The Color Purple

[jamiekennywicked]

The Color Purple#1

Posted: 8/2/12 at 3:54pm

Just watching this. One of my all time favorite movies and just was wondering what some people on the board think? It's one of those films I never seem to get bored of watching..

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[Jordan Catalano]

The Color Purple#2

Posted: 8/2/12 at 3:57pm

In my opinion, possibly the greatest film ever made.

[Roscoe]

The Color Purple#2

Posted: 8/2/12 at 3:57pm

I know I saw this at some point, but it made no impression on me at all. I still think she'd have slit Mister's throat with that razor.

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[dramamama611]

The Color Purple#3

Posted: 8/2/12 at 4:03pm

I love it. Everything about it.

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[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

The Color Purple#4

Posted: 8/2/12 at 4:13pm

I only saw it once, but god did it wreck me. I watched it with a friend who said it was his favorite movie. As we watched, he said he couldn't tell my reactions.

Then we got to the end when (SPOILER) she's reunited with her kids and I started sobbing so hard I thought I was never going to stop.


Updated On: 8/2/12 at 04:13 PM

[ucjrdude902]

The Color Purple#5

Posted: 8/2/12 at 4:16pm

Never seen the movie, saw the show and I too bawled my eyes out.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

The Color Purple#6

Posted: 8/2/12 at 4:19pm

The whole time I watched the movie, I just keeping thinking "My god, how can it keep getting worse for her?" and it did. And then the end came and I couldn't believe how uplifted I felt after spending the previous 99% just thinking about horrible humanity can be.



Updated On: 8/2/12 at 04:19 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

The Color Purple#7

Posted: 8/2/12 at 4:21pm

I love hearing Oprah talk about the movie. For years and years I saw Mister as this horrible man but once I started seeing him as a victim of society, it made the movie even MORE depressing.

[Playbilly]

The Color Purple#8

Posted: 8/2/12 at 5:19pm

When it came out, I saw it twice in one weekend. And I never do that! Spielberg's style was so unconventional (and controversial)! People expected a somber film like SOUNDER, but they got a German Expressionist movie via Spielberg. How many movies are so heartfelt and so over the top?

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[Mister Matt]

The Color Purple#9

Posted: 8/2/12 at 5:21pm

I was in high school when the film was released and it completely changed how I viewed movies. It was the first time I became truly emotionally invested in a film and started developing a more mature perspective. I believe it is also the first film where I had read the novel before seeing the movie. I don't care what anyone says about it. It will always be one of my favorite films and I consider it a classic and a masterpiece. And that score is also one of the greatest. One phrase and I'm instantly transported to the setting and the characters. Every time I hear God Is Trying To Tell You Something, I break out in goosebumps.

I saw Mister as a horrible man when comparing him to today's standards, but I think the film did a pretty good job at cluing in the audience what was considered the expected behavior of the period and setting. They were all victims of society and victims of an era.

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[JerseyGirl2]

The Color Purple#10

Posted: 8/2/12 at 6:18pm

Forever one of my favorites.

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[iluvtheatertrash]

The Color Purple#11

Posted: 8/2/12 at 6:28pm

Totally thought Geraldine's Oscar should've been Whoopie's.

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