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Post by capybara on Jan 31, 2024 1:04:10 GMT
Wonderful, really powerful. I didn’t know anything about this story but it works so well as a musical film.
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Post by mkb on Feb 10, 2024 0:43:07 GMT
The Color Purple stage musical just about managed to succeed despite dealing with themes that could not be more removed from the light-hearted fare typical of the genre. However, rinse that through the filter of the Hallmark Channel and enact in the style of Glee (as it feels the creative team have done here), and we're left with something that on the surface may be Technicolor bright and dazzling but is actually rather dull and lacking any emotional punch.
Some of the performances verge on caricature, the villains in particular being two dimensional and lacking nuance.
I really don't know what the writers and director were aiming for, but the result is trashy. The sooner this interpretation is confined to history the better. Spielberg's original non-musical telling was not exactly subtle in its emotional manipulation of the audience, but at least it engaged and left you invested in what would happen next.
Two stars.
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Post by SuttonPeron on Feb 13, 2024 9:35:10 GMT
I really didn´t like this film either. The original source material is a very raw, difficult queer story. This "take" on it has little to no emotion, sugarcoating for days and performances that lack depth or nuance. A shame, because the cast could´ve done a spectacular take on the material, had they been well directed. Danielle Brooks still delivered a stunning performance, but the rest of the cast was plain and lifeless. Celie and Shug had 0 chemistry!
Add some colorism, queer erasure (unbelievable, in 2023, and directed by a queer man) and an unusual and purposeless way to stage the musical numbers... and you got the recipe for a terrible adaptation of an overall excellent source material. What a shame.
Spielberg too sugarcoated the story and erased "certain parts" of it. But at least he made you truly care for the characters, and root for them while seeing their best and worst. At least he showed them as real humans.
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Post by cezbear on Feb 13, 2024 10:06:27 GMT
I have to disagree with some of the posters, I really liked the movie. I do agree there was no chemistry between Celie & Shug, and in general I was underwhelmed by Shug (and also by Squeak). But otherwise I thought it was visually beautiful, and clearly made with real love. I missed the humour from the stage show, although I suppose I can see why it might not have worked om film.
The staging of certain numbers as Celie's imagination really worked for me.
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Post by alece10 on Mar 2, 2024 22:26:18 GMT
Currently on Amazon Prime to own for £3.99
Just watched it and what a disappointment.
I loved the musical and saw it multiple times as I was working at the Menier when it was on there.
Half the songs are missing in the film and many of the ones left are almost unrecognisable as they have been changed around so much.
Have to say that pretty much all of the recent stage to screen musicals have left me underwhelmed, thinking especially of Jamie and Evan Hanson.
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