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Genre | Drama, African American Cinema |
Format | Multiple Formats, AC-3, Blu-ray, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Widescreen See more |
Contributor | Rae Dawn Chong, Jon Peters, Peter Guber, Steven Spielberg, Willard Pugh, Frank Marshall, Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Akosua Busia, Menno Meyjes, Kathleen Kennedy, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, Alice Walker, Quincy Jones, Adolph Caesar See more |
Initial release date | 2011-01-25 |
Language | English |
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Based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple is a richly-textured, powerful film set in America's rural south. Whoopi Goldberg, winner of the Best Actress Golden Globe Award and an Oscar nomination, makes a triumphant screen debut as the radiant, indomitable Celie, the story's central character. Her impressive portrayal is complimented by a distinguished cast that includes Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery, Adolph Caesar, Rae Dawn Chong and Akosua Busia. The Color Purple marks a new, more mature color in Spielberg's artistic palette. It is an exquisitely crafted, landmark film that will be treasured and talked about for years to come.
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- MPAA rating : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 5.92 Ounces
- Item model number : 883929137725
- Director : Steven Spielberg
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, AC-3, Blu-ray, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Widescreen
- Run time : 2 hours and 34 minutes
- Release date : January 25, 2011
- Actors : Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong, Whoopi Goldberg
- Dubbed: : Spanish
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish
- Producers : Steven Spielberg, Jon Peters, Kathleen Kennedy, Peter Guber, Frank Marshall
- Studio : Studio Distribution Services
- ASIN : B0045D3N2U
- Writers : Menno Meyjes
- Number of discs : 1
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The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name.
Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on the life of women of color in the southern United States in the 1930s, addressing numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in American social culture. The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000-2009 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit content, particularly in terms of violence.
Celie, the protagonist and narrator, is a poor, uneducated, fourteen-year-old black girl living in the South. She starts writing letters to God because her father, Alphonso, beats and rapes her. Alphonso has already impregnated Celie once. Celie gave birth to a girl, whom her father presumably killed in the woods. Celie has a second child, a boy, whom her father also abducts. Celie's mother becomes ill and dies. Alphonso brings home a new wife, and continues to abuse Celie.
Celie and her bright, pretty younger sister, Nettie, learn that a man known only as Mr.___ wants to marry Nettie. Mr.___ has a mistress named Shug Avery, a sultry lounge singer whose photograph fascinates Celie. Alphonso refuses to let Nettie marry, and instead offers Mr.___ Celie, who he refers to as ugly, as his bride. Mr.___ eventually accepts the offer, forcing Celie into a difficult and abusive marriage. Nettie runs away from Alphonso and takes refuge at Celie's house. Mr.___ still desires Nettie, and when he advances on her, she leaves. Promising to write, Celie assumes her silence means her death ( " 'Nothing but death can keep me from it' she never write")
Mr.___'s sister Kate feels sorry for Celie, and tells her to fight back against Mr.___ rather than submit to his abuses. Harpo, Mr.___'s son, falls in love with a large, spunky girl named Sofia. Shug Avery comes to town to sing at a local bar, but Celie is not allowed to go see her. Sofia gets pregnant and marries Harpo. Celie is amazed by Sofia's defiance in the face of Harpo's and Mr.___'s attempts to treat Sofia as an inferior. Harpo, kinder and gentler than his father, still assumes this means he is doing something wrong and under the advice of Mr.___ and a momentarily jealous Celie, attempts to beat Sofia into submission. Unlike Celie, however, Sofia fights back.
Shug falls ill and Mr.___ takes her into his house. Shug is initially rude to Celie ("You show is ugly"), but the two women become friends as Celie takes charge of nursing Shug. Celie finds herself infatuated with Shug and attracted to her sexually.
Frustrated by Harpo's consistent attempts to subordinate her, Sofia moves out, taking her children with her. Several months later, Harpo opens a juke joint where Shug sings nightly. Celie grows confused over her feelings toward Shug.
