The Color Purple | Adaptations
Warner Brothers purchased the movie rights of The Color Purple for $350,000; filming began in June of 1985, and the film was released at Christmas. It proved to be an enormous box office success, but it was criticized heavily for the banal and sentimental treatment of some of its most powerful issues and scenes. David Ansen of Newsweek, for example, said that it was like "watching the first Disney movie about incest." Part of the blame went to the Dutch screenwriter, Menno Meyjes, but for the most part critics held director Steven Spielberg responsible for creating a...
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