How The Movie Their Eyes Were Watching God Replace The Book

Sometimes the Movie Ruins the Book Oprah Winfrey destroyed the book Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston when she made the movie. Oprah made obvious changes to the storyline and relationships in the movie. She changed and left out important parts. Oprah’s changes to the storyline when she made the movie ruined Hurston’s whole idea of the book. Oprah changes Janie’s relationship with her nanny and turns it into something Hurston never meant. She portrays Janie as disrespectful to her nanny in the movie, she talks back and does not listen. “Towards the beginning of the film, Janie argues with her grandmother about kissing Johnny Taylor. Janie’s grandmother slaps her across the face because of her disrespectful behavior” (Waesche). Her nanny finds her and Johnny Taylor kissing at the beginning of the film, and Janie does not come when nanny calls for her. Janie’s nanny wants protection and security for Janie. Nanny chooses Logan Killicks for Janie to marry. Janie refuses to marry him. Hurston provides an important scene at the beginning of the book where nanny tells Janie her story. This lets the reader know why nanny wants the security and the protection for Janie. She

Tea Cake gambles Janie’s money away but never gambles it back. The audience will pick up on that he uses her. Tea Cake never hits Janie because Oprah left the Turners out of the movie. She makes their relationship a love story. Tea Cake and Janie never argue. Tea Cake still gets rabies and gets violent. He hides a gun under his pillow and Janie finds it. She takes out 3 bullets. When he pulls the gun on her he lowers it after she begins to talk to him. He lifts the gun back up and she is able to defend herself just in time. She holds him in her arms crying. Tea Cake never bites Janie, one of the most important scenes in the book left out to create a love story. Their relationship turns into a love story in the