'The Color Purple': Song, God's Trying To Tell You Smthg., Speak To Me: Shug Avery Reconciliation

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- In the film 'The Color Purple,' Shug Avery reconciles with her father, such a powerful scene. Despite her father's ill feelings toward Shug all those years, when God spoke to him in that moment, he had no choice but to surrender. And she said, "See daddy, sinners have soul too."
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- The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name. The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2009 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit content, particularly in terms of violence. In 2003, the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novels."... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_Purple
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- The Color Purple, Movie CLIP - Celie Stands up to Albert (1985). Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) puts a knife to Albert's (Danny Glover) neck and curses his future.

- Film: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple spans the years 1909 to 1949, relating the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), a Southern black woman virtually sold into a life of servitude to her brutal husband, sharecropper Albert (Danny Glover).

Celie pours out her innermost thoughts in letter form to her sister Nettie (Akousa Busia), but Albert has been hiding the letters Nettie writes back, allowing Celie to assume that Nettie is dead. Finally, Celie finds a champion in the don't-take-no-guff Sofia (Oprah Winfrey), the wife of Glover's son from a previous marriage.

Alas, Sofia is "humbled" when she is beaten into submission by angry whites. Later, Celie is able to forge a strong friendship with Albert's mistress Shug (Margaret Avery). Emboldened by this, Celie begins rifling through her husband's belongings and finds Nettie's letters.

Able at last to stand up to her husband, Celie leaves him to search for a new life on her own. A major box-office hit, The Color Purple was nominated for 11 Oscars. The film was co-produced by Quincy Jones, who also wrote the score.