Byron Hooper11/18/96The Color Purple film reviewThe Color PurpleThe movie "The Color Purple," directed by Steven Speilberg, was, in general, asatisfactory film. It was enjoyable, if you don't consider accuracy towards the novel it isportraying important. Speilberg obviously had little, if any, respect toward the originalstory, 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 untilabout when Sofia left Harpo, they were almost identical. After that they are almost twodifferent stories with the same ending.The movie was written purely for entertainment. It added a small number of scenes, butcut more than it added. Also, it emphasized different parts of the story than the book. The film is about a young black girl growing up in the south, abused by, first, her father,then her husband, whom she had no choice in marrying, as is the book. But in the novel,after Celie found her sister's letters, the main focus was Nettie in Africa. In the movie, thesection on Africa was only ten, fifteen minutes long, and the rest was based more on therest of Celie's life.I'll admit, most movies, that follow the book that they're based on word for word arepretty monotonous (i.e. Dune), but this particular movie probably would have been better,at least in my own opinion, . Byron Hooper11/18/9 6The Color Purple film reviewThe Color PurpleThe movie " ;The Color Purple, " directed by Steven Speilberg,. different parts of the story than the book. The film is about a young black girl growing up in the south, abused by, first, her father,then her husband,