"The Color Purple" (1985)

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL REVIEW. Please check out the full podcast review on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture For this month's first throwback podcast review, I am joined by Josh Parham and guest Kathia Woods to discuss Steven Spielberg's 1985 adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer prize-winning novel "The Color Purple" starring Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery & Rae Dawn Chong. As we prepare for the release of Blitz Bazawule's musical adaptation of the novel, we go back and look at Spielberg's first dive into prestige drama storytelling. Tune in as we discuss the performances, the direction, the music, and how well its themes still hold up today, along with its infamous awards season run where it was nominated for eleven Academy Awards but failed to win a single one (with the Academy even omitting Spielberg from the Best Director category). We hope you enjoy this SPOILER-FILLED throwback review. Thank you! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is our review of the color purple.
0:05.8	Ain't no ocean, ain't no sea.
0:08.7	Mackie Dadda.
0:10.7	Keep my sister away from me.
0:13.3	Make me.
0:14.2	Please.
0:17.1	No.
0:19.7	Right.
0:20.7	Nothing but Dad can keep me proud.
0:22.6	The more things change, the more they stay the same.
0:26.6	I'm going off of a spell and I want my supper when I get back.
0:29.6	I smile, but I still longing.
0:33.6	Hoppo being loved with a girl called Sophia.
0:36.6	No need to think I'm gonna let my boy marry you
0:39.6	just cause you in the family way. Just don't make me wait too long, Harpo. For my life I had to fight.
0:46.7	I never thought I had to fight in my own house. Would you like to work for me? Be my maid? Hell
0:53.0	No. All right, everyone, you were just listening to the trailer for the color purple, and
0:58.2	the story is as follows.
1:00.6	An epic tale spanning 40 years in the life of Seeley, an African-American woman living in the
1:05.7	South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.
1:09.0	After Seeley's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing
1:12.3	Mr. Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Seeley to find companionship anywhere
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