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	The Color Purple (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Color Purple is the 9th film directed by Steven Spielberg in 1985.
		The film tells the story of a young African American girl named Celie and shows the problems faced by African American women during the early 1900's; including poverty, racism and sex discrimination.
		Taking place in the south during the early 1900s, the film follows the life of a poor African American girl, Celie (Goldberg), whose abuse begins when she is young.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Color_Purple_(film) (1027 words)

	The Color Purple (1985)
		Due to the length of Purple, this meant that the movie needed to be spread to both sides of the disc, something referred to as a “flipper”.
		The Color Purple enjoys a positive reputation, but I can’t imagine why, as the movie suffers from a vast number of flaws, almost all of which result from the work of its director.
		Despite some excellent acting, The Color Purple is a silly and unconvincing fairy tale the left me unsatisfied, and the DVD has enough problems to mean that fans of the flick should probably hope for a reissue of the film before they bother with it.
	www.dvdmg.com /colorpurple.shtml (2105 words)

	The Color Purple (1985)
		Purple focuses on the tale of two sisters, Celie (played by Desreta Jackson as a child and Whoopi Goldberg as an adult) and Nettie (Akousa Busia).
		The original DVD of Purple appeared as one of the initial batch of releases in March 1997, and it suffered from some concerns that seemed typical back in the olden days.
		The Color Purple enjoys a positive reputation, but I can’t imagine why, as the movie suffers from a vast number of flaws, most of which result from the work of its director.
	www.dvdmg.com /colorpurplese.shtml (2824 words)

	DVD Review - The Color Purple: Special Edition
		But another reason (and I suspect a deeper one) was that all of his previous films had revolved around humongous sharks, spaceships, and bullwhip-wielding archeologists.
		The gospel accompanied church scene toward the end of the film is typical of the track at its best.
		It too is well worth your time, as the diverse group of interviewees each provides unique insight into their experiences on the film and what it meant to them in the long run.
	www.thedigitalbits.com /reviews3/colorpurplese.html (1203 words)

	'The Color Purple'
		It does not much matter that the film lacks fidelity to Miss Walker's tone; a lot of her book is too blunt to have been successfully translated to the screen anyhow.
		His film is an upbeat, affirmative fable in which optimism, patience and family loyalty emerge as cardinal virtues, and in which even the wife-beating villain has charm.
		The opening portion of the film quickly outlines some key events: that Celie has borne two children by the man she knows as her own father, only to have the babies taken away from her, and that she has been forced to marry the widower she calls ''Mister'' (Danny Glover).
	www.nytimes.com /1985/12/18/movies/moviesspecial/18PURP.html (1077 words)

	Film Adaptation: The Color Purple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Since Alice Walker's version of The Color Purple features an epistolary format, one of the main challenges that Spielberg faced was altering the point of view of the film.
		In the film, Celie's religion is not nearly as significant to her discover of self as it is in the book Part of this discrepancy results from the difficulties in transforming an epistolary novel into a film format, which will necessarily exclude some insights into the narrator's thoughts.
		This paper discusses Alice Walker's belief that selling the film rights of her novel The Color Purple was worthwhile because the possibility of widespread exposure and reception of her message outweighed the probability that the necessary changes in the work would be detrimental to the themes of the original.
	www.nv.cc.va.us /home/bpool/dogwood/case/colorpurple.html (478 words)

	MRC FilmFinder-Full Record: The Color Purple
		A lot of the controversy over the film came from some fl organizations which disliked the image of the fl male that the film's story projected, an ingenious argument since the script reflects the author's tone with some felicity.
		The history of the film shows a schizoid history of attitudes about what the author wrote and about how to accept the screen adaptation of her work.
		The Color Purple is a "maturer" film than one has expected from Spielberg, it is a work that he felt emotionally and psychologically bound to do.
	www.lib.unc.edu /house/mrc/films/full.php?film_id=1103 (308 words)

	THE COLOR PURPLE
		However, the film was nominated for 11 Academy Awards so I figured it had to be fairly worthwhile.
		Not an easy film to sit through, the trials and tribulations of 14-year-old Celie's (Goldburg) life grab you from the get go as you watch her give birth to a son, fathered by her own daddy.
		It is her quiet performance that keeps the film together, her yearning for knowledge of her beloved sister and the freedom of a life without men.
	crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsC/f_color_purple.html (1222 words)

	The Color Purple Movie -The 80s Rewind «
		“The Color Purple” was a novel written and released by Alice Walker in 1982.
		I always found it interesting that the film only shows it once from the front (when Sug arrives.) I think this may be because it looks a little too grand and formal for the context of the film.
		The house is surrounded by a lot of land and on that land the film crew built other structures used in the filming.
	www.fast-rewind.com /colorpurple.htm (1283 words)

