'The Color Purple' tips its hat to classic Black musicals
Even when Hollywood saw little use for Black performers other than as mammies and butlers, the musical genre, a storytelling mode composed of magical
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Even when Hollywood saw little use for Black performers other than as mammies and butlers, the musical genre, a storytelling mode composed of magical
The new movie has so many references to Hollywood gems like “Stormy Weather” and early jazz shorts, it can be viewed as a Black film syllabus.
The director Blitz Bazawule narrates a scene from the musical, featuring the star performing as the dynamo Shug Avery.
Hollywood offers two year-end hits and one clunker. The clunker film is a male competition movie that gets bogged down in marital problems.
This “The Color Purple” deserves to be the audience-pleasing, surprise hit of this holiday season.