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I have never in my life HATED a character more than Willie Earl!!! 😡
he deserves an award for being an good ass
Same
Agreed. I get the siblings rivalry dynamics. But, a brother knowingly and freely signing his baby brother's
death sentence to a lynch mob is fantastically false. I never came across anything like that in our history in this country. I have come across the Klan storming Black homes kidnapping and terrorizing Black families. Tyler should know better or educate himself on Black history. Another thing I had a problem with Tyler using Emmett Till's tragic cause of death to push his storyline. I think it's shameful and lazy writing at best. Shame on him!
Yeah it’s on sight when i see him!!
And the mother
Smh no matter how good he treated his brother, his own brother screwed him in the end. They wouldn't have even known he was there.
It be your own family..........
@@ohgiftedone6473 right
Jazzman Blues was something that I can tell Tyler put his all into . He’s been holding that back for awhile . I will say it goes to show you how Americans and their history is very mixed and how some blacks did really pass and live their life with so many secrets. You would be surprised how much of that happened. bravo Tyler , also I felt like Tyler was showing his relationship with his father in this movie .
I agree the ending reminded me of Emmitt Till
@sboudreaux27
Or his mother could've just went to live with him !
His decision made NO SENSE
Facts my family got thr biggest craziest secrets
Let me guess for talking to a white woman yeah that what this movie remind me of ,I wasn't expecting the ending when they lynch him but I got a feeling in my gut that was about to happen
A Tyler Perry movie that fooled me into believing it's not a Tyler Perry movie. The family enjoyed it.
Man playing Bayou is so handsome. His smile won't quit
He was so cute!
He's handsome but something is eery about his look.
Very he's beautiful his skin is so flawless
He had a special look.His skin is flawless and that bright smile and beautiful eyes.Who wouldn't fall in love with him.
He looked like gutta to me on bad boys 😂
Bayou's mistake was taking Willie Earl back to Georgia with him. He should have left him in Chicago with the neefle in his arm. He could have made the trip there and back safely. I understand why he went back to help his Mother and to get his son and the woman he loved.
I agreed,Because he knew Willie Earl hated him
Then again would you think your brother would do such a thing
@@mhrb44 In almost ever scene he displayed his hatred toward his brother and after their last fight, I knew his brother was going to do something bad.
It's like when you trying to help other people and only want what's best for them it sometimes backfire.
He should have had the white dude go with the money for mom and bring the woman and her kid back. He would have been in and out cuz he knew what it was to escape some stuff. But he underestimated how serious the situation was and he was kind but terribly naive.
Her son was racist that's why they showed the flag at the end shocking his dad was black man good movie but sad ending 🙏
Yes Bro had a lot to think on. Them letters jacked his whole life's philosophy up
@@keba773 and this was mostly because it applied to him and the people he cared about before the letters. if they were random letters he would've thought everything was justified given how he was mostly likely raised
Yes it's so crazy sad so much hate and this movie still very good teaching people to be courage faithful to God and love who you love with anyone control on love life 🙏
The yt dad who raised him made him hate his black family and features
Yes you're right about that Lee
Whoever that older actress at the end is she captured the pain of her past perfectly. That was the only part that actually almost made me shed some tears. This was Tyler's better films. I enjoyed it.
She didn't even have to speak a word. Very powerful.
All the trauma she experienced in her life was felt in that scene…. It was hard to watch.
Yes you are correct
That actress's name is Waltrudis Buck.
I kinda wished he would have used the original Leanne actress and make her look old…like he did bayou mom but nevertheless the other actress also did an amazing job, I want to know how willie earl was treated after all of this…ugh so many unanswered questions!
The man at the beginning of the movie that Bayou’s mother drops all that mail off to is Bayou’s son. The same man you see sitting down on the porch looking lost & confused at the end. His mother in the nursing home confirms this after he reads them all, shows up while she’s playing Bayou’s “paper planes” song over and over and then she breaks down crying when he hands all those letters to her. At that moment, he found out he was Black, his father was Black and walks out bc he’s been passing as a white man pushing the white agenda.
Thanks for clarifying that. I was really confused about what the beginning had to do with the ending. I did not associate Johnathan with the man in the beginning. And his mom looked way older than his grandmother. I gotta go back and watch it again. Thanks for enlightening me.
@@misspgurl8087 The rude man behind the desk that took all those letters from the older lady (Bayou’s mom) didn’t even know he was talking to his own grandmother. He was raised and passed off as white. The only one who knew he was mixed were Bayou, Leanne and Bayou’s mom. It all added up to him at the end though.
@@terryjoho the whole time I thought it was about solving a murder until they actually showed it lol.....I was busy doing something else at the same time trying to keep and missed the whole point at the end...lol .....it was a good movie altogether.
@@misspgurl8087 yes it was 🙌🏾
When he sat on the porch with that Confederate Flag……Brilliant
this was one of Tyler’s best films imo..I was able to understand,relate and feel for every character in some kind of way..I know most ppl felt like Leanne was selfish but I felt really bad for her, she literally was living for the selfishness of other ppl her entire life..from her disgusting grandfather molesting her and her mother exploiting her for her own selfish reasons, how could you blame the girl for being disturbed?..I think for her Bayou was her only sense of happiness and fulfillment and that’s why she couldn’t leave him alone despite the circumstances. Bayou was the black sheep of the family and always being compared to his brother who was always praised for being better than him, I wonder if Buster was Bayou’s biological father, it seems like he wasn’t based on how badly he treated him, or maybe he hated him because his dark skin reminded him of himself and his self hatred 🤷🏽♀️ Willie was really jealous of Bayou even though he was always considered better..reminds me of the story of Cain and Able..I wonder if Leanne’s mother was molested by her father also
"Willie."...Willie lynch ?
Willie Earl ? Coincidence??
Find the meaning of the Names!
That's the CODE.
Alots of HIDDEN messages in this film !
To jealous and hate your sibling is a messed up thing.
