all u Color Purple fans..question
 

ok. Now me and my linesisters have a bet going on.
Think back to when Shug was singing Sista in like the next to the last scence..And they was in the church right and her daddy was like yall sing God is trying to Tell U something...ok my question is...

1. When that old woman looked at the preacher and started to point to him and the group of people out the window..Who was she. I said it was his WIFE..Shug's mom. They said no it wasn't. It was just some random church woman:rolleyes: ..

2. Now for the girl who is leading the song and Shug takes it over. Who is she. I say her sista. But everyone says her daughter..
3. The woman playing the piano..I said she was just some random church woman. They said Shug's sista.

I mean where are they getting this..

Help anyone. I have a meal 2 Houston's riding on this.. thanks:p

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Ok, here's my view since its my favorite movie:

1. I always thought that old woman was Shug's mom.

2. I always thought the girl singing was Shug's daughter who the grandpa and grandma were raising since Shug was in the world.

3. Woman playing the piano...I have not idea. Probably just a great pianist ;)

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Agree with #1

2. Thought it was just a long time choir member who always wanted to sing that song but as long as Shug was in church, she got to sing the solo. So that Sunday she got to sing it but when she heard Shug do it, she closed her mouth and sat down.

3. Church pianist.

I never thought about it before, but that soloist in the choir probably was Shug's daughter. As for the older lady, I always thought it was Shug's mom.

I always thought the girl singing in the choir was Shug's daughter because of the way she looks (reminded me of Shug) and her mannerisms while singing. It seemed like she was singing the song the same way Shug was while she was walking towards the church.

I agree with most of the post, the girl singing is Shug's daughter she is too young to be her sister.

1) I wasn't stud'n this woman but I'll go with the mother story.

2) Shug's daughter most definitely. Mannerisms and she also looked pleased when Shug steps in as opposed to like "here come this heffa again takin' my solo."

3) Random lady.

Has anyone seen the play? It's sold out here in the ATL, so I wasn't able to get tickets. My friend told me that the play really showed Shugs and Celie's lesbian relationship, something I think Speilberg couldn't explore way back in 1985. I think it was only implied in the movie.

I was reading on another board once about some interesting things about this movie:

1. The song Celie and Nettie sing at the beginning and end is 'Makidada'. Quincy Jones wrote that song, do you think that is a song he used to sing to his daughter? (My Kidada)

2. At the dinner table during dinner, (when Celie has her moment), the little girl sitting next to Sophia, (Oprah Winfrey) is Whoopi's real-life daughter.

3. In the book, Celie and Shug were lovers. In the movie, at the end, when Shug came back, she didn't have her husband with her and it appeared that she and Celie were living together. Celie says something along the lines of she and Shug still have 'longings'.

Anything else that was subtle that any of you picked up on?

Wow, you all have awakened in me a whole new interest in the movie. Going out to buy it.

Me too, LG - me too. . .

ok..you and btb go out and get it and let me know what you think. i have loved this movie since i was little, but the older i get, the more themes, etc. i notice!!

another thing (i've never read the book), but i just realized a few years ago that adam (celie's son) is married to tashi (the little african girl...)

You pointed out things about the movie that I never thought about until now.
Whatever happened to the actress that played Shug?

According to IMDB

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001923/


that should pull up her profile.

Yes! I have always just watched the movie and enjoyed laughing at the parts my friends and I have made fun of for years. Wait til I tell them about this thread. I will be watching it new eyes.

1. I agree that that is Shugs Mom
2. That is absolutely Shugs daughter, look at the resemblence, lol
3. Hey, You got me on that one!

i agree w/Crimson Tide4 on #2. for #1, i didn't think that was Shug's mom. since she didn't jump up when Shug embraced her father and make it a threesome, i thought perhaps she was her stepmother.

I saw the play on Friday night. It was very good, but I had forgotten about the relationship between Shug and Celie. The play also also had Squeak and Grady (Shug's husband) hooking up at the end, which was supposedly what happened in the book. I read the book in highschool (20 years ago) so the movie is more of a memory than the book. I may try to pick the book up again though.

My all time favorite movie...

