The Color Purple Book Vs Movie

In my opinion, if we speak about what challenges novels can present for the film adaptation, the first challenge is to understand what the author of the novel wants really to say in his work, to understand his message to the audience clearly. Each person, each director has own vision. There are much more challenges such as to find the right actors for presenting the characters, to find the tone of the film and genre. There is no way to show all events from the novel in 2hour film (it’s possible in TV show though, so the director should decide which events are more important ant to reduce the others.

The Color Purple is a novel written by Alice Walker and a film directed by Steven Spielberg based on a young African American woman living in the

He also said that he does not believe that this film is dedicated to a particular race, he thinks it's a human story, first of all. He also said that this story is very personal for him, this is the story of the family relations, and it was also a challenge for him.

For Walker, women must bond together in a kind of matriarchal utopia, black sisterhood and female independence celebrated. Spielberg's film, re-frames Walker's story through the lens of the American mythologies.

According to the novel, The Color Purple is mostly about how a young girl, how as she grows up, she start to change. The tone of Celie throughout the novel is at first she was shy to even speak to someone but then as it goes towards the end of the novel, her tone is less shy and with more attitudes. In the other hand, the movie focuses on transition. In the book unlike the movie, Nettie's letters to Celie are told with much more content and information. Alice Walker goes into more depth and uses imagery in ways that will have us picture what Nettie is explaining to Celie about certain things that's going on in Africa. In the film, Nettie's experience in Africa is shown very briefly although in the actual novel; her experience is written in numerous letters