The Color Purple Podcast
Oscar nominated for 2024 Acadamy Awards
Embark on a remarkable voyage of rediscovery with "The Color Purple," as Oprah Winfrey and director Blitz Bazawule breathe new life into Alice Walker's classic novel. This episode offers a rare glimpse into the creative alchemy behind the musical adaptation, with insights from powerhouse talents Fantasia (American Idol), Taraji P. Henson (Hidden Figures), and Halle Bailey (The Little Mermaid). Feel the dedication to the source material and the emotional connection that drives Oprah's involvement, while unraveling the fabric of storytelling that blends the original's heart-wrenching narrative with a magical twist.
Transport yourself into a world where the chemistry between actors and a commitment to legacy fuse together to retell a story of resilience and transformation. The visionary direction of Blitz Bazawule harmonizes with the cast's talents to explore joy, spirituality, and the portrayal of multidimensional women. Experience the legacy of Alice Walker's work through the lens of the actors and creative minds who have woven this powerful tapestry of song, dance, and the unyielding human spirit.
Join us for an episode that celebrates the transformative power of cinema and the indelible mark of "The Color Purple.
The Color Purple Podcast
Oscar nominated for 2024 Acadamy Awards
Embark on a remarkable voyage of rediscovery with "The Color Purple," as Oprah Winfrey and director Blitz Bazawule breathe new life into Alice Walker's classic novel. This episode offers a rare glimpse into the creative alchemy behind the musical adaptation, with insights from powerhouse talents Fantasia (American Idol), Taraji P. Henson (Hidden Figures), and Halle Bailey (The Little Mermaid). Feel the dedication to the source material and the emotional connection that drives Oprah's involvement, while unraveling the fabric of storytelling that blends the original's heart-wrenching narrative with a magical twist.
Transport yourself into a world where the chemistry between actors and a commitment to legacy fuse together to retell a story of resilience and transformation. The visionary direction of Blitz Bazawule harmonizes with the cast's talents to explore joy, spirituality, and the portrayal of multidimensional women. Experience the legacy of Alice Walker's work through the lens of the actors and creative minds who have woven this powerful tapestry of song, dance, and the unyielding human spirit.
Join us for an episode that celebrates the transformative power of cinema and the indelible mark of "The Color Purple.
Because we now have the Cinema Judge. Hello, hello, hello and welcome to the Cinema Judge. I hope my voice finds you well. To all my regular listeners out there, welcome back and if you're new to the show, welcome aboard. Now approaching the bench today we have the Color Purple. Now you might remember the original with Steven Spielberg, the Broadway play. Well, this is a reinterpretation of the Broadway play and the original movie. This is in a musical style, but the same strong, powerful message. Here's a tagline A woman faces many hardships in her life but ultimately finds strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood. Here's a trailer for the Color Purple.
Speaker 2:I couldn't get on live none, Ain't you got something to make you just smile?
Speaker 3:I'm a sister and I ain't seen her in the heels.
Speaker 2:You know, if you ain't gonna laugh, you need to sell your foot bone.
Speaker 3:Oh, I was married to a man I didn't love. What if I say go. And he took my sister away from me? Even if we have to part, you and me, us, have one heart.
Speaker 4:How come you so nice? Don't know, Maybe you're too nice. You seem like trouble. I come here out of respect, but if there ain't nothing to get that show ain't nothing again. What's the matter?
Speaker 2:Now that I got the right to turn, here's what you're meant to go here.
Speaker 5:Drake's on now. Who's the party?
Speaker 4:That don't be some change, it's main.
Speaker 2:You gots to stand up, I know my sister somewhere in the world.
Speaker 3:Someday we're gonna meet again. Keep your head held high, just like Mom Thomas.
Speaker 6:It's time I be free from you and then took her to creation.
Speaker 3:I'd die before I let that happen.
Speaker 2:Good, that's just the gone away present. I've been need.
