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'The Color Purple' Director Blitz Bazawule
'The Color Purple' Director Blitz Bazawule
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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Dec 22, 2023
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Podcast episode
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“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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Released:
Dec 22, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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