A Heartbreaking Steven Spielberg Drama Was Based On A Banned Book

One of my favorite novels is the “too hard loneliness of Bohumil Hrabali”, and it contains a line that I think every time I read something new: “The portfolio is full of books and so I look forward to telling me things about myself that I don’t know.” For reading inwards someone else’s words on the printed page, great writing has the power to expand its mind and perspective in almost unlimited directions. Prohibiting and burning books has the opposite effect, closing things up, and denying other people with the freedom to explore ideas and make their own minds.

Unfortunately, the controversial censorship of the US has a long and unfortunate history that reaches the mainland to the first European settlers. One of the earliest examples was William Pynchon’s “rewarding price of our redemption” since 1650, which Puritan leaders held heresy and was burned in the New English, leaving only four well -known copies. Two centuries later, Harriet Beecher Stowen’s “Tom uncle cabin” encountered similar treatment in states where slavery -condemning books were put. Some big names in the 20th century have also fallen a censorship error, including Ernest Hemingway’s “farewell” and Anne Frank’s “young girl’s diary”. Now the book Prohibition is again a controversial issue in the current political atmosphere. Since 2021, about 16,000 titles have been censored in schools, including the bestseller, such as Stephen Chbosky’s “wall flower benefits”, Khaled Hossein’s “The Kite Runner”, and the most of all Margaret AtWood’s landmark novel “The Handmaidan Tale”.

Sales hatches, critical popularities and prizes provide little protection from those who want to curb our reading. This was certainly the case at Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple” event, which was customized by Steven Spielberg as a heart -breaking drama in 1985. Walker’s novel was hit with critics and became a bestseller who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and make the first black prize in that class. It also became one of the most forbidden novels in the United States, starting with the company to run it from school bookshelves a year before the release of Spielberg’s adaptation. Let’s watch the movie more closely and how it lasts.

Steven Spielberg’s “The Color Purple” is a drama of a period of time that covers about 40 years in the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), a misuse and a black woman who lives in the Georgian countryside. We first meet him as a young teenager (playing Desretta Jackson in previous years) because he gives birth to his second child with his abuser. He gives both children, and he also hands out Celiele Albert “Mister” to Johnson (Danny Glover), a local farmer who rushes and abuses him by treating him like a domestic servant. Celie’s beloved sister Nettie (Akosua Busia) joins Johnson’s household for a moment, but escapes as Mister tries to force himself to her.

Years later, Celie has come to a ruinly acceptance of his plot in a house that the Lord and his children did not love from his former marriage. He has also given up his hope of seeing the net that he expects to be dead. Mister’s son Harpo (Willard Pugh) then marries Sofia (Oprah Winfrey), a hard woman who has no skills to fight against domestic violence and encourage Celie to do the same. However, Celie cannot quite come up with courage, and Sofia leaves Harpo and takes the children with him.

Things turn to Shug Avery (Margaret Avery), Showgirl and Mister’s girlfriend, who suffers from illness. Celie nurses Shug until he is better again and the couple forms a strong bond that is quiet about the sexual relationship of the book only gentle kiss. Shug asks Celie to go to Memphis with him, but once again he can’t find the willpower to walk away from Mister.

Sofia is then imprisoned for hitting the white mayor in countermeasures and released 12 years later, broken and a mere shadow of his former himself. Then Shug returns with his new husband and hands with Celie’s Nettie. Together, they find that Mister has hidden his mail for a long time and his sister is alive and well. In addition, Nettie knows the location of Celie’s two children, which were taken from him when he was so young.

Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple” was first released in 1982, the same year as the second book, which It took a long and winding road to the big screen: “Schindler’s Ark.” Spielberg postponed to make a film version of the Winner of the Thomas Kenally’s Booker Award until he was mature enough to make it into justice. His version “Color Purple” shows that “postponing the Schindler list” was the right choice.

Spielberg is often criticized for its sentimentality, and these tendencies are at odds with the darker elements of the Walker’s celebrated novel. The film continues to affect incest, sexual abuse, domestic violence and racism, but Spielberg often compensates for a wide comedy. His arcade material combines Quincy Jones with Cloying and Allan Daviau’s charming movie to bury Celie’s life tragedies under the layers of Schmaltz.

After that, “color purple” still works almost despite Spielberg’s involvement. This is due to Walker’s story and some great performances, especially Goldberg Celie. It was a gambling that was a comic performer who had an almost zero film experience of the role, but Goldberg gives a fascinating picture of a low woman who has managed to maintain her dignity and quiet amusement during many years of service and humiliation. Almost as good is Winfrey in his movie, which dominates every moment from his limited show as Sofia; At the same time, Avery radiates self -confidence and compassion as Shugin. All three women received an Oscar nominee without earning, and they carry the story with their high shoulders to the roof (which would have been undoubtedly even more cheerful if Spielberg hadn’t fallen softly and heartache that the characters go through).

All in all, the “color color” is a handsome, but very incorrect appreciation image that its twee approach is hampered by its ads. But despite Criticism received by SpielbergThe film was a box office and helped to strengthen Walker’s legacy. In all censorship challenges, Walker’s novel is still one of America’s most beloved books, and it also inspires the 2005 musical and A A well-intended 2023 movie Based on phase production. As Bohumil Hrabal also wrote: “If the book has something to say, it will come back with silent laughter because all the book worth it is by itself.”