Awesome breakdown of the film that played a true role in the breaking down of a culture of color! As always, I enjoyed and was further educated on how we got to this place we call now! I've viewed a lot of your content and for sure....again well done! Outside of this, my two favorites are why men left the today's church and Gordon Parks The Learning Tree. Just awesome Laymon Journal keep with the great content. You found a great supporter in me of your content! Peace and plenty of blessings to you and your from me no doubt!!!!
The music as the backdrop with the editing and commentary is excellent and moving for me as well on this one, Why Brother left the church and The Learning Tree as well. Add another (((W)))) to the list with this one! That's it.....salute once again bro !!
Yeah, a lot of the way they depict history in this movie is false. And it's based on a fictional book meaning that all the events that happened in that movie never happened. Do you really think that Women's Movement started in 1909 & was only for Black Women then stopped until the 1990s?
You know, nobody talked like this until the Bill Cosby Allegations came out and you could not lean on his image to find yourselves. Don't let white people take away your heroes. They still praise Elvis Presley and Woody Allen.
You do know this movie is completely fake & based off a fictional book right? Life at those times were not at all how they depicted it in the movie, I mean at least get that part right. This has nothing to do with actual real history, & has no influence on the reality we live in.
I never realized how much of a blind spot I had for this movie until now. This movie was so quotable that I never paid attention. I had no plans to see the new one and still don't. I hope that we can normalize healthy families in the black community again. I wish that we could heal together
@@misslee3700 What you said was a breath of fresh air. In this day and age the hatred for black men is at an all time high especially if you're a muscular black male that walks with his head held high and his shoulders back; black women immediately see you as a threat and will lead the charge in assassinating your character because you refuse to take anything laying down.
@@misslee370070% absentee father rate in the black community The movie won't change reality...I won't even speak about sexual violence towards young black girls!
I've been saying for years, largely to deaf ears, how much damage this movie has done to the Black Community. I put this movie in the same category as the 1915 Klan propaganda movie "Birth of a Nation". The overall intent and message of the movie becomes obvious, especially when you consider that Alice Walker is a feminist and a lesbian.
@a human bean BW abuse BM and their sons yearly and has the system backing them. And most BW love the same kind of dudes they complain about so stop projecting that onto the dudes you wouldn't give the time of day.
@@cheezedoodlenygguh6229 how many bw kill bm compared to bm killing bw can you answer that question or is it just the typical game of dismissal and bs?
@@littlefoxx333 🤦🏿♂Have you read any real empirical statistics on abuse, or you're just bumping your gums on an anecdotal assumptions you've picked up in the echo chambers of social media Women hold a higher ratio of being abusers of both their mates and their children according to Intimate Partner Violence reports and the CDC stats on Child Abuse and Fatalities, this is where 3rd wave feminism got them and you know it's bad when the CIA stated Black Women hating their men started as a political thing and turned into their religion, which is why the stats are M to F 8% and F to M 31% and that report is from 2012, so you know it's worse now especially with their capabilities to initiate Proxy Violence Do you know the CDC study is from 2015 to 2020 and all 5 years Women led as the primary abusers and Black Male children are the top and primary victims of their abuse, that's how deep their Anti Black Misandry runs and yes the movie is propaganda from the same White liberals that suckered Black Women into the feminist movie in the first place and turned a Matriarchal community that had standards and values, into a Gynocracy that destabilized and demoralized the Black Community with it's "Lost Value System" with a primary motivator of their lust for luxury and leisure, getting knocked up and beat up by Pookies whom are 16% of the Black Male population and then want to turn around to blame all Black Men
You hit the nail on the head. When I read the title I said, of that's a good movie, but I was like 7 lol. So I understood most of the story, but lacked the fundamentals to understand the connotation of the whole movie. It really did make it seemed like it was an normal way of life for black people. This video was such an eye opener.
I was 14 when the Color Purple came out. I didn't see it at the movies. It wasn't until I was at Prairie View A&M University I would finally see the movie. I was deep in the conscious community and very active on campus. I encountered sistas from all over the country. Almost to a fault any conscious sista that read the book were feminists and, at a minimum bisexual. They all took the book/movie as a historical fact. Luckily for me, my mother's own activism prepared me for these women. As an activist, she realized quickly that these new black female activists weren't heterosexual and hated black men. Alice Walker was their defacto leader. This was the time that Shahrazad Ali had come out with her book breaking down how out of pocket black women had become. Fast forward 30 years and ish is 100 times worse and The Color Purple was a catalyst for the modern gender war.
@@laymansjournal Did read what Alice Walker's daughter said about how being raised by a radical feminist fck up her life and view of men. Her daughter basically raised herself because her mother thought that being a mother was a part of the patriachy. If it wasn't for her son she would have spent the rest of her life hating men due to the brainwashing of her mother. Her daughter name is Rebecca Walker
Well said. I tired to explain to a self proclaimed black feminist that feminism wasn't for black women. That was what white women wanted. She didn't get it.
@@laymansjournal I remember having a debate with someone about the misandry in the film. Artistically, the movie is well made. The premise of the film is horrible. I had a question to ask him: although TCP lost all 11 Oscar nominations, had it won at least one Oscar, would the black community would've changed for the better...or worse? Or would it be the same as it is now?
@@southpaw2k1 Worse... It would have been a form of validation to those who already treat as a fact even though they've never lived or even seen a life like that.
I just realized something for the first time. Kathleen Kennedy was listed as producer for the Colored Purple. Is this the same Kathleen who took over the Stars Wars franchise?
I was 42 when I first saw this movie and thought it was great. I cried at the parts I thought were touching. Maybe a year or two later I watch it again and asked myself what was I thinking. I saw it for the trash that it was. the rainbow relationship had no place in the story if it was supposed to be a teachable story. I could not relate to any of those people and I thank God I didn't. This movie shows what good cinematography and good acting can do.
The creepiness of all these characters, and i mean ALL, reminds me of a Jordan Peele movie. Even their smiles are off putting cuz as the viewer i know fucked up shit is about to happen and their smiling like a bunch of mental patients with no clue
You’re right about a child’s mind. There were Television shows And movies I use to enjoy as a child…but once in look back at them as an adult. I realize we’ve all been indoctrinated to believe in feminism and other ideas that are detrimental to our community
It’s not an exaggeration. Minister Farrakhan’s video on this says 60% of black women identified with the characters in this movie. What about the unfiltered stories channel, this is happening today. Of course, the men were also victims. God knows what’s happened to Mister and Alphonso as children. It’s just a horrific cycle of abuse that needs to be addressed.
Stop it black woman have tried offing me too, don't see me falling for Warner Bros, the same can be said for the trauma Black women deal to black men, you see we got to be careful what we do. Cause everyone loves to use us against each other then turn the sword on the remainder. And in this final arc, the women will be the final weapon that causes our downfall. First it was the men, now the women
@@Michael22352 your experience and opinions do not negate the experiences of many Black women. Just as you think women have been men's downfall. I've seen many more women fall on the account of men too.
@@Princess-us5so so the stats is that black women are child abuser right, how about we make a movie about that, Black women are ratchet right, why not make a movie about that, screw this, I'm just gonna say it plain and straight Grow up, we out here acting like children, this is the art of war, destroy the men first and everything comes easy, why do you expect they're attacking black men so much, after they're done with us, y'all turn is coming, so stop acting like idiots Jesus Christ, I'm 24 and knew this before 20, why do we need a whole ass trauma video of all the things they could've done why this and when a gender war is inciting, think about that, not everything is needed to be known and ever other race mastered this but us, cause if we made movies about degrading black women well not us, technically white Society cause they control the media, how'd you feel, I'm a tell you we'd have to shut that shit down, I don't know why black women are so easily able to control by white people, even had a white woman asking me the same thing, a white woman i don't even know, like duh these people are listening, we take pleasures in our own destruction fuck it I'm done, have a good day. Makes no damn sense y'all are black women, might as well talk a brick 🧱
@@Princess-us5so so you seeing the world now, the whole world of black women, wow can you also see whose behind inciting gender wars, what about feminism, what about child abuse rates, what about ratchets, what about the worshipping of white people, bro use your head and not your emotions, that's how they've effectively been able to beat us every single time, cause we always showing our hands too much, if you know the enemy and yourself you need not fear the result of a hundred battles, if you know yourself but not the enemy for every victory gain you will also suffer a defeat, if you know neither the enemy nor yourself you will succumb in every battle, the last one sounds like who, US! and the first one, Them, the whites, the damn people controlling the system, just how stupid is black women nowadays huh, cause they are using y'all to get rid of y'all man and y'all happily doing it, when they get rid of black men what you think is gonna happen, black women slavery days part two, it's as if that's what you want to be your new reality
Thank you. Black families struggle with issues of abuse, adultery, drunkenness and other like issues, just like other races. We live in a world that's not perfect, so sometimes this is going to be. It is what it is. The color purple doesn't try to paint make-up over anything. Alice lets it all hang out. I love the boldness and the unapologetic honesty. The only way we can start to heal from this stuff is to be real about it.