I’m saying how can you blame her, Bayou was the only man who didn’t take advantage of her
Very selfish
Finally someone said it! Leanne seem selfish but she's not. Bayou was her safe have she was Bayou's too aside his mother. Her life is bitterly complicated. Bayou made the decision to come back. 🤷
I felt sorry for Leanne most.She was the one who was victimized more than anyone else. Her Mother, her grandfather, her husband threatened her if she left. Pregnant with a black baby for nine months, scared of what color the baby would be. I never thought she was selfish. I wished she was stronger where her mother was concerned.
This movie deserves an Oscar. This is Tyler Perry's best movie to this date.
Lol not Oscar
Nah....
Clearly that was their son and what a heck of a way to find out your origin story. I loved this movie, it was beautifully written and exceptionally performed. This is certainly a movie to watch
I think it was because he was racist and hated blacks and found out that he was more than half black.
Man when he got off that broken down bus i knew it was a wrap for him 😪
@@fatmansatchel1017 facts! It was so sad and just when his dreams started to come true
@@kiecutielove2923 I got no words for what his brother did 😪
@@fatmansatchel1017 yes! That betrayal hit different and had the nerve to sit up there and cry. But never tried to stop it or warn him
There wasn’t anything wrong with him going back to get Leanne , but it’s the fact that he stayed to perform. He could’ve went , got her and the baby and dipped . Him staying there is what got him killed and trusting his crusty brother
The purpose of Bayou going back to Georgia was to help his mother revitalize her juke joint. Getting Leanne and the baby was actually secondary.
I love how Bayou mama gave those letters to Johnathan to shut him up ans make him realize he was just passing.
I don't blame her for the simple fact this girl has been controlled and sexually, physically, verbally abused her whole life and like she said he was the only one who made her safe she confided in him she never wanted anything that happened to happen the only thing that makes me bothered is she could've came up there to him instead of him coming back and everything would've probably been fine
I’ve never felt so much pain for someone watching a movie. It really tore me up seeing Leanne at the end.
I was conflicted when it came to her. Her hurt was evident but she caused a lot of pain. Hurt people hurt people
lawdd i cried like a baby i aint cry tht much for no movie ever.. at the end when Leanne was crying it was sad
Yes I said the same my heart broke for Leanne I felt bad for her seeing her now at presence time clearly aged a lot & heart broken seeing her crying when she saw the letters Bayou wrote to her that never got to her man she clearly is missing the love of her life so badly.
@@HairdresserOrActorYes it was so sad when she broke down in tears she’s misses the love of her life she’s still making paper airplanes hoping it gets to Bayou man 😢 I felt for her I truly did all of this was due to bad decisions & the brother who put the final nail in the coffin.
Johnathan discovering the truth that he is black, also was showing us that racism and hatred is taught. He was raised to be a racist and feel privileged. Love your assessment
There was a lesson in this as well. It's true and has been in Our history that a person can be very dark and produce a child that is white as snow. It's part of our history.
I listened to your review and would like to respond in kind. I personally loved the movie and would even count it amongst Perry's best. Firstly, Bayou was looked down upon and rejected all his life. Leanne was the one person, outside his mother, that truly believed in him. Her love for him gave him a certain strength over time. It was the wind beneath his wings. He lived in his brother Willie Earl's shadow in every way since they were young but it was Bayou's gift of singing and his showmanship that made room for him and brought him stardom and prosperity. Willie Earls character was the one with seemingly all the attributes the assured his success, light skinned, "good hair" a talent for playing the horn, he was boisterous and seemingly self confident. We find out that it was a smoke screen for the weak, broken man he really was. Abandoned firstly by his mother and then his father. He found power in castigating and belittling his dark skinned, tight curled haired half sibling. When Bayou was around Willie Earls' spotlight was always dimmed. In Chicago, Bayou was a big deal. He mistakenly thought however that the "fame" he found, the money, and the security he was able to hire made him untouchable. But like so many black people before him (i.e. MJ and every rapper who has died in the past 10 years from supposedly "inside people" and countless others) and since have found, at the end of the day prosperity is not a cloak that makes one invisible and to many a "n_gga" is still a "n_gga". Bayou went back home because he falsely believed that his success gave him an elevation above his color and he thought he could now enter, on equal footing, into the enemy's den. In his eyes, he was "a man" on par with every white man even the ones who would never obtain his socioeconomic status, but that was untrue. Because he was ultimately killed by the rank and file of whites of Hopewell County. I also, did not have a problem with the exact hue of Perry's characters. Colorism is complex topic. Even within our own individual development who, if anyone, is the exact shade now that they were born as? To focus on the characters complexions so much as to say young Leanne and old Leanne don't look the same is to miss the very essence of the point of colorism and racial disparity. As much as racism is so pointedly attacked as important at the end of the day it doesn't and shouldn't even matter. I liked your comment about many people being responsible for Bayous death and the analogy to Christ. However, in my opinion every time someone perishes before the fullness of their time there are almost always many people who could shoulder the blame. Willie Earl was so full of self hatred and hatred for Bayou that he could feel nothing but the ultimate shame when he stood beneath Bayou's lifeless body. Willie Earl thought that Bayou's death would "settle the score" so to speak and free him from his own shackles of self hate and dejection but even in death, as Willie Earl stood at Bayou's feet and had to "look up" Bayou was elevated above his brother, first in life and ultimately in death.
Very well said...
@@LuckiiCharmz85 Thx Luckii
I rewatched the movie this morning and I'm going through comments and wow this was a great breakdown!
I don't think he wet back because he falsely belived that he was on equal footing, he went back to keep his promise to Leanne. He even wrote her a letter to tell her he was coming back to get her like he had promised it had noting to do with him believing he was on equal footing but that he naively believed that love conquers all. But for me this movie showed more than just black versus white, but that even your own will betray you. In the black communty we always like to blame the white man but the truth is that even they try to bring you down, the person who will do you wrong the most will be the person that looks just like you. His own brother was the reason he was killed, of course the white man were racists but his brother, Lieannes self hating momma is ultimatley to blame.
