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The Color Purple is a 2023 drama film, directed by Blitz Bazawule, starring Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson and Danielle Brooks.
- 231 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy
- posts span Oct 10, 2023 to Nov 3, 2026
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60 of 256 · most liked firstIf you’ve never heard Whoopi Goldberg tell the story of how she came to be cast in the film adaptation of Dr. Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple,” you should definitely watch this. This right here. This Black Culture. This is Community. We are truly a remarkable people. 🖤🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →Today in Black History: On Feb. 9, 1944, writer Alice Walker was born in Eatonton, Ga. Walker has written novels, short stories and poems about black American culture. Her most notable work was The Color Purple, which focused on the treatment of women. The film adaptation still resonates today.
neutral · AI labelView post →Here’s a question about this frankly awful piece of writing: What are the “progressive values” of The Color Purple? Sure, it’s a drama/musical instead of a kids’ movie or an action movie, but what are its screed-like “progressive values”? I mean, it’s not a real question; I know the answer.
neutral · AI labelView post →Holy shit. They are grouping The Color Purple in "movies with progressive values" can't imagine what you mean by that.
neutral · AI labelView post →Danielle Brooks learned she was Oscar nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in “The Color Purple” at 3:30 a.m. in New Zealand, where she is filming a movie. “I’m alive and I am an Oscar nominee today,” she told The New York Times. “I don’t think I’ll be able to go back to sleep.”
neutral · AI labelView post →Glover earned notice in Hollywood for his roles in Places in the Heart and Witness. However, his breakout role came in 1985 when he starred as Albert “Mister” Johnson in the critically acclaimed film The Color Purple. His performance established him as a premier Hollywood dramatic actor. /7
neutral · AI labelView post →So I'm watching The Color Purple as part of our Spielberg marathon. The thing that gets me about this movie so far is that it's clear that they toned down the lesbianism in its source material...but CLEARLY no one told the actresses because MY GOD! THEY KNOW WHAT'S UP!
positive · AI labelView post →“Tryin’ To Tell You Somethin’” A deep purple shade inspired by the song “Maybe God Is Tryin’ To Tell You Somethin’” from the movie The Color Purple. Just like the music, this yarn carries warmth and richness, making it a beautiful choice for projects that deserve a little extra depth and glow. 🧶
neutral · AI labelView post →(“The Color Purple” is a “political movie” but dozens of cop movies each year aren’t. Superhero movies with non-white-guy leads are political unless they make a ton of money at which point they just become movies again. And so on.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Without saying The Color Purple, fav Whoopi Goldberg Film? Does it have to be a *film*? 😍
neutral · AI labelView post →Figured I'd write some of my likes, to make some friends, so- -GAMES- -FNaF -Undertale -Deltarune -Minecraft -Dangonronpa -Roblox -Sky COTL -Fortnite -MOVIES- -IT (Chapter one and two) -Ponyo (Ghibli Film) -Deadpool VS Wolverine -Endgame -Five Nights At Freddy's -The Color Purple :3
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m watching THE COLOR PURPLE movie-musical again. And sure, it’s not a perfect film but my goodness, there are so many gems!
neutral · AI labelView post →How did the director Steven Spielberg and the indomitable Quincy Jones become introduced to Whoopi Goldberg when they were adapting The Color Purple to film? Oh you know…from the original work’s AUTHOR, Dr. Alice Walker—after receiving a note from a young Whoopi, praising the work. No biggie(!!).
neutral · AI labelView post →The “Mean Girls” trailers join “Wonka” and “The Color Purple” as films that have spent much of their marketing budget downplaying and disguising their vexed status as movie musicals.
neutral · AI labelView post →Sinners. Doesn’t matter who wins what. It never does, long term. Not for footprint. e.g. which film do ppl teach or reference/quote more, make costumes of, make fancams/edits of, include in GOAT lists more, mention as actors’ best roles: Malcolm X or Unforgiven? The Color Purple or Out of Africa?
neutral · AI labelView post →I was born in 1980... I'm choosing one movie per day from each year to today. The Color Purple is one of the greatest movies ever made!!! 🎥🎬🍿 #filmsky #moviesky #moviechallenge 6 of 45 1985
positive · AI labelView post →I had this same experience when I went to see The Color Purple. I had nightmares for weeks and I couldn't stop impulsive sobbing. I bought the movie when it came out, because it was possibly the best movie I had ever seen, but I never once played it. I still think of it. The Academy was wrong.
positive · AI labelView post →Sad to learn that Next Act Cinema, a boutique, dine-in theater in Pikesville, MD, is closing Monday. Next Act was one of our Movie House Shout-Out theaters, and a rare Black-owned cinema that became a destination for films like MUFASA, WICKED, THE COLOR PURPLE, NOPE, and the Luther Vandross doc.
