TikTok Claims Black People Didn’t Want To See ‘The Color Purple’

TikToker Kyla Latrice, aka @kylalatrice, mentioned The Coloration Purple’s “flopped” field workplace efficiency had nothing to do with star Taraji P. Henson discussing her points with Hollywood throughout the movie’s press tour.

In her Jan. 20 submit, Kyla argued that Black viewers by no means wished a remake of the 1985 traditional first directed by Steven Spielberg. The opinionated TikToker claimed Black audiences have been bored with seeing characters that seemed like them in “trauma films.”

Alice Walker’s 1982 novel and the unique movie included triggering themes of sexual violence, home abuse, sexism and Black enslavement. Within the 2023 adaptation, Fantasia Barrino-Taylor performed Celie, and Henson starred as Shug Avery. Kyla asserted that the movie’s harrowing depiction of life for Celie didn’t register with Black viewers craving lighter leisure. 

“Taraji P. Henson mentioned she appears like her feedback made The Coloration Purple flop,” the Black TikToker claimed. “The explanation why The Coloration Purple flopped is as a result of no person wished a remake of The Coloration Purple. No one likes ‘trauma films’ anymore, you perceive what I’m saying? — US.”

“Y’all might have taken that cash and performed one thing else with it,” Kyla added. “The film flopped ’trigger no person wished to see it. We didn’t want a remake of The Coloration Purple. We didn’t need a remake of The Coloration Purple. No one requested for that.”

Kyla’s video has over 71,000 likes and has garnered greater than 487,600 views and seven,200 feedback. Many TikTok customers agreed together with her sturdy sentiments. 

Folks expressed their exhaustion with Black-led movies depicting traumatic experiences. A number of on-line customers famous that the selection to show The Coloration Purple’s heavy plot right into a musical for its 2023 adaptation was particularly off-putting.

“Yesss… It’s like remaking Roots…” 

“Precisely, after which a musical at that. Like the unique was so traumatizing. Why would you add music to it? It by no means made sense.”

“I refuse to observe anymore trauma, even when it has a stellar solid.”

“Info!! Didn’t be taught from Black Panther. We wish heroes, positivity and function fashions.”

The star-studded solid of 2023’s The Coloration Purple included Fantasia Barrino-Taylor, Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo, Ciara, Halle Bailey, H.E.R., Deon Cole, Jon Baptiste and extra. 

The film adaptation was directed by Blitz Bazawule and produced by Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Scott Sanders, and Quincy Jones.

The movie made a record-breaking $18.5 million on Christmas Day when it hit U.S. theaters, in keeping with Collider. The whopping field workplace bring-in reportedly made the movie “the second greatest Christmas Day opening of all time.” 

Forbes famous that the movie’s numbers considerably dropped on its second and third days, grossing $7 million and $3.8 million, respectively.

The movie revamped $98.4 million worldwide by Jan. 10 however allegedly took as much as $100 million to provide. That mentioned, Collider famous that the movie wanted to generate round $200 million to “recoup its prices.”

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