This is a low-key deep interpretation.
Why are they trying to remake Color Purple? Hasn't that movie done enough damage? WTF!
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Bad idea. They should just re-release the original. That and Raisin in the Sun.
Color Purple is my top 5 favorite films. It captured black reality that rarely ever gets filmed.
Im so glad Oprah, Woopie, and Glover played their roles the way they did. Also Steven Speilberg somehow pulled it off.
The only film of black people ever done right. IMHO
Color Purple is my top 5 favorite films. It captured black reality that rarely ever gets filmed.
Im so glad Oprah, Woopie, and Glover played their roles the way they did. Also Steven Speilberg somehow pulled it off.
The only film of black people ever done right. IMHO
Yo, this is my first time seeing this comment and sir blasphemy is not allowed. I am not a fan of the remake. They should have left this movie alone, but the original movie stands the test of time.
Sad isn't it?
People don't realize but it speaks to a larger issue of accepting such limitations for themselves in life.
the only one??
A movie that made black men look real bad in spite of a black lady in a fair fight with a white male and was treated the way she was for standing up as a human.
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Exactly! I felt the same way about the Tina Turner movie. After everything Ike did for her career they tried to make him look like a abusive asshole
damn you really the point huh?
Yeah I agree.. of all the damn movies never understood black women's attraction and identification with this movie. Men ain't shit in this movie. I think this movie did a lot of damage to blackmen/women relationships. It damn sure ain't do anything positive. Fuck this version of that fucked up movie.
When it came out I was young n didn't understand none of it.. but I did know it was some fucked up shit... but I also knew in the south some shit was like this foreal.. but having it come back around I feel is dumb asf! Nothing of this movie needs to be made again! Straight fuck boy movie! N I don't think it made anyone relationship go one way or another I just feel we didn't agree with this movie when it came out.. no different than the movie precious... nothing that needed to be seen...
It's funny how the actual book was much more positive towards black men than the movie. Yes I read the book right before the movie came.
The book goes into much more detail about the pastor that ended up raising Celie's sister. He was married with children and treated the sister like his own daughter. I have add an edit here. The kids were actually the two kids Celie had with the stepfather. The pastor ended taking care of all of Celie's family as his own along with his wife.
Celie's real father is the one that left her the store she ends up with at the end of the movie. The pedo stepfather hid it from her before he died. I forgot how exactly she found the paperwork.
Celie's son falls in love with an African girl and as a show of solidarity with his future wife, allows his face to be cut up in ritual that was for the women of the tribe. Although the movie lightly touched on this, it's true impact was short played.
FWIW, Suge's boyfriend was a cool dude who was just enjoying her company.
I always thought the Women of Brewster Place was the real attack on Black men. The movie and the book were depressing as fuck. They even found a way to demonize the one descent brotha in the whole story.
The book goes into much more detail about the pastor that ended up raising Celie's sister. He was married with children and treated the sister like his own daughter. I have add an edit here. The kids were actually the two kids Celie had with the stepfather. The pastor ended taking care of all of Celie's family as his own along with his wife.
Celie's real father is the one that left her the store she ends up with at the end of the movie. The pedo stepfather hid it from her before he died. I forgot how exactly she found the paperwork.
Celie's son falls in love with an African girl and as a show of solidarity with his future wife, allows his face to be cut up in ritual that was for the women of the tribe. Although the movie lightly touched on this, it's true impact was short played.
FWIW, Suge's boyfriend was a cool dude who was just enjoying her company.
I always thought the Women of Brewster Place was the real attack on Black men. The movie and the book were depressing as fuck. They even found a way to demonize the one descent brotha in the whole story.
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The book was excellent, the movie was garbage and was the beginning of black struggle porn in Hollywood. I sure as hell won't be revisiting it. This shit better do worse numbers than The Marvels
I'm confused. What damage did it do?
It was a beautifully shot movie and should have won multiple awards but, Black people.
No movie could have approached the novel; one of a few that I read literally cover to cover - never put it down.
It was a beautifully shot movie and should have won multiple awards but, Black people.
No movie could have approached the novel; one of a few that I read literally cover to cover - never put it down.
My only complaint with the movie was that it downplayed the positive black men and their storylines and only highlighted the worst of the worst blackmen.
I agree with everything else you said.
Let's have a real debate about this movie
What about the movie can you truly relate to? It's true that in the history between the Blackman/black women, there have been and always will be issues. Across the whole black diaspora, you can always find stories/events of black suffering and the black man dogging the shit out of black women. Full stop Period!! this story has been told over and over again. From a cinematic perspective, there is nothing to be truly gained from this movie. It's like a slave movie. What slave story has been told (by now) that if you are paying attention, hasn't been told before? IMHO the Color Purple shows black men and their treatment of black women in the most negative light possible yet BLACK WOMAN embraced this movie as in each of their lifetime journeys, they have personal experiences and engaged black men who are just like the characters in the movie. To that, I say "FOH". I've been black and known black men all my life and never seen or engage a black man with the level of fuckery as displayed by the black men depicted in The Color Purple. Now I'm saying the quiet part out loud. The Color Purple is bullshit and the black women who embrace that bullshit should be ashamed of themselves because it depicts ALL black men in an unrealistic false light.
What about the movie can you truly relate to? It's true that in the history between the Blackman/black women, there have been and always will be issues. Across the whole black diaspora, you can always find stories/events of black suffering and the black man dogging the shit out of black women. Full stop Period!! this story has been told over and over again. From a cinematic perspective, there is nothing to be truly gained from this movie. It's like a slave movie. What slave story has been told (by now) that if you are paying attention, hasn't been told before? IMHO the Color Purple shows black men and their treatment of black women in the most negative light possible yet BLACK WOMAN embraced this movie as in each of their lifetime journeys, they have personal experiences and engaged black men who are just like the characters in the movie. To that, I say "FOH". I've been black and known black men all my life and never seen or engage a black man with the level of fuckery as displayed by the black men depicted in The Color Purple. Now I'm saying the quiet part out loud. The Color Purple is bullshit and the black women who embrace that bullshit should be ashamed of themselves because it depicts ALL black men in an unrealistic false light.
You guys do know, that if there is a Black man portrayed in a movie, it doesn't mean they are talking about you... Unless something in your life makes you feel they are.
I mean, just because Black Panther and Falcon were played by Black men, doesn't mean you cats have super powers and a jet pack.
Never when I watched the original did I ever think the Danny Glover character was talking about me. Because that ain't me.
I mean, just because Black Panther and Falcon were played by Black men, doesn't mean you cats have super powers and a jet pack.
Never when I watched the original did I ever think the Danny Glover character was talking about me. Because that ain't me.
You guys are idiots.
For real I was 8 years old when the movie was released. It's fiction. This new movie is still gonna suck especially since it's a musical and sometimes you shouldn't mess with the classics
Ok..i'll bite.. you were never a slave but how many slave movies made did you not relate to and not think it happened to your peeps, or the lasting effects of slavery doesn't appeal to you...or better yet.. how many white folks go see a movie and think.. yeah that's how things should be or that's how you treat black folks. My point is yeah it's just a movie but movies do have the power to impact. I understand if it does not impact you personally but don't think it does not have an impact. I watch plenty of movies and don't get caught up but I know I'm sensitive to the constant barrage of negative portrayal of black men that have such wide distribution. Why? because some fool is going think and try to act like, the shit they seen is real and look to black men like myself as if we can relate to the bullshit. Fuck that..give me MORE "Hidden figures" and i'm good.
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