Oprah Winfrey completely changes the script while creating the roles of everything and everyone in the movie Their Eyes Were Watching God. Janie is depicted as a strong woman in the movie, while in the book she never did anything to upset anyone. Her character completely changes, therefore changing her relationships with the others who has essential roles in the book. Oprah Winfrey took a beautiful work of art and turned it into a horror for the fans of Zora Neale Hurston.
Janie and Joe had a strange yet intriguing relationship. However, Oprah took this relationship and molded it to fit her image, which was an image that was warped and too disfigured for anyone to recognize. “Oprah’s rendition of Their Eyes Were Watching God reduces the novels’ complexity of race, gender, and history to pretty costumes, lush backgrounds, and sexy
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Their relationship was the only one that was not based on lies, but purely truth and love, but of course, Oprah changed this too. Janie and Pheoby never had the slightest argument in the book, but of course Oprah saw an open window to add more drama to the movie. This argument makes them spread apart which really make the whole story seem worse than original. “It is a bit odd that the TV adaption skims over the most involved and intriguing aspects of the novel.” Pheoby also never sits with the portch watchers in the movie, which makes no sense because the opening chapter in the book has Pheoby sitting with the portch watchers while Janie walks into town. Oprah and her book club obviously didn’t read the book very well because never once in the book did Janie and Pheoby have an argument. “Oprah takes a four-course novel that required time to savor and digest and reduces it to baby food. It’s easily digestible, but hardly nurturing or memorable.” Oprah this relationship of Janie and Pheoby and put it into a box where no one could see the true beauty of