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“In day-to-day life, I worship the Earth (and its sun),” Alice Walker wrote, explaining that her novel, ‘The Color Purple’, is about among other things, disavowing “a God that resembles ‘the little fat white man who works in the bank.'”
The musical remake of ‘The Color Purple’ now in theaters was rewritten to better reflect the more politically correct version of Walker’s writing by playing up its lesbian relationship but also toning down the politically incorrect parts including the abusive black men and boys in the novel.
The 2023 adaptation of a musical of the original novel was billed as the first truly black take on it and yet it’s also the one that smoothes away all the rough edges for a movie that is woke, but also bland and inoffensive, and blandness is a signature of woke entertainment. Sometimes, like Taylor Swift’s endless march through pop culture, woke blandness triumphs to rule the day.
But ‘The Color Purple’ musical bombed. Badly.
After winning the Christmas box office on group sales to black women in the South, the movie, which cost over $100 million, at the least, fell 62% and declined to 7th place. Where the original movie had been the top PG-13 film of the year and scored nearly $100 million (around a quarter of a billion in today’s dollars) on a budget of $15 million, the remake reversed that.
Some of that is typical of the unforced DEI errors that are wrecking woke Hollywood.
Rather than pick an experienced filmmaker, Steven Spielberg stood by and let the project be handed over to ‘Blitz the Ambassador’, a Ghanaian rapper whose previous movie was ‘Black Is King’: Beyonce’s extended black nationalist music video, with a script from Marcus Gardley, who hasn’t been credited on a movie script, but did write ‘No More Monsters Here’ which “is a satire about a young white female who visits a psychiatrist and gets diagnosed with ‘Negrophobia'”.
While the publicity for ‘The Color Purple’ hyped the fact that black people were in charge of an adaptation of the novel for the first time, little attention was paid to the fact that it was two men.
In woke dogma, race is absolute while womanhood is a figment of the psyche, but putting two men in charge of a work meant to appeal to women may have proven that it’s the other way around. The black women who came to see the 2023 adaptation early on never told their friends to come. Or worse they told them to stay home because the movie did not speak to them.
When Steven Spielberg directed the original movie, it benefited from appearing to break taboos. That is what brought in the white liberals in the 1980s who decided to stay home in the 2020s. Hollywood is in the middle of a golden era of black nationalist movies in which project after project demonizes white people, celebrates racist domestic terrorists and pushes sexual transgressiveness. And so the white BLMers didn’t turn out for ‘The Color Purple’.
In a woke environment, ‘The Color Purple’.is also old enough that it can’t win, too lesbian for the church lady audience and not nearly LGBTQAI+ for woke zoomers taking media courses. The musical remake has already been attacked for “erasing queerness” by not being gay enough. ‘Blitz the Ambassador’ isn’t woke enough for a culture that rejects anything less than fully edgy.
At the heart of Alice Walker’s work is the neopagan idea of replacing god with a black woman whose martyrdom at the hands of society, organized religion and men, both white and black, reflects the ideal of the goddess and the Earth, was edgy once, now a cliche. What Walker only delivers as a metaphor, Darren Aronofsky writ large with ‘Mother!’ in which Jennifer Lawrence is the titular mother representing Planet Earth being abused by the religious fanatics of humanity.
Walker, who believes that Jews are shapeshifting reptilian aliens, is still edgy, but not in a way that Hollywood can quite figure out how to package. Hating men is one thing, but hating men so much that she sides with J.K. Rowling is the kind of thing no publicist can figure out how to spin. But Walker is also a fan of David Icke, a former English soccer player, who believes that the Earth is secretly ruled by “an intergalactic race of reptilians” and that the moon is a hologram.
Go ahead and turn that into a life-affirming musical aimed at getting people back into theaters.
There was always a fundamental mismatch between Walker’s pathological hatred and its intended audience. The 2023 remake trims away the protagonist’s ‘letters to god’. Walker believes that the Creator of the Universe is a “a frightful, jealous, cruel, murderous ‘God’ of another race and tribe of people” and by that she means the Jews. Antisemitism is not a major sales issue, but like many black nationalists, her hatred of Jews is also a hatred of God.