	Color Page @ Film-North
		Colors are memories of light, said one wise German -- and I still think about it, about dying light, the trace of light in trasparent matter.
		In the 1920s efforts turned to recording color on the film negative so that filters or special projection equipment would not be needed.
		COLOR: a phenomenon of light or visual perception that enables one to differentiate otherwise identical objects caused by differing qualities of the light reflected or emitted; contrast to fl and white.
	members.tripod.com /~afronord/color.html (1061 words)

	THE COLOR PURPLE (TWO-DISC SPECIAL EDITION) + EVE'S BAYOU (LIONS GATE SIGNATURE SERIES) - DVDs
		Bluebird-on-my-shoulder day, there was nothing to be gained from taking an opposite approach; the film's picturesque qualities stand against the grim lives led by its characters to suggest something true of the balance of human experience.
		At first I was going to pair up The Color Purple in a review with Spielberg-idol John Ford's frothy The Quiet Man, which is beautifully and similarly photographed, until I realized that I risked trivializing the former with such a coupling.
		Laurent Bouzereau (who else?) was responsible for The Color Purple's supplements, and while they are dense with clip filler, in fairness, the four featurettes on the second platter of this set contain remarkable content.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/purplebayou.htm (918 words)

	The Color Purple
		Based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple is a richly-textured, powerful film set in America's rural south.
		The Color Purple: An American Story for the Whole World...
		The Color Purple: You Are Invited to Share a Very Special Experience...
	www.warnervideo.com /colorpurple (206 words)

	True Color Shining Through: The Color Purple, an Adequate Portrayal of Domestic Violence.
		The Color Purple, a film adapted from Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, recounts a poor Black woman’s life-long struggle with domestic violence.
		While critics argue that the film softens male abusive patterns upon Black women, this report shows that Celie’s specific situation illustrates the proven problems, causes, consequences, and resolutions of domestic abuse.
		Although Kaufmann contends that the film moves sluggishly toward the end, he feels that Spielberg holds it together through his conviction that the public needs more movies depicting fl life and through his integral happy ending.
	www.unc.edu /~bengland/ColorPurple.htm (3091 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Color Purple (Widescreen): DVD: Steven Spielberg,Danny Glover,Whoopi Goldberg,Margaret Avery,Oprah ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		There is also some clever film editing(certainly the most under-rated facet of filmmaking), that keeps the film constantly fresh and the story moving forward with some fantastic cinematography.
		There are many moments in the film that are so genuinely touching and heartfelt that by the end of the final scene I suddenly realized that it never felt so good to cry.
		But there was so many outstanding attributes to this film from Steven Spielberg's artful direction, to the touching performances, to the cinematography and the wonderul music headed up by Quincy Jones, that it is one that nearly 20 years later still stands up to repeated viewings and a box of Kleenex.
	www.amazon.ca /Color-Purple-Widescreen-Steven-Spielberg/dp/0790729717 (2564 words)

	The Color Purple
		There are many different reasons why, there is a color purple.
		What does the color purple mean and what kind of people where allowed to wear that certain color?
		You should be more equipped with knowledge about the color purple.
	www.asdk12.org /schools/west/pages/education/Haas4/thecolorpurple.htm (573 words)

	The Color Purple (1985) - Channel 4 Film review
		As a summary of the film's all-inclusive remit, it perfectly captured the tear-jerking sentimentality underpinning this white male director's attempt to translate an African-American woman's story from page to screen.
		Adapting Walker's epistolary novel was never going to be easy, even with the author herself contributing an early draft of the screenplay and acting as "consultant" to the production.
		Yet, what's so dismaying about Spielberg's depiction of the novel's sparse tale of rape, incest and forced marriage is the way in which the filmmaker uses all the crowd-pleasing sentimentality he displayed in films like E.T. to coat this bitter pill with cloying sweetness.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=102204 (186 words)

	The Color Purple - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the 1985 film, see The Color Purple (film).
		This book is often argued to address many issues which are important to understanding African-American life during the early-mid 20th century.
		In time, however, the two women become lovers and Celie gradually learns what it means to become an empowered woman in her own right, through both sexual and financial emancipation and she finds the strength to leave her tyrannical husband.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Color_Purple (523 words)

	Color Purple Film Star Oprah Winfrey Gives Name & Money to Broadway Version, Broadway.com Buzz
		Media mogul Oprah Winfrey, who received an Oscar nomination for her supporting turn in the 1985 The Color Purple film, is investing in the Broadway musical of the same name.
		Based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and the film by Steven Spielberg, the musical version of The Color Purple tells the story of a woman, who, through love, finds the strength to triumph over adversity and discover her unique voice in the world.
		The Color Purple is scheduled to begin previews at the Broadway Theatre on November 1 in preparation for a December 1 opening.
	www.broadway.com /gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=518459 (510 words)

