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Thread started 10/27/04 6:43pm

Fleshofmyflesh

Mistakes in Purple Rain - the movie

Here's my favorite.
Apollonia gets out of the lake, obviously soaked, hair dripping wet.
The Kid goofs off for a while, not letting her back on the bike.
When she finally gets on and they speed off, her hair is dry and flowing like crazy.
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Reply #1 posted 10/27/04 7:33pm

savoirfaire

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Mistake #2

Large portions of the movie appear to have been mistakenly edited out, making the denouement and conclusion hard to understand and enjoy.
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Reply #2 posted 10/27/04 7:34pm

Fleshofmyflesh

savoirfaire said:

Mistake #2

Large portions of the movie appear to have been mistakenly edited out, making the denouement and conclusion hard to understand and enjoy.



English please lol
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Reply #3 posted 10/27/04 7:38pm

Snap

savoirfaire said:

Mistake #2

Large portions of the movie appear to have been mistakenly edited out, making the denouement and conclusion hard to understand and enjoy.


lol True! i remember being confused the first time i saw the movie
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Reply #4 posted 10/27/04 7:41pm

Fleshofmyflesh

Snap said:

savoirfaire said:

Mistake #2

Large portions of the movie appear to have been mistakenly edited out, making the denouement and conclusion hard to understand and enjoy.


lol True! i remember being confused the first time i saw the movie



Was it the complicated plot?
R U guys being serious?
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Reply #5 posted 10/27/04 7:44pm

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Fleshofmyflesh said:

Snap said:



lol True! i remember being confused the first time i saw the movie



Was it the complicated plot?
R U guys being serious?

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Reply #6 posted 10/27/04 8:01pm

savoirfaire

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Fleshofmyflesh said:

Snap said:



lol True! i remember being confused the first time i saw the movie



Was it the complicated plot?
R U guys being serious?


No, it was more like they took away fragments of the movie that would help us understand many of the character conflicts, and the end, following his Dad's attempted suicide (why the hell was there a chalk outline?) was a song, and then a montage. What the hell? How can you just neatly wrap up a two hour movie with a montage!? Lame.
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Reply #7 posted 10/27/04 8:10pm

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Don't get me wrong, I like the movie, but genius it ain't. smile
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Reply #8 posted 10/27/04 10:44pm

Musicology2004

savoirfaire said:

Don't get me wrong, I like the movie, but genius it ain't. smile



u speak the truth lol
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Reply #9 posted 10/27/04 11:44pm

Tonylover

Fleshofmyflesh said:

Here's my favorite.
Apollonia gets out of the lake, obviously soaked, hair dripping wet.
The Kid goofs off for a while, not letting her back on the bike.
When she finally gets on and they speed off, her hair is dry and flowing like crazy.




At the beginning of the movie when apollonia is at the club and she signs the form which jill gives to her, it states her name, her age, her height, what her talents are (Dancing and singing) etc, although when prince checks it out in a few scenes later the form only includes her name and age (i think), it dosent state that she sings and dances. I dunno why but this mistake is really frustrating! How could they not have noticed? Well that is one mistake which i notice everytime... i cant think of any others though (besides the wet hair one ofcoarse)



Can you peoples think of any others?
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Reply #10 posted 10/28/04 3:21am

misteron

This is the voice of the Misterons.....

It REALLY pisses me off when he enters the lake with Apples on his ROADBIKE with road bike tyres and while he's goofing around later the bike has DIRT BIKE tyres for all the gravel/dust shots as he leaves her, but when he stops at the top of the road to look at apples on the ground, the bike has road tyres again??Grrrrr

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Reply #11 posted 10/28/04 3:34am

PurpleCharm

Making Apollonia 19 in the movie. She looked much older than that.
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Reply #12 posted 10/28/04 3:40am

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savoirfaire said:

Mistake #2

Large portions of the movie appear to have been mistakenly edited out, making the denouement and conclusion hard to understand and enjoy.



and we all know why it was edited.....Cough..WB!Cough
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Reply #13 posted 10/28/04 3:53am

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When Prince pulls up and sees his mother on the front step, you can see in the background a large palm tree in what is supposed to be Minneapolis.
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Reply #14 posted 10/28/04 4:00am

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PurpleCharm said:

Making Apollonia 19 in the movie. She looked much older than that.



I completely agree....she all up in the club drinking and shit....
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Reply #15 posted 10/28/04 5:20am

bootology

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U can tell when Prince is playing lets go crazy jam.. the gutair is playing by it's self and Prince ain't even playing neutral
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Reply #16 posted 10/28/04 5:28am

AsylumUtopia

misteron said:

This is the voice of the Misterons.....

