{"id":601713,"date":"2023-12-19T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-fresh-take-on-alice-walkers-novel\/"},"modified":"2023-12-19T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T16:00:00","slug":"watch-a-fresh-take-on-alice-walkers-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-fresh-take-on-alice-walkers-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch A Fresh Take on Alice Walker&#8217;s Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a367ecf46931\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a367ecf46931\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-fresh-take-on-alice-walkers-novel\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Fresh_Take_on_Alice_Walkers_Novel%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online A Fresh Take on Alice Walker&#8217;s Novel&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-fresh-take-on-alice-walkers-novel\/#%E2%80%9CA_Fresh_Take_on_Alice_Walkers_Novel%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A Fresh Take on Alice Walker&#8217;s Novel&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Fresh_Take_on_Alice_Walkers_Novel%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online A Fresh Take on Alice Walker&#8217;s Novel&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_Fresh_Take_on_Alice_Walkers_Novel%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A Fresh Take on Alice Walker&#8217;s Novel&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Where do you stand on the 1985 film version of \u201cThe Color Purple,\u201d which was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, but won none? Some feel it wasn\u2019t Steven Spielberg\u2019s story to tell. Others marvel at how a director of the upbringing depicted in \u201cThe Fabelmans\u201d managed to recognize and reflect so many aspects of Black culture: the music, the spirituality, the multiple catharses to which it builds. Looking back, Spielberg did justice to Alice Walker\u2019s Pulitzer-winning novel, but he also left room to expand and improve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Now, nearly four decades later, a rousing new version arrives from director Blitz Bazawule, who collaborated with Beyonc\u00e9 on her 2020 visual album \u201cBlack Is King.\u201d Instead of rejecting what came before, the Ghanian filmmaker embraces and builds upon it, collaborating with Spielberg, Quincy Jones and Oprah Winfrey to update the material for the next generation (all three serve as producers). The main change, apart from a cast with impossibly big shoes to fill, comes from incorporating the songs written for the Broadway musical \u2014 which also brings an additional freedom, as those numbers allow the story to transcend the characters\u2019 harsh reality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Walker\u2019s novel is many things, none more powerful than a reclamation of value, perspective and heritage from a person who\u2019d been told she was worthless. Here, through song, the character of Celie quite literally finds her voice. Set in the farmhouses, churches and small-town world of rural Georgia, early in the 20th century, \u201cThe Color Purple\u201d is not a pop musical, relying more on the traditions of gospel, jazz, big band and blues. So it\u2019s fitting that Fantasia Barrino, who is not a traditional pop singer, should have waited all these years to make her big-screen debut as Celie, rather than doing so as Effie White \u2014 the plum \u201cDreamgirls\u201d part that ultimately went to Jennifer Hudson, and for which she was very nearly cast \u2014 right after winning \u201cAmerican Idol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Barrino\u2019s soul-felt R&amp;B sensibility lends itself to the role, and the patience it took to reach this point mirrors Celie\u2019s long path to finding herself. Barrino may have embodied the character on Broadway 15 years earlier, but the moment is now right, and everyone else in the terrific ensemble seems to have fallen into place around that choice (even the great Whoopi Goldberg, who originated the role on-screen, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ears early in the film, as if to give her blessing).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cDear God,\u201d begins Walker\u2019s novel, which is told in Celie\u2019s voice. She speaks an imperfect English, but shows an unwavering belief in some greater force. In the book, her role as narrator gave readers insight into feelings Goldberg was obliged to internalize in the 1985 film. Through Marcus Gardley\u2019s screenplay, the musical finds a fresh way into Celie\u2019s state of mind, reflecting her faith from the opening gospel number, \u201cMysterious Ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Celie\u2019s just 14 at the outset (played by Phylicia Pearl Mpasi in these scenes), already pregnant with her second child by the man who raised her (Deon Cole). Deprived of both her