The Color Purple - Region 2 DVD

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Directed by :

Steven Spielberg

Starring :

Danny Glover

Whoopi Goldberg

Oprah Winfrey

Margaret Avery

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, DW 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 a ... (more)

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Release date: 25 September 1998
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5024165765555

Tags: Drama (2), Adaptation (1), Historical (1), Musical (1), Racism (1), America (1)

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