Great take on it. What I would point out is I think he went back for love yes but also for his mother. When his cousin told him that his mother was doing badly he had to make sure she could handle her self because he knew she was proud. I think he believed that if his mother could stand up why couldn't he. It's hard to live your life being safe knowing you had left someone behind to bear ya faults.
Leanne aging into a white woman was the most random thing ever 😆
😂 people saying this was a good movie is proving how low the ball has dropped.
I haven’t cried soo bad 😢 , felt the love Leanne had for that man and he had for her, I wrote my ex every day just to let her know someone was here for her at all times even if it could never be . And I just gave up. I got tired of running . When he came out that bus and they killed that man while she watched ; I felt my heart drop. Losing somebody right in front of you. And when she got them letters at the end and cried I BALLED 😭
Big tears
Yeah when she got the letters in the end man you can hear the hurt in her cries she truly misses Bayou & is heart broken to lose the love of her life still sending paper airplanes to Bayou 😢
Leanne was already married when she and Bayou got back together. I also missed the part where Bayou was a stepson to the father. I think if Bayou’s brother hadn’t betrayed him everything would’ve been fine. They didn’t know he was in town until the brother gave the tip. Good review overall. The irony of the ending was seeing that confederate flag on the house Leanne sat weeping in.
I think Bayou and Willie Earl had the same father. I think the father denied Bayou because of his color
Yeah when they were arguing in the house before he left for Chicago he mentioned it
It probably was colorism too but he did in fact say he wasn’t his son. He called bayou’s daddy a “black ass”
@@notaytguru8214 yes , the father Busta said you ain’t shit just like your black ass daddy. But I think he was talking about himself. He’s dark and wasn’t contributing to the family, which can make a man feel low. He favored his lighter child over the darker child. A common ignorance in the Black community, especially back then. Bayou referred to him as Daddy. I think Busta was Bayou’s father even though he rejected him.
@@DeVron83 me too, plus Bayou was the youngest child. So it wasn’t like she already had a child when she met him. The father chose a light complexed wife think he would have light complexed children
I personally feel that the ending was perfect considering the content of the movie. The movie was centered around love and hate. Although Leanne and Bayou were in love, she also became what she was coached to be. It’s evident that their son was just as hateful as the men he came to know as father considering his phone conversation. When his biological paternal grandmother delivered those letters, not only was he awakened to the harsh reality of his father being a black man……..hell ! He found out that his mother was a mixed white woman. At this point, he had a lot of things to digest. I think the author of this blog wanted more but more wasn’t needed. A Jazzman’s Blues was simply a beautiful love story torn between two forces. Love and hate and in the end, love was still in the place where it began and that was in the hearts of Leanne and Bayou.
A Jazzman’s Blues is truly the most beautiful love hate love story I’ve ever seen. ✌🏾
In the beginning of the movie the guy didn’t even know he was talking to his grandmother
I gotta see what willie earl told his mom .. I wanna see the guilt in his soul for getting his brother killed
Me too
This movie had so much trauma from Bayous rivalry with his brother, to Bucket passing, to later the Klan being after him......It was absolutely a fascinating movie 🎬
That's the base of Bayou and Buckets love is Trama Bonding.
@@tandrahill302, I agree they both suffered severe tragedies that would cripple anybody......Bayou is definitely the male version of Celie from The Color Purple
Don’t call her Bucket
I feel like Leann was sloppy with it, I know she loved Bayou but she didn’t think about the consequences and that she was hurting everybody involved
LeAnne wanted to have her cake and eat it too! She wanted all the privileges of passing for white but also enjoy the love of a black man! Once she was of a certain age she could’ve left her mother and followed her heart!
She didn't though. She was a coward who went along with everybody else's plans for her. She was ready to give everything up to be happy with Bayou.
Facts she should’ve ran before moving to Boston if you ask me
She would’ve got killed tho is she would’ve told them she was black
I don't agree cause the plan all along was to run away with buyou
Both her and bayou were cowardice when it came to standing up to family members, by the time they decided no more it was too late
I will get eaten alive for this. While I enjoyed the movie the story was not flushed out properly. The movie left us with too many questions at the end. I think would have been better as a mini series because the storyline of all characters could have been more realized. It was okay better than other TP movies
Same! I felt alittle like damn I want to know more. Especially about the ending for the other brother
I want a part 2 to answer the ending.
Hi I know you don't know me but I saw your comment and I 100% agree with you this was a very good project I loved it but to me just felt like it was unfinished too many unanswered questions we definitely need a part two what do you think?
Loved the movie, but the ending left me wanting more. I suppose sometimes this is done purposely, but I would definitely welcome a part two to this one. Does the son continue the legacy of “passing,” or is he convicted to the point of change? Surely there’s enough there for a sequel. We can hope!
I totally agree. I still have so many questions! Did they burn down Mama’s house? How did Leanne escape the bus and how wasn’t she caught? She was no where to be seen during the night or when they killed Bayou. What happened to Ira? I really loved his character development and his background made me shed tears :(
This movie toe me uppp! I cried at the end it was saf but I was mad at same time at her. It was well made and written.
Me too... I was so deep in tears 😭 but great movie Tyler!!! Willie Earl ought to feel like sh** he hurt me!!
@@sheiladotson6548
Can't stand that light skin Mfer 😒
Be being light skin myself🥴🥴
Another familiar face outside of TP productions is Bayou’s mother portrayed by Amirah Vann. She plays on Queen Sugar and used to play on How to Get Away With Murder.
