Steven Spielberg's masterful adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel stars Whoppi Goldberg, in her impressive screen debut, as Celie, a sharecropper's daughter... more
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to be capable of making a great silent film, took a melodramatic, DW Griffith-inspired approach to filming Alice Walker's novel. His tactics made the film contro...
to be capable of making a great silent film, took a melodramatic, DW Griffith-inspired approach to filming Alice Walker's novel. His tactics made the film contro...
Advantages: A fantastic story told in film Disadvantages: Maybe too long for some, you may cry at the ending
...proposed it myself. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning book of the same name by Alice Walker, The Color Purple, is not your run of the mill drama, but tells the story of Celie, from a young girl being abused, to her final triumph over adversity. Please excuse the terminology used in this review, but it is based on the actual vocabulary used in the film.
The Setting
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The colour Purple is set in southern America, during the time when ... ...she couldn't even drink from the same water fountain as a “white”.
Although, I found it hard to believe people could be treated like this, I know from my history lessons that this was actually very realistically portayed.
The Characters
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There are many very strong characters throughout the film, and I believe it is this that makes the film so compelling. All of the characters have a trait that brings out our sympathy, except ...
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Actor(s): Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Leonard Jackson, Akosua Busia, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong
Director(s): Steven Spielberg
Genre: Drama
Classification: 15 years and over
Production Year: 1985
Running Time: 2 hours 28 minutes
Video Category: Feature Film
Plot: The life and times of Celie, a black girl, who suffers years of abuse at the hands of two men. Based on the novel by Alice Walker.
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): WARNER HOME VIDEO; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Release date: 21/07/2003
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: D 018319
Barcode: 7321900183192
Languages
Main Language: English
Technical information
Special Features: Trailers, Featurettes - 1. CONVERSATION WITH ANCESTORS: The Colour Purple From Book To Screen, 2. A COLLABORATION OF SPIRITS: Casting And Acting The Colour Purple, 3. CULTIVATING A CLASSIC: The Making Of The Colour Purple, 4. THE Colour PURPLE: THE MUSICAL, Stills Gallery
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
Dubbing Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 English
DVD Description
Steven Spielberg's masterful adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel stars Whoppi Goldberg, in her impressive screen debut, as Celie, a sharecropper's daughter living in rural Georgia. The film opens in 1909 when Celie is a young girl, a victim of incest, pregnant with her father's child. Ugly and unloved, separated from her children and her sister, Celie's only option is marriage to an abusive, philandering husband (Danny Glover) who treats her little better than a slave. Her life changes forever when her husband brings his mistress, a beautiful blues singer named Shug (Margaret Avery), into the house. THE COLOR PURPLE was also the film debut for Oprah Winfrey, who beautifully plays Celie's sister-in-law, Sofia. THE COLOR PURPLE was nominated for 11 Academy Awards (including one each for Goldberg, Avery, and Winfrey) but surprisingly won no Oscars, and although the film was nominated for a Best Picture award, Spielberg was snubbed by the academy and was not nominated for Best Director.
Professional reviews
Review: "...Momentum, warmth and staying power....[Goldberg] eventually grows into a tremendously compelling figure..." (New York Times, p.C18, 18/12/1985)
"...Remarkably faithful in incident and detail to Alice Walker's original..." (Sight and Sound, p.135-6, 01/03/1985)
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