Its a hard pill to swallow but the reality was this was what life was for many young black girls growing up in the rural south during that time, even a lot of yt women had similar experiences during that time.
That was my grandmothers experience and she came from rural Mexico to live in the Southwest. She paid a price for my freedom and the freedom of her grandchildren for a better life.
According to multiple sources, which I've come across, that's wasn't even close to being their experience, during that era... So you need to survey multiple sources, instead of just choosing a narrative, which also of course naturally for feminist nutcases centers Black Men, as the perennial antagonist...
I have another question. Why is it that Oprah Winfrey is ALWAYS smack in the middle of projects that portray - not just black men - but ALL men in a negative light? It's time to face what even women are saying: O W hates men.
Brother, you are spot on as usual in your videos. Very good work. I seen the color purple movie when I was a kid and thought nothing of it then. My mom, sister and aunts always "Amened" the movie as being truth about black men. I watched the movie for the first time in years in 2021. I came to the conclusion that this movie has done more damage to the black community then I realized. Most black women I know uses this movie as a reference point for reality for black men today. I hate to think this movie brainwashed my generation of black women to think this is how black men really are!
Their not brainwashed. They use this movie along with many other anti black male tropes to excuse and explain their own toxic behavior. The color purple is nothing but cover for black women to engage in the buffoonery we see today.
Thanks for the laughs but thenumbers of violence against women and murders committed by BM say that yes this in fact how many bm are. If the shoe doesn't fit don't wear it
It brainwashed the Boomer Black Women on up, I was in my late 20's and most peoples from my mother's and grandmothers generation called cap since they've actually lived through that period
I agree. This movie made black men look terrible. Danny Glover played that role so damn good, I actually hated him, I had to remember he was a character. That's how much of a monster his character was, but I think it actually attacks the Christian religion more. Think about it, Celia prays and talks to God, hoping he would free her from all the horror she is going through for years but it seems like nothing changes. The pastor in the flim openly marries these young girls off to these older men and sells their children if asked. The flim shows homsexuaity very lightly, which we all know how many Christians feel about this and when her sister goes off to Africa she learn a different religion. In interviews, the author herself talks about this.
My biggest problem with this movie is that many African American women believe that this movie represents the experiences of all black women who lived in that era. This movie was black feminist propaganda.
But many of the black women in the movie weren’t abused. In fact, Celie’s situation was a bit of an anomaly in the movie as many laughed and taunted her abuse
I can say with certainty that Sophia's being taken down by the mob is probably the first movie scene to ever put mortal fear into me. Its triggering to the point where I can't even rewatch it today
The south was crazy trust me ppl was crazy not all black did that stuff back then no it was not allowed don’t mean it didn’t happen my Granma was a slave She told me told a lot happened that the black community as a whole didn’t rock with but stuff still happened
Color Purple was a truthful look at the times. There were plenty of old men with teenage brides. You were considered an Old Maid if you weren't married by 25. Sophia saying "a girl child ain't safe in a house full of men" still rings true today. If you can't take the movie, don't read the book. Celie father told Mister, you don't even have to feed or cloth her and she'll do whatever you like. Also Celie father new wife was 13 not 15, she was younger than Celie.
Exactly… this take really shows how distant men are from the realities of women. Literally every woman I know watches this movie and can clearly understand or relate to these situations. This movie is very well written and not the exaggeration you think it is.
@@labelsandlife It's not a matter of men being distant. Men especially BM are tired of being the boogie man. It's natural to be defensive when you're being blamed for everything under the sun. ESPECIALLY when you haven't done anything wrong. Dealt with it for centuries from EVERYONE now we gotta endure it from our own women. Not to mention we have yet to get around to discussing the abuse BW commit against black children and men. I doubt we ever will. But that's fine this will just be more incentives for reasonable, well adjusted, BM to escape and find a way to get away from this CRAP!!!
@@labelsandlifeeveryone in my family who says this a good movie is unmarried multiple time baby mamas. Including my mother single by herself at 66. Every female in my family who hate the movie are married.
As a young Black boy growing up in the 90s, I always wondered why so many Black Women LOVED this movie, SO MUCH !😕 NO OTHER MOVIE promoted the concept of "Ni66as aint sh**", more than "The Color Purple🟣" ! 😡 And now theyre gonna put out a remake that NO ONE asked for, to re-program the Gen-Z Black girls with Feminism & Misandry ! 😔
@@laymansjournal for exsample the scene when he dragged Siss sister and threw her out the house 🏠 kicking and screaming 😱 in the book he simply asked her to be gone by the next morning 🌄 amd the next day she was gone... When harpo and his wife 1st came to visit his dad.. In the movie 🎬 she came charging in 1st with harpo lagging behind with the kids in a submissive postion.. in the book they walked in TOGETHER ❤️ HAND ✋️ IN HAND ✋️ you know like a couple 💑.... the more i learned abt stuff like this the more i hated this movie 🎬
I was 17 when it came out. I noticed then that all the male characters were horrible and Harpo was a simp. It wasn't until about 5 years later I watch it again realized that it was a feminist masterpiece. I asked my father who was born in 1921, was black family life like that. He said absolutely not in his experience and he was from the deep south. A lot of modern black females point to this movie as an excuse to be uncooperative and combative to black men. I have had some quote lines to me verbatim. Luckily there are ladies who see right through this feminist fiction. Whoppi Goldberg still is the beacon for feminist nonsense. And of course, Hollyweird had to have a lesbian encounter thrown in there.
Same with my parents. My dad was born in 22", All of that garbage in the movie was foriegn to them. Same with my Grand Parents/Aunts/Uncles, Who were born in the 1880s and 1890s. Arranged/Forced Marriages and Statutory Epar were NEVER a part of Black-American culture. 40-year-old Black men were not buying 14-year-old brides. Black men never had that kind of power over Black women. That was some Black-Misandrist Bull S*** Alice Walker Made up.
@Laymans Journal If you ask me, we SHOULD have had that kind of power over them. All the neck rolling, and back-talking woulda been deaded then. But nah, BM have always been TEDDY BEARS. Yet BW feel the need to complain about us. Ridiculous!
@@laymansjournal Same here. I asked my father about this and he was born in 1925 and passed in 2018 and he told me blacks were way more unified in marrige and family but he never saw anything like the Color Purple in the South among black families.
That may not have been YOUR grandfather's experience, but doesn't mean that sort of stuff did not happen. My grandmother was SA'd by my grandfather and had her first child by him at age 13 and he was 29 - they had 6 kids total and he abused her the entire time. So your comment is only subjective to your family expereience. STOP ACTING LIKE WOMEN WERE NOT ABUSED BACK THEN, BECAUSE THEY SURE THE HELL WERE!!!
I was in my mid thirties when I watched this film in 1985. That means like you, I am old enough to have some insight as to the overall character of men and marriage in the previous two generations. To be sure, what we see in The Color Purple was not anywhere near the general truth. Any one of the horrors of movie would have been a singularity in those communities. This is kind of like "Hawaii 5O," where they pack more murders in one episode than the state of Hawaii actually has all year. If the feminist fantasy of universal wife-beating and male infidelity had been true, I'd have seen it within male circles. It would have been common in the barber shop conversation for a man to say, "Yeah, I shagged a 15-year-old last week" or "I slapped my wife so hard she couldn't spit for two days." But, no, you didn't hear that kind of talk among men. Maybe it happened here and there, but the fact that men didn't talk about it indicates that it was not an accepted norm among men. There is this: In the attempt to adhere to "A Man's Home Is His Castle," you would not have seen men actually intrude into another man's home affairs. But within the community of men, a "wifebeater" would have faced a definite level of shunning. He wouldn't be the guy invited to play dominos with other men. A man who was known to target young girls (who were other men's daughters!) would not have been acceptable in male company. My father did not beat my mother. My grandfather did not beat my grandmother. My father-in-law did not beat my mother-in-law. Yet, the common "truth" circulated among feminists (both black and white) is that nearly all women were suffering beatings all the time. As absurd as that sounds, that's what they believe today, and they believe it continues...that even Millennial men are constantly beating their wives. That's their answer to the fact that 80% of divorces are initiated by the wife. If you start that conversation with women today, they immediately throw up wife-beating as the reason...even for divorces today. They believe 80% of wives are being beaten by their millennial husbands. This movie was the beginning of a representation of black men by black feminists that continues to this day, such as "The Woman King." In that movie, the man this movie strives to make us despise most is not the white slaver, but a black man whose role was totally invented for the movie. The same was true of "Tubman." In that movie, the primary antagonist was not the white slave owner but the black slave catcher (another role totally invented for the movie...a free, armed black man roaming the south telling crude jokes about sex with white women could not have even existed in reality). In both cases, black men were presented in the vilest manners possible while the white slavers were presented as...mostly nice guys.