Speaker 3:Oh, ha, ha, ha, ha ha. What's the matter? Baby, baby, baby.
Speaker 2:What's the matter? What's the matter? What's the matter? What do you like to do? Time for you to see the world. What's the matter?
Speaker 7:Sweet and love and God Puzzled and you wanna come in.
Speaker 1:Now this version of the Color Purple is directed by the incredibly talented Blitz Pizzawol and produced by the amazing, the legendary Oprah Winfrey Dare we say more With her behind this. You really can't go wrong. And the cast in this movie is incredible Bar none Fantasia Barino, tajari, p Henson, halle Bailey and that's just the name, just a few. This is just a loaded cast of talented, talented actors and actresses. In his studio. They gave us so many great interviews for this show today. I don't really want to stand in the way too much because they have so much to say and that's what you're here for. So, coming up, first we're going to go back and forth between Oprah and director Blitz. So first we're here from Oprah talking about the loyalty she felt to the original because it changed her life immensely, and then we're going to go to director Blitz talking about the original and his response to being offered a job, and I love that interview. He has honesty, because imagine that you are presented with this iconic piece of art and what do you do with it? Where do you go with it? But it's interesting to see what he did with it, because everyone here back from Oprah, and she talks about that moment, that point where she just knew Blitz was the guy to do it with the storyboards and his idea. She was like, without a doubt, he's our guy.
Speaker 1:And then we go back to the director and he tells us a little bit more about the story. And in that same vein, right here again from Oprah, and she talks about his vision. But put yourself in his position Again. Like I said, all these things to draw from the book, the play, the movie, what do you do? And then we're going to hear from him and he addresses that. When you're in doubt, when you have nowhere else to turn, what do you do? You turn to the Holy Grail, the book, because in the grand scheme of things, that's the original word. So if you've lost in the production where to go with it, you don't know where the story might be going. You turn to the original because you can't go wrong with the original. Here's some really good interviews. Check it out.
Speaker 5:I've said many times, it's not your mama's color purple, but your mama gonna love it. She's gonna love it because I think we all certainly I am have a great sense of loyalty to the original color purple that changed my life more than anything, any other experience of my life. The color purple changed my life In a myriad of ways that I won't go into here, but my affection and, you know, appreciation for that version remains. But this is a magically realized inside Celie's imagination, inside Celie's thoughts.
Speaker 8:I got a phone call said that we were making the color purple. And you know, of course, when you hear that you go. That can't be me, you know. I mean the bar is so high on the original to Steven Spielberg it's a Pulitzer Prize winning book. It's Alice Walker. It's a Tony Award winning Broadway show. So you quickly go. You know there's other. There are the hills, you know, and I eventually read the script and I was like something here, there's something I can do here and there's an opportunity to create something new and create something that is mine. And so one meeting led to the next and, you know, put together a great pitch that really showed that we had a vision and there was a path to making something that was truly unique.
Speaker 5:We interviewed a number of people for the possibility of directing this film and it was a slam dunk 100%. Everybody in the room said that's the guy when Blitz made his first presentation. Blitz's first presentation was storyboarded with these ideas of magical realism.
Speaker 8:The color purple follows the journey of Sealy, an African-American woman growing up in the rural South in the early 1900s. She is forced to marry a man, mr, who is abusive, who ends up separating her from her sister and begins a cycle of trauma. Along her way, sealy meets two extraordinary women who transform her Shogavri and Sophia and they kind of inspire her to become this person who then attracts the things that she wants.
Speaker 5:His vision for what this movie could be comes alive in a way that I think will excite and stimulate and delight the audience.
Speaker 8:I knew that our film will have to be an amalgam of all these iterations, right Of course, beginning with the Holy Grail, which is Alice Walker's brilliant, pulitzer Prize-winning book. That, for me, was the Bible. We'll always be able. Whenever we were lost, we knew that we could go to Alice Walker and we will find our way.
