, sir”.
After the war, Adams obtained a master’s degree in psychology from Ohio State University and continued to be director of student staff at Tennessee A & I College and Georgia State College. She finally settled in Dayton, Ohio, where her various community services resulted in several programs and buildings that bear her name. She received her greatest honor posthumously in 2023, when Fort Lee, Virginie was renamed Fort Gregg-Adams (she shared the nickname with Lieutenant-General Arthur J. Gregg).
What happened to 68888th Battalion after the Second World War
Although the 68888th received a celebration of a very deserved hero in Paris after the end of the war in Europe (they walked in the city and were installed in sumptuous housing), they unfortunately received no public recognition Upon their return to Forts ten, in New Jersey. The battalion was discreetly dissolved and everyone returned to their lives by leaving them.
Lena King, the protagonist of “The Six Triple Eight” played by Ebony Obsidian, studied design in England before returning to the United States, she worked as a nurse in Los Angeles, California, where she lived with her husband and Her two children until retirement, how much she moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. Perry stressed that King was crucial to help him understand how to make the 6888th justice; He met her before the production and was able to show him a brutal cup of the film before his death last year. As he said Tudum: “She loved it. She greeted the screen. She laughed. But in the end, it was so powerful. She was in tears. She just said:” Thank you very much for letting The world know that we have contributed. ‘”
The inheritance of the six triple eights
The women of the 68888th have received a multitude of honors and medals for their service – although this allows the number of people who came after most of the members died. During their service, they received the European medal of the African Middle East campaign, the medal of good conduct and the medal of the victory of the Second World War.
The members of the battalion Alyce Dixson and Mary Ragland were honored by President Barack Obama and the First Lady Michelle Obama in 2009, but, apart from the change of name of Fort Lee, their most important recognition arrived in 2022 when the Senate American and the House of Representatives adopted a bill to offer the gold medal in the Congress. It was a melancholy moment since only four 6888th members were still alive: Lena King, Romay Davis, Fannie McClendon and Anna Mae Robertson. All four were honored in their respective native cities.
