Why Black film dominated the 90's

There is today a disparity between black film then there was in the 90's, when directors as Spike Lee, Mario Van Peebles, John Singleton, Ernest R. Dickerson, The Hughes Brothers, and F. Gary Gray dominated what was the jewel of filmmaking. With films as "Boyz n the Hood, 1991,"New Jack City," 1991,"Juice, 1992," Malcom X, 1992," Menace 2 Society, 1993,"Panther, 1995,"Black Presidents, 1995,"Girl 6, 1996, & "He Got Game, 1999, all these films allowed American society and societies around the world an insight into the ruthlessness and lifestyle of the black community. Depth, accuracy and solid displays of the character driven into crime, poverty and mayhem was beyond any that can be offered today because filmmakers were given the full leniency to tell a story without the scrutiny of Hollywood, being that Hollywood itself before these films had no idea of the terrors that plagued the black communities, the realities of the black communities. Also given from every one of these films was the follicle of hope, an individual or individuals seeking to escape the brute reality of their environment by abstaining from the criminal activities or igniting revolutions to dissolve the syndicate of drugs, prostitution and police brutality that begin to descend after the pacification of the civil rights movements.

It is fair to say that the level of authenticity of black film has thus been diluted and henceforth will be diluted in the mainstream. The message is out, the truth is reveal but it is not enough. If the great black films of the 90's have set any standard, it is to show where most blacks derive from, but now, in the 2000's, there needs to be the story of where they can go with hope. Tyler Perry, who has been dubbed " The savior of black film," plagiaristic nature has thus fallen short in creativity and unpredictability, Ava Duvernay has captured the public's attention with "Selma," but it is nothing that we have not seen of Martin Luther King Jr. There is now the need for a film(s) that will reached the public awareness and create an accurate depiction of blacks today.