Speaker 8:Steven's film gave us kind of the cinematic version, and the Broadway show gave us still a lot of the music, but somewhere in between all of this we had to find what would be our glue, and that's what was going to be on us. And also we knew that we were bringing an imaginative quality that only our version has, and so that imaginative quality became almost the glue that held all the parts together, but it needed to be grounded. You know, as far as I believe, anything that is imaginative or what people will call magical, realist, the realism part is the critical part, because you can easily get off course and go off the reservation, trying to be abstract, right, and so grounding the film in Alice's brilliant arc then made sure that anywhere we went, we could always return to the arc, and that's really, I think, what gave us our wings.
Speaker 1:Now in the next little section of interviews, we're going to talk about the cast. But first we're going to hear from Oprah, and she talks about that how incredibly talented this cast is. But then we're going to hear from Fantasia and also Daniel Brooke. First, fantasia talks about not wanting to disappoint Oprah, because what she's paved the road for so many other actresses out there and people of color they do not want to disappoint her, and what she did with that role originally obviously was incredible, and that's what Daniel Brooke talks about also.
Speaker 1:And then the director Blitz talks about the cast too. And then both the director and Taraji P Henson they both addressed the incredible cast that they have for this movie. And then we hear from Fantasia and she talks about working with Daniel Brooke and in the same vein, then we're going to hear from Daniel Brooke talking about working with Fantasia and how this is one of her first projects, but she has a weight of everything on her. But then Daniel talks about also about her coming back to her role that she's playing, and why wouldn't she do it?
Speaker 5:Well, we have such an incredible ensemble cast. I mean this cast is fire okay From Coleman to Mingo to Corey Hawkins to Taraji obviously Fantasia in the starring role.
Speaker 3:Oprah. Just having her here, knowing her story, knowing that she played in the first Color Purple, having her here makes us really be on our P's and Q's, because we want to fulfill the vision that she sees for Color Purple, the musical. We don't want to disappoint everything that she put in. She told us her story, how she got the role, what it meant to her, and because of that we're bringing our A-game to make her happy. She is a woman of color who has paved the way for us all, who has shown us that you can do whatever you want to do as long as you put your mind to it. Nobody stopped her, nobody stood in her way. She had to knock down some doors, but she did it, and so for us we're going to knock down doors with this movie for her and every other black woman out there.
Speaker 4:I really feel like Ms Winfrey really stamped Sophia as one of the most iconic roles in America's cinema, like what she did with that character. She left such a great blueprint for me to follow and has really made my job much easier. Between her and the words of Alice Walker, it really just made, you know, my work much easier to get into Sophia and discover who she is.
Speaker 8:This is a brilliant ensemble. You know I'm one of the luckiest directors in the world to have the level of skill and talent and also rich depth. Like everybody, brought a wealth.
Speaker 2:This entire cast was handpicked by Blitz and I mean he had a vision and he fought for everybody in this film and I'm just so grateful because I don't think he could have put together a better cast.
Speaker 3:Danielle is a very strong black woman who has fought her way through this industry, standing out from the stereotype, as well as myself, as well as Shun Tawaji, and she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. I noticed that when we were off camera and I would say to her you are Sophia in real life, and she would laugh. I'm like it's true and I believe that I'm silly. Blitz couldn't have picked us out in, I mean perfect pics For Fantasia.
Speaker 4:This is her first big film and she's leading the cast and I have been on shows where you either don't feel supported because something might be new to you and people feel like well, how did you get in this position? But like no, she's deserving of this moment and I think she did an incredible job. And I think that's what Sisterhood is about, as we see in the movie. It's like helping one another to be our best and to realize our potential and to realize that we can do and be whatever we want to be, and so I think we lived by that on set and off set. How could I not come back to Sophia? I mean, she's so much fun to play, she's so complicated and I really she's super challenging to step into her shoes because she goes from this fiery a firecracker you know that is actually very chill until you poke the bear to falling and to rising again, and I really enjoy stepping into her shoes because it's so true to life.
