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This day in film: The Color Purple
Published by Clay Cane on Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 12:10 am.
On December 18th, 1985, The Color Purple was released in the U.S. The movie would feature an unknown Whoopi Golderg in the starring role of Celie, an already established actor with Danny Glover as Albert/Mister, and a local news anchor named Oprah Winfrey as Sofia. Directed by Steven Spielberg, The Color Purple was originally met with bad reviews. Critics bashed Spielberg for straying far from the book and making the film too “soft.” Nonetheless, The Color Purple garnered eleven Oscar nominations and the fans spoke — this film was a classic.
The Color Purple was based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker. The book dealt with complex issues such as domestic abuse, homosexuality, sexism, and racism. When Walker gave permission to remake the film, she insisted on three things: approval of the script, approval of the director (an already famous Steven Spielberg had to audition for Walker) and that the crew behind the scenes be at least 50% people of color. All of these requests were met.
Famously, after eleven Oscar nominations, including Goldberg for best actress and Winfrey for best supporting actress — The Color Purple lost every single Oscar, even down to best makeup. Spielberg didn’t even receive a best director nod.
The Color Purple would gross over 94 million dollars at the box office and was #4 in the yearly rankings for 1985. The film goes down in history as one of the few films with an African-American cast and a high production budget. Twenty-three years later, we still haven’t seen anything quite like it.
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wow!!! this movie was breath taking very spiritual i loved it .
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It’s been over 20 years since “The Color Purple” was released. I especially loved the interview about Desreta Jackson, the one that portrayed “Young Celie”. Wow, talk about art immitating life. She’s been through so much, yet she made strides and helps other women cope with the same issues she went through. You go girl; you’re my shero! May GOD bless you in everything you do. Thank you Clay, for that wonderful article on Ms. Jackson. I’ve always wanted to know what became of her.
ummm, to the previous comments left on this board, wtf does that have to do with this article, ugh! The only exceptions are the first two comments. @ least they actually read the article. Thank you FeLoWaY and fitzroy brown jr for keeping it tasteful.
[...] sounds amazing and Speilberg did wonders with The Color Purple, however, there was already a spectcular biopic of Dr. King in 1978 starring Paul Winfield and [...]
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