Before all that, she played Ernestine on Underground…
Also Underground. She's awesome
@@reshundagarth9629, I’m aware. I only listed her most recent. 🙂
@@keba773, I’m aware. I only named her most recent. 🙂
She fell in love Anna lisa
Thing is Buster wasn't Bayou's Dad, and he treated him as such. The Grandfather was molesting her, and called the mother to come for her once he find out about Bayou. When she left and he was laughing was so disturbing. Your comment about racism, I was thinking the same as the movie went on. Question, how did you feel about the slaps between Sissy and Leanne?
I didn't really like how 'Bucket' was in her feelings about Cisly just playfully jumping on Bayou's back after he rejected her advances and left her car saying look I ain't bout to die! While she was in a home with a whole husband...the slapping heck I'm GLAD she slapped her back!
@@OurKindofEntertainment I loved that Sissy reminded her of who she really was, Sissy brought Leanne right back to reality. I was thrown at first like why is Leanna acting like that.
I think Buster was his dad, he just referred to Bayou in third person because he didn’t like himself.
@@klondik697 I just finished and now that you mention it that makes a lot of sense. They were the same complexion so it might have been self hate.
@@klondik697 No when he left he made a comment about telling the boy the truth.
I just wondered what would've happened if the baby had come out looking like Bayou, Cytsi played an important role as well.
I was hoping when she delivered the baby would be chocolate.🤣
She probably would've given the baby away and tell her husband that the baby died.
Remember bayou mom told her when she was in the garden “what if that baby would’ve came out black”. That’s when I knew that was bayou baby.
I agree. As Leanne was giving birth I knew that wasn’t her husbands baby. She didn’t want anyone in the home to know she was in labor which is why she decided to give birth at Hattie’s. I was kinda of hoping the baby would come out darker to change the WHOLE perspective of the story, but I really like this ending where Jonathan was raised to be a confederate, only to find out that he’s black.
Tbh the ending should’ve been different because nobody in their right mind would’ve brought willie. Bayou gotta be slow like they said💔
🤣🤣🤣
I thought the same thing 😭😭😭
💀🤣
Right 😂😂😂😂
Right! Who got time for that?!?!
Imagine being racist your whole life then find out you're black😏
Lmao. Bro was on the porch reevaluating his whole life.
@@Thrillerlover96 🤣🤣🤣
Yes! The next time someone want to be racist, look them right in the face and say...you could be black! Check your background status. Are you sure your parents and grandparents were both white?
He’s not black, a black person can not pass for a white person. Just like a white person can not pass for a black person.
@sboudreaux27 I said the exact same thing..
I have watched this movie several times, it’s one of Tyler’s best ❤️ the heart is a beast it’s hard to tell it what to do and listen to it. Bayou was in Love with Leanne, and couldn’t let her go, she loved him as well. Her Mom put her in a bad situation and she did what she thought was best for Bayou at the time, but never forgot him…true love is something you will never forget and if it’s meant to be it will be…so the wrong doing here is by Bayou’s brother and Leanne greedy Mother and course the killers
A great movie. Learning the struggles of color.
The house at the end though, was not a nursing home. But the home of Leanne. I assume the woman with the nurse was Leanne's son's wife. I as well would like to know what happened to the other characters. I assume the brother overdosed.
Hey quick perspective change. I think Willie Earl is not Buster’s son. But Bayou is.. I think off of script, Hattie Mae may have been assaulted (by a white man of course) when she was with Buster and Willie earl was the result of that however Bayou is Busters biological child.. however due to colorism and self-hatred Buster despises Bayou yet adores Willie-Earl and treats him as the golden boy. (Just a diff perspective, it may not be correct) but I think they are both Hattie Maes children.
The part about Bayou wasn’t his son is off for that time period especially being the youngest son. That implies that his mother had an affair while married to her husband?!! No black man would have stayed with a woman who had a baby by another man back then! Most women who had a child out of wedlock always left that child behind with grandchildren and never raised them even if the got married and had children, it was not the norm for a man to raise an outside child prior to their marriage. That part of the movie wasn’t right in context of society & that Jim Crow era.
I thought that Willie Earl was for the sheriff. Hattie was sleeping with him when she couldn't pay her taxes. Or maybe she couldn't pay her taxes and they slept together once and she got pregnant but passed him off as her husband's child.
For everybody saying how old Leanne looked u gotta think she had it rough her ENTIRE life and then on top of that she was living with the guilt of having a part in killing her true love. So that’s probably what Tyler Perry was going with her appearance.
Tyler went overboard bruh..lol.
Lmfao nice try
@@dmvbay2535 😂
Bullshit
And she turned 100% white lmao
I immediately got on my family and friend chat line to tell them about this movie 🎥 it was great thank you Tyler keep putting out these great films I give it a 10 plus
Oh yeah…the older Hattie Mae was portrayed by Daphne Maxwell Reid who played the second Aunt Viv on Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
OHHHH ! I didn't catch that ! Thank you 😊
💯
Get out!!! I didn't recognize her!!
@@csmith2484 I knew it was her the moment I saw her.
It came off as it was a cautionary tale about light-skinned people because neither of the villains in this movie were white. Both of the light-skinned characters were selfish and put their needs over Bayou’s life. This was more about colorism than racism because his own kind put him in harms way and cost him his life.
I agree with you on the girl but his brother no. It has nothing to do with colorism. Bayou knew what he was doing but he loved her more than he loved himself and it cost him his life
Did anyone else noticed that the juke jump look the same as the one in the color purple? I loved this movie. I give it a 10.
i definitely said the same thing
Yes
Omg yesss
I can name every movie he based every scene off of. Some films include: The Color Purple, Lady Sings The Blues, The Fabulous Baler Boys, The Cotton Club, Eve!s Bayou, etc.
Yesss!😍
I Just cant get over the fact that at the ending Hattie Mae looked about the same age as Leanne did..
Hattie Mae she looked younger than Leanne...lol.
Melanin
Right Leighann was 16 when her and Bayou met . Bayou mama had a 19 and 17 year old so I m going to give her late 30s early 40s at that time. No way in the world that lady marching down the tracks while LieghAnn looked to be in her 80s . I didnt understand that part😂
I definitely was mad at Leeann because she knew they would kill that man 🤦🏾♂️alllll her fault!