Speaker 1:In this version of Color Purple there's incredible music and dance sequences and we're gonna hear some people talk about that up coming up next. First we're gonna hear from Taraji P Henson and she talks about both the director and the power of the music in this film. And then we're gonna hear from Hallie Bailey and she also talks about that. She talks about the music, why she decided to take this film and the importance that this movie the original one, I should say played in her family, how it was often playing in the background, how much it meant to her mother, her grandmother, in the important message in this movie of women having layers. So many different kind of characters in this movie. It's not just the same cookie cutter in any given movie. These characters are rich and full, there's layers to them and I love hearing your talk about that.
Speaker 2:What I love about Blitz and when he first approached me about this story he was like it's a great marriage of the book, the original film and the stage play and what I love about this version of the film is tapping into the joy. Blitz's vision is not leaning on the sorrow and the pain and the trauma, but how black people and how we have been able to miraculously turn our trauma into joy. It's very spiritual in my opinion. I mean it's the full gamut of the music. Back then it's jazz, it's blues, it's gospel, and then, when we get to the end, we bring you up to date with some of the you know music of today's music. And that's just when you talk about black culture. You can't talk about it without music, you know, you just can't.
Speaker 6:The reason why I decided to come aboard for this amazing new adaptation of the Color Purple was really because this movie has meant so much to me and my family for so long. I mean, I just can tell you the amount of stories that I have with this film from remembering when I was a little girl and just always having it play somewhere Like in the background or watching it, watching my mom and dad watch it, and it just means a lot that you know something that means so much to our family generations I can now be a part of. Nettie is an amazing character. She is a fiery spirit. She is so filled with joy and just wants to live. She has this very curious mind and curious spirit and I think that's what I love most about her. I think it means so much to be a woman in this film. I think this film in particular shows the different shapes and forms that we have as women and what we endure and the pain and the heartbreak and even through the midst of all of that, how we can still come out with such love and beauty and strength surrounding us. And you know, that's the beautiful thing about this film is the fact that it shows all the layers it is of a woman, what it is that you go through as a journey of a woman.
Speaker 6:When I first heard the music of the film, I was just like blown away and honestly, I am just a fan of all of the people that are involved in this film.
Speaker 6:I mean the amazing musicians like Tamela Mann and her, and you know, felicia and Fantasia and Taraji. I'm just like what? How am I here and so just kind of watching everyone just be superb at their craft? The color purple and its legacy means the world to me. I mean, when I talk to my grandmother about what this film means to her, her eyes light up and when I look at my grandmother, she is a figure who is just, has so much wisdom and strength and courage, and I think that that is something that this film represents. I think the color purple has endured for so long because people can relate to the ups and downs that the film kind of bestows on all of us. I think that, you know, although it's a very deep and dark and painful story, you know there's such a light at the end of the tunnel messaging Obviously, I wasn't lying at the beginning of the show.
Speaker 1:These people have so much to say, so much knowledge to share with us. That's why I'm just letting so many interviews go, because the studio they provided us with such wonderful things, just sharing the messages of this film and coming up. Next we're gonna hear from John Patiste and he talks of color purple legacy and the messages in this film. And then we're gonna hear from Scott Sanders, the producer, and I love this interview because he talks about what he felt when he first read the book and then also he addresses the power of singing. Yes, there was great songs and everything in the original, but this one takes it a step further and sometimes you can get a lot more emotion and clarity when somebody sings. And he also talks about combining all three of the elements that made this to what it is today Again, from the novel to the original movie to the play, and making it all into this brand new version.
