tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post7108643704568155832..comments2024-03-28T02:30:08.913-04:00Comments on Not Just Movies: Steven Spielberg: The Color PurpleJakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09078001374402400232noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-20931261175814814522021-01-02T06:40:45.399-05:002021-01-02T06:40:45.399-05:00I was married for 16 years to a loving mother and ...I was married for 16 years to a loving mother and wife. We had 2 children together who are now 11 and 13. I reconnected with an old girlfriend from college on Facebook and we began an affair and I left my wife. The woman I had an affair with is a wonderful woman and I love her too and our kids had begun accepting the situation and my wife has kind of moved on, but not in love with the man she is seeing. I thought I fell out of love with my wife and I felt terrible about what I did to her - she is a good woman and I don't know what came over me. 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The line when Nettie says "nothing but death can keep me from her" was one of my favorites. If you understand the bond between two sisters who have nothing or no one in the world to love them besides each other you would get it. And Jake after 3 years, what happened to make you all of a sudden come to the conclusion that this film is "Now" racist? and on the bottom or all other films?? I understand the dynamics of the country has changed ... But what exactly changed for you?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-68990054077502661072013-03-29T09:40:44.253-04:002013-03-29T09:40:44.253-04:00I have to say in the near-three years it's bee...I have to say in the near-three years it's been since I wrote this review, this has more or less become my view of the film. I just filled out a survey for Criticwire relating to Spielberg and this is in my bottom 5 of his films.Jake Colehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15532951308638768249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-30738911731349509052013-03-27T14:49:29.435-04:002013-03-27T14:49:29.435-04:00The whole film is racist. We watched this in Black...The whole film is racist. We watched this in Black studies and most of the class and the professor agreed. A horrible film IMO, and very trite.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-44854933150688958452010-07-02T16:03:56.384-04:002010-07-02T16:03:56.384-04:00That line spoils what was an otherwise harrowing s...That line spoils what was an otherwise harrowing sequence for me. I honestly don't remember if it was even in the book or not (though this, alone, wouldn't justify its existence of course).<br /><br />McBride's book on Spieberg is far and away the BEST Spielberg book out there. When it was published it got all sorts of praise even in the film community by Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, Roger Corman and so many others. What's great about McBride's book is that he does more research on every Spielberg film from <i>Amblin'</i> to <i>Schindler's List</i> than any other biographer has before or since. He even goes to pains to find out what happened on the <i>Twilight Zone: The Movie</i> set, to figure out if Spielberg was there or not when Landis was directing that helicopter crash that killed Vic Morrow. <br /><br />Sadly, I haven't yet seen any well-written or researched books covering Spielberg's output in the new century. It's a shame, because as you say this decade has been one of his finest hours. It would be swell if McBride DID go back and update his old book.Adam Zanziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14524618281515322239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-11633607414545202982010-07-02T09:35:42.758-04:002010-07-02T09:35:42.758-04:00How is McBride's book? I'm considering rea...How is McBride's book? I'm considering reading a biography or evaluation of all these directors I'm focusing on once I see all their movies (I know I'm going to at least read Richard Brody's book on Godard). Is there a newer version of McBride's book, or a more recent and comprehensive piece that surveys his '00s work, which to me is his most interesting?<br /><br />Oh, and as for the Celie/Nettie split, The "Nothing but death can keep me from it!" is what stuck in my craw. Not only is it a horribly stiff line that clangs like a rock falling into a well and banging on the sides, it's badly delivered more than once. It took me out of the moment completely.Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09078001374402400232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-12634313438144309612010-07-02T02:57:56.952-04:002010-07-02T02:57:56.952-04:00(continued)
