A really bad movie

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Wow I cannot believe you didnt believe in Whoopi Goldbergs performance. It was completely believable for me. The way she carried herself, Gosh it made me feel miserable for her. She walked around like she was walking constantly on egg shells. Albert was horrible to her. He didnt need to beat her and make her feel like crap just because she wasnt Shug. He got his time with Shug. It was cruel really because the way he was with Shug it kind of showed he was a loving caring man just awful towards poor Celie. Her performance was superb, the best in the whole movie. I carried on watching for her and Shug. Sophia was an alright character, I mostly felt for her when she went to visit her kids after not seeing them 8 years, that nearly went and broke my heart! Overall great movie :)

*Forever Bound* - http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5696657/1/Forever_Bound

English is not your first language, correct?

So what if you didn't like the movie? Shrug.

The Color Purple is a classic movie. Oprah, Danny Glover and Whoopi should be very proud of themselves, as should Spielberg for his directing skills.

You completely don't get this film whatsoever.
Whoopi's acting was some of the best in the film and the second you took your rather obnoxious slander on that you lost me.

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<<"*The lead actress.. or the way Spielberg had made her act. I didn't believe her. It seemed she had just been told to do a sad face for most of the time.

I think you missed the totality of Goldberg's performance here. The thing about the role of Celie is that until the latter part of the film when she finally finds a voice, most of the actress's work was perforce internal, and it was a lot more than just "a sad face." Goldberg uses her eyes in particular to great effect; at some points she is so low there is almost no light in them, but when she falls for Shug the happiness it gives her is written large across her face.

*The unreasonable misery. Okay, I acknowledge many people have had and still have the kind of lives like Celie, but in this movie as a hole, I didn't understand the cause of all this. Okay, Albert beat Celie, but why.

Have you given any thought to what life was like for African-Americans in the rural South in the early decades of the Twentieth Century? If you want an explanation for Albert's behavior, look at what happens to Sofia. And realize that for males there was a lot worse than imprisonment that could and did happen to them.

*Yes, the absence of the WHY was the biggest flaw of the movie. Celie told Shug that Albert beat her for not being Shug, but these are only words which doesn't work for me.

To me the WHY is as clear as crystal. Celie's explanation has some validity, but Albert was raised by his father to despise women, and even Shug admits that despite her love for him she knows he's "weak." A weak Black man in a white man's world, particularly in the South, just might come home and take his frustrations out on his wife and kids. If memory serves, in fact, the novel sort of implies as much, but it isn't hard to read it into the scenario.



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Since you can't spell to save your life, drop dead. This movie was based on a Pulitzer Prize winning novel and should have won all 11 Oscars it was nominated for, and 2 more for which it was not, Steven Spielberg as Best Director and Danny Glover as Best Actor.

If you read the book, you would know that had the movie been filmed page for page, it would have received a hard R-rating what with the child rape and (almost) incest as well as the graphic lesbianism.

Again, drop dead.

i loved it as a kid. now can't bear o watch it as an adult. guess i saw it too many times.

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