Greatest black director? Who is it?

>Ryan Coogler
Fruitvale Station
Creed
Black Panther

>Tyler Perry
Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Madea's Family Reunion
Temptation

>Spike Lee
Malcolm X
Chi-Raq
Do the Right Thing

Here she is OP

Are black people capable of telling stories that aren't about being black?

They're serving a historically neglected market and making material they connect with personally. Is that a bad thing? But to answer your question: yes. John Singleton directed 2 Fast 2 Furious.

Do you think Creed is about being black?

creed?

>Historically neglected market

The problem I have with this is insofar as there haven't been many movies about life as a black person in the past century there have been fuck all if any movies explicitly detailing the unique "white" experience. Movies with 100% white casts, crew, whatever, sure, we live in the west that's to be expected. But I don't think you can justify such blatant ethno-nationalism using the casting of films in the west over the past century.

Diverse movies from the 70s-early 2000s had diverse casts without the need to pander to race politics, the races were there, and they were ignored, they served no purpose to the story 90% of the time. Whereas nowadays with Chi-raq, Black Panther, Moonlight and so forth the focus is explicity on the "black experience", and often spend copious amounts of time exploiting nationwide insecurities.

I guess John singleton
Tyler is garbage, spike lee is uneven and coogler does franchise garbage (I guess fruitville might be good but I'm not going to watch itH

>he listed chiraq
what the fuck OP

tyler perry gets more points for actually starting his own production company. I'd say Spike Lee is my favorite.

You're forgetting John Singleton.

Dwayne McDuffie, but he's a comicbook writer, and died...

Steve McQueen is the best.

>tyler perry gets more points for actually starting his own production company
Yeah. But the range of his content is very limited.

Damn, Ryan Coogler and Spike Lee from your list has two good movies a piece while Tyler Perry has none and will never make a good movie. Gotta say Coogler because from Creed he can make a movie that is about something other than being black.

I don't like being reminded about "the struggle" every time I watch a movie. I am black, I know about the "struggle" already.

>Jordan Peele

>implying the coog had any control over creed or black pander

>Antoine Fuqua
Training Day
The Equalizer
Southpaw
King Arthur
Shooter

pretty good action flicks. basically black tony scott.

I've worked on 3 Tyler Perry movies. The guy doesn't give a fuck. He would literally leave halfway through the day and the 1st AD would finish directing. He's a dick. Also he is confirmed gay. Sad he won't come out but then he'd lose so much of his audience.

Coogler is far better. He Isn't preachy and SJW like Lee which is good

*kinos your path*

>not including Steve McQueen despite directing a critically acclaimed Sup Forums meme

waahhhh man with big penis has everything, etc., and so forth

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>Shame
>Hunger
>12 years a slave

>Menace II Society
>Dead Presidents
>From Hell
>The Book of Eli

Fantastic Four (2005)
Furious 8
Inside Man
Book of Eli

all had black directors

Seeing how little he has evolved (besides his films getting less religious), how he writes his own material because he doesn't want to pay writers properly, and how it's almost impossible to tell his Madea Halloween films apart... I can believe it.

i want to fuck her

Zero good movies

They look like Cholos

>Tyler Perry
Fuck off pleb

Mentioning the most successful black director is a bad thing? The man has directed/written/produced dozens of films and television shows and found his own company outside of Hollywood. Not to say that the quality of his work is the greatest or even good, though he is definitely far more successful than the other choices.

Stallone said Coogler approached him with the idea and was the guy pushing the whole thing. I can believe Coogler had some major influence over how it turned out. Black Panther however... maybe? It's apparently the best MCU film to date.

>propaganda turns into "public relations"
>blacksploitation turns into "black representation"

All fads come back eventually, user. The bad ones get renamed.

Lee did 25th Hour which was Ed Norton and majority white and Summer of Sam was almost all white plus Leguizamo. There were a couple black guys in minor roles but basically they're white movies. SoS was massively underrated imo.

they're half Italian

OP it's Lee all day but Wendel B. Harris would be up there if he'd done more than one movie.

Steve McQueen not counting 12 Years a Slave, which isn't even his best film.

>Ryan coogler
>Black panther
All the nigga did was just point the camera and take all the credit. The marvel executives did all the work, which is standard for a marvel movie. Other two movies were bretty good tho

Is Black Panther better than the average MCU flick?

Best I know of is Steve McQueen, not any of these dudes.

>Training Day
I was always under the assumption that David Ayer directed this

Keenan Peele will be