Speaker 7:The color purple's legacy to me is an expansion of canon and the expansion of canon to include the black mythological figures. These are now, just like you look at Greek mythology, these are now American stories, american myths, I think anything that has a depth of humanity, that expresses something that is universal while tapping into the questions of the time we're living in. So it is current at the same time as it's universal. At the time the color purple came out, there was a question that we're still grappling with a black identity and understanding how we can really affirm our humanity when there's so many things that, particularly where you talk about Jim Crow, you talk about the civil rights movement, all these things that are trying to strip it away, marginalizing those voices and our voices really needed stories that connected to our humanity, not just the struggle and particular black women. You know, it's incredible to have a story like this and I think that's what makes it universal, because the struggle of affirming your humanity is something that many, all of us, across time and generations, have experienced. Different cultures and different forms have had to fight for the humanity to be affirmed. So a story like this came at a timely moment and is a universal struggle.
Speaker 7:There's a lot of messages. It's an intersection of a lot of different things. It's lineage and the power of lineage, the power of how generational curses or things from generations past affect the way that everyone's life unfolds and how you can break those chains or how you can create, you can perpetuate them. It's a story of female empowerment. It's a story of true friendship. There's many great messages. It's a human story and that's what makes it ultimately great and enduring is that it was just so well done.
Speaker 9:I remember when I read Alice's novel years ago and I found myself so moved by Sealy's journey in particular. I found this protagonist one of the most remarkable women, slash people, that I had ever read about, fiction or otherwise, and I found this classic triumph over adversity story in many ways moving, inspiring, sad, joyful, all of the above. But I found Sealy's ability to put one foot in front of the other, day after day after day, and move forward, notwithstanding her obstacles and the things that were challenging her in her life, and not only to be loving to other people Sophia Shug Harpo but also then, towards the end of the story, to find her own self-love and to feel like a fully realized person that she can be independent, she can be whoever she wants to be and that her trauma doesn't necessarily have to affect her full life. I feel that when someone sings there's an emotion, a heightened emotion. That happens and you can really get to the core of some very intimate feelings when you sing.
Speaker 9:And of course, stephen and Quincy's movie had music in it. I mean there is a lot of great, beautiful music composed by Quincy and his team for that film, but a full-on book musical, if you will, that the stage musical was really gave us an opportunity to sing more, and I feel like this is such an emotional story, such a heartfelt story, such a spiritual story, that it would be ripe for adapting it in a musical form. This color purple film is really a combination of a lot of different elements stemming from Alice Walker's novel. So the source material, if you will, for this movie is Alice's novel, the stage musical, some Easter eggs from Steven Spielberg's movie and an entire new vocabulary of magical realism.
Speaker 1:Now you could only imagine trying to tackle this kind of movie with such a cast and such a sweeping message, so many moving parts and we're going to hear a couple of people talk about that, but, most importantly, talk about the power of having the right director making this film. First we're going to hear from Danielle Brooks. She talks about the director. And then we're going to hear from Taraji P Henson. Again, she just sings more praises of the talent of this director Blitz, because this is not an easy task. And then we're going to hear from the director.
Speaker 1:He talks a really cool thing here. He talks about what his job was when he's making this film. And he's so humble, he's so soft-spoken, he's so knowledgeable. But I love what he talks about. He goes I take no responsibility for this or that or this. He just gives them an environment to work and I just you feel it when he talks to you like man. I would work for this guy in a heartbeat because he just sounds supportive, sounds like he's there for you. I guess I really don't even know what I'm talking about, but when you hear him talking you'll see what I'm saying.
Speaker 4:This is a visionary. I feel like God just knew that he was the one to do this. When I watched that film, I felt like he hit every micro detail. He didn't miss a beat. I've never seen myself lit that way. I just felt like he cared so much about every little detail and he also gave us and me I felt specifically me this room to just trust my instincts, and he didn't let us hold anything back. So I'm very grateful to Blitz for seeing me, for allowing me to play this part, for his demeanor on set. I was so in awe of how he handled people with grace.