Male "infedility" is not even a bad thing. Neither is a little coporal punishment, but Hollywood and society has a clear motive to shun all masculine tendencies.
As one who saw this movie when it came out, I enjoyed the movie. My perspective was that it was and is a great Oscar-worthy film. I did not connect it to any real-world events (past or present) because it was what: a movie. I commend the African-American actors and actresses who were cast in the movie. Their work was phenomenal, and they are all highly respected. These people paved the way for other great actors and actresses due to their dedication and hard work. Black excellence is definitely shown in their craft!
I was lucky to have an aunt who made me read the book before seeing the movie. While the book has its own set of issues, they are nothing like the ones in the movie.
Everything bad that could happen to a Black woman happened in this movie. It brought me down, But it never caused me to hate Black men. What bothers me is that Black women love the movie.
this was one of my favorite movies growing up I only saw it in this light after a man I was dating of who's opinion I deeply trusted brought it to my attention
Shug children are all by Mister. His father wouldn't let him marry her but Mister claims her children but doesn't care for them. Her parents do Sofia wasn't abusive. She wanted Harpo to do his equal share and couldn't be dominated like Celie. They didn't start fighting physically until Harpo started beating on her. It's not her fault, she grew up fighting her male relatives trying not to get raped.
F.Y.I: the color purple has been remade with an all new star-studded cast. It's set to release in Dec 2023.. Staring: Taraji Henson, Fantasia & Hailie Bailey.. Why is this being remade? Of all the novels out there, why this one?
Wow wonderful work Brother. I recently rewatched the movie from when I was a child and was deeply disturbed by this movie. It gave me a Precious vibe. Thanks for that breakdown.
It was not lies. Mister was my father and some of my exes. Some men aint worth two cents, including some black men. And, the same can be said about some women. It's just true. It does not define all black men or all men in general. The culture was already broken down and is in that sense. The Color Purple just shed light on stories about those who lived it.
I've asked black male reviewers of The Colour Purple to see the film from the perspective of a decent black man. I say a decent black man would focus on the portrayal of black men. They would either say the portrayal was unrealistic or they would ask why are they're so many crazy black men. I get no answer at all from them.
people forget that the original movie adaption was so successful that The Color Purple went on to become a Tony Award winning Broadway musical. and now in 2023, the musical is being turned into a film. gotta keep the narrative going so no one forgets the "truth" and "history" of a complete work of fiction.
The stories in this movie tell of how common some things were in the 1920's after slavery... I'm not sure why this movie offends black men - kinda like the Woman King struck nerves, but it may be due to some black men being unable to relate to some of things women or teenage girls have to endure or have had to endure after slavery(the movie's setting). And that's completely understandable. I mean grown men impregnating girls in the 1920s was very common, physical and verbal abuse - very common back then. Was it right? No. Was it every black family? No. And just because I watched Sophia slapping Harpo around doesn't mean in reality that is what I do - and I'm not offended by seeing that. When I watch movies, I watch to learn something new, I watch to be entertained, but mostly I watch to be inspired. This movie does not tell of how horrible black men were/are and how better black women are, but tells of some of the realities that have been faced and how we as a culture can overcome those things and end the cycle. During slavery black men (and women and children) were BRUTALIZED so as a result, "after" slavery, some black men (& women) passed on the traumas that they endured - physical, verbal, sexual abuse.
O wow, this was an incredible video. When I was a kid my parents would watch this movie when it played but me on the other hand; i could never finish it. It was just cringe to watch and fam, u explained it in detail. Great video
Once they had the rights to the story spielberg changed a bunch of things from the book. The studio had more of an agenda than alive walker. She gave them the blueprint then spielberg expanded on it.
I didn't read the book. Had no interest. However, I did see the movie, in college, in 1986. You can have the movie. I saw the depiction of Black men straight out the box. This was during an era of multiple Black women authors, such as Walker, Gloria Naylor, Toni Morrison and Terry McMillan. I even had a class in college with a professor whose curricula centered around those types of writers. Let's put it this way; it was open season on Black men. And, while defenders of authors like Walker would argue that the book is different, and that Spielberg arbitrarily took extra liberties with the story, the cold, hard fact was that no one checked Spielberg, at the time. As a result, this movie evolved into iconic status by reinforcing stereotypes; the impact that we, as a society, have never fully recovered!
The movie has become more of a comedy over the years. Unfortunately that is how most of us deal with trauma. We either laugh, do drugs, turn to religion, or simply gaslight ourselves in an attempt to escape reality.
Facts. Nothing is more upsetting to me than when comedians try and make fun of blacks oppression and indoctrinated behaviors for their material. Jews are not stupid nor brainwashed enough to use the holocaust for laughs
Understand that Nettie and Celiy are not minors according to this period in time. It was normal for women to be married and or pregnant in their teens. Federal and state Laws regarding of legal age didn't come into existence unit maybe after the wwII or Vietnam war
This is so exaggerated. Just because the Black men in the movie suck doesn’t mean that the creator hates them. It simply is a movie about how systemic abuse creates more abusers and victims. All the Black men in the film were influenced by the wrongdoings of their fathers. It’s not until they neglect their control that they find peace. The film doesn’t preach that all men are abusers as there are good men in the film. And to be honest this was the reality for a lot of black women living in the south back then especially since women had less professional opportunities and relied on their husbands. Hell some of this stuff happens to people today. Idk this just feels kinda dense.
I was traumatized by this movie on Christmas Eve of the year it came out. I'm Gen X and still tryin to figure out why my mother thought this was an appropriate Holiday Movie Excursion (May she rest in Peace.). -I want a male version of "Color Purple"
It would never get funded for starters. Secondly this movie is based on lies and fueled by propaganda. If Bm truly wanted to all we have to show is how bw act in real life. Hell bw already believe they are of a separate class from bm so...
You know what i realized, the women thats mad that men don't like this shit is the women that see themselves in Celie. Us not liking the imagery= the people they turned to for help that didnt do anything. So are we opening old wounds or the film? Im sorry to all the sisters that has to experience such atrocities but we got a right to not to like this shit. I pray for your healing my sister.
They married females at that age back then. I know it's offensive by today's standards. Things were crazy in Black society back then like mothers kicking their teenage sons out cause they have a new man. You and I have a lot in common. The phrase shotgun wedding existed for a reason back then.
Your criticisms and opinion of the movie is valid, however I do find it a bit reductive in comparison to the entire story and that being the book. Yes, Alice Walker is a feminist, it was written during the 80's, and the story largely deals with sexism, racism, and abuse set during the years between 1910 through 1940. Without the comparison of the book, you miss out on the uplifting themes of the story such as perseverance, forgiveness, acceptance, and spirituality/faith through adversity and for both genders. For example, a significant amount of Albert/Mister's character development in the movie is cut. The way the video is posed though makes it seem that the whole story is about women triumph while men get left in the gutter, and if you or a majority of the viewers in the comments actually read the book you might have a different perspective. I'm not saying anyone has to like or appreciate the movie or the book, however I am saying that your essay would be more nuanced with the comparison, because the differences in the narrative and how it's presented between both works, the film and the book are quite different.
Even though this story is fiction, this was many women's experiences in the past. But you don't like the way it portrayed you, so you're offended. It's hilarious because in the same breath, we could say the same about Roots description of how slavery was back then because that story is also fiction. This wasn't a blk thing it was just what happened back then. I wish blk men were like that now, then what they are today
This review is spot on. It was simultaneously well done & subliminally horrendous. I knew something wasn't right about the color purple, yet lacked the mindset to label it. After I was made aware of the misandrous nature of the color purple, I didn't need to rewatch to put together what slipped the cogs of my mental machinery. Harpo's cognitive twin no more.
Rather than go on and on and on at the beginning, just say you didn’t like the story or didn’t feel comfortable with it as a man. But you can’t say this movie was aweful because it was actually phenomenal. This is the only movie that gets me teared up at certain scenes each and every time I watch it. The characters, character development, performances and soundtrack are superb and the marquee of a great story is that it sucks you into the emotion of its characters, both protagonist and antagonist. This is still one of the best movies I have ever seen to this day and, yes, I am a man giving my honest opinion.