It REALLY pisses me off when he enters the lake with Apples on his ROADBIKE with road bike tyres and while he's goofing around later the bike has DIRT BIKE tyres for all the gravel/dust shots as he leaves her, but when he stops at the top of the road to look at apples on the ground, the bike has road tyres again??Grrrrr

Misteron

Not just different tyres, they're two different bikes (according to a nerdy biker friend of mine).
The same friend also pointed out that the engine sounds used in the film are not the sounds made by the engines of either of the bikes used in the film. But he's probably the only person in the world to notice that.
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Reply #17 posted 10/28/04 10:17am

daibhi

Continuity: Prince concentrates on the chalk mark of his father's suicide attempt in the basement just before he flips out. Funny, but I thought they only made chalk outlines for people who actually died.
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Reply #18 posted 10/28/04 10:23am

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Rhondab said:

PurpleCharm said:

Making Apollonia 19 in the movie. She looked much older than that.



I completely agree....she all up in the club drinking and shit....

no fake i.d., no nothin...lol
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Reply #19 posted 10/28/04 10:25am

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Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Rhondab said:




I completely agree....she all up in the club drinking and shit....

no fake i.d., no nothin...lol


Check the heavy concealer on the girl's undereye luggage - no way she was a teenager! lol
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Reply #20 posted 10/28/04 10:29am

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FunkMistress said:

Handclapsfingasnapz said:


no fake i.d., no nothin...lol


Check the heavy concealer on the girl's undereye luggage - no way she was a teenager! lol

dang, now i should watch the movie again tonight and check that out...evillol
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Reply #21 posted 10/28/04 10:39am

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Handclapsfingasnapz said:

FunkMistress said:



Check the heavy concealer on the girl's undereye luggage - no way she was a teenager! lol

dang, now i should watch the movie again tonight and check that out...evillol


She definitely looked way more, uh, life-experienced, shall we say, than your average just-outta-highschooler.
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Reply #22 posted 10/28/04 10:43am

tfaac2

Another mistake...
When Morris and Apples are leaving The Taste, it's raining outside but neither one is wet. And P is totally dry after sitting in a wet alley...
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Reply #23 posted 10/28/04 11:08am

herb4

After "When Doves Cry", when he pulls up to the house. it's daytime, but when he goes inside ("Answer me, motherfucker!") it's night.
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Reply #24 posted 10/28/04 11:10am

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herb4 said:

After "When Doves Cry", when he pulls up to the house. it's daytime, but when he goes inside ("Answer me, motherfucker!") it's night.

i think it was cuz it was dim in the house (anyone else notice how it was always so damned dim in there?)...hmm
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Reply #25 posted 10/28/04 11:12am

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Handclapsfingasnapz said:

herb4 said:

After "When Doves Cry", when he pulls up to the house. it's daytime, but when he goes inside ("Answer me, motherfucker!") it's night.

i think it was cuz it was dim in the house (anyone else notice how it was always so damned dim in there?)...hmm


nod Definitely. Added to the horror-movie vibe of the house.
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Reply #26 posted 10/28/04 11:25am

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AsylumUtopia said:

misteron said:

This is the voice of the Misterons.....

It REALLY pisses me off when he enters the lake with Apples on his ROADBIKE with road bike tyres and while he's goofing around later the bike has DIRT BIKE tyres for all the gravel/dust shots as he leaves her, but when he stops at the top of the road to look at apples on the ground, the bike has road tyres again??Grrrrr

Misteron

Not just different tyres, they're two different bikes (according to a nerdy biker friend of mine).
The same friend also pointed out that the engine sounds used in the film are not the sounds made by the engines of either of the bikes used in the film. But he's probably the only person in the world to notice that.



Wasn't this explained recently (maybe on the new DVD)? Parts of that scene at Lake Minnetonka had to be reshot in Los Angeles. That would account for the different motorcycles, Apples hair suddenly being dry, etc.
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Reply #27 posted 10/28/04 11:29am

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PurpleCharm said:

Making Apollonia 19 in the movie. She looked much older than that.


Lots of actresses/singers/models lie about their age. Apollonia obviously lied in the film in the hopes of getting the manager's attention. Billy wouldn't book an act that was over-the-hill.
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Reply #28 posted 10/28/04 11:33am

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Continuity: Prince concentrates on the chalk mark of his father's suicide attempt in the basement just before he flips out. Funny, but I thought they only made chalk outlines for people who actually died.








Finally someone noticed. lol
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Reply #29 posted 10/28/04 11:36am

rstokey2

Most of you guys should know this one. During the big fight scene between the Kid’s parents, the Kid is not wearing the big hoop earring. We cut to the next scene and the earring is there. I really would have liked to see the conversation scene between him and his mom.
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