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'The Color Purple' Director Blitz Bazawule
Episode 251

'The Color Purple' Director Blitz Bazawule

IndieWire's Filmmaker Toolkit · Chris O'Falt

December 22, 202323m 57s

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Show Notes

“The Color Purple” has already been a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, Academy Award-nominated film by Steven Spielberg, and Tony Award-winning Broadway show, but director Blitz Bazawule still found new areas to explore in his new adaptation of the stage musical. On this episode he talks about finding a visual language for the heroine Celie’s imagination, making the leap to big budget filmmaking, and choreographing every scene of the movie like a musical — even when the characters were just talking.

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