![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Judging from the usual bill of fare at this theater, escape means forget your troubles, immerse yourself in a fantasy world of sex, violence, neat solutions, and occasional breathtaking landscapes, both imaginary and real, peopled entirely by white, conventionally handsome or beautiful heterosexual masters and their servants and hangers-on, who are sometimes people of color. The 41st Street Playhouse in Santa Cruz, CA, where I first saw THE COLOR PURPLE at a sneak preview heavily attended by local women, is a UA theater, and before each show an animated trailer invites us to escape to the movies. But for a writer like me who writes for a lot of people who don't read, I have to think of visual things, ways of reaching them … I think … it will be progressive enough for people to see some necessary reflections of themselves … Without someone like Stephen, all the people who should really see the movie wouldn't see it - it would never reach Eatonton, Georgia, my hometown." - Alice Walker, interviewed by Holly Near and Amy Bank, Voices, the newsletter of Redwood Records, No. Buy it, read it … and then you can go to the movie and point out the things they did wrong. "So I said, if you want to get the real thing, by the end it will be a $3 paperback. "The Color Purple" by Sara Halprin JUMP CUTĬopyright Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 1986, 2006 ![]()
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