neutral · AI labelView post →Wife was telling me this elaborate story about the production of the film “The Color Purple” and specifically Danny Glover and when she was finished, I said “do you remember that part where he’s on the toilet but it’s rigged to explode and Mel Gibson and he are trying to figure out how to escape?”
neutral · AI labelView post →#WoTSkies Introduce yourself with: (not including any WoT stuff because that seems too easy) One book: This is How You Lose the Time War One Movie: The Color Purple One album: Beyonce Black is King One TV Show: Underground One game: Baldur's Gate 3
neutral · AI labelView post →Please let the person who “noted” that Sinners is “the most nominated film in history, and the least rewarded” know that The Color Purple went 0-for-11 in 1985.
neutral · AI labelView post →What Black celebrity was robbed by the music and/or film industry for their things? #BlackSky #BlackSkyOver20 #BlackSkyOver40 (The Cast) The Color Purple, because an Oscar board member or two had beef with Steven Spielberg.
neutral · AI labelView post →Quincy Jones was honored with a moving musical tribute during the #Oscars tonight. 💜 Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg, co-stars in Jones' 1985 film "The Color Purple," led the tribute to the legendary music producer, who died at the age of 91 in Nov. 2024. abc7.la/4bmqVze
neutral · AI labelView post →I hope Sinners wins best picture tonight so that the racists can cope and seethe because I don’t want that film to end up like the Color Purple in 1986!
neutral · AI labelView post →MEET YOUR OOMF! 😁 • Name: Anthony BKA Anty • Sign: VirGOAT ♍️ • Sexuality: 💁🏾♂️ • Hobbies: Singing, Music, Binging TV/Films, Sleeping, Sterling’ing • Fav animal: Lion 🦁 • Fav Pokémon: Who getting Poked?! 👀 • Fav movie: The Bodyguard, Spice World, Selena, The Color Purple
neutral · AI labelView post →The Color Purple changed my life & helped me understand & articulate my postionality as a queer Black woman. The musical film will be stunning but/and Walker was NOT ‘labeled antisemitic for her support of a free Palestine.’ That’s not what happened at all.
positive · AI labelView post →#MOVIEMADNESS DAY 19 - First movie you saw at the cinema First movie i saw was Heidi and the second The Color Purple💜
neutral · AI labelView post →Why are so many movie ads hiding the fact that they’re musicals? Wonka, The Color Purple, Mean Girls. What’s the marketing reason for this trend?
neutral · AI labelView post →#GIF&Records #MusicChallenge Movie GIF 22 : The Color Purple GIF quote: All my life I had to fight I Didn't Know My Own Strength - Whitney Houston youtu.be/Iw3WbIbeXEU?...
neutral · AI labelView post →#MovieMadness Day 12 - The movie that changed you the most The Color Purple As a white girl growing up in white Christian fundamentalism, seeing this movie changed how I look at the world, at people of color, and especially women. This movie was revelatory to me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuj2...
positive · AI labelView post →#MusicChallenge #USCityTunes Day 23 - San Diego One of my favorite movies is The Color Purple and one of my favorite performances in that movie is Margaret Avery as Shug Avery. Ms. Avery was raised in San Diego. Ms. Celie's Blues - Margaret Avery as Shug www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK3U...
neutral · AI labelView post →The moment I saw the trailer for THE COLOR PURPLE, I could tell Blitz Bazawule was speaking through the long lineage of the Black-cast musical. For the Times, I spoke with Bazawule, along with the film's other creatives about the movie's many homages.
neutral · AI labelView post →Lego Voyagers is awesome, go play that shit. Also, been continuing my Spielberg run ahead of his next movie. Three rewatches for this week: Saving Private Ryan (4.5/5) The Color Purple (3/5) The Goonies (2.5/5)
neutral · AI labelView post →March 14, 1933: Quincy Jones (Jr.), jazz trumpeter. composer, arranger, record producer (Michael Jackson; Frank Sinatra; "We Are The World"), and film producer (The Color Purple), is born in Chicago, Illinois.