Yup she killed that man
When I saw the ending I was definitely disgusted by his brother how could you set him up like that Out of jealousy
nah...his BROTHER got him killed.
@@dmvbay2535 the brother and her wicked a$$ mother.Remember she told the sheriff he whistled at Leann
@@galehawkins-colon6704 yes, you're right. The mother was a demon and the brother was a straight up hater.
I like everything but the ending. In the 1940s, LeAnn was in her 20s, so in the 1980s, she should be in her 60s. She appears to be in her 90s and with dementia. If Hattie is the one that gives the letters to the sheriff (at the beginning), then that's proof that LeAnn looks way too old. Now Hattie looks like the correct age.
Stress caused it
@@heymisswest 😭🤣💀
She is part Caucasian and sometimes they do age a little quicker than other races, plus all the pressures she had in her life.
@@almondeyez24able 😂
Life whipped that a#!
It took Tyler Perry 27 years to produce this movie. He started writing it then stopped, then started it again. He directed it 27 years after creating it.
I will say the scenery was beautiful and the "authenticity" of product placement and costume design was great.
Leanne’s mama set it off. She got it started and Willie Earl finished it smh.
@sboudreaux27 he should have and just sent for bucket
I enjoyed it. I thought it was one of his best serious movies. I think he took notes from the movie fall from grace. It look like he finally hired hair stylists and makeup artist.
I loved this movie. Excellent acting by all! Had me in all my feelings. And that final scene with no verbal dialogue was brilliant...I actually shed a tear because I was fussing at LeAnne for most of the movie. But, I really felt her heartache at the end. I also liked how he shows truly what a rainbow we are. You have no idea which parent you may take after when it comes to complexion. Bravo Tyler. I'll be watching this one again. Bayou's smile alone will bring me back 😉.
Willie Earl told the sheriff Bayou was in town. They would've actually been able to sneak in and out without the lynch mobb ever knowing if not for Willie Earl so it's 100% his fault. Would they have tracked them down after realizing LeAnn and the baby were gone 🤷🏾♀️ but they came for him that night because of his own brother. And Bayou made me so mad with "having to be a man and stand up to them" 🙄. So he stopped the mobb from heading to the juke joint to torch it. He was trying to do the that the night he was run out of town but luckily he had folk to practically throw him in the car.
IRA kept warning him to it wasn't a good idea. But I knew his brother was gonna contribute to him getting caught.
Yep that’s why Willie was crying
I think it wasn’t just about being a man but keeping them from burning the place down. Because this time they most definitely would have with all the people In it too.
@@imanijones227 True. He definitely stopped them from torching his mom's place. But "not being man enough" was a long running issue for him. He thought he was a coward for never standing up to Willie & his dad growing up, not stopping LeAnne's granddad from graping her, for leaving town in the middle of the night. This time he was gonna "be a man" and stand up to them and that's how it ended. Just made me so mad
Yeah Leanne heart break in the end was sad man I felt it for her she’s still making paper airplane’s hoping Bayou gets it man losing the love of your life like that 😢
I honestly loved the movie and I felt like Tyler put his heart and soul in this movie and I love how In the beginning of the movie he shows the father showing the favoritism towards the lighter son and bayou it gives u a sense of where the story is going before it starts and at some points the story was predictable like in the beginning when bucket son was reading the letters I just knew that was her son and he was mixed in some way
The ending of the movie was typical for me. I believe it would’ve been more dramatic if Bayou lived, the brother overdosed on drugs (or killed for robbing to buy drugs). It would’ve been a great story if the sheriff had the juke-joint burned down because Hattie refused to continue paying him. She goes to Bucket for help. She refuses because of her now “well off” status. Meanwhile Bucket’s mother threatens to run Hattie out of town if the Bayou’s letters don’t stop or threaten to have him killed if he ever comes back. Hattie decides to give Johnathan the letters; knowing it will stir trouble because he will question his paternity. Meanwhile Bayou is in Europe or France singing but fearing whether to come to home to rescue his mother. A Jazzman’s Blues 2 would’ve been centered on Bayou finding out Johnathan is his son.
(Well that’s my mini rewrite)
The hell are you talking about this ALLLLL over the place 😂😂
History isn't a fantasy. This is how it went back then.
Can somebody tell me why A Jazzman’s Blues is out of the top 10 on Netflix already ? Are we/black folk not supporting Tyler on this one ? To me, it’s the best work I’ve seen by Tyler Perry.
Help me out somebody.
I doubt Willie would ever confess to betraying his brother unless he was high. The same way he never told anyone about his father dying the way he did. Willie said his father's brains ( or blood??) was splattered on him. He betrayed his brother because he outshined him. Maybe he had his father killed too, to take out the competition? Just a thought. Why wouldn't he say anything like a normal person would, but instead say it while he was high. Guilty conscious talking?
The movie mad me cry for the selfishness of man - the shameful, dark things we will do to self-preserve. Whether it be deny our heritage, stay silent in the face of wrongdoings, do drugs to escape our own pain, or even kill those we are threatened by. This movie was alot to take in...
I am ok with the ending. Because That Confederate flag spoke volumes.
I was looking at that too. It def does
How did Leanne secretly get off the bus with her baby and continue to live undetected as a white women>?
If i had to guess, there’s no way she got off the bus without them knowing that she was trying to run away with Bayou. However, I still don’t think they knew she was black bc they would’ve killed her and possibly the baby too. I’d even say they probably would’ve killed every person at that juke joint (including Ira) if that secret was revealed.
I think if anything they were under the impression that Bayou wanted a “white woman” if they did find her on the bus.
So, instead of getting rid of her, I think her punishment was to stay with her husband bc of his image/pride & for her safety I think she buried the truth about her identity & her baby’s (that’s probably why she aged so horribly & now has dementia (?)).
