The Color Purple Page #2

Season #1

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Yeah!

A-R-M. Arm.

-Yes, Celie!

Sleeve. S-L-E-E-V-E. Sleeve.

And these?

Stocking.

What's it say, Celie?

Mister.

M-I-S-T-E-R period.

Ain't you got nothing better to do?

"For the next eight or ten months...

...Oliver was the vicient--

victim of a sesum"...

Systematic.

What's "systematic" mean?

It be like when you have a way

of doing stuff the same way all the time.

Like how we hang the sheets

first so we can put the socks in the cracks.

Now us never be apart.

Ahh!

Me and you

Us never part

Makidada

Me and you, us have one heart

Makidada

Ain't no ocean, ain't no sea

Makidada

Keep my sister away from me

Makidada

Me and you, us never part

Makidada

Keep my sister away from me

Makidada

ALBER Good morning

I got to go to school.

What you doing?

No! Please!

Please, please, please!

No! No! No!

No!

No! No! No!

I'll get you!

Let her stay. Please let her stay.

I'll do anything for you! Let her stay!

-Now get the hell out of my house!

-Please let her stay!

Let her stay!

No! No! No!

You ain't never coming back here!

-Get out of here!

-No!

No! No!

Get off my land!

Get off my land!

You ain't welcome no more.

Celie!

What's he doing?

Leave! We don't need to know.

Nettie!

Please! No!

-Stop!

-Nettie!

Nettie!

Why?

Why? Why?

Why? Ahh!

-Write!

-What?

Write!

Nothing but death can keep me from her!

Please...

...don't go.

Celie!

You and me, us never part

Makidada

Me and you, us never part

Makidada

Ain't no ocean, ain't no sea

Makidada

Get off my land!

Nothing but death can keep me from her!

Nettie.

Two days. Heh.

My Shug gonna be here and everything

gonna be the way it should.

Come on, girl. I'm waiting for you.

You cut me and I'll kill you.

Whoa. Whoa. Whoop, whoop.

Ahh!

The maiI.

Shug! Shug, l'm coming!

-Harpo, saddle my horse!

Yes, sir!

Is there a Ietter from Nettie?

Ain't nothing for you.

I don't never want

you messing with that mailbox!

That's my business!

I fixed that mailbox so I can telI

if it be messed with! Understand?

-Harpo! Ain't you saddled that horse yet?

-Yes, sir!

I'm getting to it. I'm getting to it.

Celie, I'm going out for a spell,

and l want my supper when I get back!

Yes, sir.

"For the next eight...

...or ten...

...months...

...Oliver was the victim of a...

...systematic...

...course of treachery.

For the next eight

or ten months...

...Oliver was the victim

of a systematic course...

...of treachery and deception."

He was brought up by hand.

The hungry and destitute situation

of the infant orphan was duly"--

Celie!

Come help me get ready!

Come on! I'll be late!

You hear me call you?

-Yes, sir?

Celie, ain't that good comb...

...with my other brushes?

Harpo, ain't that horse saddled?

Yes, sir, Pa. Yes, sir.

I's getting to it. I's getting to it.

Georgie!

Too much grease.

Celie!

I don't use this kind of grease!

This grease for slopping hogs!

It ain't for no hair!

You gonna make me late!

I'm gonna get you if you make me late!

Where's my other bIack sock?

Where's my other bIack sock?

Oh, no! Oh!

-CeIie, don't forget to iron my shirt.

-Yes, sir.

Where's my black tie?

I mean the yellow one with black in it!

It's in there.

I don't see it!

Where's my suit pin?

-In the drawer.

-Is it on the shelf?

Uh-huh.

Is it the right side or the left side?

The left side?

The left.

Is this the right vest for my suit?

Sh*t.

Where's my blue--

Oh, here it is.

Which one?

The black one or the blue one?

I like the black one.

Oh, no.

I hate this tie!

It don't go with nothing I got on!

I had a blue one....

Damn!

Hyah! Come on, come on. Hyah!

She said she write,

but she never write.

She said only death

could keep her from me.

Maybe she dead.

Sofia, slow down!

Sofia, now slow down!

Harpo, I declare,

you is slow today!

Dear God,

Harpo be in love with a girl called Sofia.

Now, she be a big girl.

Mister say he want to have a look at her.

I seen them coming way up the road.

They just be marching,

like going to war.

Pop, this here is Sofia.

Sofia is a pretty name, huh?

Sofia, Sofia, Sofia!

-Harpo.

-Us gonna get married.

Looks like you got yourself in trouble.

I ain't in no trouble.

Big, though.

Who the daddy?

Harpo.

How does he know that?

He knows because he the only one!

Celie, get me some lemonade.

Young women no good these days.

Got their legs open for every Tom,

Dick and Harpo.

Don't think I'll let my boy marry you

just because you in the family way.

Ain't cold enough.

He young and limited. Pretty gal Iike you

could put anything over on him.

Why I need to marry Harpo?

He living here with you.

What food and cIothes he get,

you buy.

I know your daddy throwed you out.

Ready to live in the street.

No, sir, l ain't living in no streets.

I'm living with my sister

and her husband.

I can live with them

the rest of my life if I want to.

I don't need you to tell me how

to take care of me and my baby.

I can take care of my baby myself.

Nice visiting.

No, you stay right here, Harpo.

When you free,

me and the baby be waiting.

Well, look like somebody around here

know how to treat a visitor.

Harpo, don't you move one step.

Just don't make me wait too long, Harpo.

Harpo?

Harpo!

I won't! I will! I wiIl! I do.

I do!

I do.

Now, Sofia.

Do you take this man to be your

lawful wedded husband?

To love, honor and cherish?

Forsaking all others for him alone...

...you will perform unto him

all duties owes to a husband...

...untiI death shaIl separate you?

I do!

You may now salute the bride.

Amen!

I's married now!

I's a married woman!

I declare....

Come on, push now. Push now.

I been needing so many curtains,

but I ain't had time.

You children, get out of this yard.

Go on home!

Harpo, come on down here.

I need you to hold this baby.

I'm busy!

Busy making a racket.

Now come on down here!

Damn, Sofia! I'll come down

when I'm good and ready!

I teIl you the truth! It is!

Child, we're going to get you

a littIe milk.

A little milk for the baby.

Yes, indeed.

Here. Go to your daddy.

What should I do with it?

Try feeding her, then fix up the mess

you done made here.

I can smell the rain coming.

Miss Celie, we got ourselves some

new curtains I want to put in the bedroom.

The living room

has already got itself some flowers.

What you looking at?

It's gonna rain on your head!

You ever hit her?

No, sir.

How you expect her to mind?

Heh, heh.

Wives is like children.

You have to let them know

who got the upper hand.

Nothing can do it better

than a good beating.

Sofia thinks too much of herself.

Needs to be taken down a peg or two.

Got a new baby

and it cry all night long.

Kept him up so he said

he wasn't going to work.

She got all upset but l said,

"Leave the man alone.

Sometimes a man just needs

to be left alone."

I need something to eat!

Pie's in the pantry. Women need

to be left alone sometimes.

I teIl Harpo when I'm fussing,

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