Their Eyes Were Watching God, Tv movie on abc Options

[Teesa]

Sorry if there is a topic like this already, I did a search=)

So I watched the movie last night: it was on abc, produced by Oprah Winfrey, with Halle Berry and Michael Ealy.
I was wondering if anyone else watched it, because I did and I thought it was going to be a lot better. The movie was still pretty good, but that's because I love Michael Ealy.

[Froshy]

i thought it was a great movie eventhough the ending was a bit sad. what's the guy's name? TK? i never got that. but he is one hot piece of ass..

edit:
tea cake eh? thanks.

[kandiapplegrl]

My parents were watching it and when I realized what it was I didn't want to start watching the movie an hour into it.

[aznxdarkricex]

the guys name was
TEA CAKE

and it would've been better to read the book before watching the movie.
because they left out some important parts and rearrganged others.


but the movie itself, not considering the book, was very well done and halle did great.

[iheartsimba]

ah i wanted to see that SO badly! ahhh no =[

[Teesa]

the guys name was
TEA CAKE

and it would've been better to read the book before watching the movie.
because they left out some important parts and rearrganged others.
but the movie itself, not considering the book, was very well done and halle did great.

I really want to read the book now=) yeah his name was tea cake. I thought that was cute.

[jordanriane]

The book is really good. I had to read it my senior year of highschool.
Usually never like the books they assign (ie: the Scarlett Letter), but this one was pretty damn good.

The author is Zora Neale Hurston.
Definitely check the book out, it's so much better then the movie.

[njgurl412]

nooooooooo i missed it.. and i wanted to see it

[angel-roh]

Ah where Halle Berry is on that movie? I saw the preview, but didn't see the whole thing yet. I don't think it would be a nice movie.... just think that way. I don't think I will like it either even though Halle Berry acts so great.

[aznxdarkricex]

The book is really good. I had to read it my senior year of highschool.
Usually never like the books they assign (ie: the Scarlett Letter), but this one was pretty damn good.

The author is Zora Neale Hurston.
Definitely check the book out, it's so much better then the movie.

yeah it is a good book

haha the scarlett letter *shudder*

[jordanriane]

Yeah, I read alot of books for my senior year, and this book, and Native Son were my two favorites. I did really like Macbeth for some reason.

[danishcookiez]

aw man, i missed it!!
i read the book though, its pretty good. do you know if they're airing it again?

[StarlitxFrosT]

ahh i didn't kno it was on i woulda watched it..

i hated the book we are required to read it at school and it frustrated the crap outta me. i did not like the book at all it was real boring.. i couldnt stand the way it was written. but still i wanna see the movie.

[jr0h]

i never heard or seen that movie but sounds like it can be fun..does it fit into the drama category or somethin? good actors!

[jordanriane]

i never heard or seen that movie but sounds like it can be fun..does it fit into the drama category or somethin? good actors!

Skim through this to get the jist of the book [which the movie is based off of].

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
At the height of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston was the preeminent black woman writer in the United States. She was a sometime-collaborator with Langston Hughes and a fierce rival of Richard Wright. Her stories appeared in major magazines, she consulted on Hollywood screenplays, and she penned four novels, an autobiography, countless essays, and two books on black mythology. Yet by the late 1950s, Hurston was living in obscurity, working as a maid in a Florida hotel. She died in 1960 in a Welfare home, was buried in an unmarked grave, and quickly faded from literary consciousness until 1975 when Alice Walker almost single-handedly revived interest in her work.

Of Hurston's fiction, Their Eyes Were Watching God is arguably the best-known and perhaps the most controversial. The novel follows the fortunes of Janie Crawford, a woman living in the black town of Eaton, Florida. Hurston sets up her characters and her locale in the first chapter, which, along with the last, acts as a framing device for the story of Janie's life. Unlike Wright and Ralph Ellison, Hurston does not write explicitly about black people in the context of a white world--a fact that earned her scathing criticism from the social realists--but she doesn't ignore the impact of black-white relations either:

    It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road. It was the time to hear things and talk. These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human. They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment.

One person the citizens of Eaton are inclined to judge is Janie Crawford, who has married three men and been tried for the murder of one of them. Janie feels no compulsion to justify herself to the town, but she does explain herself to her friend, Phoeby, with the implicit understanding that Phoeby can "tell 'em what Ah say if you wants to. Dat's just de same as me 'cause mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf."

Hurston's use of dialect enraged other African American writers such as Wright, who accused her of pandering to white readers by giving them the black stereotypes they expected. Decades later, however, outrage has been replaced by admiration for her depictions of black life, and especially the lives of black women. In Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston breathes humanity into both her men and women, and allows them to speak in their own voices. --Alix Wilber

Product Description:
Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots.

[glit_gal]

^^

i didnt know there's a book...

at first i thought it was about Oprah's Life before she became famous and stuff...

lol no, Oprah just wanted to make the movie after she read the book like a long time ago.

[Angel_Cece]

IT WAS REAL BORING TO ME!!!!!! i feel asleep. lol

[ahhishkaren]

I didnt see it, but I read the book. It's pretty good. I was avoiding the movie cause usually book turned movies ruins the book. But halle berry was in it, and oprah produced it or whatever, so I dunno.

[xpiixeespriitx]

ive havent seen it

[Teesa]

^you should, I don't know if it's going to be ever out on video, but hopefully it will be. Thanks for the review jordanriane=)

[mickybeans]

ahh, i was anticipating to watch this since i heard that there was going to be a movie about it last year! i absolutely LOVED the book! i read it my sophmore year and it taught such a great lesson. after all that anticipation, i missed it >__< i hope they show a rerun or release it onto video because i was so curious as to how Halle Berry did as the role of Janey. and ahh, i'm glad that some of you all liked the book too- i was the only one in my class that enjoyed reading it..

[*Kathleen*]

and it would've been better to read the book before watching the movie.
because they left out some important parts and rearrganged others.

I agree, although I have yet to actually watch the movie. My friends did and told me how they didn't even include much about her upbringing, which is essential to constructing and following her life - sheesh. And haha I didn't think Oprah was that old.

[miss barnes]

i watched it w/ my mama. i liked it. it was sad at the end though...

[Chii]

I really want to read the book now=) yeah his name was tea cake. I thought that was cute.

aw man, i missed it!!
i read the book though, its pretty good.  do you know if they're airing it again?

ugh, i hated that book, it was full of weird dialect and soo many metaphors and crap

ahh i didn't kno it was on i woulda watched it..

i hated the book we are required to read it at school and it frustrated the crap outta me. i did not like the book at all it was real boring.. i couldnt stand the way it was written. but still i wanna see the movie.

me too, my class had to spend months on that crap, we had to write essays and explain what things meant in it etc


i haven't seen it but from what i heard from my literature teacher, they portrayed janey as a weak woman and not the strong, independent woman she is , like when she meets that guy near her house at the fence, she just runs off with him...they didn't show how he talked to her everyday and how she waited until she got to know him. also, after whoever died, they didn't show how she turned down all the suitors...they just went straight to her meeting tea cake, as if she just had to be with another man asap they cut basically what the whole book was about, janey is an independent woman

[flyonthewall4590]

loved the movie...halle was great...the guy...name eludes me...was really, really hot...