	The Color Purple Comes To Broadway \| keithboykin.com
		The release of the film version of The Color Purple had been met by protests from some groups who complained that the film depicted fl men in a negative light.
		In the scene when Celie declares that she may be fl, she may be a woman, and she may be ugly, but she's here, you can't help but feeling proud of her growth and proud of the Broadway production that makes you feel that way.
		When I think of the great distances...hundreds of miles...that women in Africa had to travel to see the film "Color Purple", because African men forbid them to see it and because so many theatres in South Africa, Senegal, Ghana and Liberia banned it....I feel so glad that the story is marching on.
	www.keithboykin.com /arch/2005/12/29/the_color_purpl (1215 words)

	The Color Purple: A Short Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
		The Color Purple: A Short Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
		Butler, C. The 'Color Purple' Controversy - Black Woman Spectatorship Wide Angle-A Quarterly Journal Of Film History Theory And Criticism, 1991, V13 N3-4:62-69.
		"'The Color Purple' Not as Simple as Black or White." (column) Washington Post v109 (Mon, Dec 23, 1985):B3, col 3, 17 col in.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/colorpurple.html (537 words)

	At-A-Glance Film Reviews: The Color Purple (1985)
		By the time Steven Spielberg made A Color Purple, he had already proven he was a master at great entertainments with
		He had yet to prove to film snobs everywhere he could excel at making so-called "real" films, too.
		The movie tells the life story of Celie, played by Whoopi Goldberg with a performance that was nominated for Academy Award and should have won.
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	Color Purple Novel & Film (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Is the film too beautiful to be a successful adaptation of the novel?
		Is the pantheistic theology in the novel The Color Purple basically like the theology Steinbeck offers in The Grapes of Wrath?
		Once you post your first original post, you should expected to participate in the discussion of all the postings.
	kainani.hpu.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /hwood/LitScreen/Colorpurplenovelfilm.htm (348 words)

	Alice Walker, The Color Purple
		1) Alice Walker's The Color Purple is an example of a "woman's novel." This means not just that it was written by a woman, but that it carries on an identified tradition of women's writing, in terms of narrative strategies, themes addressed, and voice.
		This is not to say that all women write about the same things; but there is a tradition known as women's literature, which has developed with a consciousness of women's traditions of writing as distinct from mens' ways of writing.
		Listen in on a student discussion of The Color Purple at the University of Virginia.
	www.library.csi.cuny.edu /dept/history/lavender/purple.html (1278 words)

	Color Purple, The DVD review - Time Out Film
		Color Purple, The DVD review - Time Out Film
		The adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, about growing up 'poor, female, ugly and fl' in the Deep South, by a Middle American movie brat not hitherto noted for his interest in any of the above, could be cynically seen as a blatant (and botched) bid for Oscars.
		Example: Walker's clear, lyrical patois has been filmed with, well, purple pomposity, a battering ram of flashy editing and tearful emotion (the brutish husband played by Glover, whom Walker finally allows his own small epiphany, gets especially short shrift as yet another of the big, bad authority figures who stalk Spielberg's world).
	www.timeout.com /film/dvd/81245.html (278 words)

	The Color Purple Tickets - The Color Purple Theater Tickets Available!
		Based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer-Prize winning novel The Color Purple stands to thrill sold-out crowds with music and hope.
		The Color Purple also wowed on film as fans flocked to Steven Spielberg's 1985 adaptation which starred Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, and Oprah Winfrey.
		Don't miss your chance to see The Color Purple, an emotional musical.
	www.ticketsnow.com /Theater_Tickets/The_Color_Purple_Tickets.html (156 words)

	Script for The Color Purple - SpielbergFilms.com Forum
		I am looking for the screenplay, the shooting script, or a script of the film: The Color Purple.
		Just hoping this helps: there is a really wonderful book by Alice Walker called THE SAME RIVER TWICE that every fan of The Color Purple should read as it reflects on the writer's experience of the film being produced.
		The book is tender and thoughtful (unsurprisingly) and comprises Alice Walker's draft of the script, reviews of the film, countless other material generated by the film's release in 1985.
	www.spielbergfilms.com /forum/showthread.php?p=40354 (218 words)

	The Color Purple on Broadway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Playbill is proud to offer you the last of three exclusive tracks from the upcoming Broadway production of THE COLOR PURPLE.
		Based on the classic Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Alice Walker and the moving film by Steven Spielberg, THE COLOR PURPLE is a soul-stirring new musical and a landmark Broadway event.
		Starring Tony® Award nominee LaChanze (Once on This Island) and directed by Gary Griffin, THE COLOR PURPLE is adapted for the stage by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Marsha Norman, with music and lyrics by Grammy® Award winners Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray and choreography by Donald Byrd.
	www.colorpurple.com /music/index.htm (181 words)

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