#1-#3 - I'd never really paid that much attention to the people in that scene. I'm always near or in tears cuz girlfriend tore that song up!

To piggyback...

4)Whateva happened to all the kids Mister had? They only developed Harpo, but Mister had a whole lotta younguns!

I agree...I would love to have seen them developed as well!

Then The Color Purple would have had more sequels than "Friday the 13th"! ;)

1. Never payed much tention 2 that there ol woman purntin at tha preacha mane.

2. I Reckon the young gal sangin was the baby ov tha family. (Shug's lil sister)

3. Don't reculleck da piano player, so i ain't much help 2 yall on dat one either.

But I'll tell ya one thang, "I DONE FIXED THAT MAILBOX, SO I CAN TELL WHEN IT'S BEEN MESSED WITH!"
:D

I love thatmovie, its one of my faves!

1. I always thought that was Shugs Mom, she was certainly his wife.

2. I always thought that was her daughter, and she was "gifted" like her Mama.

3. Piano lady, just some lady.

I always thought about Misters other children. Especially at the Thanksgiving table and she is talking about how rotten they were, who are all those other kids, other than Sophia's? And did Sophia ever stop working for Miss Millie?

Monique, I have to agree with you. That was Shug's Mom, sister, and a lady playing the piano.

GO GET THE BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Well, for those that haven't read the book PLEASE DO! It was sitting on my mother's shelf for years, so I read it a few years ago, and I COULD NOT put it down. It was great!

The movie is a very good representation of the book. NOt exact, but exact enough not to piss you off (like Waiting to Exhale and Stella). In the book, the church scene does not happen. Those people could be whoever you want them to be lol. In the book, Shug's parents have nothing to do with her, and she doesn't see her children. At the end, she finds one of her sons out west. And Mister is their father.


And Shug and Cellie do have a lesbian relationship, and Squeak and Grady do hook up, but she leaves him in the end.

GO GET THE BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!

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After this thread, I felt compelled to read the book a few weeks ago. I read it in two days!! I absolutely loved it, and to me, the movie didn't do it any justice. However, the actors from the movie were the faces I imagined when reading the book. In the book, they made it seem like Nettie was ugly...their dad said "Nettie isn't as ugly as Shug..."

Also, it showed that Harpo and Squeek actually were married and had kids and Sophia ended up helping raise one while Squeak pursued her singing...

I loved it!

Do you guys think this book is appropriate for high schoolers to read for English class? I know a few who have...

Thanks!

Ok...I have this in the Random Spurts. If I can delete that one I will, but here's my question:

Why do I get tickled every time Mister says "...and get the molasses out ya #%%!" to Celie? This is sooooooo something that my momma would have said to me.

And speaking of The Color Purple - QUESTION:

1. If Celie and Mister are married...
2. And Harpo is Mister's son
3. And Harpo is Celie's stepson...
4. Why is it that when it was playing last night, the closed captions had Sophia as saying: "If you want a dead son-in-law, you keeps advisin' him like you doin'"

I have a habit of reading the captions... did she actually say "son-in-law?

Yes she said son-in-law and not stepson, or even son. Sorors and I watched this last month for movie night and noticed it as well.

Re: GO GET THE BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Why should they get the book after you've told them all about it? lol

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okay the lady at the pointing out the window is her mother. the girl who is singing is her daughter. because when she hugs her daddy at the end of the song she say i see cindy or whatever her daughter name is sings pretty too. i read the book, and from the book it's her daughter but you know the book and the video isn't always the same. but I don't know about the lady playing the piano. that's someone i didn't pay attention too.

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WTH?

When she hugs her daddy, Shug clearly says, "See Daddy, sinners have souls too."

One of the actresses who played one of Sophia's daughter used to live a few doors down from me way back when.

I have the answer
 

Ok,I love the Color Purple...I have the answers...The lady in the Audience is your typical nosey a$$ old lady in the back of the church.The girl in the choir is Shugs Daughter(In real life,as well as on this movie) and the lady at the piano is Shugs sister...Ask me how i know?

I have a question. Where is DSTChaos?:D

How you know dstdiva?

oh oh oh..I know...she's around







lol