Oprah Winfrey's character is supposed to be knocked unconscious, but as she is lying on the ground, the wind blows her skirt up and she reaches down, pushing her dress back down. See more...
The character of Sofia is played by Oprah Winfrey. Sofia marries Harpo, as well as the fact that 'Harpo' is 'Oprah' reversed, 'Harpo' is also the name of Oprah Winfrey's production company. See more...
Directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg (add more)
Genres: Drama
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When Celie is giving birth to Olivia it says Winter 1909. Later on in the movie when she is in the cloth store and thinks she sees her daughter, Olivia, it says Spring 1909. [No, in 1909 she gave birth to her son Adam. Olivia had already been born and given away.]
Sophia is carrying her baby as she and Celie enters Sophia's house. After they enter, Sophia goes to the table and gets the baby's bottle and tells the baby, "Miss Celie gonna get the baby some milk." She should have said her own name, Sophia. [Sofia says "Now let's see, we gonna get you some milk."]
In the scene where Sophia confronts Celie in the cornfield, she starts by saying, "You told Harpo to beat me". Later she tells Celie, "If you want a dead son-in-law Miss Celie, you keep on advising him like you do". Harpo is actually Celie's stepson, NOT her son-in-law. [More of a character mistake than a film error. Since Celie was Sophie's stepmother-in-law, Sophie probably assumed, in the heat of anger, that Harpo was Celie's son-in-law.]
As Albert is driving Shug in the wagon to his home in the rain, we see the outside of the house, which is not Albert and Celie's farm house. The house shown has elaborate steps and pillars. [It is simply the other side of the house. Throughout the movie we see mostly the back of the farmhouse. The side with the elaborate pillars is the front, which is not used often.]
In town, Celie checks Corrine's baby's diaper to see if she had a diaper on that Celie had stitched with the name Olivia. However, Nettie teaches Celie to read and write after Celie's marriage to Mister. [Celie also states she embroidered moons and stars on the diapers. She could have been checking for those, as well.]
Late in the film, Albert takes one letter out of the mailbox from the Immigration and Naturalization Service. In the typed address, the numbers '02' can be seen after the state of Georgia. ZIP codes were not in use until the mid-1960's, not in 1937. In addition, the '02xxx' ZIP code is for Massachusetts, not Georgia. [There is no zip code shown for either the return address or the delivery address.]
Corrected by ChiChi
Ceeli doesn't know Mister's real name until after Shug Avery comes into the picture and calls him 'Albert'. This was after Nettie was sent away, yet when Ceeli finds a letter from Nettie in the mail and reads it out loud Netti refers to Mister as 'Albert'. How could she know this? [Presumably, she found out from the people she traveled to Africa with, which must also be how she found out about Celie having a different biological father.]
Whoopie Goldberg's character writes notes to herself on waxed paper. She's not shown actually writing, but the medium is obviously felt-tip marker, which was invented decades after the action takes place. [If she is not shown writing, then we can't be sure a felt-tip marker was used. It looks more like a thick pencil lead.]
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