change of heart
...re suspenseful to find out what really happened as the movie progressed. Without the parts in the book about her father extensively abusing her being shown in the beginning of the movie, the viewer lacks the knowledge of how Celie was abused by men all of her life. The viewer does not feel the pain Celie went through right from the beginning of the book as the reader does. The viewer does not get a chance to resent the actions of the male characters and see how abusive they were as soon as the reader does. When Harpo fights Sofia in the book, the reader is told about the noises that Celie hears from the house, and is given an idea of how violent the ordeal was: “Just when I was bout to call out that I was coming in the yard, I hear something crash. It come from inside the house, so I run up on the porch. The two children be making mud pies on the edge of the creek, they don’t even look up. I open the door cautious, thinking bout robbers and murderers. Horsethieves and hants. But it Harpo and Sofia. They fighting like two mens. Every piece of furniture they got is turned over. Every plate look like it broke. The looking glass hang crooked, the curtains torn. The bed look like the stuffing pulled out. They don’t notice. They fight. He try to slap her. What he do that for? She reach down and grab a piece of stove wood and whack him cross the eyes. He punch her in the stomach, she double over groaning but come up with both hands lock right under his privates. He roll on the floor. He grab her dress tail and pull. She stand there in her slip. She never blink a eye. He jump up to put a hammer lock under her chin, she throw him over her back. He fall bam up gainst the stove” (37). In the movie, only when Harpo approached his father with a bruised face and Sofia approaches Celie with a black eye does the viewer know what happened and the severity of the battle. The viewer lacks the knowledge of how fierce the fight was. The director may have decided not to go into detail with the scene because he wanted to get a certain response from the audience, or he may have felt that the scenes were not important enough to be in the movie. The director’s decision leaves the viewer to feel less upset with Harpo for hitting his wife, and more sympathy that he was beaten more than Sofia. The viewer does not feel as upset about how a woman was treated. The male characters’ personalities are altered as well as the scenes in the movie. In the movie, Mr.____ and Harpo’s characters often seemed more comical than in the book, making it easier for the viewers to like them. In the movie when Mr.____ tries to have sex with Nettie, she hits him between the legs and he waddles around after her. Instead of the viewers being concerned with the fact that Nettie was nearly raped, they are laughing at the fact that Mr.____ is almost to his knees in pain. The comical aspect of this part of the plot takes the focus off of the wrong-doing of the male character and places it on the more on his ignorance, making it easier for the viewer to see him as a dumb man instead of an evil one. Harpo’s character was portrayed as a young, naïve, and extremely clumsy man. He is regularly seen falling through roofs and stuttering through sentences. When he fights Sofia and loses, he tries to explain to Mr.____ that he was kicked by a mule. This leaves the viewer laughing to the extent that he or she is overlooking the fact that the whole incident started because Harpo tried to beat his wife. When Shug comes and Mr._____ tries to make breakfast for her, the viewer finds it funny how he scrambles around trying to find everything and keep things from burning. He even hits his head against the pots and pans trying to work so fast. The viewers sees this and no longer sees Mr._____ as a fierce character in the movie, but a weak man trying to please a woman he has old feelings for. The viewer even gets more comedy when Mr._____ delivers the food to Shug, and she throws it out back at him. The director wants to make the movie more entertaining, but it also takes away from the seriousness of how he is vividly showing interest in another woman in front of his wife. He actually is showing how little he does care for her by caring for another woman in his house and makes Celie assist him in caring for her. Eventually, Celie is the only one who is caring for the woman that her husban...