![]() ![]() This is cliche' to me but people have argued that Mary Alice's Effie character was almost pointless in the original and that Whitney's Emma will fill out the character much more and have more dialogue. Whitney Houston's Emma is now a former R&B singer who tries to keep her daughters away from the music business. Effie generally supported her daughters and was fond of Stix and she played a role in Sparkle's eventual success by incouraging her to reconcile with Stix. In the original Effie was a hardworking single mother who worked as a maid for a rich jewish family. Mary Alice played the role of Effie in the original, Whitney Houston will assume the role and the character's name was changed to Emma. The character of Effie is being completely remade. Which is another reason why I think this movie's timeline should've been moved up to the early 90s. Still shots of some of the dresses do not seem to fall in line with the time, the dresses are way too short and way too revealing for the late 60s. Jordin being 23, verses Tika being 32 and Carmen 38 will probably make up for that, but Tika and Carmen both look much younger than their actual ages. Tika ,Carmen and Jordin are all cuties and will look great in the movie BUT.Jordin Sparks is 6' without high heels and in the still shots she towers above the other women and I'm sure they'll be wearing heels throughout the movie, Dwan Smith and Lonette McKey stood 5' 5" and Irene stood 5' 2" and they all wore heels in that movie but Irene was still shorter than both women and really helped her look like the "youngest" sister. In the original Phillip Michael Thomas played the role of Stix, Derek Luke has taken the role Can Derek Luke sing? Stix had to sing a few lines in the original? Carmen Ejogo, Tika Sumptner and Jordin Sparks takes over the roles of the Williams Sisters from Lonette McKey, Dwan Smith and Irene Cara. Effectively neutering the movie and taking away the reason Sparkle stepped away from music and Delores chose to seek life outside of Harlem. Certain aspects have been rumored to be taken out, For example it's rumored that Sister, who falls into addiction and eventually succombs to it in the original movie, overcomes her issues in the remake. Also the movie was released in 1976 and there was no PG-13 then, I believe that classification came in the early 80s. The language (shit, bitch, son of a bitch and ***** are uttered) violence (a fist fight, domestic violence and a shooting) sex (bedroom scenes, talk of "making love" and references to condoms but no nudity) are all relevant to the story and not just needless instances of bad behavior, it showed the results of the choices made by each character. The original was rated PG but would definately be PG-13 by today's standards due to instances of language, violence and sexual situations. Bishop Jakes has already said that the movie will not as gritty as the original. ![]() It looks the movie is about to softened and with Bishop TD Jakes involvment the movie is going to get locked into PG territory. Looking at the still shots and what I've read about the Sparkle remake. The storyline will also be changed up a bit. The updated version will move the storyline up to the 1960s and over to Detroit. At the time the United States there was a strong sense of 1950s nostalgia and that worked to give the movie a very accurate 1950's despiction. The original movie was about three sisters in Harlem in 1958 trying to become singing stars. The movie's soundtrack is also remembered for giving Aretha Franklin's career a boost. The movie didn't do well at the box office and it has an average rating 6.7 rating on IMDB and a rather suprising 91% approval on rotten tomatos and is mostly remembered as a black cult classic and it was only recently released on DVD around or after the time Dreamgirls came out. On one hand I'm happy this movie is getting remade because the original was somewhat anti-climatic but I'm not happy about how it's shaping up and I'm not happy that Whitney Houston's death is gonna overshadow it and push the original further into the shadows.įor those of you who aren't into Blaxploitation movies, the original Sparkle movie was released in 1976. ![]()
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