My biggest issue with the film, ultim...(continued)<br /><br />My biggest issue with the film, ultimately, is the way that Spielberg and Menno Meyjes ultimately resolve the tension between Celie and Albert. Alice Walker (who is always being criticized as anti-male) is actually much more forgiving of Albert than the film is; the novel ended with Albert literally going to work for Celie at the pants workshop, and then he and Celie end up making peace and more or less becoming friends. She's able to break him down into a human being who she can be able to talk to. But Spielberg's film is a little more damning, and to an unnecessary extent. Even though it's nice how Albert is responsible for helping Celie and Nettie reunite again, and it's touching that he reappears in the final shot, it doesn't quite effectively communicate Walker's message that at the end of the day, all genders/races can rejoice and become a family. Spielberg even says on the DVD that he originally shot the ending of Celie and Albert smoking pipes on the front porch together--and he should have kept that scene in (why isn't it available in the Special Features!??). Some say the film is too sentimental, but in this case I would argue that it wasn't sentimental enough.<br /><br />One more thing: in Joseph McBride's 1995 book on Spielberg, he talks about how Spielberg tried to get Alice Walker to make a cameo in the movie as a maid, or something. Apparently she got offended by this offer and sent him a letter telling him how hurt she was by it. Still, they found common ground eventually, and I still snicker at the fact that before she saw <i>E.T.</i> with her daughter, the only Spielberg movie Walker had ever seen prior to her meeting w/him was, reportedly, <i>The Sugarland Express</i>!<br /><br />In the end, I consider <i>The Color Purple</i> Spielberg's "flawed great film". Not a masterpiece like <i>Empire of the Sun</i> or <i>Schindler's List</i>--not quite. But man, do I love it.Adam Zanziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14524618281515322239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-40462153340002200272010-07-02T02:56:44.044-04:002010-07-02T02:56:44.044-04:00It has taken several years for me to understand wh...It has taken several years for me to understand where I stand on <i>The Color Purple</i>--when I saw it in middle school back in my blind Spielberg-worshipping days, I was certain that I had seen a "perfect" movie, as anyone would know if they were to look at my old 2005 review of the movie which is still lingering around somewhere on Yahoo... I was fourteen years old back then. But this year, preparing to watch the film again and having forgotten most of it, I decided to do the decent thing and read Alice Walker's novel. Now, after having read the novel and seen the film twice, I'm finding myself drawing a conclusion I never expected to draw: Walker's novel and Spielberg's film actually <i>better</i> each other.<br /><br />That probably sounds confusing, but basically, the biggest flaw of the novel is that Walker spends almost half the book dwelling on Nettie's experiences in Africa--though it makes for intoxicating prose at first, it gets tedious after awhile, since the book is supposed to be Celie's story. Spielberg, wisely, omits most of the African scenes and reduces them only to a dozen minutes of fascinating imagery (although I do sort of regret that Nettie' missionary husband, Samuel, is never given the proper introduction in the film). And the book, of course, has all the sexually explicit stuff between Celie and Shug that the movie didn't have. Spielberg once made a witty remark about that; he confessed that he wasn't comfortable going to that level and added, "Marty Scorsese could shoot that sort of thing--not me!" <br /><br />A few things about the movie bother me, like the superfluous comic relief of Harpo falling through the roof, although I liked some of the other humorous scenes, like Celie watching Mister cook breakfast for Shug, and (God help me) the brawl of fists at Harpo's bar; you gotta love it when Sofia gives Squeak that one-two right to the jaw. As far as the dramatic scenes go, you and I differ on the separation sequence between Celie and Nettie, which had me welling up with tears (though we could have done without Nettie pointing fingers and screaming, "Nothing but death can keep me from her!" That's a bit too much).Adam Zanziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14524618281515322239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-494160638739613756.post-35336609822517919922010-07-01T17:16:08.097-04:002010-07-01T17:16:08.097-04:00I've not commented on your blog as much as I&#...I've not commented on your blog as much as I'd want to (mainly through the dictates of time, work and trying to write a novel).<br /><br />I have, however, nominated you for a Versatile Blogger award. <br /><br />Details here: <br />http://misterneil.blogspot.com/2010/07/versatile-bloggers-and-shots-on-blog.html.<br /><br />Best wishes,<br /><br />NeilNeil Fulwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14686296295535235988noreply@blogger.com