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Movie Review: The Color Purple

Byron Hooper

11/18/96

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 written purely for entertainment. It added a small...