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Actors: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Color Purple |
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Celie is treated very unfairly,almost as a toy. She is not wanted by her husband and her father molested her. She admires Shug and loves her in a sexual way.
--Amber Nacius, Resident Scholar
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The Color Purple teaches its audience how to endure and be strong. Celie finds her intelligence, voice, and finally the ability to exsist by relying on herself. With her alcoholic violent husband trying to make her nothing more then slave, she overcomes her adversary and rises above he diminished self image.
--Kelly Alleman, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Color Purple |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Polit/Social/Race/Gender activism
Yes
Plotlet:
- girls fighting for rights
- rrrrrracism!!!!!
Family, struggling with
Yes
Struggle with:
- Husband
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Poverty story?
Yes
Poverty plotlets:
- coping with poverty (general)
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- unemployed
- homemaker/wife
Age:
- 20's-30's
- 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
- eccentric
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type
- (woman) skinny
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- farmer
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- throughout most of the book.
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- (man) muscular
unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- druggie/wino disease
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 2 (a little)
Africa
Yes
Kind of Africa:
- Black Africa
Farm/Ranch?
Yes
Farm/Ranch:
- farm
- lot of descript of crop raising
- lot of descript of animal care
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- hostile, like Gomer Pyle on steroids
Misc setting
- moving train
- bar
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- very explicit references to deaths and torture
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- spiritual
Sex in book?
Yes
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- lesbians!
- descript. of female anat. (the big B's)
- descript. of female anat. (the big V)
- descript. of nude males (the big P)
- rape/molest (yeech!)
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- sex under blankets
Lot of foul language?
Yes
Unusual Style:
- a lot of stream of consciousness
- No single main character?
- written like a journal/diary/letters
If this isn't a movie...
- Play
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Jazz/r&b
Is this movie based on a
- book
Amount of dialog
- significantly more descript than dialog
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