As Amiri Baraka, the black nationalist poet whose inclusion on the AP Black Studies curriculum recently stirred controversy, wrote. “Atheist jews double crossers stole our secrets crossed the white desert to spill them… The fag’s death they gave us on a cross… they give us to worship a dead jew and not ourselves.”
Five-Percent Nation, a Nation of Islam splinter group whose devotees allegedly include JayZ and the Wu Tang Clan, under Allah the Father (formerly Clarence 13X 1928-1969) who believe that all black men are gods and therefore should only be worshiping themselves are the ultimate expression of black nationalism as atheistic racial narcissism.
Walker, Baraka and many black nationalists made themselves into the object of worship with prototypes of black men and women undergoing martyrdom and suffering to gain awareness of the godhood within them. This message of black liberation is at odds with the religion and culture of Black America. It’s why the art and culture of black nationalism remains an academic and activist project subsidized by white radicals.
Steven Spielberg, turning in his director’s chair for a role as a producer (along with Oprah), seems determined to oversee unnecessary woke remakes. After a failed West Side Story musical remake that was supposed to grapple with racial and class issues, you would think he would have learned better. Instead he’s racking up one woke failure after another.
‘The Color Purple’ as a novel was culture as a gateway to politics and theology. None of the adaptations have done justice to its twisted message, but then few white liberals or black people have really reckoned with the proposed calling of black nationalist theology to worship the self. Mostly they wallow in the graphic litany of abuses while ignoring the larger message.
The power and resilience of the traditional black community had been grounded in faith. Black nationalism’s call to worship the racial and sexual self has produced domestic terrorism, hatred, broken families, bad art and general misery. The failure of ‘The Color Purple’ is only the latest bad art whose misery will mostly be inflected on its audiences, investors and producers.
In both the political and the financial sense, ‘The Color Purple’s true color ends up red.
Alice Walker was as repulsive a racialist as there could be way back when. I can’t imagine how much more horrid this version of her bilge is.
The failure of this bomb of a train wreck will be blamed on ‘racism’.
It’s like a broken record!
“Racism!, click, racism!, click, racism!, click…”
As these leftist shitheads lack intelligence, “racism” has been their default response to any argument.
Voter I.D.? Racist!
Point out BLM blatant fraud? Racist!
The examples abound to stretch credulity.
The actual racism that not only flourishes, but is also celebrated is toward whites. It’s undeniable.
One example was that outstanding Romeike family.
The Romeike family had character traits that apparently appalled Obama & his idiot Biden:
They were ¹in tact, ²well educated, ³spoke English, ⁴Christian, ⁵law abiding, ⁶loved America, ⁷thankful & appreciative, ⁸honest, and worse . . . ⁹were white.
Our leftist government that is letting in MS-13, 3rd world ingrates, & future jihadists by the 100s of 1000s, couldn’t stomach a single family that’d have made upstanding citizens.
They were finally deported last month after years & millions spent to make sure it happened.
Just how I want to spend an evening. Going to a theater only to get beaten over the head with a pile of woke DEI garbage.
I have always hated the concept of the Color Purple and I didn’t even have to see the TV “extravaganza” or the myriad of remakes.
Isn’t it time for it simply “DEI” a long awaited death?
Good call.
Alice Walker is a lackluster idiot who used to write for The Village Voice.
Her entire shtick is spitting her bile on all things God, America, and all the benefits Western Culture has done to bouy civilization.
Venomous fools will never starve as long as there’s a DNC to give ’em suckle.
My wife and I were just recently discussing how Hollywood has made a whole slew of remakes, never modifying the title of the remake, so as to leave the original work to stand on its own. It’s almost as if they want to replace “objectionable” portrayals of earlier works of art.
Isn’t there a new woke version of “Mean Girls” coming out?
Next they’ll remake Steve McQueen’s famous Bullitt movie with a Tesla driven by Dylan Mulvaney… hope they actually show all the homeless camps and fecal-clad sidewalks while ripping through the streets of Frisco.
