#the color purple 1985

[mytypeofdistraction]

The Color Purple (1985), dir. Steven Spielberg.

[invisible-pink-toast]

shug avery making sure everybody knows how important celie is to her no matter the adaptation

[cyarskj1899]

From ear to ear!!

[destinyc1020]

🎶 🎵 "Maybe God is Trying to Tell You Something" | "The Color Purple" (1985)

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[adaptations-polls]

Which version of this do you prefer?

[unholly-water]

The color purple (1985)

I truly don't know why I never heard of this movie before. It was life changing somehow, healing to see the development of those characters🫂

I can't explain what it's about, too deep and raw to put into words. But it's real sisterhood and love.

Words can't explain what I've felt when I've heard

"When I see you, I know there is a God."

"See, Daddy, sinners have souls too."

[riotgrrrlhole]

So my mom told me I need t get the f up my bed and stop crying and start singing so my intrusive thoughts don’t fuck me up and I made a playlist with a bunch of Disney songs or songs that lift me up and then I remembered this song from the color purple and I just cried harder because while I do not follow the rules of any church or religion i do believe there is a god and this song just made me cry in a good way and had hope for the future

If I were you, I would say yes, (Speak, Lord)

Speak, Lord (Speak to me)

Speak to me (Speak, Lord)

Oh, Speak, Lord (Speak to me)

Won't you speak to me? (Speak, Lord)

I was so blind (Speak to me)

I was so lost (Speak, Lord)

Until you spoke to me (Speak to me)

Oh, speak, Lord (Speak, Lord)

Speak, Lord (Speak to me)

And hear my mind (Speak, Lord)

Oh, with your word (Speak to me)

Heal my soul (Speak, Lord)

Oh, speak, Lord (Speak to me)

Speak to me (Speak, Lord)

Speak, my Lord (Speak to me)

Yeah, speak to me (Speak, Lord)

Ooh oh (Speak to me)

I love you, Lord (Speak, Lord)

Save my soul (Speak to me)

Oh! You cry all night (Crying all night long)

Something's gone wrong (Something has gone wrong)

Maybe God (Maybe God is)

Is tryin' (tryna tell you something)

Oh, you can't sleep at night (Can't sleep at night)

And you sure wonder why (and you wonder why)

Maybe God (Maybe God is)

The Lord's tryna tell you something

Tryin'

(Tryin'!) Tryin'

(Tryin'!) Tryin'

(Tryin'!) I'm tryin'

(Tryin'!) I'm tryin'

(Tryin'!) I'm tryin'

[cyarskaren52]

I hated Danny Glover in that movie so much because he played such a detestable character so well

If I was Celie I would’ve taken a knife and sliced mister.

I hated that character so much and there’s real life ones that act just like him

[swampybogg]

WIP

[fizziedoodle]

Me and you, us never part.

Makidada.

Me and you, us have one heart.

Makidada.

Ain’t no ocean, ain’t no sea.

Makidada.

Keep my sister away from me.

[invisible-pink-toast]

Celie and Shug Avery in The Color Purple (part 2)

[procrastinationaccount]

I'm going to lose my fucking mind

[theoscarsproject]

The Color Purple (1985). A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.

As much as I do love Steven Spielberg, it's pretty hard to deny that he was the wrong person to direct this adaptation. Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey and Margaret Avery deliver tremendous, showstopping performances, but Spielberg can't quite find his way into the story which - - y'know! Makes sense! He's a Jewish, male director adapting a story that so distinctively and empathetically belongs to Black women, and he's adapting it in the 80s! 

In that sense, Spielberg probably does the best job he possibly could've - there is still a lot to like here, from the performances to the stunning cinematography, to some scenes that are equal parts hopeful and harrowing, but Spielberg just can never quite get out of his own way, Still, it's worth the watch, especially for Whoopi who I've often liked as an actress, but genuinely floored me here. 7/10.

[guillotineman]

[internatlvelvet]

Susan Bottomly, 1985