Purple Rain (1984)
On Saturday, i saw Purple Rain on the big screen (medium screen actually, theatre two at the Music Box.) Though i had seen it before, a mere dvd couldn't have possibly conveyed the full power of this movie.
The film is just as strange as some of the songs on the album of the same name (like "When Doves Cry") and just as wonderful. It's highly autobiographical; my favoite part is that even though Prince plays a mysterious rock star, known only as "The Kid," and is always wearing luxurious 18th century purple velvet outfits, he still lives with his parents in a suburban looking neighborhood of Minneapolis.
Summary: kind of like Footloose meets Spinal Tap. 100% dumb-strikingly awesome.
The film is just as strange as some of the songs on the album of the same name (like "When Doves Cry") and just as wonderful. It's highly autobiographical; my favoite part is that even though Prince plays a mysterious rock star, known only as "The Kid," and is always wearing luxurious 18th century purple velvet outfits, he still lives with his parents in a suburban looking neighborhood of Minneapolis.
Summary: kind of like Footloose meets Spinal Tap. 100% dumb-strikingly awesome.
posted by Chris @ 9:53 AM
2 Comments:
At 8:59 PM,
ian said…
Theater 2? So does that mean there was no happy played music at the end?
At 8:46 PM,
Chris said…
it does mean that. and rocky horror fans are like the anti-social losers that were shunned even from the theater-dork scene in high school.
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