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Originally posted by lostnfound117
Has anyone seen the play? It's sold out here in the ATL, so I wasn't able to get tickets. My friend told me that the play really showed Shugs and Celie's lesbian relationship, something I think Speilberg couldn't explore way back in 1985. I think it was only implied in the movie.
I was reading on another board once about some interesting things about this movie:
1. The song Celie and Nettie sing at the beginning and end is 'Makidada'. Quincy Jones wrote that song, do you think that is a song he used to sing to his daughter? (My Kidada)
2. At the dinner table during dinner, (when Celie has her moment), the little girl sitting next to Sophia, (Oprah Winfrey) is Whoopi's real-life daughter.
3. In the book, Celie and Shug were lovers. In the movie, at the end, when Shug came back, she didn't have her husband with her and it appeared that she and Celie were living together. Celie says something along the lines of she and Shug still have 'longings'.
Anything else that was subtle that any of you picked up on?
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I saw the play on Friday night. It was very good, but I had forgotten about the relationship between Shug and Celie. The play also also had Squeak and Grady (Shug's husband) hooking up at the end, which was supposedly what happened in the book. I read the book in highschool (20 years ago) so the movie is more of a memory than the book. I may try to pick the book up again though.
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