Obviously none of what I said is true lol, but that’s what I think whenever I think further into it.
They didn't know she was on the bus
The “word” I got was don’t run back to the place (person or thing) that didn’t receive you originally. Just DONT. The end result WILL be tragic.
I know audiences are use to having happy endings, but TP switched it up. Personally, I thought the ending sucked! The mother and Bucket should've just been brought to Chicago, or he should've just left that no good brother in the motel room. But he definitely never should've returned to the town that ran him away.
I think the brother would have found a way to get word to the sheriff that Bayou was there. He should have sent for his mother first and then Bucket
I didn’t like the ending. The acting was good. It made no sense for him to back. I wanted a happy ending.
Yeah, it felt so random to have him go back just to die. Would've been more powerful if his brother did it or heck if let's say Leanne's husband or the sheriff was out of town and somehow came across Bayou at a concert or something to really add depth to omg they are going to do whatever it took to kill him for 'whistling' (even though he did A LOT more lol)
A happy ending??? Tyler Perry loves drama nasty, hurtful, vengeful drama. He either begins his storylines with it and then works through it or it ends the story but it is always there. Tyler Perry really needs some therapy for his past because it shines through everything he does. Tyler did an interview on Kelly and Ryan show and he said that his gift of writing was born out of trauma and his writing certainly is reflective of that. The only thing is if the writing is supposed to be for healing it's not working because he still is hurting.
We knew there would be no happy ending. The movie begins knowing there will be a murder and it's pretty oblivious it will be Bayou's when we see the name on the letter.
@sboudreaux27 ha ha hahaha haha hahaha ha. I definitely hear you
If the son is reading letters written to Leann. Who’s telling the part about Bayou getting killed and other parts that wouldn’t be written to her?
Good question!
I was thinking about the same because if he wrote down everything, he certainly didn't have the time or opportunity to write he just met his son for a few minutes for the first time when he went to Leanne in the bus and he got killed right afterwards.
I think Bayou's mother wrote the ending (Bayou being lynched).
I didn’t have an issue with the ending. It’s an open ending for the viewers imagination to picture the next chain of events. Bucket was not in a nursing home btw, that’s the family home. When Bucket saw Bayou again, she had already eloped 3 months prior. It was said at the dinner table. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. Tyler did a great job and you can tell this project meant a lot for him. It’s very telling of some blacks who took advantage of “passing” and it’s impact on them.
Yeah. The passing part was another thing that was peculiar in this film. I noticed it. let me explain why I found it peculiar. Im Mixed myself. Whenever you see movies of folks of a similar skin persuasion playing the passing game (I call it that), such as Alex Haley's Queen and I Passed for White, you're not going to move back to the SAME town (Or within "a few hours of where you were born) where people can recognize you and blow your cover. Leanne explained this in the scene with her mother just before her mom slaps her. Little things you notice in a film. Still think it was a brilliant work of an artistic fable with a moral at the end.
Bucket was no longer mixed just white at the end I was like wtf!
The guy who played Ira (Eggold) is Max in New Amsterdam.
I love New Amsterdam. It's a great show and he is a great actor. His facial expressions when he acts coordinates well with what his character is feeling and doing bringing the character to life
Yep & Blacklist
I don't if I'm the only person that felt this way, but LeAnne was way lighter old than she was younger.
You are not the only one
I felt the same way. The elder Leanne looks the same age as the elder Hattie Mae.
I just think she looked way older than what she should have for that time period
@@anitaf2145 i agree with this. i think people tend to look lighter as they age anyways.
Of course. Most ppl are
Bayou poured his heart into those letters and the rightful owner got those letters at the end The mother and The son
The son basically was 25% white and 75% black.
Leane wasn’t worth it
she wasnt she was very selfish her love for him was genuine but she just didnt care about his safety
They both were his kids. I believe the father had self hate issues with his skin. He saw himself in Bayou.
Right! Agreed. It hated Bayou because he looked like him.
Loved this movie. Leann aged badly due too her guilt. The two faced brother can go to hell. The son soaking in the fact that he might be a brother is priceless. Looks like he wanted to end his life.
This movie was really good , I thought bayou and Leann’s relationship was so cute… this movie is the true definition of when you meet the right person at the wrong time.. in a sense I do think Leann could’ve went with bayou in the end if they didn’t stop to meet in the damn bus 😢 , But then again his brother would’ve reported that and they both would’ve gotten in trouble. I didn’t like Willie earl , he annoyed me throughout the whole movie. He was jealous of bayou because he was talented and was gon be something in life , his brother hated him for that and didn’t have not one ounce of remorse when he got him killed
If he didnt have remorse he wouldnt have started crying before anyone else knew what what going on
@@broomhilldahrose8323 that was guilt eating at him. He didn't have no remorse because he got his own brother killed
@@KingJordan355 eye have met MANY killers and if they don't have remorse they will not cry for you, they will actually laugh while you hang and try to relive your death in every way possible and when the high no longer comes they kill again. This situation was different...and God forgives killers that are remorseful if you didn't know and if you don't believe in God that doesn't change that truth.
@@broomhilldahrose8323 people cry because of guilt too. What are you saying?
Plot twist... The "Father" of Bayou/Willie Earl was the Real father of Bayou but Not Willie Earl despite He not claiming Bayou as his own. It was a Self Hate thing that He disliked Bayou bc he was Black/Darker compared to the half white brother. He saw the older Half White Brother as the "Better" son bc of his Skin color/Qualities and accepted him as his own even tho He knew he wasnt. Willie Earl(the oldest)was possibly the Result of a White Man getting to Hattie Mae & having a Forced Child(Not surprising as This happened very much so in the Slavery days & obviously the Black Women/Men couldn't do anything about it just accept it). The Father just accepted Willie Earl bc he was Half white/lighter skinned or maybe he really believed/wanted him to be his son and a White man screwed him over and Hattie Mae never admitted to it. Thats why he took his Aggression out on Bayou & Hattie Mae too in the movie & his Anger/Guilt of that truth eventually led to his Suicide. If this theory is True, Tyler Perry is a Genius bc It coincides with the plotline of the film itself similar with Leanne's Upcoming issues. Hattie mae had her own secrets too & issues and seemed like a another Movie in itself. Leanne would have the same family issue similar to hattie mae if her White Husband ever found out that kid was half black or if He was in denial about the baby but still accepted it. He would treat that half black baby differently from their Full White babies if they had any more. Thats if the Baby wasnt killed 1st..
