For this week's edition of Hit Me With Your Best Shot I challenged participating blogs (you should join us next week for The Bad and the Beautiful!) to rewatch Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Alice Walker's THE COLOR PURPLE (1985) and make their choice for "best shot". The cinematography by Allen Daviau was Oscar-nominated, as were its central trio of actresses Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, and Oprah Winfrey (who returns to the screen in The Butler this weekend). The Color Purple famously lost all of its nominations but remains a touchstone film for many moviegoers and a divisive one for others.
All of which makes it an ideal candidate for this series. Here's what the various blogs chose so click on any of the pictures for the corresponding article. They're mostly in chronological order though I've had some strange html issues that have altered the look of the post which I can't quite figure out so I apologize for the wonkiness. I always marvel when different sets of eyeballs coalesce around the same images and scenes in films as visually showy as this one. 8 of the 13 participants chose the same scene and its aftermath.
The Film Experience
Nick's Flick Picks
More best shot choices after the jump...
My New Plaid Pants
We Recycle Movies
Encore's World
Stale Popcorn
Sorta That Guy
The Pretentious Know It All
Antagony & Ecstacy
Film Actually
Me Says
Nick's Flick Picks
The Film's The Thing
A Fistful of Film
I Want to Believe
Which is your favorite and when was the last time you saw The Color Purple?