neutral · AI labelView post →Which of course answers your question about why The Color Purple, with no further explanation, is "progressive" -- on its face, nonwhite people at the center of a movie must be a deviation from an imagined norm. It's disappointing this writer was not pushed more on his premise.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m reading on my lunch and a lightbulb went off. I don’t think Black millennials know just how pervasive the “gender wars” in our community go back. I don’t think any of my peers know that The Color Purple (book and movie) legit had Black men and Black women at each other’s throats
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite film performances from the 1980s. Whoopi Goldberg, Celie, "The Color Purple" (directed by Steven Spielberg). #movies #films #favoriteperformances #whoopigoldberg #stevenspielberg #thecolorpurple
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun fact: it has equalled the most nominations lost by a film! But unlike The Color Purple, Becket, The Power of the Dog etc it deserved to lose more! 😬
neutral · AI labelView post →The Color Purple was filmed in my grandma’s hometown & all 6 of my great aunties were featured in the film.
neutral · AI labelView post →How The Color Purple Went From Boycotts and Controversy to a Black Film Classic | Nadira Goffe In the 1980s, Spielberg’s movie was compared to The Birth of a Nation and “a lynching.” There’s a reason it’s since been embraced. slate.com/culture/2026...
neutral · AI labelView post →Like The Color Purple, Boyz n the Hood, Do the Right Thing, Dear White People, and many other films that go down in history and become classics, Sinners is added to this list. Such a beautiful movie. So raw. So real. So visceral.
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 40th Anniversary to "The Color Purple" I saw this at the movie theater with my Mom, aunts & cousins. I still randomly quote it... #TheColorPurple40
positive · AI labelView post →Dude, cmon, of course I know that Prince movie… The Color Purple, everybody knows that
neutral · AI labelView post →It was such a great movie! And on so many levels. 🥰 Don’t know why they’re so angry, it’s gonna get fucked over like ‘The Color Purple’ 🤷🏾♀️
neutral · AI labelView post →2. Blitz Bazawule's THE COLOR PURPLE remake has deep ties to the Black-cast musicals of 1940s and Black musical shorts of the 1930s. I did a deep dive on its allusions and influences to those films for the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/m...
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's first movie is The Color Purple (1985) 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →My mood: **stares down at D & R politicians, insulated from the destruction they cause, as they sacrifice real people’s security** "Until y’all do right by us..." The Color Purple film was a mirror. Its portrayal of resilience and struggle felt like watching the women in my family fight to survive.
positive · AI labelView post →The Color Purple was released on this day in 1985 #movies #film #filmsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →ICYMI: My reviews of The Color Purple screendollars.com/movie-review... and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom screendollars.com/movie-review... reposted on Screendollars #filmsky 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →My review of The Color Purple for The Film Verdict: #filmsky 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →Share an 80s movie you will always love! The Color Purple
neutral · AI labelView post →Ghostbusters II is one of a small class of movies released in "letterbox" when shown on TV. Just as "The Color Purple" and "Innerspace" I dunno WHY (maybe Ivan Reitman fought for it? Spielberg sure did, as did Joe Dante, I just dunno why THIS movie)
neutral · AI labelView post →The first LGBT movie I’ve ever seen was the Color Purple. I remember when Celie and Shug Avery had a kissing scene, my parents had skipped this scene because it wasn’t appropriate for me back in my childhood. Still it’s a great movie thanks to Steven Spielberg. LGBT #3 #Moviesky #Filmsky 🎥
positive · AI labelView post →Quincy Jones #BOTD never won a single competitive Oscar. Not one. He should have. For THE COLOR PURPLE (1985). Brilliant score, and one of his finest works. This one scene captures it perfectly. 4/* #filmsky #moviesky #filmscores #Oscars #musicsky
neutral · AI labelView post →For my newest Queerly Nerdy column at Pop Heist, I discuss the punk band Pinkshift, the book and 2023 movie adaptation of The Color Purple, the noir webcomic Spirelle, and the Dragon Quest XI character Sylvando!
neutral · AI labelView post →The Color Purple was probably the most rewatched and often quoted movie in our house for two years after it came out! Jumpin’ Jack Flash was popular too! “I'm a little black woman in a big silver box”, just slayed us as kids! 😄
positive · AI labelView post →Books to film 📚=🎞️ The Color Purple by Alice Walker #booksky #filmsky #literature
neutral · AI labelView post →Yep off work came home daughter had this playing. So we watching the 80s film The Color Purple. Just a excellent film with incredible acting #filmsky #thecolorpurple #80s #genx
positive · AI labelView post →You're right though. She was already an Oscar nominee (for The Color Purple) and a legitimate movie star (Jumpin' Jack Flash was 1987, one year before she started on TNG).
neutral · AI labelView post →That #SinnersMovie is gorgeously shot and has a stellar cast isn’t too surprising. What is riveting is how the film pulls off a heady mixture of CROSSROADS, DEMON KNIGHT, FROM DUSK TILL DAWN & THE COLOR PURPLE. Ryan Coogler delivers this year’s singular, transcendent experience.
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