I really liked this movie, does anyone have a favorite line or scene from the movie??? :)Thanks.
shareCelie: [to Albert] Till you do right by me, everything you even think about gonna' fail.
"It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage... "
Mistah at the table to Celie: Mister: "Could be, could be not. Who's to say?"
Child at Harpo's: "It's gon' rain on yo head!"
Shug to Celie: "You sho is ugly!"
Nettie to Celie: "Only death can keep me from it."
Sofia to Celie: "I saw you dat day and I know'd dey was a God...I knowed dey was a God!"
Old Mistah: "Dear God, the dead has arisen!"
There are SO many great lines from this movie but my favorite scene is when Shug hears the music from the church and stops singing the music of the world and leads the juke joint over to her father's church and takes over singing 'God is Trying to Tell You Something!".
I'm starting to well up...got to go you all!
--I try to have confidence but I often feel as popular as spam on a banquet table.
My absolutely favourite quote is:
shug: "I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it!
It is my favourite line of all the movies I've seen, ever!!!
My 2 favorite lines are
"You sho' is ugly!" That cracked me up.
"I's married now!" My mom would watch The Color Purple while she braided my hair. All the suddenly, she'd wrap a rubber band around her finger and exclaim "I's married now!" I always thought it was so funny the way she said it, but didn't realize what movie it was from until later.
"Read my furry lips...no"
- Snowbell from Stuart Little
1) Shug - "See Daddy? Sinners have soul too."
2) Harpo - "See that hoofprint there?"
Mister - "It look like a fist print to me."
Harpo - "No sir. No fist touched this face."
3) Celie - (Thinking out loud): I's just sat back and watched to see what
Shug was gonna throw next. See what color she make the wall.
4) Squeak - Not so much the heifer line, but the phoney laugh that follows
makes me laugh.
5) Although it's not a line, the action was funny: Scene where Mister is trying to fix breakfest and you see Celie sit in the rocking chair watching him until he gets the kerosene. It's the lack of Celie being present with the chair rocking much faster on it's own and then the room lights up. This was visually I think the most funny portion of the movie.
Celie: How did he die?
Lady at funeral: On top of me
"My absolutely favourite quote is:
shug: "I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it!"
My favorite quote too!! I always remember this quote. It is simple and very direct. Reminds me to take notice of all the good little things in life.
My favorite line is: "I'm poor, black, I might even be ugly, but dear God, I'm here. I'm here."
I also love the exchange between Celie and Shug about how God gets pissed off when you ignore the color purple because "everything needs love."
I do like Old Mister's spill to Mr.__ (Albert) about Shug Avery. "You just couldn't rest til you got Shug Avery in your house...she black as tar, got legs like baseball bats...and I hear she got that nasty woman's disease..." And, of course, "Celie, you has my sympathies. Ain't too many women 'low they husband's ho to lay up in the house wit' 'em!"
I also like what Miss Celie says about Old Mister's tirade..."Folks don't like nobody too proud or too free...next time I put a little Shug Avery pee in his water and see how he like that."
I also like Sofia's spill to Mr.____ (Albert), "Naw sir, I ain't livin' in no streets. I'm livin' with my sister and her husband and they say I can live with them as long as I want to and I don't need you and nobody else to tell me..."
And..."It's gon' rain on yo' head!"
I know it's more than one...but there are others, however I'll stop here!
yo sho r ugly.
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Where's your children?
At home, where are yours? ( that shut him up)
Shut up! Aint no woman supposed to be laughing at no man!
Go on, say it, Celie, don't be scared, say it!
The movie is just amazing. One of my favorite scenes is the shaving scene--the tension and emotion is so wonderful, and you really feel Celie's struggle. Gotta love it!
shareEven before the knife got to his throat...Soooooo intensed. My only question...As many times Celie has shaved Mister (Albert), what gave her the inkling, after all these years, that this time Celie was gonna go from ear to ear (cut his throat)?
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My favorite scenes are near the end when Celie sees the car coming up the road, and remarks that they are just probably someone who is lost. Then she looks out into the field and sees her sister and her children dressed in the vivid streaming colors and costumes of Africa, and realizes that her family have indeed been restored to her. When she is re-introduced to and embraced by her grown children and daughter-in-law, and at the very end when she and Nettie play once again their childhood handclapping game, my eyes are always full of tears.
I also laugh every time Albert's doddering old father is lecturing him.
"..sure you won't change your mind? Why, is there something wrong with the one I have?"
You a low down dirty dog, that's what's wrong. Time for me to get away from you, and enter into Creation. And your dead body'd be just the welcome mat I need.
I couldn't describe the exact scene as it has been a while since I watched the movie last, but there are two lines in the movie that I will never forget...