@@deewood5127the acting for starters, the scenery, the music, and the message that you shouldn’t be a abusive child rapist who separates two sister because one didn’t wanna screw you….
You’ve got something wrong. The reason Sophie beating Harpo was seen as funny and triumphant (I guess) is because he tried beating her. He introduced physical violence to their relationship. Before that, sure she was dismissive of him, but I don’t remember any outright verbal abuse, and definitely not physical. This is a “fuck around and find out” situation. He wanted to see what happens if he puts his hands on her and he got what he got. And in the end SHE left him. Like the character said. She has had to fight all the men in her life since she was a child, and she for damn sure wasn’t going to have to fight her husband, too. She’d rather kick him out, and that’s what she did. And that’s why she is celebrated.
Exactly, these men are something else they say that The Color Purple promotes the hatred of Black men just because it sheds light on the wiles of Black men, but yet it's videos like this that prove The Color Purple right!😂😂😂 And they don't even realize it. The Color Purple has the experiences of many Black women from the past up to the present whether Black men like it or not. Sorry not Sorry. Lol. You know what's more hateful than the so-called Color Purple, it's to deny, gaslight, and to make Black women guilty just for saying their experiences which at times can be quite horrific in relation to just so happen to be Black men out of spite, narcissism, entitlement, and/ or ego. That's hatred at its finest.
I appreciated that my mother mentioned about the movie. She told me some disdainful moments about Black Male Bashing. Quite interesting and very smfh moment. I am happy that my mother (God Bless Her) told me to watch out for that kind of women who abandoned, or bashing Black Males.
In the book it says that mista and sugar Avery have 3 kids together! This whole time mista has been raising their children! That’s why he needed Celie! In the book it says that suge makes zero effort to check up or raise her children with mista! The movie makes zero mention of the three children suge has with mista! Or about suge abandoning her children even when she lives in the house! Suge is more interested in singing in the juke joint! And in the book she leaves her husband for a 19 year old guitar player in her traveling band! The movie skips over this detail too!!
What is not repaired, repeats. People need healing from traumatic events. Particularly in childhood. That allows us to reframe our memories, develop deeper context and practice forgiveness. Alice wrote a book that points to that not having occurred in her life at that time..
It’s so interesting. I was in this movie as a kid in the African scene and my mother worked on the headwraps on that same scene. I was older when I saw the film and I never really understood it until I got older. But once I got older and realize what the movie was all about, I always consider the movie as a horror movie, and one of the worst horror movies ever writtenseriously and I’m a horror movie connoisseur and it has all the ingredients of a horror movie. And they quoted all the time not really understanding how much damage this movie has done shoot I didn’t know how much damage this movie has done.
Yeah, I remember watching this one as a white swedish teenager, rather shocked at the beastly manners of these black men. I mean, I grew to love southern gothic novels, but even in those dysfunctional families found in Steinbeck, Faulkner or McCartney there would ve a beacon of light among the trash, a warming sense of humanity even among the most damaged creatures. In the movie there is no such thing among male characters, and its really strange how it is misaligned to certain values you expect to find in small rural communities back then. Specially the sense of community and family at the core of it all. I find another thing strange and that is the lack of elder grandparents who often were revered and in a position of power because of their wisdom. Now we have repetitions of this narrative in movies like Precious and the woman king, aswell as black panther 2. I mean, what is going on? It is alright to show the darkest side of humanity, but I wont believe in movies where all females are powerful little angels and all men are just dumb brutes.
This take really shows how distant men are from the realities of women. Literally every woman I know watches this movie and can clearly understand or relate to these situations. This movie is very well written and not the exaggeration you think it is.
I don't think you're right about this and you've totally missed the point. A lot of men who watched the movie typically speak of being super uncomfortable with all of that. Most younger men have probably also witnessed Domestic abuse as sad as that is. I agree that it's close to women's realities though. Still is today unfortunately. But besides that, film is gesture I believe. Who can blame them for seeing this stuff if an entire group of people fall into a negative category in a film? That's like the first move in political films 101.
I remember certain scenes from the movie, but not seeing the entire film. Then again, I was 4 when it was released and was more interested in cartoons than “the serious” stuff watched by grown-ups. I think I’ll give it a watch tomorrow to see what people are talking about.
I understand when a white woman, 97 years old, told me that she thinks of the Blacks like children... I agreed, and I am black. Only the blacks think I am from Africa. To let you know how black I am... The only thing that is 💯 about any movie is that it is just for entertainment!!! To make money...Lol
Yeah, growing up my moms and aunties would praise this movie as some masterpiece. when this movie came out, I was a young kid and my folks let me watch, I guess to show how times were back then when my grand and great grand parents were coming up. And even back then I was confused to are Black Men violent like that towards Black Women? Because my dad wasn't like that, my uncles were not like that. And as always once you get into adulthood, you start to understand things from the past. Looking at this movie today, as a Grown Man, I completely agree with your breakdown of this movie. Awesome video
I’m very glad to know that you had REALmen in your family. That’s good. I had a monster for a Dad and he hit women. I won’t attempt to discuss how my childhood was shaped or say that I understood what Alice Walker was describing in Black men. The fact is that some people KNOW that side of black men. It’s a reality for some people. I guess only half of our race knows this and will admit it. I guess you also DON’T understand where Ganster Rap comes from either! ….You have had it good, but don’t just dismiss everything.
Awesome breakdown of the film that played a true role in the breaking down of a culture of color! As always, I enjoyed and was further educated on how we got to this place we call now! I've viewed a lot of your content and for sure....again well done! Outside of this, my two favorites are why men left the today's church and Gordon Parks The Learning Tree. Just awesome Laymon Journal keep with the great content. You found a great supporter in me of your content! Peace and plenty of blessings to you and your from me no doubt!!!!
Thank You. I appreciate your support!
The music as the backdrop with the editing and commentary is excellent and moving for me as well on this one, Why Brother left the church and The Learning Tree as well. Add another (((W)))) to the list with this one! That's it.....salute once again bro !!
Yeah, a lot of the way they depict history in this movie is false. And it's based on a fictional book meaning that all the events that happened in that movie never happened. Do you really think that Women's Movement started in 1909 & was only for Black Women then stopped until the 1990s?
You know, nobody talked like this until the Bill Cosby Allegations came out and you could not lean on his image to find yourselves.
Don't let white people take away your heroes. They still praise Elvis Presley and Woody Allen.
You do know this movie is completely fake & based off a fictional book right? Life at those times were not at all how they depicted it in the movie, I mean at least get that part right.
This has nothing to do with actual real history, & has no influence on the reality we live in.
I never realized how much of a blind spot I had for this movie until now. This movie was so quotable that I never paid attention. I had no plans to see the new one and still don't. I hope that we can normalize healthy families in the black community again. I wish that we could heal together
Beautifully said.
I have no intention at all to see the movie either. If it's not enforcing healthy families, I don't want any parts of it.
@@misslee3700 What you said was a breath of fresh air. In this day and age the hatred for black men is at an all time high especially if you're a muscular black male that walks with his head held high and his shoulders back; black women immediately see you as a threat and will lead the charge in assassinating your character because you refuse to take anything laying down.
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@@misslee370070% absentee father rate in the black community
The movie won't change reality...I won't even speak about sexual violence towards young black girls!
Dr. T. Hassan Johnson also has an awesome breakdown of this movie as a character study.
These two should link up
Bless
So did the Crimson Cure who also broke it down to a science
I've been saying for years, largely to deaf ears, how much damage this movie has done to the Black Community. I put this movie in the same category as the 1915 Klan propaganda movie "Birth of a Nation". The overall intent and message of the movie becomes obvious, especially when you consider that Alice Walker is a feminist and a lesbian.
absolutely. That's the running theme of my channel. Entertianment Media is more than just entertainment. There's a message behind all of it.
Is the number of bw who have been abused by bm propaganda too? We shouldn't tell those stories cause it's propaganda?
@a human bean BW abuse BM and their sons yearly and has the system backing them. And most BW love the same kind of dudes they complain about so stop projecting that onto the dudes you wouldn't give the time of day.
@@cheezedoodlenygguh6229 how many bw kill bm compared to bm killing bw can you answer that question or is it just the typical game of dismissal and bs?
