The Color Purple/YMMV

• Asshole Victim: Anyone happy that Celie's abusive Pa died?
• Award Snub: Nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won nothing; even worse, Steven Spielberg went un-nominated for directing.
• Awesome Music
  • "The Dirty Dozen"
  • "Miss Celie's Blues"
  • "God Is Trying To Tell You Something"; truly a Gospel Revival Number
    • Shug busting in the church singing as loud as she can, makes you tear up something fierce.
• Complete Monster: Pa qualifies big time.
  • As well as Mister...even more so than Pa.
    • He becomes a lot less of a monster as the story progresses, especially after Celie stands up to him.
  • Really almost all the men in this movie are portrayed in a negative light
    • Samuel seems like a good enough person.
• Dancing Bear: The book at least is of arguable quality, but is used extensively for its subject and not its content.
• Ho Yay: Celie and Shug, though in the film version, this was regulated to subtext
• Memetic Mutation: Not in a funny way, but the "All my life I had to fight..." quote from Sofia is one of the lines that people remember.
• Moral Event Horizon: Wow, impossible to name them all.
• Narm: You feel sorry for the girl, but then picturing the situation and how much of a bastard Pa was, you start laughing.

Celie: You his wife? Teenage Widow: Yes, Ma'am Celie: How'd he die? Teenage Widow: On top of me.

• • Considering how often he raped Celie, and how he went through so many wives (basically forcing himself on THEM too), it also counts as Death by Irony.
• Tear Jerker: THE Eighties example. To the point where's become Memetic Mutation how it's the one film that is 100% likely to make a black person cry. Parodied in shows like The Boondocks.
  • In an interview with People magazine, Jesse L. Martin noted that his first date was to see this movie; he still isn't sure whether he was crying because of the movie, or the fact that he was stood up.
• The Woobie: Celie goes through hell within the first half-hour of the film.