all u Color Purple fans..question - Page 2

WenD08 · #16 10-18-2004, 04:37 PM

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.

Eclipse · #17 10-18-2004, 05:33 PM

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Originally posted by lostnfound117
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?

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.

sistarisin · #18 10-21-2004, 09:10 AM

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!

lostnfound117 · #19 10-21-2004, 10:21 AM

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Originally posted by sistarisin
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!

btb87 · #20 10-21-2004, 11:08 AM

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Originally posted by sistarisin
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!

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Originally posted by lostnfound117
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"!

bobbyearl93 · #21 10-21-2004, 07:27 PM

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!"

Wonderful1908 · #22 10-21-2004, 08:20 PM

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?

Highm8ness1 · #23 11-12-2004, 05:32 PM

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

BirthaBlue4 · #24 11-13-2004, 12:05 PM

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!!!!!!!!!!!!

lostnfound117 · #25 11-13-2004, 05:59 PM

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Originally posted by BirthaBlue4
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!!!!!!!!!!!!

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...

Tickled Pink 2 · #26 10-20-2005, 10:05 AM

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?

CrimsonTide4 · #27 10-20-2005, 10:07 AM

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.

Boom_Quack13 · #28 10-20-2005, 10:28 AM

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Originally posted by BirthaBlue4
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!!!!!!!!!!!!

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

KSUViolet06 · #29 10-20-2005, 10:44 PM

This movie has been one of my faves since I was like 10 years old and it seems like everytime I watch it, I notice something new.

babygirl83 · #30 10-20-2005, 11:07 PM

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.