Miss Celie yelling so loud "NETTIEEE! because she was so excited. I've not seen the movie in possibly 4 months, but I am tearing up thinking of that line now, and one other, Miss Celie's son talking to her in his language.
I have to say that this movie told more of a story than darn near any other movie that I have ever watched.
I have always admired and been impressed with the amount that Whoopi's character changed visually throughout the length of the film. YOU get older WITH her!
To this date, this movie is what draws me to anything with Whoopi or Danny Glover.
"Mistah. M - I - S - T - E - R, periot!"
I think this movie and the cast/crew deserved more accolades. What an awesome film.
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albert when bringing celie to the house for the first time:
harpo: who's this?
albert: ya new mami
harpo: she aint my mami!
on porch..albert and his father:
albert's dad: celie, you have my sympathies. aint no woman letting their husband's ho in the house (not verbatim.)
nettie: nothing but death will keep me from you.
on sophia's xmas homecoming:
miss mellie: these coloured men are trying to attack me. ive been nothing but good to you people.
harpo to sophia: aint no such a thing!
Pain Which One Cannot Forget Falls Drop By Drop Upon The Heart.
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i was going to put more sinister lines such as 'you sho is ugly' or 'cut me and ima kill yew' up here but as this board seems pro celie and nettie (rightly so) i thought id stick to the happy times.
i also love the countless 'awww miss sophia' that larry fishburne shouts out.
Pain Which One Cannot Forget Falls Drop By Drop Upon The Heart.
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i see you talkin to me now? after the twenty month lay off. LOL. hope you stacked that ca$h 'cos 'baby' got s-t to buy.
anywho..yes i loved squak's 'heffer' comment. i did find it odd there were bits where i was laughing but wasnt meant to as the movie was meant to be sad.
any comment about women cooking or cleaning had me in stitches. especially if it came from albert or his fathers mouth.
what do i know about the movie? watched it on dvd last night for the first time in ages. have you read the novel? (or anyone else?)
Pain Which One Cannot Forget Falls Drop By Drop Upon The Heart.
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i never read the novel but from the page here, i figured it was different (from what alice walker said.)
its true..celie did have men forced on her. to be honest, i think all poor women felt (f-k it women in general) that way in those times. rarely would one marry out of love. all arranged.
its sick to think a father can rape his daughter..i found it ironic oprah was in this movie too. there must have been flashbacks for her. didnt she bare children due to rape? (was it an uncle or something who raped her?) and oprah grew up dirt poor in the south.
Pain Which One Cannot Forget Falls Drop By Drop Upon The Heart.
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This is my favorite film of all time. I saw it for the first time when I was about 6 or 7 and I'll never forget the feeling of overwhelming redemption I felt when it was over. I always find myself saying in stormy weather "Is gon rain on yo head" to my husband, to which he just raises his eyebrows. And "Who dis woman?" I use from time to time, in the right cirsumstances, but only under my breath.
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SOFIA: oh sofia home now, oh thing's are gonna change round here i tell you
OLD MISTER: Yeah well we need some stabillity round here
SHUG:god like us, he just want admiratian
CELIE:you saying god vain
SQUEAK: im goin with miss celia and shug
HARPO: what??
SQUEAK:im fixin ta sing
HARPO:but squeak...
SQUEAK: my name aint squeak. it mary agnas
HARPO:Mary agnas!!!
SHUG:Celie comin ta memphis with us
ALBERT: Over my dead body.
SHUG: is that really how you want it?
ALBRT: what wrong with yo now?
CELIE:you a low down dirty dog thats whats wrong.
of couse i like the entire confintyation scene. go girl!!!!!!!!!
sTaY iN sChOoL, sAvE tHe EnViRoNmEnT, aNd LeArN tO fLy
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Oprah does not have any children. She was abused by her uncle or other relative though. That's why she was in this movie and she rocked!!
"Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
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ms jersey, i know she doesn't have children, I was pointing that out to another poster that said she does.
"Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
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My thoughts exactly, how WOULDN'T anyone know that? Must be a deaf/mute/blind nun in solitary confinement or something.
"Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
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Mista to Celie: Get the molasses out your a$$
Shug: You sho'll is ugly
"It's gon rain on yo head"
"You told Harpo to beat me"
Celie mimicking Shug:You ugly you sho'll is ugly nmmm you still ugly
Sophia:Hell No
Harpo:No sucha thing
"Next time I'll put some Shug Avery pee in it"
"Like I said fine with me"
Shug to Mista after he brought her the bad food and before she threw it on the wall:You tryin' to kill me!
Shug: Well here us is
Shug: I's married now
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Oprah does have a son she gave birth to after being raped.
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