Speaker 2:He is the right director because, first of all, he's so nurturing and he pays attention to everything the bow on the hat the bow is too much the shoes, the car, you know. The choreography, how the camera's moving. He's putting the pieces of the puzzle together as he's filming it. He was interested in us owning these characters and making them our own. He wasn't interested in anything that the original film was, he was just paying particular attention and took great care in telling the story because the story's the story and the colorization of it. It was a light film. It wasn't dark, you know. It still had mood and moody moments, but it was alive and it was vibrant and it was full of life. Like black people, that's what we are. Even through our struggles, we learn how to laugh and dance and sing.
Speaker 8:My job as a director is to allow space, is to create space for these artists to be artists. I take no responsibility and no credit for what they do. My job is just to create the environment and make it real and push them into that corner and allow them to be that. And people like Danielle, that's all they need. You don't have to say much. You show them the world, you tell them you believe in them, you tell them you trust that they'll find it, and they always do.
Speaker 1:See what I'm saying. The guy just knows how to talk. You know, he knows how to work with actors and that's how you get great stuff from performers Supporting them, giving them ideas. But let them find their way, because then they feel it and you can feel it when you as a viewer. But let's talk about message. That's what we're going to talk about next, these next couple of interviews, and about seeing this in the theater, seeing it with your friends, seeing it with your families.
Speaker 1:So first we're going to hear from Danielle Brooks and she talks about the message, along with Oprah, and then we're going to go back to Danielle Brooks and she talks about why you should see this movie. And then Taraji P Henson. She also addresses that being with people. You care about seeing this in the big theater, hearing everybody else react to this kind of film. You know you can watch this, obviously by yourself, anytime and whenever it comes out on renting or DVD or what have you. It's still a wonderful movie, but sometimes they talk about just being there with people.
Speaker 1:And then we're going to hear a little bit more from Oprah about the message and, more importantly, about this movie being, for her, very personal, coming full circle From way back. When this came out, only thing she wanted to do was be part of that film. And then how that just changed her life forever. That role, that role alone, just boom. I mean, obviously he has talent. It wasn't just that role, but for the world to see and finally figure out. This woman has talent and now she gets to share this version with the world. Now she's the producer, she's the one who's gotting this vision and going here you go, world. This new set of actors are out there. Here it is, and it's just a really cool interview. And then she also talks about why the color purple endures.
Speaker 4:This movie is about healing. It's about forgiveness, it's about love. It's about picking yourself back up, no matter how strong or weak you might feel, that you can always get back up again.
Speaker 5:The essence of the message of this film continues to be the essence of the message of the book and the essence of the Broadway musical and the essence of the original film. And that is God, get pissed if you don't notice the color purple. And that is the root of gratitude, spiritual acknowledgement that there is something bigger than yourself.
Speaker 4:I don't know if I can look at the camera. Y'all put a cool shit in this movie. It's so good. I mean, if you're into film, go see this movie. If you have not been to a theater in years because of the pandemic, this is the one to see. This is the one to see with your family, your aunts, your sororities, your fraternities. This is the movie to see with your grandma, with your 12-year-old daughter, Because this is us as Black people. Specifically, this embodies all of who we are the good, bad ugly in between. So please go see this film.
Speaker 2:The only way you're going to get the full effect is to see it on the big screen all the movement, all the choreography and the song and dance. It's such a family-oriented piece that you need to be with people, with a group of people, and the best way to do that is in a theater.
Speaker 5:The root message for me is that love heals. First and foremost, forgiveness heals. Forgiveness, beginning with yourself and then being able to extend that to other people and the healing takes place. The great thing about this film is like when you go to a good church service and the choir is singing and everybody's on key and you stood up and you were singing and you filled with the Holy Spirit and you come out of that service and you feel full. You just feel full. You feel like I got enough to carry me through the rest of the week until I get back and get some more. That's what the Color Purple is going to do for people. It's going to fill you up and carry you to the next week when you go back and get some more and see it again.
