Essay Archive - Movie Review: The Color Purple
Movie Review: The Color Purple
The movie "The Color Purple," directed by Steven Speilberg, was, in general, a
satisfactory film. It was enjoyable, if you don't consider accuracy towards the
novel it is portraying important. Speilberg obviously had little, if any,
respect toward the original story, 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 until about when Sofia left Harpo, they
were almost identical. After that they are almost two different stories with
the same ending.
The movie was writ....
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