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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.

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 * [[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.
-{{quote| '''Celie''': You his wife? <br />
+{{quote|'''Celie''': You his wife?
-'''Teenage Widow''': Yes, Ma'am<br />
+'''Teenage Widow''': Yes, Ma'am
-'''Celie''': How'd he die? <br />
+'''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]].