Speaker 5:So the Color Purple holds a solid base of spiritual and emotional power for me and in just every way so to be. It's absolutely a full circle moment for me, who wanted more than anything in the world in 1985 to be a part of this film, not knowing one human being in the film industry and having this role come to me and now being able to, full circle, put it back out into the world in the form of a musical Nothing. Nothing means more to me. The story endures because, for every woman and man who has suffered, who has been invisible, who has felt unseen and unvalued, this is their story of coming into yourself, coming into your own, having that glorious self-discovery reflected to you through the image of someone else.
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Speaker 1:New York, new York, dallas, texas, denver, colorado, and that's just an even few. I couldn't get to you all, but to every solitary one of you who take time out of your busy life to listen to this podcast, I am thrilled and I can't even tell you how much I appreciate it, and I also like everybody who leaves their comments on YouTube. I like it. That's the only way I know to do better. I can't grow if I don't know. I know I just said that, but you get what I'm saying. If this week's bourbon shout out goes out to Jackie, justin, their family, everybody in that whole family. Sadly, we had to meet under such circumstances, but I just wanted to give you guys all a personal bourbon shout out. You guys always make me feel like family and it's it's incredible honor just to be around you guys, even though it wasn't such, you know, unpleasant situation, but still just being together and being seen everybody together. It was a, it was a wonderful feeling and I really, really appreciate all of you for making me feel like part of the family. So to all of you, cheers.
Speaker 1:Now, as I said earlier, there's a TV version of this and when I'm doing a TV version I don't have to worry about any this. I don't have to sit here about trying to have to stammer about and try to make a complete sentence without sounding like a buffoon. That is my happy place. I'm learning about a movie I'm editing and I have tunes cranked. That truly is my happy place. It's a slice of whatever you want to call it. That's my, that's my jam, and this week I was a little bit all over the place on my tune selection. I was just everyone's way, just feel, you know I'm going to mix it up.
Speaker 1:So I first started off with Tobias Gesso Jr. The name of the album was Goon and it is just it was. I don't know how good it did back in a day, but look it up, tobias Gesso Jr. The album was called Goon, g-o-o-n. At least the first three or four songs are just killer. They're just. It's almost seemed like they have like a little message or a little story involved. It's. I can't stop thinking about you. How could you, babe, without you? Can we still be friends? The weight Hollywood for you, just to name a few. But whatever reason, I just love that album. Check it out if you ever have a chance. And then I said I feel like the doors. And I know why I felt like listening to the doors Because I started watching a murder at the end of the world. I think that's what it's called on Hulu the opening shot this woman is walking down the street, headphones on and she's listening to the song. The end. Now, if you're a doors fan, you know the end. That's just a brilliant song it's caught.
Speaker 1:It caused the band trouble back in the day when they performed it. Live here, live here and there. But that whole album, but that song, the end. Obviously it's not for everybody, but it's a just an epic song, for lack of a better word. It's just beautiful really.
Speaker 1:But so I went from that album. I went from just a self titled doors album. Again, that whole album is just loaded with great tunes. And then I went in order. Then I went to their latest, their next release in real life, strange Days. That has loved me two times on it. People are strange when the music's over, just to name a few. Because, again, great album.
Speaker 1:And then I moved on to Waiting for the Sun. That one has Hello, I Love you on it, and I could go on and on, but that's why I was listening to there. I went on to boom, like I said, waiting for the Sun. And then I shift gears once again and I just put on the ultimate Bee Gees.
Speaker 1:It's a double CD. I don't know if they really call it anymore, but it's a double album, whatever you want to say, but I love that. That's like one of my go to ones. It just puts me in a complete happy place, because I know every song by heart, or I know what order they come in and it just I don't have to think, I don't have to stop and listen to it, because I know what's coming and I love every song. So here I am, I'm editing, and that was my variety pack that I was listening to when I was making this episode. Well, that is it. My glass awaits. I'm thirsty. So cheers to you and to the movies. So until next time, be well, be good, and I'm gone. I'm Jeff. Thanks for listening to the Cinema Judge.