Bullitt was a classic.Shows San Francisco just before it started to go downhill.
Useless people celebrating their victimhood.
Self inflicted victimhood. The pathetic kind.
I saw the previews. It looked like a high school musical with grade school acting.
Wardrobe problem, too. Notice how the “slave dresses” or whatever don’t have any dirt or rips — look like they just came out of a dept store….just no.
The only writers speaking honestly and entertainingly of the back experience in America were Jews.Edna Ferber, who wrote Showboat, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein, who scored the show, the Gershwin brothers who scored Porgy and Bess, Abel Meropol who wrote Strange Fruit for Billie Holiday. Another reason for black antisemitism.
I know the word gets thrown around a lot these days, but it doesn’t get more narcissistic than self-worship. Talk of setting one’s self up for disappointment and failure.
The movie is “woke” but “inoffensive”? That’s weird.
Soviet agitprop was leftist and bland. Pretty much the same thing as woke and inoffensive.
But I do appreciate that you love the Spielberg version so much. Maybe your taste is not completely rotten.
Your’s is, Mr. Leftist.
At least I know proper grammar’s.
That’s called “punctuation.”
… But not proper punctuation, apparently.
If you think I love the Spielberg version, you still suffer from your inability to read what you’re commenting on.
I Just broke down while not feeling well and binge watched a watched a detective series. It held my interest and the acting was ok until the “who dunit” reveal. & You know who done it. An old white male conservative politician who rapes women. And there was a Jewish side character, a pathetic guy who was a sexual pervert. I was sorry I stuck around until the end.
There was no reason to solve the murder mystery that way. This was British which is just as bad or worse than Hollywood. .
the British stuff tends to be awful, especially prestige detective shows, often meant for export
Yes … Hollywood manufactures woke leftist racist BLM DEI hate-America garbage.
So what else is new ?
As much as I despise the politics and wokeness of Whoopi and Oprah, I thought the original Color Purple was outstanding.
I never knew Alice Walker was a pagan, racist, bigoted screwball. What a shame this lovely movie was turned into a pathetic heap of garbage.
Wow. I’m having difficulty believing somebody who reads Front Page would have missed where Alice Walker was coming from. Huh.
The Color Purple is a reimagined piece of fiction. Did Alice Walker ever delve into the real history of slavery? Nope! African slaves came from diverse tribes that were captured by their rival tribes and sold to Europeans. Walker just substituted the lives of 19th century African slaves with her version of the late 20th century dysfunctional African American family structure. Where men are depicted as brutes who rape and impregnate their women, then have nothing to do with them.
I don’t…how about researching what the lives of genuine African slaves was like in mid-19th century America. Slaves were sold and then became property of their white owners. How did slaves, who were basically a bunch of strangers to each other on plantations cope? Was there tension between rival African clans or did the slaves bury the hatchet of tribalism in order to live together? How did the slaves work together in their communal housing? Did slaves actually have the right to marry or did a man and women just fall in love and have undocumented children? Because I assume children of slaves, wouldn’t be given records of their birth by their owners?
But researching the real lives of African slaves and creating a story about it would be compelling opposed to a female author who is a misandrist, placing her take on 20th century African American dysfunctional family relations set against the background of abusive men. I dare to say in the future, African Americans will want nothing to do with works of Alice Walker.
Slaves were mainly sold by African chiefs to Arab slavers.
A story as old as history, AA.
Most of what we know about that is from white boys, who for whatever reasons, preferred the company of slaves to life in the big house, and wrote down what they saw and heard there. Those guys are cancelled now, by the people whose history they sought to preserve. As a result, most of what we see and hear now is as fictional as kwanza.
The cultural decline at work.
People who have never had a culture, nor contributed anything should not be in the business of promoting culture.
i never saw the original one why should I bother with the remake
The problem with racism as a tool is that it’s highly effective. It only works on people who have guilt or are over concerned with the opinions of others, but those easily manipulated people can wreak havoc on your life by firing you, picketing you or even killing you. I deal with it by avoiding the weak-minded like the plague.