Also, Bayou's Father being in a Self Hate Mindframe Trained Willie Earl to look at his brother Bayou much Less than him since he is Half White(but still Black) & to Hate Him as he did with the "Black ass" remarks & all. Flash forward to end of movie, Leannes Son was Raised a similar way under White Supremacy and he was Black but Leanne never revealed her Truth to anyone. This is Similar to Hattie Mae not revealing her Truth about her half white Child either.
This right here. Willie earl was mixed too but not passing. This would explain the favoritism and the colorim. It would also explain Willie earls resentments, him being mixed, not passing, having to contend with himself and his mom
I wonder if Bayous son in the end realises the lady giving him the letters at the start was his grandmother.
I think he realized that in the beginning when he saw they said Leanne
She was already married to the brother when she came back on the scene.
Agreed. The end was disappointing for me as well, no definite closure.
I liked the film. I watched it twice because I was a little confused the first time I saw it. I still don't understand is that if the final story takes place 40 years after Bayou was murdered, why is the older Lianne at the end so old! The actress who played the older Leanne looked as old if not older than the older Hattie Mae that same year. When we first meet Bayou, Leanne was only 16 and much younger than Hattie Mae who already had two grown sons. So how can the older Leanne appear as old as Hattie Mae? She should have been in her late 60's or early 70's 40 years later, don't you think? I was also confused as to who was Bayou's father. 😕
I think a lot of people are thinking of 50 year olds today vs how they looked in the past. Look at the goldens girls who technically were early to mid 50s in 1985 when the show premiered. They looked more like 60 due to the style back then.
Also people had children very early back then so realistically there may have only been a 15 to 20 year difference between Hattie Mae and Leanne.
she would have been 63, but I agree she looked much too old. She looked as though she was 83.
Probably Cause we Age Different!!
Bayous father was in the beginning of the movie, he left and went to Chicago and died there
Stress and pain ages a person.
I thought the movie was far better than Tyler Perry's last Netflix disaster, "A Fall From Grace." It was well done for the most part however, I can't give this a 10/10 ,I'd probably go 7/10. The problem for me ,as in most Tyler Perry productions ,is inconsistencies in writing ✍️ and dialogue as a whole. I also feel their were times the directing felt rushed. I know this was a major pet project for Tyler, as he wrote it over 20 years ago, but like most Tyler Perry projects ,I still wonder how it would be in the hands of a better director.
Oh gosh MILES AHEAD better than that mess...
You Better Have somethin For us To Critique talkin like that‼️
If Steven Spielberg directed it it would have won 5 Oscars.
I gotta clown on Tyler Perry for a second. He's the writer, director, producer, executive producer, composer, second grip, director of photograpy, location scout, and wardrobe coordinator! The man does a lot!
You've better had something better to say than this. Which one have you done that could serve as a better reference point.
This film was exceptional! Tyler Perry’s best one yet….I think you may need to watch it again. The systemic roots of racism on both sides of the family are deep hence we have a blended family/ies. Earl and Bayou have same mom different dads (life happens). Earls dad got him strung out and then committed suicide (everyone has different demons) blew his brains out in front of Earl. The spirit of jealousy Earl had for Bayou was very clear from the beginning. And those shots heard in the distance dropped his two body guards in the yard. Jonathan wasn’t even two when his stepdad and uncle killed his biological father Bayou. Jonathan learns the story not from his mamma but from his own black grandmother calling him “ok Mr. Whitman” read this. Definitely an eye opening chain of events for someone who thought he was one race all his life is now black with a confederate flag hanging on his parents house! Whoooo…that’s deep. I rate this movie 10/10!
This was a very good movie but I felt the ending was rushed. Like something was just missing. Still an awesome movie tho!❤
Hattie Mae was my favorite character. Such a strong woman, and a very proud woman who prided herself on pulling her own weight even after business at the juke joint plummeted.
The point of the movie is it started with a white man (whose family held political power in that town for years) campaigning and threatening to come against affirmative action if he’s elected…and the old lady was listening to him campaign on TV with such audacity….so she went to give him some humble pie by giving him those letters….the movie ends with guess what? YOU’RE BLACK yourself! ….and he had to go sit on the porch in shock.
Thank you! When she turned the television off she said something like “ that’s enough of you White Man!”
Bayou was one of the people that caused of his death because why didn’t you tell somebody’s to go get them
Rght
I agree but he also was tired of feeling less than a man and inferior. He really loved that woman like wow
@@ladileelee1 oh I understand that but still you know they coming after you like to me if that love I don’t want it lol
@@mekhiaross2711 I felt that like seriously
I’d like it If he made a movie focusing on Willie Earl. TP could focus on the guilt, shame, and remorse Willie Earl carried with him after his betrayal and how it impacted future generations.
