The Color Purple (1985)
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Wikidata Q223299, film, IMDb tt0088939, TMDB 873: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Steven Spielberg as director (Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri); 5 more episodes agree.
The shows' “The Color Purple” is more than one work, told apart episode by episode: this one in 7 episodes; The Color Purple (2023) in 1 episode.
What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.
Who talked about it
Blank Check with Griffin & David
- Griffin Newman: 1 line in Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri
- Unattributed: 1 line, the speaker unknown or under 0.5 sure.
Came from
What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.
No line says it drew on another film or person.
Led to
What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.
No line says another film or person drew on it.
Connected to
Empire of the Sun: 1 line craft ×1
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craft (aesthetic shift):
Empire of the Sun → The Color Purple.
Both are death-of-childhood movies; Empire is where Spielberg starts bending his shiny style so it does not make everything feel magical.
“This feels like the 1st movie where he successfully, to your point of what you're getting at, figures out how to shift his aesthetic a little bit”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 0:32:29 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
Schindler's List: 1 line industry ×1
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industry (Oscar chase):
The Color Purple → Schindler's List.
The Color Purple's zero-win record is part of the narrative of Spielberg chasing an Oscar until Schindler's List.
“Color purple famously was the most nominations to receive 0 wins.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:04:10 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
Where it came up
- compared in Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri, first at 0:11:06, 14 times
- passing in Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis, first at 3:06:36, 1 time
- passing in Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park, first at 0:04:10, 1 time
- passing in The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey, first at 0:20:17, 1 time
- passing in The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes!, first at 0:25:00, 5 times
- passing in Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free), first at 0:30:36, 1 time
What was said about it, by kind
craft (1)
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craft (aesthetic shift):
Empire of the Sun → The Color Purple.
Both are death-of-childhood movies; Empire is where Spielberg starts bending his shiny style so it does not make everything feel magical.
“This feels like the 1st movie where he successfully, to your point of what you're getting at, figures out how to shift his aesthetic a little bit”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 0:32:29 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
industry (1)
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industry (Oscar chase):
The Color Purple → Schindler's List.
The Color Purple's zero-win record is part of the narrative of Spielberg chasing an Oscar until Schindler's List.
“Color purple famously was the most nominations to receive 0 wins.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:04:10 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
Fun items about it
None.
Who the speakers said made it
As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.
- Steven Spielberg: director (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri)
- Menno Meyjes: screenwriter (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri)
- Alice Walker: novelist (source) (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri)
- Allen Daviau: cinematographer (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Fearless with Timothy Simons)