the color purple

Byron Hooper11/18/96The Color Purple film reviewThe Color PurpleThe
movie "The Color Purple," directed by Steven Speilberg, was, in general,
asatisfactory film. It was enjoyable, if you don't consider accuracy
towards the novel it isportraying important. Speilberg obviously had little,
if any, respect toward the originalstory, by Alice Walker. He slaughtered
a story most people had heard of, but never read.I thought the movie
itself was rather good. It had it's own good and bad points. Up untilabout
when Sofia left Harpo, they were almost identical. After that they are
almost twodifferent stories with the same ending.The movie was written
purely for entertainment. It added a small number of scenes, butcut more
than it added. Also, it emphasized different parts of the story than the
book. The film is about a young black girl growing up in the south, abused
by, first, her father,then her husband, whom she had no choice in
marrying, as is the book. But in the novel,after Celie found her sister's
letters, the main focus was Nettie in Africa. In the movie, thesection on
Africa was only ten, fifteen minutes long, and the rest was based more on
therest of Celie's life.I'll admit, most movies, that follow the book that
they're based on word for word arepretty monotonous (i.e. Dune), but this
particular movie probably would have been better,at least in my own
opinion,