"The Color Purple" Reunion on Oprah

Well, Oprah has done it again! Another brilliant idea, this time reuniting the entire cast of the 1985 classic movie “The Color Purple”.

The film was based on a Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Alice Walker, and is a story about the very harsh conditions faced by a number of poor African-American women in Georgia, USA during the early 1900’s. It earned great critical acclaim and 11 Oscar nominations.

Directed by Steven Spielberg with a musical score by none other than Quincy Jones, the movie received a lot of criticism for having a white director and stereotyping black people, most notably black men, especially based on the representation of the character Albert Johnson played by Danny Glover, however to this day it still remains a much loved classic.

This movie actually launched the career of Oprah herself, not to mention launching the careers of other starring cast members Danny Glover and Whoopi Goldberg, who both were virtual unknowns at that time. At the time, Oprah had just started her own talk show, Whoopi Goldberg was still doing stand-up comedy routines and Danny Glover had just done three movies prior to “The Color Purple”.

Oprah mentioned that she had the most fun in her life making the movie while Goldberg mentioned at the time she was scared to get into trouble if she messed things up during filming, as she had never made a movie before that time.