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Thread started 08/14/10 1:00am

berniejobs

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WHAT IF... 1999 was a movie?

So, I'm a fan of Marvel's WHAT IF...? comic books. Yes I am a nerd.

Anyway, what if Prince's itch to create a movie came a year or two sooner and he decided to released 1999 as the soundtrack to the movie 1999?

Take it away...

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Reply #1 posted 08/14/10 1:08am

Aaron123

Nah it wouldn't work out. The songs on 1999 on way too long so the "performances" would of took forever. The songs on 1999 just don't fit into a movie as perfect as Purple Rain did.

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Reply #2 posted 08/14/10 1:16am

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Might've been cool as a Blade Runner-esque sci-fi musical, but only if it didn't take itself too seriously.

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Reply #3 posted 08/14/10 1:17am

Timmy84

I can't see it being a movie.

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Reply #4 posted 08/14/10 6:42am

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Purple Rain songs were tailored to fit a movie. That's why there was no album in 1983. Prince was busy writing songs that would flow in between the plot of the movie.

Had Prince made a movie during the 1999 era, now that would have been something to witness. Prince was still raw and not as quite glammed out as PR and we would have seen something very dark and moody like the video for Automatic. Prince was into chains, whips, and the idea of rape at the time.(Think Extralovable, Lust U Always, Automatic, LRC, LCD, LPWM, Irresistable Bitch and more...) Come to think of it, after reviewing what he was writing and his image he was portraying at the time, 1999 the movie may have been the BOMB, much better than Purple Rain.

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Reply #5 posted 08/14/10 10:08am

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Timmy84 said:

I can't see it being a movie.

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Reply #6 posted 08/14/10 10:17am

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luv4u said:

Timmy84 said:

I can't see it being a movie.

yeahthat

yeahthat yeahthat

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Reply #7 posted 08/14/10 11:03am

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HobbesLeCute said:

Might've been cool as a Blade Runner-esque sci-fi musical, but only if it didn't take itself too seriously.

It would've been a Blade Runner-esque sci-fi musical that took itself much too seriously. lol The Blade Runner vibe inspired the look of his album photos. I wonder if it would've been as cool story-wise as it possibly could've looked. Probably would've been cryptic as hell, lol and Purple Rain probably wouldn't exist.

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Reply #8 posted 08/14/10 12:29pm

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Didn't the first idea for a movie come around the Controversy tour? I could have swore I heard something about a film at that time.

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Reply #9 posted 08/15/10 2:53pm

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I can see it as a porn movie featuring Jill Jones and The Revolution...

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Reply #10 posted 08/15/10 4:53pm

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motherfunka said:

Didn't the first idea for a movie come around the Controversy tour? I could have swore I heard something about a film at that time.

Yeah, there was a Concert Film for the Controversy tour set in Houston called "The Second Coming" I believe..But of course never saw the light of day..Imagine a movie like the Sign O' The Times concert film but from 1981 in the Controversy tour..cool

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Reply #11 posted 08/15/10 8:24pm

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Rinluv said:

motherfunka said:

Didn't the first idea for a movie come around the Controversy tour? I could have swore I heard something about a film at that time.

Yeah, there was a Concert Film for the Controversy tour set in Houston called "The Second Coming" I believe..But of course never saw the light of day..Imagine a movie like the Sign O' The Times concert film but from 1981 in the Controversy tour..cool

Ah, ok thanks. I was thinking it was more of an actual movie.

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