The Color Purple
This movie has to be one of my all-time favorites. This is one of those movies I do not have on DVD, but I will try to watch it everytime it comes on television. I saw this movie at the theater twice back in the day. It was so good to see a film with an all black cast that was so well made.
Most memorable lines:
“Whhhhhhhhhhyyyyyyy?” (Young Nettie is kicked out of “Mister’s” house.
“She ain’t my mammy” (followed by rock hitting young Celie in the head)
“Yooooooou sho is ugly”
“Beat her” Celie advises Harpo how to handle his woman
I know I am forgetting some others that I will remember later. What are your memorable lines?
Best scene: The reunion between Celie and Nettie—Jesus!
In most cases, I will catch the last 25 minutes of the movie. No matter what kind of day I may have had, watching this scene always brings a tear or two (three, four, waaaaaaaaaaaah!).
Like I said earlier, this is a great film. The only thing I did not like was that all the men in the film (except the musicians in Shug’s band) were evil and i’gnate. I have never read any of Alice Walker’s books, but based on someone that I know who have read many of her books told me that she rarely (if at all) illustrates black men in a good light in many of her novels (maybe someone out there knows more about that).
“Mistah, M-I-S-T-E-R-period.”
Comment by rhythm | July 25, 2005
“set up in dat jail, damn near rot to death…”
“she black as tar….got legs like baseball bats….and i hear she got the nasty woman’s disease…”
Comment by rhythm | July 25, 2005
“The jail you planned for me is the one you gon’ rot in.”
“You betta bash mista over the head and think about heaven later!”
“It’s gon’ rain on yo’ head!”
“Harpo beat Sophia, Sophia beat Harpo, and in between the beatin’s the babies keep a-comin’.”
Comment by Rosalind | July 27, 2005
“You betta bash mista over the head and think about heaven later!â€Â
–LOL!
That one is a keeper!!
still LOL
Comment by Duane | July 27, 2005
“I dun fix dat mailbox to tell if it been mess wid.” (Mister and Celie)
“No Miss Sophia, NO…MISS SOPHIA NOOOOO!!!!” (Lawrence Fishburne)
“You betta not tell nobody but God…it’ll kill yo mama.” (Celie’s stepfather, taking her newborn baby away)
Comment by Leslie | July 28, 2005
” Hee hee hee…the dead has ‘risen.” (Mister’s father at the dinner table commenting on Sophia’s response to Celie telling Mister OFF!) Whew!
I like to give details, can you tell?
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Oprah’s character, “You told Harpo to beat me…I loves Harpo, but I’s kill him dead before I let him beat me again!” or something like that. I’m sorry ya’ll, but when she came through that corn and said that mess I was in tears (laughter).
Comment by Marc | August 9, 2005
This isn’t a line but how about when Shug threw that dinner plate across the room and Danny Glover came runnin out of there like a little b!@ch!
Comment by Marc | August 9, 2005
” I’s married now….I said I’s married now”
Comment by Miss it | December 4, 2006
“not if he’s my man..you just a big ole’ heffa..ha ha ha”
Comment by selma | December 4, 2006
“And when I see’d you dat day Miss Celie . . . I knowd da’ is a God! I know’d da’ is a God!”
Comment by MsMocha | April 10, 2007
GRe@t
Comment by judy | May 21, 2008
great
Comment by judy | May 21, 2008