babies and traded off like an old mule to a tough, inflexible farmer called Mister (Colman Domingo, looming like the Big Bad Wolf over his household), Celie has Cinderella\u2019s burden in reverse, as she\u2019s obliged to care for a household of wicked stepchildren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Years pass before she learns Mister\u2019s real name, but in the interim, he beats her. His thunderous blows crack like cannon fire, sending Celie flying across the room. Her sister Nettie (Halle Bailey) joins her at Mister\u2019s house for a time, only to be thrown out in the middle of the night for fighting back when he climbs into her bed. Among the many tragedies of Celie\u2019s situation, most painful is the way she\u2019s never known any kindness or love besides Nettie\u2019s. By separating the sisters, Mister cuts Celie off from the one source of love she\u2019s known, effectively imprisoning her in a system she has no power to change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cYou Black, you poor, you ugly, you a woman,\u201d Mister spits at Celie, reiterating what she can already feel: all the systems stacked up to crush her spirit. In Walker\u2019s novel, patriarchy weighs every bit as heavy as America\u2019s racist past. Except for one altercation involving the mayor\u2019s white wife (Elizabeth Marvel), and another where a banker is quick to take a Black man\u2019s land, the movie focuses almost entirely on African American characters. Celie is so conditioned to oppression that she advises her own stepson, the relatively benevolent Harpo (Corey Hawkins), to beat his disobedient wife (Danielle Brooks) \u2014 a good example of a scene minutely recalibrated for better impact in this telling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    As force-of-nature Sofia, Brooks electrifies in the role that earned Winfrey an Oscar nomination, storming onto the scene to ask Mister for Harpo\u2019s hand. Whereas Celie has never dared to defy authority, Sofia embodies self-respect \u2014 that elusive but essential dimension that will ultimately set Celie free. In the meantime, she\u2019s disrespected in her own home, sleeping (and submitting) in a bed where Mister keeps a picture of his mistress, free-spirit jazz singer Shug Avery (Taraji P. Henson bringing \u201cEmpire\u201d energy), on his nightstand. When Shug appears \u2014 a character grand enough to support multiple entrances \u2014 she surprises Celie, unlocking a dimension of her sexuality she didn\u2019t know existed, and which Spielberg could only suggest in 1985.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cThe Color Purple\u201d catalogs a staggering amount of trauma, but takes no pleasure in depicting it \u2014 that can be challenging in stories where a character is made to suffer for years before relief finally comes. On that front, Bazawule does something surprising: Instead of punishing Mister (whom Celie curses, and whom audiences surely want to see punished), the director treats the long last act of the film as an opportunity for redemption. While Celie is finally enjoying her own independence, Mister takes steps to do right by her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It\u2019s a satisfying improvement on a script that doesn\u2019t stray too far from Menno Meyjes\u2019 earlier adaptation, apart from radically compressing the Africa-set portion and reshuffling a few other events, including the placement of \u201cMiss Celie\u2019s Blues,\u201d a Quincy Jones song originally written for the 1985 movie. Since this is a musical, Bazawule has the room to add expressionistic flourishes that might have seemed indulgent in a straightforward drama, from dynamic crane shots to situations in which a photograph or mirror becomes a portal into a flashback or fantasy, like Celie\u2019s memory of learning to sew or Shug\u2019s autographed headshot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Some of these tricks work better than others \u2014 as in the bathtub scene, where Celie finds herself standing atop a giant record player \u2014 but all work to expand the experience, making \u201cThe Color Purple\u201d feel even more monumental than it did in Spielberg\u2019s hands. And that\u2019s saying something, since the director brought such an iconic touch to the material that his choices echo in Bazawule\u2019s approach throughout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The music (while hardly absent before, and now missing in that roof-raising gospel reunion between Shug and her reverend father, played here by David Alan Grier) is largely what sets this version apart \u2014 that and the way it gives Celie a stronger, clearer voice. \u201cI may be Black, I may be poor, I may even be ugly, but I\u2019m here,\u201d she asserts a full reel before finding the words to put her newfound self-love into song.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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