@@littlefoxx333 🤦🏿♂Have you read any real empirical statistics on abuse, or you're just bumping your gums on an anecdotal assumptions you've picked up in the echo chambers of social media
Women hold a higher ratio of being abusers of both their mates and their children according to Intimate Partner Violence reports and the CDC stats on Child Abuse and Fatalities, this is where 3rd wave feminism got them and you know it's bad when the CIA stated Black Women hating their men started as a political thing and turned into their religion, which is why the stats are M to F 8% and F to M 31% and that report is from 2012, so you know it's worse now especially with their capabilities to initiate Proxy Violence
Do you know the CDC study is from 2015 to 2020 and all 5 years Women led as the primary abusers and Black Male children are the top and primary victims of their abuse, that's how deep their Anti Black Misandry runs and yes the movie is propaganda from the same White liberals that suckered Black Women into the feminist movie in the first place and turned a Matriarchal community that had standards and values, into a Gynocracy that destabilized and demoralized the Black Community with it's "Lost Value System" with a primary motivator of their lust for luxury and leisure, getting knocked up and beat up by Pookies whom are 16% of the Black Male population and then want to turn around to blame all Black Men
The only "tender and loving, sensual" moment in the entire movie was between 2 women.
BM are notorious for being tender and loving 😂😂😂😂
i've learned that the source of the narrative is more significant than the narrative itself. thanks Layman
Whoever played young celie was a phenomenal actress
You hit the nail on the head. When I read the title I said, of that's a good movie, but I was like 7 lol. So I understood most of the story, but lacked the fundamentals to understand the connotation of the whole movie. It really did make it seemed like it was an normal way of life for black people.
This video was such an eye opener.
I was 14 when the Color Purple came out. I didn't see it at the movies. It wasn't until I was at Prairie View A&M University I would finally see the movie. I was deep in the conscious community and very active on campus. I encountered sistas from all over the country. Almost to a fault any conscious sista that read the book were feminists and, at a minimum bisexual. They all took the book/movie as a historical fact.
Luckily for me, my mother's own activism prepared me for these women. As an activist, she realized quickly that these new black female activists weren't heterosexual and hated black men. Alice Walker was their defacto leader. This was the time that Shahrazad Ali had come out with her book breaking down how out of pocket black women had become. Fast forward 30 years and ish is 100 times worse and The Color Purple was a catalyst for the modern gender war.
"The Color Purpling Of Black America" shout out to the Godfather, Kevin Sameuls.
@@laymansjournal Did read what Alice Walker's daughter said about how being raised by a radical feminist fck up her life and view of men. Her daughter basically raised herself because her mother thought that being a mother was a part of the patriachy. If it wasn't for her son she would have spent the rest of her life hating men due to the brainwashing of her mother. Her daughter name is Rebecca Walker
Well said. I tired to explain to a self proclaimed black feminist that feminism wasn't for black women. That was what white women wanted. She didn't get it.
@@laymansjournal I remember having a debate with someone about the misandry in the film. Artistically, the movie is well made. The premise of the film is horrible.
I had a question to ask him: although TCP lost all 11 Oscar nominations, had it won at least one Oscar, would the black community would've changed for the better...or worse? Or would it be the same as it is now?
@@southpaw2k1 Worse... It would have been a form of validation to those who already treat as a fact even though they've never lived or even seen a life like that.
I just realized something for the first time. Kathleen Kennedy was listed as producer for the Colored Purple. Is this the same Kathleen who took over the Stars Wars franchise?
Yup!
Oh wow! So that’s why she ruined Finn’s character and made him a joke in the second movie 😒
@@laymansjournal Wow. The plot thickens.
@@hanadulsayrom3485she just had to make Rey the Boss of everything.
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I was 42 when I first saw this movie and thought it was great. I cried at the parts I thought were touching. Maybe a year or two later I watch it again and asked myself what was I thinking. I saw it for the trash that it was. the rainbow relationship had no place in the story if it was supposed to be a teachable story. I could not relate to any of those people and I thank God I didn't. This movie shows what good cinematography and good acting can do.
Facts. Its very well done. That's why it's so influential.
Packaged it in the pretty ribbon.
The creepiness of all these characters, and i mean ALL, reminds me of a Jordan Peele movie. Even their smiles are off putting cuz as the viewer i know fucked up shit is about to happen and their smiling like a bunch of mental patients with no clue
You’re right about a child’s mind. There were Television shows And movies I use to enjoy as a child…but once in look back at them as an adult. I realize we’ve all been indoctrinated to believe in feminism and other ideas that are detrimental to our community
BM are detrimental to the black community...😊
It’s not an exaggeration. Minister Farrakhan’s video on this says 60% of black women identified with the characters in this movie. What about the unfiltered stories channel, this is happening today. Of course, the men were also victims. God knows what’s happened to Mister and Alphonso as children. It’s just a horrific cycle of abuse that needs to be addressed.
Stop it black woman have tried offing me too, don't see me falling for Warner Bros, the same can be said for the trauma Black women deal to black men, you see we got to be careful what we do. Cause everyone loves to use us against each other then turn the sword on the remainder. And in this final arc, the women will be the final weapon that causes our downfall. First it was the men, now the women
@@Michael22352 your experience and opinions do not negate the experiences of many Black women. Just as you think women have been men's downfall. I've seen many more women fall on the account of men too.
@@Princess-us5so so the stats is that black women are child abuser right, how about we make a movie about that, Black women are ratchet right, why not make a movie about that, screw this, I'm just gonna say it plain and straight Grow up, we out here acting like children, this is the art of war, destroy the men first and everything comes easy, why do you expect they're attacking black men so much, after they're done with us, y'all turn is coming, so stop acting like idiots Jesus Christ, I'm 24 and knew this before 20, why do we need a whole ass trauma video of all the things they could've done why this and when a gender war is inciting, think about that, not everything is needed to be known and ever other race mastered this but us, cause if we made movies about degrading black women well not us, technically white Society cause they control the media, how'd you feel, I'm a tell you we'd have to shut that shit down, I don't know why black women are so easily able to control by white people, even had a white woman asking me the same thing, a white woman i don't even know, like duh these people are listening, we take pleasures in our own destruction fuck it I'm done, have a good day. Makes no damn sense y'all are black women, might as well talk a brick 🧱
@@Princess-us5so so you seeing the world now, the whole world of black women, wow can you also see whose behind inciting gender wars, what about feminism, what about child abuse rates, what about ratchets, what about the worshipping of white people, bro use your head and not your emotions, that's how they've effectively been able to beat us every single time, cause we always showing our hands too much, if you know the enemy and yourself you need not fear the result of a hundred battles, if you know yourself but not the enemy for every victory gain you will also suffer a defeat, if you know neither the enemy nor yourself you will succumb in every battle, the last one sounds like who, US! and the first one, Them, the whites, the damn people controlling the system, just how stupid is black women nowadays huh, cause they are using y'all to get rid of y'all man and y'all happily doing it, when they get rid of black men what you think is gonna happen, black women slavery days part two, it's as if that's what you want to be your new reality
Thank you. Black families struggle with issues of abuse, adultery, drunkenness and other like issues, just like other races. We live in a world that's not perfect, so sometimes this is going to be. It is what it is. The color purple doesn't try to paint make-up over anything. Alice lets it all hang out. I love the boldness and the unapologetic honesty. The only way we can start to heal from this stuff is to be real about it.
This shows you how blind we are. This movie was sweet icing on a sh....t cake.
Its a hard pill to swallow but the reality was this was what life was for many young black girls growing up in the rural south during that time, even a lot of yt women had similar experiences during that time.
That was my grandmothers experience and she came from rural Mexico to live in the Southwest. She paid a price for my freedom and the freedom of her grandchildren for a better life.
According to multiple sources, which I've come across, that's wasn't even close to being their experience, during that era... So you need to survey multiple sources, instead of just choosing a narrative, which also of course naturally for feminist nutcases centers Black Men, as the perennial antagonist...
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It was my grandma's experience. Her sister died from domestic abuse too.
There is not one positive male character arch in this film… not one!
Maybe Shugs Husband but he only had 2 lines 😂
I saw it, hated it then, hated it now.
I was telling my father earlier today. F THE COLOR PURPLE and the remake. And this was articulated well.
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I have another question. Why is it that Oprah Winfrey is ALWAYS smack in the middle of projects that portray - not just black men - but ALL men in a negative light?
It's time to face what even women are saying: O W hates men.
Brother, you are spot on as usual in your videos. Very good work. I seen the color purple movie when I was a kid and thought nothing of it then. My mom, sister and aunts always "Amened" the movie as being truth about black men. I watched the movie for the first time in years in 2021. I came to the conclusion that this movie has done more damage to the black community then I realized. Most black women I know uses this movie as a reference point for reality for black men today. I hate to think this movie brainwashed my generation of black women to think this is how black men really are!
