Precious
EDUTAINMENT By Contra™ on November 4, 2009 at 11:26 am
Man listen. I’m going to watch this movie. And you know what? You probably should too.
Initially, when the girls over at RBN tried to put me on to it, I kinda hit the snooze button and rolled over.
My initial thoughts were all negative. Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry? Give me a break and a damn Kit-Kat bar. That sounds like the directorial tag team from Hell for cliché black movies. And they got Mariah and Monique in the mix too? Word? This can’t be good.
But you know what? It kinda is. Or at least, it looks and sounds that way. It’s based on a really brash narrative of the thoroughly abusive life and hardships of a young Black girl in the 80’s.(Really short novel, def worth a read)
It seems whoever worked the adaptation maintained that raw feel from the book and the National Bank of Oprah spared no expense in ensuring the quality of production either. All in all, it seems promising. Guaranteed to have a bunch of y’all with lumps in your throats(||), telling your girl not to cry.
Besides, I figure I’ll get dragged to the theater for it by one of these ladies so I might as well be prepared.
Trailer below. Judge for yourself.
Salutes to Londyn for the nod.
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I read the book when I was a freshman in HS. It was a hard read (at first) because it written in POV. I can’t remember the whole story but “fucked up” pretty much describes it.
I’m real excited to see this movie though. “Oscar” is being thrown around regarding Monique’s performance.
Dont get out to see many movies but this looks real emotional. Looks good
Precious
Author – Sapphire
Narrator – Bahni Turpin
Publisher: Books on Tape
Number of parts: 4 mp3 files; 56bps; unabridged
Duration: 5 hours, 5 minutes
ISBN: 9781415967188
Release date: Oct 20, 2009
Description
An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girl’s horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem inferno. For Precious Jones, 16 and pregnant with her father’s child, miraculous hope appears and the world begins to open up for her when a courageous, determined teacher bullies, cajoles, and inspires her to learn to read, to define her own feelings and set them down in a diary.
Amazon.com Review
Claireece Precious Jones endures unimaginable hardships in her young life. Abused by her mother, raped by her father, she grows up poor, angry, illiterate, fat, unloved and generally unnoticed. So what better way to learn about her than through her own, halting dialect. That is the device deployed in the first novel by poet and singer Sapphire. “Sometimes I wish I was not alive,” Precious says. “But I don’t know how to die. Ain’ no plug to pull out. ‘N no matter how bad I feel my heart don’t stop beating and my eyes open in the morning.” An intense story of adversity and the mechanisms to cope with it.
Precious is now a major motion picture based on the novel Push by Sapphire, starring Gabourey ‘Gabby’ Sidibe, Mo’Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, and Lenny Kravitz.
Author Spotlight
Sapphire is the author of American Dreams, a collection of poetry which was cited by Publishers Weekly as, “One of the strongest debut collections of the nineties.” Push, her novel, won the Book-of-the-Month Club Stephen Crane award for First Fiction, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s First Novelist Award, and, in Great Britain, the Mind Book of the Year Award.
Push was named by the Village Voice and Time Out New York as one of the top ten books of 1996. Push was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work of Fiction.
Precious, the film adaption of her novel, recently won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Awards in the U.S. dramatic competition at Sundance (2009).
http://rapidshare.com/files/295664538/S-BT-PR.rar
These gritty, riveting movies with raw emotion…I don’t watch ‘em much. Some of them are done TOO well, ‘nahmean? They resonate with you. The trailer for this is quite engaging, and I’m actually looking forward to peeping it.
HA! We told you to go see it…we try to put you up on game every now and then lol
Tyler Perry and Oprah just produced it, right?
Read the book in my English 103 class at Morehouse. I don’t remember it in detail but I do remember recommending it to everyone after finishing. Might check this out one day…on DVD.
Push is a tough read. It’s like a effed up Murphy’s Law. You follow along thinking, “Awww gotdamn, can this girl catch ANY breaks???”.
Anyway, looking forward to the movie.
I’d rather support this than Soul Plane 4 any day.
DVD….not too many movies get me out…maybe it’s my bangin’ ass Home theater system!!!
Tee hee your’re welcome !!!
National Bank of Oprah … I need an account asap !! lmao !!
This is one of those movies that’s probably going to have you leaving the theater thinking, “My life ain’t so bad.” Personally, and I know I may be in the minority, I’ve enjoyed most of Tyler Perry’s work thus far, so I’m expecting this to be no different.
And if Oprah is putting her name on it, you know the money will soon follow.
I’ve been wanted to see this. Maaaaaannnnnn I know people better pack in to catch this joint. Support Black Theater. LOL.
I’ll definitely be watching this, looks like a hard hitting piece of real people cinema.
I’ll support this film ONLY because its main producers and creators are minorities. I read this book in the 7th grade and I hated it because it was written primarily in slang. Anyway…..Support black businesses.
I’m surprised no one mentioned the fact that Mariah Carey is in this. Hopefully, her performance is better than it was in Glitter.
Robin Thicke won
ive seen this trailer at two of the last few movies ive seen….i aint gonna like, i almost almost shed a tear like giat dayum, the chicks i was with boohoo’ed though…i dont know if im gonna go see this though, shit is TOO emotional.
oh yeah…i agree with J Tinsley…ive enjoyed the Tyler Perry movies I’ve seen…dont really see what the problem is. only gripes i used to have was how the light-skinned dude was always the savior and the dark-skinned dude was always the villian or “aint shit” dude in general…now his TV show? different story.
@Maurice, wasn’t Wesley Snipes the hero in one of those Tyler Perry flicks?
Mama Sinclair was trying to drag me to see it.
Daddy’s Little Girls wasn’t bad … Idris Elba is black. I just think most of his stuff is simplistic, over the top and not funny where it tries to be. He’s gone from near homeless to an institution though — props to him.
Yeah, this is def gon be crazy but…. “My favorite color is fluorescent beige…” ROFL!!!! HOLY SHIT LMAO……ahhhh man *wipes tears from eyes*
I’ll go see it based off of Monique trying to take that broads head off w/ a cast-iron skillet and that girl in the classroom tom’bout her fav color is Fluorescent Beige! *dead*