THE COLOR PURPLE (1985) Movie Reaction! | First Time Watch! | Whoopi Goldberg | Oprah | Danny Glover

Whoopie and Glover were robbed of the Oscar for this imo. They done this whole movie dirty. 11 nominations and not a single one won for one of the best movies ever made. One of the few movies that always makes me cry.

I'm sitting here crying with y'all as if I haven't seen this movie more times than I can count throughout my lifetime lol

In the book, Shug and Mister were a couple when they were younger. She got pregnant with their 3 kids. He wanted to marry her but his father (Old Mister) forbade it because she had children out of wedlock. Her parents took her kids to raise, shunned her from the church and ex-communicated her from the family. She left town to sing. The girl singing "God Tryna Tell You Something" was her daughter (that her dad the pastor raised).

I cry EVERY SINGLE TIME. You had to have a heart of stone not to cry at the end.

I just know Vivian slept good after that cry 😭

This film is one of the best representations of intersectionality. Women like Celie, Nettie, Shug or Sofia were not only treated like dirt because they were women, but worse because they were black women. Any tiny bit of protection that was available to women of the era did not apply to them. Nettie and Shug were "lucky" in so far that they had conventional attractiveness and/or education on their side and were given a chance after being thrown out. Celie did not feel like she had that advantage, so she never dared to leave Mister. There are no male heroes or protectors in this story. It's the women who help and support each other. This novel and film were ahead of their time.

18:30. I'd read that Danny Glover said the hardest part of making this film was this scene. Spielberg told him to do everything possible to separate the girls (obviously without hurting them), and he separately told the girls to make sure Glover didn't separate them. After each take he was profusely apologizing to the girls, because it was so awful to play that scene.

The reunion with her sister and her children broke me!! I just realized that they spoke to her in lingala (my mother tongue from Congo). I was already in tears but hearing and understanding them telling her that they recognize her as their mother. .. uff that hit me to the chore. Such a beautiful scene

19:35 Celie represents so many woman that just survive. They just know how to survive and can’t even imagine the idea of fighting for themselves.

One of the rare instances where both the book and the movie are masterpieces in their own right