A beautiful film. The best of Tyler’s work. The music was like another character in the film. The acting, sets, dancing, cinematography, everything was excellent. The story was predictable in terms of their love affair… we knew in that time period their love would sadly lead to a “Strange Fruit.” Ruth B.’s, poignant delivery of “Paper Airplanes” captures their story wonderfully…”Love So Divine…”
And yes, their son had to come to terms with the undeniable fact that he was sho nuff of the melanated community. 😊
The movie was good, not great but good. Tyler Perry really tried but it was typical Tyler Perry; the predictable outcome, the familiar storylines, the stereotyped characters, the anger, pain and revenge that's always in his movies. I felt like the movie had a lot of resemblance to the Notebook, Titanic, the Color Purple and of course Emmett Till. I had difficulty understanding why the movie was titled A Jazzman's Blues considering jazz was not introduced until half way through the movie. It seemed as though the movie took on two different themes that weren't intertwined and going in two different directions. Bayou the main character was not an aspiring jazz singer. He was not shown as having a passion for singing at all but only singing at the request of his mother to sing at her jook-joint but he wasn't even a headliner at her spot. . In fact, Bayou was not even shown talking about jazz nor singing to the girl that he was supposedly in love with and who took her time to teach him.. Old school jazz singers and musicians were known as Jazzman because of their passion and pursuit of the art of jazz.. But for Bayou jazz was a means of survival after Bayou was run out of town and forced into a car with his brother and a manager who setup an audition for Bayou's brother Willie Earl in Chicago.. ironically Bayou's brother Willie Earl was actually the one who was shown aspiring to become a Jazzman as a jazz musician. If it had not been for Willie Earl Bayou would not have had any means of escaping being killed at the hands of the white men looking for him nor would Bayou have had opportunity for work. I guess that would also go on the list of why Willie Earl resented Bayou. The acting, singing and dancing was great however you could tell that that baby delivered was a doll. Someone said that it would have been better as a Broadway production or a play and I'm incline to agree. Nevertheless Tyler Perry showed great effort to come out of his box of mediocrity. Practice makes more practice because there is no perfect and I'm sure Tyler will be practicing a lot more. This was definitely better than most of his recent rushed productions and shows.
What movie did u watch?🧐😂
@@thaguy3637 the one I explained. How about you???
I completely agree. It was certainly better than his last disaster, but it's not a great movie by any means. I honestly struggle to say it was good. It was a rehashing of movie plots and tropes seen a million times before. Character actions made absolutely no sense to me to the point it felt just out of nowhere and not a drop of common sense.
@@roshonda2010 EXACTLY
It’s always that one person who wants to be different. STFU
I really enjoyed it … I cried at the end it was sad
It was a wonderful film but the ending left me with questions too.
I have a conspiracy theory 😂 Willie Earl looked more like the “half-breed” more than the brother If you ask me 👀… they never did talk more into that about the “other” farther and why they felt Bayou wasn’t his but Willie Earl was … 🤔
This is the comment ive been looking for. Willie earl looked mixed his damn self. That actually would have tied things better into his character and made more sense. Him being mixed but forced to live as totally black and his "father" liking him more because of colorism would have made more sense. I felt they could have gave us more of willie earl. Back then, he would have been seen as mixed too moreso then leann because it was obvious
I think Hattie gave them letters to Johnathan so he could know the truth , she knew who killed her child
Sisy is bayou's cousin
I liked the movie. Although predictable, I enjoyed. Only part that annoyed me was that Leanne was so old in the end. Leanne looked older than Bayou’s mother, who we saw in the beginning. It doesn’t make sense to me.
I think the baby was so fair because Bayou’s mom was fair skinned too
The amount of hate I developed for a character in a movie has never been this deep. I hated Leanne’s mother and that damn Willie Earl
The Mama should have left and followed her son. Sent ira back to pick up Leanne
Very good story... about secrets, survival and betrayal.... at its best form during the early to mid 1900s. For Black American seems it was very hard to have love relationships. I can't imagine as a teenager how it would be to try to like someone and date with the additional pressures of life weighing on struggling families. Adding here a valid point that Johnathan was delivered by his maternal grandmother. Who didn't get the chance to love him as a grandchild. And there is great number of unanswered questions for the audience to think about when it comes to the ending. From my stance, did Leanne continue to try help Hattie Mae along the way as she struggled knowing that was her son's grandmother? What was the issue with Leanne absent father? Who was he? Why did her mother continue to leave her behind with her grandfather? Does Johnathan tell his family what he now knows of his family history? Does his new family knowledge about his mother and father change him for the rest of his life knowing that he is a black man? Does Johnathan continue to push the white supremacist agenda forward? Does Johnathan reach back out to Hattie Mae after knowing the facts? Leanne endured alot of abuse before and during her marriage. This film shows a lot of struggles for blacks during that era despite the color of our skin. And brings forward the thoughts and mindsets when it comes to jealousy, envy as well as racism.
Well to me, it was a "common" storyline that we're all too familiar with. Still a good movie yet couldve had more substance. I believe Bayou's mom knew who Jonathan was from the rip thats why she gave him the letters, and not to look into a murder, also I believe that the day he got the letters from Bayou's mother, when he went to his mother with the letters, in which she was listening to the song paper planes (or whateva the name is) was the same day and was actually the anniversary of Bayou's death. 🤷🏽♀️😎
I was confused at the end when Willie called bayou mixed breed at the end.
I think LeAnn also mentions Bayou was mixed (like his son he end up looking more of one race) but that would explain why LeAnn's son looks more yt because Bayou is in fact mixed white.
My half brother father is actually very dark but has some white ancestry and my mom is lighter skin my brother is very light skin, genetics is weird and beautiful
@@kittyncocoalways1 but in the beginning I think his brother dad called his dad dark or something that’s why he didn’t like him because he was dark
I think he was projecting. Willie earl is the mixed on. He was high and expressing his own grief
Why wasn’t this in theaters
I thought you were explaining the ending. You retold the whole movie.
I enjoyed how Tyler Perry eased in true historical events into his movie. I picked up on 4 and maybe 5 events. Brilliantly done.
I only got the emmitt till reference what are the others?
I hated the ending we needed more closure and explanations💯
I didn’t have a problem with Leanne looking older in the end with her having white ancestry. I got that her mom was biracial and her dad was maybe white or mixed as well which would explain why Jonathan was so fair as well. I have a grandmother in a nursing home who is 83 … her roommate is a 64 year old white woman and looks way older than my grandma. So it’s possible.
I did!