Their not brainwashed. They use this movie along with many other anti black male tropes to excuse and explain their own toxic behavior. The color purple is nothing but cover for black women to engage in the buffoonery we see today.
Thanks for the laughs but thenumbers of violence against women and murders committed by BM say that yes this in fact how many bm are. If the shoe doesn't fit don't wear it
It brainwashed the Boomer Black Women on up, I was in my late 20's and most peoples from my mother's and grandmothers generation called cap since they've actually lived through that period
It’s wild how you can list all the women in your life who this film resonates with and you come to the conclusion that they are the brainwashed ones
@@Sam-ni7idthey don’t want to come to terms with the truth
I agree. This movie made black men look terrible. Danny Glover played that role so damn good, I actually hated him, I had to remember he was a character. That's how much of a monster his character was, but I think it actually attacks the Christian religion more. Think about it, Celia prays and talks to God, hoping he would free her from all the horror she is going through for years but it seems like nothing changes. The pastor in the flim openly marries these young girls off to these older men and sells their children if asked. The flim shows homsexuaity very lightly, which we all know how many Christians feel about this and when her sister goes off to Africa she learn a different religion. In interviews, the author herself talks about this.
Excellent breakdown. I never saw the movie and I think that was done intentionally by mother, judging how others moms seemed to force them to watch it
My biggest problem with this movie is that many African American women believe that this movie represents the experiences of all black women who lived in that era. This movie was black feminist propaganda.
But many of the black women in the movie weren’t abused. In fact, Celie’s situation was a bit of an anomaly in the movie as many laughed and taunted her abuse
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I can say with certainty that Sophia's being taken down by the mob is probably the first movie scene to ever put mortal fear into me. Its triggering to the point where I can't even rewatch it today
Precious and monsters ball
Ngl times was different if u think this movie says all black men like this then u need to watch and listen again
The south was crazy trust me ppl was crazy not all black did that stuff back then no it was not allowed don’t mean it didn’t happen my Granma was a slave She told me told a lot happened that the black community as a whole didn’t rock with but stuff still happened
Exactly 💯
Color Purple was a truthful look at the times. There were plenty of old men with teenage brides. You were considered an Old Maid if you weren't married by 25. Sophia saying "a girl child ain't safe in a house full of men" still rings true today. If you can't take the movie, don't read the book. Celie father told Mister, you don't even have to feed or cloth her and she'll do whatever you like. Also Celie father new wife was 13 not 15, she was younger than Celie.
Exactly… this take really shows how distant men are from the realities of women. Literally every woman I know watches this movie and can clearly understand or relate to these situations. This movie is very well written and not the exaggeration you think it is.
@@labelsandlife It's not a matter of men being distant. Men especially BM are tired of being the boogie man. It's natural to be defensive when you're being blamed for everything under the sun. ESPECIALLY when you haven't done anything wrong.
Dealt with it for centuries from EVERYONE now we gotta endure it from our own women.
Not to mention we have yet to get around to discussing the abuse BW commit against black children and men. I doubt we ever will.
But that's fine this will just be more incentives for reasonable, well adjusted, BM to escape and find a way to get away from this CRAP!!!
You all are intellectually dishonest and are willfully missing the points here.
@@labelsandlifeeveryone in my family who says this a good movie is unmarried multiple time baby mamas. Including my mother single by herself at 66. Every female in my family who hate the movie are married.
No it wasn't
As a young Black boy growing up in the 90s, I always wondered why so many Black Women LOVED this movie, SO MUCH !😕 NO OTHER MOVIE promoted the concept of "Ni66as aint sh**", more than "The Color Purple🟣" ! 😡
And now theyre gonna put out a remake that NO ONE asked for, to re-program the Gen-Z Black girls with Feminism & Misandry ! 😔
I hate this movie 🎬.. sad part they made it worst than the book .... They PURPOSELY made the movie more violent and dysfunctional than what it was..
Really?! Wow!
@@laymansjournal for exsample the scene when he dragged Siss sister and threw her out the house 🏠 kicking and screaming 😱 in the book he simply asked her to be gone by the next morning 🌄 amd the next day she was gone...
When harpo and his wife 1st came to visit his dad..
In the movie 🎬 she came charging in 1st with harpo lagging behind with the kids in a submissive postion.. in the book they walked in TOGETHER ❤️ HAND ✋️ IN HAND ✋️ you know like a couple 💑.... the more i learned abt stuff like this the more i hated this movie 🎬
The 🐖s that run Hollywood always embellish book based movies
the memory thing is stupid- because all memories are in context - who would show a 10 year old this movie????
I was 17 when it came out. I noticed then that all the male characters were horrible and Harpo was a simp. It wasn't until about 5 years later I watch it again realized that it was a feminist masterpiece. I asked my father who was born in 1921, was black family life like that. He said absolutely not in his experience and he was from the deep south. A lot of modern black females point to this movie as an excuse to be uncooperative and combative to black men. I have had some quote lines to me verbatim. Luckily there are ladies who see right through this feminist fiction. Whoppi Goldberg still is the beacon for feminist nonsense. And of course, Hollyweird had to have a lesbian encounter thrown in there.
Same with my parents. My dad was born in 22", All of that garbage in the movie was foriegn to them. Same with my Grand Parents/Aunts/Uncles, Who were born in the 1880s and 1890s. Arranged/Forced Marriages and Statutory Epar were NEVER a part of Black-American culture. 40-year-old Black men were not buying 14-year-old brides. Black men never had that kind of power over Black women. That was some Black-Misandrist Bull S*** Alice Walker Made up.
@Laymans Journal If you ask me, we SHOULD have had that kind of power over them. All the neck rolling, and back-talking woulda been deaded then. But nah, BM have always been TEDDY BEARS. Yet BW feel the need to complain about us. Ridiculous!
@@laymansjournal Same here. I asked my father about this and he was born in 1925 and passed in 2018 and he told me blacks were way more unified in marrige and family but he never saw anything like the Color Purple in the South among black families.
That may not have been YOUR grandfather's experience, but doesn't mean that sort of stuff did not happen. My grandmother was SA'd by my grandfather and had her first child by him at age 13 and he was 29 - they had 6 kids total and he abused her the entire time. So your comment is only subjective to your family expereience. STOP ACTING LIKE WOMEN WERE NOT ABUSED BACK THEN, BECAUSE THEY SURE THE HELL WERE!!!
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I was in my mid thirties when I watched this film in 1985. That means like you, I am old enough to have some insight as to the overall character of men and marriage in the previous two generations. To be sure, what we see in The Color Purple was not anywhere near the general truth. Any one of the horrors of movie would have been a singularity in those communities. This is kind of like "Hawaii 5O," where they pack more murders in one episode than the state of Hawaii actually has all year.
If the feminist fantasy of universal wife-beating and male infidelity had been true, I'd have seen it within male circles. It would have been common in the barber shop conversation for a man to say, "Yeah, I shagged a 15-year-old last week" or "I slapped my wife so hard she couldn't spit for two days." But, no, you didn't hear that kind of talk among men. Maybe it happened here and there, but the fact that men didn't talk about it indicates that it was not an accepted norm among men.
There is this: In the attempt to adhere to "A Man's Home Is His Castle," you would not have seen men actually intrude into another man's home affairs. But within the community of men, a "wifebeater" would have faced a definite level of shunning. He wouldn't be the guy invited to play dominos with other men. A man who was known to target young girls (who were other men's daughters!) would not have been acceptable in male company. My father did not beat my mother. My grandfather did not beat my grandmother. My father-in-law did not beat my mother-in-law.
Yet, the common "truth" circulated among feminists (both black and white) is that nearly all women were suffering beatings all the time. As absurd as that sounds, that's what they believe today, and they believe it continues...that even Millennial men are constantly beating their wives. That's their answer to the fact that 80% of divorces are initiated by the wife. If you start that conversation with women today, they immediately throw up wife-beating as the reason...even for divorces today. They believe 80% of wives are being beaten by their millennial husbands.
This movie was the beginning of a representation of black men by black feminists that continues to this day, such as "The Woman King." In that movie, the man this movie strives to make us despise most is not the white slaver, but a black man whose role was totally invented for the movie. The same was true of "Tubman." In that movie, the primary antagonist was not the white slave owner but the black slave catcher (another role totally invented for the movie...a free, armed black man roaming the south telling crude jokes about sex with white women could not have even existed in reality). In both cases, black men were presented in the vilest manners possible while the white slavers were presented as...mostly nice guys.
If you ask me, I think men shoulda given more of those so called "beatings". Maybe then, all that "empowerment non-sense would be mere memory.
