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Subject: The Color Purple
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Date: Mon, 30-Dec-85 15:00:47 EST
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<This is a warning  to all who may think, from reading all 
<the great reviews, that The Color Purple is worth seeing.
 
<IT IS NOT!
 
<The book is great, but everything meaningful has been
<deleted to make a pointless, confusing, lifeless movie.
 
<Skip the movie.  Buy the book.

I must try to counteract the above diatribe.  I have no dispute with
the fact that the book is always (most of the time) better.  The
book The Color Purple was one of the most moving, uplifting, 
delightful pieces of literature to come down the pike in a long while.

The movie, however, is wonderful in its own way.  I must take exception
to the statement that everything meaningful has been deleted in the
movie version.  You do have to pay attention if you are not used to
the dialect.  In this respect, it is more confusing than a Rambo or
a Rocky movie (although Stallone's gruntings aren't exactly everyday
English either).  However, the book was confusing as well.  It required
a fair amount of concentration.

Lifeless?  I don't think so.  The acting was some of the best I have seen
in a Hollywood movie in a dog's age.  If you think the actress who played
Shug Avery (her name is really Avery) was lifeless, I wonder what you need
to consider liveliness.  That's just one example.  I don't want to bore
everyone with more -- do see the movie!  It was great.

R.M.