The Color Purple/YMMV

"Celie: You his wife?
 * Asshole Victim: Anyone happy that Celie's abusive Pa died?
 * Award Snub: Nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won nothing; even worse, Steven Spielberg went un-nominated for directing.
 * Awesome Music
 * "The Dirty Dozen"
 * "Miss Celie's Blues"
 * "God Is Trying To Tell You Something"; truly a Gospel Revival Number
 * Shug busting in the church singing as loud as she can, makes you tear up something fierce.
 * Complete Monster: Pa qualifies big time.
 * As well as Mister...even more so than Pa.
 * He becomes a lot less of a monster as the story progresses, especially after Celie stands up to him.
 * Really almost all the men in this movie are portrayed in a negative light
 * Samuel seems like a good enough person.
 * Dancing Bear: The book at least is of arguable quality, but is used extensively for its subject and not its content.
 * Ho Yay: Celie and Shug, though in the film version, this was regulated to subtext
 * Memetic Mutation: Not in a funny way, but the "All my life I had to fight..." quote from Sofia is one of the lines that people remember.
 * Moral Event Horizon: Wow, impossible to name them all.
 * Narm: You feel sorry for the girl, but then picturing the situation and how much of a bastard Pa was, you start laughing.

Teenage Widow: Yes, Ma'am

Celie: How'd he die?

Teenage Widow: On top of me."


 * Considering how often he raped Celie, and how he went through so many wives (basically forcing himself on THEM too), it also counts as Death by Irony.
 * Tear Jerker: THE Eighties example. To the point where's become Memetic Mutation how it's the one film that is 100% likely to make a black person cry. Parodied in shows like The Boondocks.
 * In an interview with People magazine, Jesse L. Martin noted that his first date was to see this movie; he still isn't sure whether he was crying because of the movie, or the fact that he was stood up.
 * The Woobie: Celie goes through hell within the first half-hour of the film.