The men in the middle east got it right. W0men in America should FEAR and rever their husbands.
Male "infedility" is not even a bad thing. Neither is a little coporal punishment, but Hollywood and society has a clear motive to shun all masculine tendencies.
Quincy Jones is connected to Steven Spielberg. That's where Oprah comes into the picture.
As one who saw this movie when it came out, I enjoyed the movie. My perspective was that it was and is a great Oscar-worthy film. I did not connect it to any real-world events (past or present) because it was what: a movie.
I commend the African-American actors and actresses who were cast in the movie. Their work was phenomenal, and they are all highly respected. These people paved the way for other great actors and actresses due to their dedication and hard work. Black excellence is definitely shown in their craft!
I'm sooo glad you made the clear distinction between the Bible, and the Female dominated and controlled pagan religion of Modern Christianity.
Good analysis, great video. Dr. T Hasan Johnson brought me here.
Thank You. Shoutout to the doc
I was lucky to have an aunt who made me read the book before seeing the movie. While the book has its own set of issues, they are nothing like the ones in the movie.
Everything bad that could happen to a Black woman happened in this movie. It brought me down, But it never caused me to hate Black men. What bothers me is that Black women love the movie.
this was one of my favorite movies growing up I only saw it in this light after a man I was dating of who's opinion I deeply trusted brought it to my attention
Shug children are all by Mister. His father wouldn't let him marry her but Mister claims her children but doesn't care for them. Her parents do
Sofia wasn't abusive. She wanted Harpo to do his equal share and couldn't be dominated like Celie. They didn't start fighting physically until Harpo started beating on her. It's not her fault, she grew up fighting her male relatives trying not to get raped.
F.Y.I: the color purple has been remade with an all new star-studded cast. It's set to release in Dec 2023.. Staring: Taraji Henson, Fantasia & Hailie Bailey.. Why is this being remade? Of all the novels out there, why this one?
Good Grief... 🤦🏿♂️
Pandering the same agenda for a new generation.
Outstanding analysis. Keep up the good work.
Thank you
Damn!!! Your review of the Color Purple was masterfully done. Spot on!!!
Wow...............and bravo. Talk about having the scales removed from your eyes to see clearly.
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Wow wonderful work Brother. I recently rewatched the movie from when I was a child and was deeply disturbed by this movie. It gave me a Precious vibe. Thanks for that breakdown.
It was not lies. Mister was my father and some of my exes. Some men aint worth two cents, including some black men. And, the same can be said about some women. It's just true. It does not define all black men or all men in general. The culture was already broken down and is in that sense. The Color Purple just shed light on stories about those who lived it.
The prospective you chose to have on this makes a lot of sense. Thank you.
Love the video. I love your work. But can you slow down with the shaky laptop thing. It's making it hard to watch and enjoy your work.
I've asked black male reviewers of The Colour Purple to see the film from the perspective of a decent black man. I say a decent black man would focus on the portrayal of black men. They would either say the portrayal was unrealistic or they would ask why are they're so many crazy black men. I get no answer at all from them.
people forget that the original movie adaption was so successful that The Color Purple went on to become a Tony Award winning Broadway musical. and now in 2023, the musical is being turned into a film. gotta keep the narrative going so no one forgets the "truth" and "history" of a complete work of fiction.
The stories in this movie tell of how common some things were in the 1920's after slavery... I'm not sure why this movie offends black men - kinda like the Woman King struck nerves, but it may be due to some black men being unable to relate to some of things women or teenage girls have to endure or have had to endure after slavery(the movie's setting). And that's completely understandable. I mean grown men impregnating girls in the 1920s was very common, physical and verbal abuse - very common back then. Was it right? No. Was it every black family? No. And just because I watched Sophia slapping Harpo around doesn't mean in reality that is what I do - and I'm not offended by seeing that. When I watch movies, I watch to learn something new, I watch to be entertained, but mostly I watch to be inspired. This movie does not tell of how horrible black men were/are and how better black women are, but tells of some of the realities that have been faced and how we as a culture can overcome those things and end the cycle. During slavery black men (and women and children) were BRUTALIZED so as a result, "after" slavery, some black men (& women) passed on the traumas that they endured - physical, verbal, sexual abuse.
Exactly 💯
I totally agree with this breakdown !!! Please do a video on “Women of Brewster Place”
What is it about?
O wow, this was an incredible video. When I was a kid my parents would watch this movie when it played but me on the other hand; i could never finish it. It was just cringe to watch and fam, u explained it in detail. Great video
Jews wanta Separate The Black Family...
Once they had the rights to the story spielberg changed a bunch of things from the book. The studio had more of an agenda than alive walker. She gave them the blueprint then spielberg expanded on it.
I didn't read the book. Had no interest. However, I did see the movie, in college, in 1986. You can have the movie. I saw the depiction of Black men straight out the box.
This was during an era of multiple Black women authors, such as Walker, Gloria Naylor, Toni Morrison and Terry McMillan. I even had a class in college with a professor whose curricula centered around those types of writers. Let's put it this way; it was open season on Black men.
And, while defenders of authors like Walker would argue that the book is different, and that Spielberg arbitrarily took extra liberties with the story, the cold, hard fact was that no one checked Spielberg, at the time. As a result, this movie evolved into iconic status by reinforcing stereotypes; the impact that we, as a society, have never fully recovered!
produced by kathleen kennedy? she killed off luke skywalker and ruined star wars. it fuqin makes sense now. 🤯
😆 it makes sense now. They've been at this for years!
@@theburningredbeacon9625 spielberg, lucas and kennedy know each other. so what's really going on?
I agree with you layman, Rosewood is the reality movie we should praise and incorporate into our collective black consciousness instead of this movie
The movie has become more of a comedy over the years.
Unfortunately that is how most of us deal with trauma. We either laugh, do drugs, turn to religion, or simply gaslight ourselves in an attempt to escape reality.
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Facts. Nothing is more upsetting to me than when comedians try and make fun of blacks oppression and indoctrinated behaviors for their material. Jews are not stupid nor brainwashed enough to use the holocaust for laughs
Sounds like the movie is based on a white family🤔
Understand that Nettie and Celiy are not minors according to this period in time. It was normal for women to be married and or pregnant in their teens. Federal and state Laws regarding of legal age didn't come into existence unit maybe after the wwII or Vietnam war
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Thank you for this breakdown, def subscribing
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This is so exaggerated. Just because the Black men in the movie suck doesn’t mean that the creator hates them. It simply is a movie about how systemic abuse creates more abusers and victims. All the Black men in the film were influenced by the wrongdoings of their fathers. It’s not until they neglect their control that they find peace. The film doesn’t preach that all men are abusers as there are good men in the film. And to be honest this was the reality for a lot of black women living in the south back then especially since women had less professional opportunities and relied on their husbands. Hell some of this stuff happens to people today. Idk this just feels kinda dense.
I was traumatized by this movie on Christmas Eve of the year it came out. I'm Gen X and still tryin to figure out why my mother thought this was an appropriate Holiday Movie Excursion (May she rest in Peace.).
-I want a male version of "Color Purple"
Antwon Fisher. Go watch it.
It would never get funded for starters. Secondly this movie is based on lies and fueled by propaganda. If Bm truly wanted to all we have to show is how bw act in real life. Hell bw already believe they are of a separate class from bm so...
Highly inappropriate...Die Hard would have been a better choice, it sounds like a soft approach to indoctrination. Sorry that happened to you.
A version from the viewpoint of the men, including a scene where Harpo realizes he has a form of Stockholm syndrome and this time, he leaves.
@@superafrikanmedialabs8237not even close
This movie by no means part of our culture
You know what i realized, the women thats mad that men don't like this shit is the women that see themselves in Celie. Us not liking the imagery= the people they turned to for help that didnt do anything. So are we opening old wounds or the film? Im sorry to all the sisters that has to experience such atrocities but we got a right to not to like this shit. I pray for your healing my sister.
That's the problem with these movies they made it seem like it was a cultural practice and it was not.
They got to shape their own mens image in a negative light to the world. And people still don’t get it
They married females at that age back then. I know it's offensive by today's standards. Things were crazy in Black society back then like mothers kicking their teenage sons out cause they have a new man. You and I have a lot in common. The phrase shotgun wedding existed for a reason back then.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and comments in this video.
My pleasure!
the book was written by Alice Walker a black woman. The screen play was written by Menno Meyjes
This makes me have even more disdain fot the Color Purple and it should make self respectful women think twice about how THEY are portrayed
Exactly!
the color purple is just a disgusting movie top to bottom!
You’re doing good work.
