Imago said:

JasmineFire said:

I kept thinking back to the movie. It's much better when u dont know whats going to happen next.

brownsugar said:

Gets me every time!

I've got 3 copies of this on dvd plus the audio soundtrack and the video.

Icicle said:

This movie is in my top 10 list of all time favourite movies. It is a masterpiece!! I love everything about it and the soundtrack kicks ass too. Even better than the movie though is the book. Alice Walker has written such a beautiful story. I've read it at least 10 times.

Did you know that Tina Turner was first offered the role as Shug Avery....

Icicle said:

Shut up! Really? Never heard that... could have been distracting...

"....sistah, you've been on my mind....."


I absolutely love this movie. I cry evertime I see it. 3 or 4 times througout the movie.

The part that really does it for me is when they start doing that MAKI-DA-DA song at the end.


M

CalhounSq said:

Yeah, i saw a documentary a few days ago. She said that she lived that life with Ike, and she wasn`t interested in living it again.

Icicle said:

Thank God she didn't take it.

Rhondab said:

When my best friend and I were around 13, every time we left each other somewhere, we'd scream, "WRITE!" "WHAAAT?" "WRIIIITE!" "NOTHING BUT DEATH COULD KEEP ME FROM IT!!" I mean, at the top of our lungs. Never failed to get a reaction from people just standing around.

We were real assholes sometimes.

i keep forgetting whether or not i've seen this movie in full or in parts, because i don't remember having seen it all the way through. but yeah, it's the shit-bomb-dookie.

lighting the stove with kerosene =

Icicle said:

Imagine her telling Celie: "YOU SHO' IS UGLY!!"

My top three quotes:

3. Sofia: Sat in that jail, I sat in that jail til I felt like I's bout to rot to death. I know what it like to wanna go somewhere and cain't. I know what it like to wanna sing... and have it beat out 'ya. I want to thank you, Miss Celie, fo everything you done for me. I 'members that day in the store with Miss Millie - I's feelin' real down. I's feelin' mighty low. And when I seed you - I knowd they is a God. I knowd they is a God.

2. Sophia: All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. A girl child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I'd have to fight in my own house!

And my personal #1 Favorite quote:

Albert: Who you think you is? You can curse nobody. Look at you. Your black, your poor, your ugly, your a woman, your nothing at all!
Celie: Until you do right by me, everything you even think about gonna fail!
Grady: It's been a pleasure meeting all of you. Good-bye.
Sofia: Look like I came back just in time.
Old Mr.: Well we need some stablility around here.
Albert: I shoulda locked you up. Just let you out to work.
Celie: The jail you plan for me is the one you gonna rote in!
Albert: I'ma knock you under...
[Celie hold up some kind of sign]
Celie: Everything you done to me, you already under you.
[Celie get in car]
Celie: I'm poor, black, I may even be ugly, but dear God I'm here, I'm here!

dseann said:

Why not? She'd have been great. At least she would have been able to sing her own songs.

I think about this movie at least once a day. It is my all time favorite and I've seen it countless times. I use it as inspiration. The movie has so many strong messages.

I plan on going to NYC this fall to see the Broadway play. I love the soundtrack so much and the book is life changing!

I am also a fan of Tyler Perry and he always manages to quite TCP in each of his plays...the funniest for me is on MADEA GOES TO JAIL and she does the whole 'All my life I had to fight' behind a cell!

LOL

TheResistor said:

I love that song. I think this is one of the only movies where I think the movie is better than the book.

Love this movie! Every Thanksgiving we watch these movies with the big ass table spreads of food! After we have stuffed ourselves to death my family and I sit around and watch these movies until our food digest in our bloated stomachs! The Wiz gets played first. Diana Ross' narrow ass in the kitchen like her ass can cook! Then we watch the Color Purple. It is desert time right here. Then Soul Food. All these movies with greens and dressing it will hit the spot!

My crazy sister re-enacted part of this movie at the end of here wedding. "I's married now! I's say I'm married now!" All the way out of the church.

Xagain said:

Did you see her in Beyond Thunderdome?
Didn't need a repeat of that kind of performance in a movie like The Color Purple.

dseann said:

I LOVED her in "Thunderdome."

dseann said:

I thought of that, wondering how well she would have acted in it. But she could probably tone it down to play something she once was (a juke joint singer of sorts) vs. a Queen from the future (or whatever she played in that movie)...

Xagain said:

Besides, Shug is an important character, but it's not a huge role. She would have been just fine. And I would really dig hearing Tina sing "God is Trying to Tell You Something" or "Dirty Dozens." That shit would be fierce.

one2three said:

Yeah, that could have been interesting

Margaret Avery was perfect for the role, she had that special kind of beauty, which worked so well for her character.

The book is simply an amazing piece of work.

Highly recommended.

Xagain said:

I have no problem with her singing....Quincy could have used her voice without her acting. She has a beautiful voice.
"We don't need another hero" from Thunderdome is one of my favorite songs of the 80's.

CalhounSq said:

Even hearing her speak normally in an intreview or something, she sounds like she's overacting.

Know what I mean?

dseann said:

Yea, I know

love lvoe love it, although i liked the book more.

shame the musical was such crap.

CalhounSq said:

Great movie. Oprah sholda stuck to acting. Shame she had to go and do such lame talk shows and start that whole crappy thing up.

thesexofit said:

She was doing talk/morning shows before she did the movie & was a tv reporter & anchor before that...

CalhounSq said:

Really?


Anyway, she shoulda stuck to acting. As for whoopi, well, she wasted her talent aswell playing comedy ALL THE TIME. I know there isn't many, if hardly any roles for serious black female actors, but she coulda tried harder.