The Color Purple (Two-Disc Special Edition) - Region 1 DVD

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Directed by :

Steven Spielberg

Starring :

Danny Glover

Whoopi Goldberg

Margaret Avery

Oprah Winfrey

Willard E. Pugh

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Description: Steven Spielberg, proving he's one of the few modern filmmakers who has the visual fluency to be capable of making a great silent film, took a melodramatic, D.W. Griffith-inspired approach to filming Alice Walker's novel. His tactics made the film controversial, but also a popular hit. You can argue with the appropriateness of Spielberg's decision, but his astonishing facility with images is undeniable--from the exhilarating and eye-popping opening shots of children playing in paradisiacal purple fields to the way he conveys the brutality of a rape by showing hanging leather belts banging against the head of the shaking bed. In ... (more)

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Release date: 18 February 2003
Number of discs: 2
EAN: 9780790749877 UPC: 085391831921

Tags: Drama (2), Racial Discrimination (1), Marriage Drama (1), Academy Award Best Picture Nominated (1), Feminist Film (1), AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers (1), Rural Drama (1), Gender Relations (1), Feminist Movie (1), Lesbian Subtext (1), Loveless Marriage (1), Lesbian Interest (1), Period Film (1), Social Injustice (1), Lesbian Kiss (1), Prejudice (1), Slavery (1), African-american (1), Race Relations (1), Incest (1)

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