Your criticisms and opinion of the movie is valid, however I do find it a bit reductive in comparison to the entire story and that being the book. Yes, Alice Walker is a feminist, it was written during the 80's, and the story largely deals with sexism, racism, and abuse set during the years between 1910 through 1940. Without the comparison of the book, you miss out on the uplifting themes of the story such as perseverance, forgiveness, acceptance, and spirituality/faith through adversity and for both genders. For example, a significant amount of Albert/Mister's character development in the movie is cut. The way the video is posed though makes it seem that the whole story is about women triumph while men get left in the gutter, and if you or a majority of the viewers in the comments actually read the book you might have a different perspective. I'm not saying anyone has to like or appreciate the movie or the book, however I am saying that your essay would be more nuanced with the comparison, because the differences in the narrative and how it's presented between both works, the film and the book are quite different.
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Great expose. Brilliant. Yes I shared it
Thank You!
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Even though this story is fiction, this was many women's experiences in the past. But you don't like the way it portrayed you, so you're offended. It's hilarious because in the same breath, we could say the same about Roots description of how slavery was back then because that story is also fiction. This wasn't a blk thing it was just what happened back then. I wish blk men were like that now, then what they are today
It was a good movie as a child... but I NEVER saw it as anything but a nod to the sisterhood .
This review is spot on.
It was simultaneously well done & subliminally horrendous.
I knew something wasn't right about the color purple, yet lacked the mindset to label it.
After I was made aware of the misandrous nature of the color purple, I didn't need to rewatch to put together what slipped the cogs of my mental machinery. Harpo's cognitive twin no more.
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I watched this movie as a young girl in Nigeria and it trumertized me. I hate it and I don't why there was a need for the remake.
Rather than go on and on and on at the beginning, just say you didn’t like the story or didn’t feel comfortable with it as a man. But you can’t say this movie was aweful because it was actually phenomenal. This is the only movie that gets me teared up at certain scenes each and every time I watch it. The characters, character development, performances and soundtrack are superb and the marquee of a great story is that it sucks you into the emotion of its characters, both protagonist and antagonist. This is still one of the best movies I have ever seen to this day and, yes, I am a man giving my honest opinion.
🤔Spoken like a true blue Concuserf... What were you a "Son Husband" growing up???🤦🏿♂😆💀
What specifically was so "good" about the movie?!?!
@@deewood5127the acting for starters, the scenery, the music, and the message that you shouldn’t be a abusive child rapist who separates two sister because one didn’t wanna screw you….
Didn’t Alice marry a white man ?
Yup
Another excellent review…
I appreciate that
You’ve got something wrong.
The reason Sophie beating Harpo was seen as funny and triumphant (I guess) is because he tried beating her. He introduced physical violence to their relationship. Before that, sure she was dismissive of him, but I don’t remember any outright verbal abuse, and definitely not physical. This is a “fuck around and find out” situation. He wanted to see what happens if he puts his hands on her and he got what he got. And in the end SHE left him. Like the character said. She has had to fight all the men in her life since she was a child, and she for damn sure wasn’t going to have to fight her husband, too. She’d rather kick him out, and that’s what she did. And that’s why she is celebrated.
Exactly, these men are something else they say that The Color Purple promotes the hatred of Black men just because it sheds light on the wiles of Black men, but yet it's videos like this that prove The Color Purple right!😂😂😂 And they don't even realize it. The Color Purple has the experiences of many Black women from the past up to the present whether Black men like it or not. Sorry not Sorry. Lol. You know what's more hateful than the so-called Color Purple, it's to deny, gaslight, and to make Black women guilty just for saying their experiences which at times can be quite horrific in relation to just so happen to be Black men out of spite, narcissism, entitlement, and/ or ego. That's hatred at its finest.
I appreciated that my mother mentioned about the movie. She told me some disdainful moments about Black Male Bashing. Quite interesting and very smfh moment. I am happy that my mother (God Bless Her) told me to watch out for that kind of women who abandoned, or bashing Black Males.
In the book it says that mista and sugar Avery have 3 kids together! This whole time mista has been raising their children! That’s why he needed Celie!
In the book it says that suge makes zero effort to check up or raise her children with mista! The movie makes zero mention of the three children suge has with mista! Or about suge abandoning her children even when she lives in the house!
Suge is more interested in singing in the juke joint! And in the book she leaves her husband for a 19 year old guitar player in her traveling band! The movie skips over this detail too!!
Respect. 🙏
Thank You!
Y’all missed missed the point of the book and movie. It’s not about the men. This book and movie are about the experience of BLACK WOMEN. ugh,
Exactly 💯 it's very comforting to see a black man smart enough and stable enough to not get offended and to understand that.
I'm glad you said this.
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Makes sense to pick the shittiest experience, what good does that do, silly humans^8{
Shut you skittles handling ass up
This is amazing! Wow! Thank you for this take!
Glad you liked it!
Alice Walker was hugely abusive to her daughter.
What is not repaired, repeats. People need healing from traumatic events. Particularly in childhood. That allows us to reframe our memories, develop deeper context and practice forgiveness. Alice wrote a book that points to that not having occurred in her life at that time..
It’s so interesting. I was in this movie as a kid in the African scene and my mother worked on the headwraps on that same scene. I was older when I saw the film and I never really understood it until I got older. But once I got older and realize what the movie was all about, I always consider the movie as a horror movie, and one of the worst horror movies ever writtenseriously and I’m a horror movie connoisseur and it has all the ingredients of a horror movie. And they quoted all the time not really understanding how much damage this movie has done shoot I didn’t know how much damage this movie has done.
Even as a child...I knew the images and story made black men look bad. We had a slave mentality back then. Real or fake. 🤔
My son doesn’t have to watch this movie 😂
The movie should've been about Fishburne and Rae Dawn Chong.
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Yeah, I remember watching this one as a white swedish teenager, rather shocked at the beastly manners of these black men. I mean, I grew to love southern gothic novels, but even in those dysfunctional families found in Steinbeck, Faulkner or McCartney there would ve a beacon of light among the trash, a warming sense of humanity even among the most damaged creatures. In the movie there is no such thing among male characters, and its really strange how it is misaligned to certain values you expect to find in small rural communities back then. Specially the sense of community and family at the core of it all. I find another thing strange and that is the lack of elder grandparents who often were revered and in a position of power because of their wisdom.
Now we have repetitions of this narrative in movies like Precious and the woman king, aswell as black panther 2. I mean, what is going on? It is alright to show the darkest side of humanity, but I wont believe in movies where all females are powerful little angels and all men are just dumb brutes.
Great video! Agreed wholeheartedly with it from start to finish! 👍
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This take really shows how distant men are from the realities of women. Literally every woman I know watches this movie and can clearly understand or relate to these situations. This movie is very well written and not the exaggeration you think it is.
Right. Videos like this show more hatred to black women than anything.
I don't think you're right about this and you've totally missed the point.
A lot of men who watched the movie typically speak of being super uncomfortable with all of that. Most younger men have probably also witnessed Domestic abuse as sad as that is. I agree that it's close to women's realities though. Still is today unfortunately.
But besides that, film is gesture I believe. Who can blame them for seeing this stuff if an entire group of people fall into a negative category in a film? That's like the first move in political films 101.
I believe that this movie grossly oversimplifies CSA and its effects. It has a children’s movie approach to the topic
I remember certain scenes from the movie, but not seeing the entire film. Then again, I was 4 when it was released and was more interested in cartoons than “the serious” stuff watched by grown-ups. I think I’ll give it a watch tomorrow to see what people are talking about.
Excellent video, intriguing perspective!
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I understand when a white woman, 97 years old, told me that she thinks of the Blacks like children... I agreed, and I am black. Only the blacks think I am from Africa. To let you know how black I am... The only thing that is 💯 about any movie is that it is just for entertainment!!! To make money...Lol
Yeah, growing up my moms and aunties would praise this movie as some masterpiece. when this movie came out, I was a young kid and my folks let me watch, I guess to show how times were back then when my grand and great grand parents were coming up. And even back then I was confused to are Black Men violent like that towards Black Women? Because my dad wasn't like that, my uncles were not like that. And as always once you get into adulthood, you start to understand things from the past. Looking at this movie today, as a Grown Man, I completely agree with your breakdown of this movie. Awesome video
I’m very glad to know that you had REALmen in your family. That’s good. I had a monster for a Dad and he hit women. I won’t attempt to discuss how my childhood was shaped or say that I understood what Alice Walker was describing in Black men. The fact is that some people KNOW that side of black men. It’s a reality for some people. I guess only half of our race knows this and will admit it. I guess you also DON’T understand where Ganster Rap comes from either! ….You have had it good, but don’t just dismiss everything.