Shug decides to stay when she learns that Mr.___ beats Celie when Shug is away. Shug and Celie's relationship grows intimate, and Shug begins to ask Celie questions about sex. Sofia returns for a visit and promptly gets in a fight with Harpo's new girlfriend, Squeak. In town one day, the mayor's wife, Miss Millie, asks Sofia to work as her maid. Sofia replies with a sassy "Hell no!" When the mayor slaps Sofia for her "insubordination", Sofia returns the blow, knocking the mayor down, for which she is sent to jail. Squeak's attempts to get Sofia released are futile, resulting in her being raped. Sofia is sentenced to work for 12 years as the mayor's maid, though she is eventually released from jail six months early.
Despite her new marriage, at Shug's return visit, she instigates a sexual relationship with Celie, and the two frequently share the same bed. One night Shug asks Celie about her sister and Celie tells her she assumes Nettie is dead because she'd promised to write Celie but never did. Shug helps Celie recover letters from Nettie that Mr.___ has been hiding from her for decades. Overcome with emotion, Celie reads the letters in order, wondering how to keep herself from killing Mr.___.
The letters indicate that Nettie befriended a missionary couple, Samuel and Corrine, and accompanied them to Africa to do ministry work. Samuel and Corrine have two adopted children, Olivia and Adam, the two children Celie believed dead. Nettie and Corrine have become close friends, but Corrine, noticing that her adopted children resemble Nettie, wonders if Nettie and Samuel have a secret past. Increasingly suspicious, Corrine tries to limit Nettie's role within her family.
Nettie becomes disillusioned with her missionary experience, as she finds the Africans self-centered and obstinate. Corrine becomes ill with a fever. Nettie asks Samuel to tell her how he adopted Olivia and Adam. Based on Samuel's story, Nettie realizes that the two children are actually Celie's biological children (whom Alphonso, her stepfather, abducted), alive after all. Nettie also learns that Alphonso is actually only Nettie and Celie's stepfather, not their biological father, who was a store owner whom white men lynched because they resented his success. Alphonso told Celie and Nettie he was their real father because he wanted to inherit the house and property that was once their mother's.
Nettie confesses to Samuel and Corrine that she is in fact their children's biological aunt. The gravely ill Corrine refuses to believe Nettie. Later, Corrine dies, finally having accepted Nettie's story and reconciled thereto just before her death. Meanwhile, Celie visits Alphonso, who confirms Nettie's story, admitting that he is only the sisters' stepfather. Celie begins to lose some of her faith in God, but Shug explains to her a new view of the Divine, one which places Celie within a loved creation. "God love everything you love, and a whole mess of stuff you don't". 'I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere, and don't notice it' 'What it do when it pissed off?' 'I don't know. Make something else, I guess. People think pleasing God is all God cares about, but any fool living can see it always trying to please us back."
Realizing that Mr.___ has hidden Nettie's loving letters from her, and beginning to re imagine herself in the new view of God and of creation that Shug has taught her, she decides to leave Mr.___ with Shug and Squeak, leaving a 'curse' behind her on Mr.___ "Everything you done to me, already done to you...every lick you hit me you will suffer twice" and finally asserts her own dignity as a human being against the abuses she has suffered "I'm poor, black, I may be ugly and I can't cook but I'm here."
At this point, the letters change from being addressed to God, to being addressed to Nettie. She also begins to 'sign off' the letters with Amen.
The entire movie in my opinion is just incredible, and I can't thank you enough.
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The heart of this movie is a woman named Celie. Woopie Goldberg was cast in the role and it represents her first cinematic outing. She was nominated for an Academy Award and, in my opinion, should have won it. Celie doesn't get to talk much, is subservient to many of the larger powers in her life and yet still manages to communicate depths of emotion few of us ever see in our own lives.
Our sympathies go out to Celie from the start, when we see her as a child playing in a meadow with her sister, Nettie. Hidden at first, her pregnancy is soon revealed, as the result of an incestuous rape. Celie, still a child, is soon separated from her own offspring, for the second time and then torn apart from her sister, as Celie is consigned to her new husband. Married life becomes another form of servitude, including the same chores, sexual abuse and mental anguish but without her sister's love. Nettie somehow gets shipped of to Africa, as a nanny to some missionaries. We only see enough of her life to know that it is a rich and fulfilling one, in stark contrast to Celie's.
