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For Colored Girls (2010) American drama movies adapted from Ntozake Shange's 1975 original choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf. Written, directed and produced by [[wikipedia:Tyler_Perry|Tyler Perry]].<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Colored_Girls</ref>
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For Colored Girls (2010) American drama movies adapted from a 1975's play by Ntozake Shange. The movie was written, directed and produced by [[wikipedia:Tyler_Perry|Tyler Perry]].<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Colored_Girls</ref>
 
[[File:ForColoredGirls cover.jpg|thumb|ForColoredGirls cover]]
 
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==Plot==
 
==Plot==
The movie is based on Ntozake Shange's play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf." Unlike the original play which featured only 7 women known by colors performing the collection of 20 poems, the movie has given each of the 20 characters names. Each of the poems deal with intense issues that particularly impact women in a thought-provoking commentary on what it means to be a female of color in the world.<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1405500/</ref>
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The movie takes a story from Ntozake Shange's play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf." The movie gives name of its 20 characters following the collection of poem from the play. Each of the sonnets manage extreme issues that especially sway ladies in a provocative critique on being a female of color.<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1405500/</ref>
  
 
==Controversy==
 
==Controversy==
At event of Egyptian Theatre organized by new Seattle collective to prescreening the movies, cofounder Christa Bell spoke from the stage to emphasize the occasion: a moment to rethink images of black women. "Real colored girls," she said, "are offended and bored." The postshow discussion was a blend of confession and critique that sent currents of conversation out into the night. "That happened to me, to my sister; this movie was a mirror." "He skipped all the high points of being a black woman; I have never seen so many images of black women shaking and crying." "I had a problem with this film as a brother. We get maybe six movies a year. I'd rather be watching ''The Cosby Show''."<ref>https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/for-colored-girls-real-colored-girls-are-offended-and-bored/Content?oid=5395563</ref>
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There is also a scene where a woman have a fight breaking up with her boyfriend and explaining her deep feeling from what truly called the Colored girls.
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'''''Juanita''': Ever since I realized, there was someone called a colored girl or an evil woman, a bitch or a nag I been trying not to be that and leave bitterness in somebody else's cup. Come to somebody to love me without deep and nasty smelling scars from lye or being left screaming in a street of lunatics whispering, 'Slut, bitch, bitch. Nigga, get out of here with all of that.' I didn't have any of that for you. I brought you what joy I found. And I found joy. And then there's that woman who hurt you. And who you left three or four times. And then you went back after you put my heart in the bottom of your shoe. You just walked back to where you hurt and I didn't have nothing. So I went to where somebody had something for me, but none of them were you. I got a real dead loving here for you now, 'cause I don't know anymore how to avoid my own face wet with my tears because I had convinced myself that colored girls have no right to sorrow. I lived for you. I know I did it for myself, but I couldn't stand it. I couldn't stand being sorry and colored at the same time. It's so redundant in the modern world.''
  
There is also a scene where a woman have a fight to broke with her boyfriend and explaining her deep feeling from what truly called the Colored girls.
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'''''Frank''': I guess this is goodbye.''
  
'''Juanita''': Ever since I realized, there was someone called a colored girl or an evil woman, a bitch or a nag I been trying not to be that and leave bitterness in somebody else's cup. Come to somebody to love me without deep and nasty smelling scars from lye or being left screaming in a street of lunatics whispering, 'Slut, bitch, bitch. Nigga, get out of here with all of that.' I didn't have any of that for you. I brought you what joy I found. And I found joy. And then there's that woman who hurt you. And who you left three or four times. And then you went back after you put my heart in the bottom of your shoe. You just walked back to where you hurt and I didn't have nothing. So I went to where somebody had something for me, but none of them were you. I got a real dead loving here for you now, 'cause I don't know anymore how to avoid my own face wet with my tears because I had convinced myself that colored girls have no right to sorrow. I lived for you. I know I did it for myself, but I couldn't stand it. I couldn't stand being sorry and colored at the same time. It's so redundant in the modern world.
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'''''Juanita''': Like you've never seen it before.''
  
'''Frank''': I guess this is goodbye.
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(Perry, 2010)<ref>"For Colored Girls Quotes." Quotes.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2021. Web. 1 Mar. 2021. <https://www.quotes.net/mquote/1005786>.</ref></blockquote>
  
'''Juanita''': Like you've never seen it before.<br />
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== Reception ==
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The movie is not as good as the play. It does not channel the Ntozake Shange's original poem-play. During the movie premiere, Egyptian Theatre was filled by black men and women wanting. However, the is not as good as how the atmosphere of the theater is. In an interview, a woman said that she enjoys sitting in a room full of black men and women who are willing to watch movies together, more so than her excitement over the movie.<ref>https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/for-colored-girls-real-colored-girls-are-offended-and-bored/Content?oid=5395563</ref>
  
 
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Latest revision as of 06:37, 15 March 2021

For Colored Girls (2010) American drama movies adapted from a 1975's play by Ntozake Shange. The movie was written, directed and produced by Tyler Perry.[1]

ForColoredGirls cover


Plot

The movie takes a story from Ntozake Shange's play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf." The movie gives name of its 20 characters following the collection of poem from the play. Each of the sonnets manage extreme issues that especially sway ladies in a provocative critique on being a female of color.[2]

Controversy

There is also a scene where a woman have a fight breaking up with her boyfriend and explaining her deep feeling from what truly called the Colored girls.

Juanita: Ever since I realized, there was someone called a colored girl or an evil woman, a bitch or a nag I been trying not to be that and leave bitterness in somebody else's cup. Come to somebody to love me without deep and nasty smelling scars from lye or being left screaming in a street of lunatics whispering, 'Slut, bitch, bitch. Nigga, get out of here with all of that.' I didn't have any of that for you. I brought you what joy I found. And I found joy. And then there's that woman who hurt you. And who you left three or four times. And then you went back after you put my heart in the bottom of your shoe. You just walked back to where you hurt and I didn't have nothing. So I went to where somebody had something for me, but none of them were you. I got a real dead loving here for you now, 'cause I don't know anymore how to avoid my own face wet with my tears because I had convinced myself that colored girls have no right to sorrow. I lived for you. I know I did it for myself, but I couldn't stand it. I couldn't stand being sorry and colored at the same time. It's so redundant in the modern world.

Frank: I guess this is goodbye.

Juanita: Like you've never seen it before.

(Perry, 2010)[3]

Reception

The movie is not as good as the play. It does not channel the Ntozake Shange's original poem-play. During the movie premiere, Egyptian Theatre was filled by black men and women wanting. However, the is not as good as how the atmosphere of the theater is. In an interview, a woman said that she enjoys sitting in a room full of black men and women who are willing to watch movies together, more so than her excitement over the movie.[4]

Reference