The Color Purple with Kenice Mobley

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2025

⏱️ 186 minutes

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Summary

After inventing the Hollywood blockbuster with Jaws, creating the world’s most loveable alien with E.T., and resurrecting the classic adventure serial with the Indiana Jones franchise, of course the next logical step in Steven Spielberg’s career was to…adapt Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel about the survival and strength of queer black women in the American south? Duh! Obviously! Comedian Kenice Mobley joins us to talk about 1985’s truly baffling and seismically important The Color Purple in our latest episode. We want to thank Quincy Jones for discovering Oprah and producing this movie. We want to yell at Quincy Jones for his awful, treacly score. Sign up for Check Book, the Blank Check newsletter featuring even more “real nerdy shit” to feed your pop culture obsession. Dossier excerpts, film biz AND burger reports, and even more exclusive content you won’t want to miss out on. Join our Patreon for franchise commentaries and bonus episodes. Follow us @blankcheckpod on Twitter, Instagram, Threads and Facebook! Buy some real nerdy merch Connect with other Blankies on our Reddit or Discord For anything else, check out BlankCheckPod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Blank Jack with Griffin and David.
0:05.7	Black Jack with Griffin and David.
0:09.2	Don't know what to say or to expect.
0:12.9	All you need to know is that the name of the show is Black Jack.
0:29.0	It's about life. It's about love. It's about podcasts. Now, this movie has a very thorough quotes page on IMDB, and I looked through every one of them. You didn't think you could really nail any of those.
0:34.2	I failed to identify one that I could do without getting arrested.
0:42.7	Cool. I did a really thorough scan and I thought about it from a bunch of angles and I went, I don't think.
0:49.8	I should try one of these. I think the tagline for the color purple, which you just did from the, in my opinion, wonderful poster.
0:54.5	It's a very iconic poster. Yeah. It's about live. It's about love. It's about us.
1:04.5	It's such a, like, fucking terrible, like, you know, stereotypical 80s movie tagline where you're just like, what does that mean?
1:05.8	And then you're like, oh, so what's the movie about?
1:11.0	And they're like, well, and then if someone described what the color purple was about to you, they would be like, what do you mean? It's about life.
1:11.9	It's about love.
1:12.5	I mean, sure, but that's not really setting me up for the color purple.
1:16.4	That's all.
1:16.9	I like this movie, but the other reason I thought it was, I'm going to go with the tagline
1:21.8	here is that being the tagline for this movie on this poster with all the other elements of what is being
1:27.7	communicated in the poster is kind of the whole movie in a nutshell. Like this movie's weird
1:32.1	cultural object status of just like, here's the seismic book, it wins all the awards, how are we
1:39.1	going to make this into the movie, just get the best people in Hollywood, and then try to sell
1:43.4	this as like big tent entertainment, and decades of people being like, was that the best people in Hollywood, and then try to sell this as like big tent entertainment
1:45.1	and decades of people being like, was that the right way to do this? Is like the goal to make it
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