Celie has a strange and extended family. Her husband, Albert, called only "Mister" by Celie, is a petty and deliberately cruel man. He seems to sense that there is more value in Celie than he will ever possess and thus never stints in holding his power over her. Albert's mistress, Shug Avery, is a degraded yet stylish club singer who eventually loves Celie more than Albert. He was never more than a passing convenience to Shug. Albert has a son from a previous marriage, Harpo. For some reason, the strongest character in the film, Sofia, played very convincingly by Oprah Winfrey, decides she is going to marry Harpo and does just that. In many ways, Sofia's rude awakening to the realities of her world, at the hands of the local mayor, his wife and the police, is sadder than Celie's plight. After all, Celie never had hopes or expectations to lose.
As the story progresses, Celie starts to emerge from her cocoon. Helped in part by her husband's mistress. She becomes aware of her own inner beauty and her own power. This transformation is so gradual that we almost believe nothing is changing but by the end of the film, Celie is a woman in control of her own destiny and a force for good in her community. We are not asked to believe that patience is all that is required to overcome evil. Celie has her fair share of confrontations and setbacks. Instead we learn that even the palest plant, deprived of sunlight all its life, may eventually blossom into something special. All it may need is a little encouragement.
I don't watch The Color Purple as regularly as some of the other films in my collection. It is hard going in spots. But, if you ever start feeling a little sorry for yourself, I recommend this movie. Not only will it put your troubles into proper perspective but it will also lift up your heart as few films can.
Spielberg never disappoints. He is a master storyteller!! Oprah and Whoopi were superb, as was the rest of the cast.
I am also VERY PROUD to add that 4 of my hats were purchased in April 2022 by costume designer,
Francine Jamison Tanchuck, to be used in the new upcoming musical movie version of this film, now being filmed in Georgia. Scheduled for release in 2023. Spielberg and Oprah team up again, and new music is being written!! Grammy winner John Batiste is there helping to write and perform the music, as well as
singer, Fantasia, of ATG fame!!
I'm so excited and proud to be a very small part of this production!!!
Thank you Francine, Mr. Spielberg, and Oprah!!!
Much love,
Elsie Collins
Orsini-Medici Couture Millinery
c/o Thistle Cottage Studio
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I have just recently watched Steven Spielberg's film version of The Color Purple and it was equally as enjoyable as the stage production. Whoopi Goldberg’s plays the role of Celie in an amazing debut screen performance as well as Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover – again a very strong and emotive film that helped me understand the story better, perhaps I should have watched the film version first.
This film plays with your emotions, at times funny but very moving throughout. This is cinema at its BEST.
Next on the list is to read the original book The Color Purple by AliceWalker.

My advice would be to watch the Bluray version; it's just stunning and wonderful to watch. There have been some great films about the `South' over the years: Roots, Deliverance, A Time to Kill, Django, The Help & 12 Years a Slave, to mention but a few. However, this is right up there with any of them and five stars all the way. Of course, all of these films are different; I was trying to think of what made this film so different - even though the theme is fairly typical of the `South'. The film has sex, but it is not overly done, it has violence, but it is not overly done either. It typically has the African American despair, but also much pluck too. Several characters refuse to be down-trodden, even by their own? Whilst many of its themes are grim, the film remains light with much humour - in short it's just a wonderful story.
All the characters are compelling and suck you right in, they are superbly acted by all. For me the film has everything, without the trendy violence, explicit sexual scenes and the usual profanities?
Spielberg has made some outstanding films over the years, but it is hard think of one, that will leave you as uplifted, at the end, as this one?
It was `nominated' for an unprecedented eleven academy awards but mind -numbingly won none! I think one can make their own conclusions about that?


Considered something of a curates egg, this is Spielberg's 1st Adult movie (although people apparently forget Sugarland Express), based on Alice Walkers bestseller-this movie examines physical, psychological abuse within a household.
Spielberg's attachment at the movie's time of release (1985-6) I think because of been so well known, as primarily a family entertainer.
Spielberg did much to attempt to dispell this image with this movie-followed by Empire of the sun

The Blu-Ray transfer is an improvement over the dvd for sure but I feel that there's still room for a better release in the future. The film isn't excepcionally sharp but i think it has more to do with the original intended look than with the fault of the transfer. The sound is okay and all the bonus features were transported from the dvd.
Still it is worth the upgrade as it is a masterpiece that will be enjoyed for many more years to come!