I don't know why this popped in my head, but I figured some of you guys would know....

The Wizard Of Oz
Barbarella
The Matrix
The Godfather

Anything with Marylin Monroe.

^ You took the words out of my mouth, He loves Marilyn

The Idolmaker actually inspired him to become a svengali.

i noticed on his little shelf of videos at Paisley Park near the pool table and guest kitchen...

Jason and the Argonauts!!!

Prince also loved "Scanner Darkly", enough to stay up all night and talk to the director about movies at Prince's home, and Richard Linklater reported that Prince knows a lot about cinema and film history.

"La Dolce Vita" is another one name checked in lyrics...
[Edited 10/1/07 17:54pm]

9 1/2 Weeks

Oh yeah, I forgot about "Dogma". That's what inspired P to invite Kevin Smith uptown to do a documentary about "The Rainbow Children". If you watch that "Evening With Kevin Smith" flick, you'll hear the whole story. As it turns out, the results were unsucessful.

Purple Rain,Under the Cherry Moon,and Grafitti Bridge.

Krystal666 said:

I had no idea he was a Marilyn fan. Does anyone know when and where he mentioned this? Would love to find out what he actually said about her.

As for movies, in his Mr Goodnight lyrics he does mention the movie 'Chocolat' I love that movie as well Princey.

ufoclub said:

and not only can you see this influence in Glam Slam Ulysses, but in the npg wallpaper movie (used in concerts in 1994?) you can see scenes from the the 80's horror flick "The Gate"

purpleoz said:

I think in that 85 rolling stones interview(?), its noted that he has Monroe pictures in his house.

ToraToraDreams said:

2nd that.

NWF said:

with respect, can you back this up?

Some interviewer had to spend some time waiting for Prince at Paisley Park and 'Clueless' was on the table in the waiting room.

Wait, that sounds like a joke...





True though...

purpleoz said:

Robin Power said he did, also if you look in the background in one of the scenes in Purple Rain there is a famous picture in his bedroom of her.

I thought his favourite movie was reported before as being Blade Runner, not sure which version but a real directors cut is now in the pipeline. The previous one was rushed out.
Prince also reportedly took over a whole cinema to view x-men 3 recently so he must be something of a sci-fi fan.
Regarding Marylin there was an interesting movie of hers on tv today where she played an emotionaly unstable nanny looking after a rich couples child. She ties her up when she crys etc. looked good.

GoldiLocks said:

Well according to that Per Nielsen book, Prince picked up on the idea of being a svengali by creating acts like Vanity 6 and The Time after seeing this movie. It was about a guy who discovers and make stars out of Doo-Wop groups or something.

omnithanos said:

well he took an entire concert audience (including me) to see "Minority Report" on 3 screens in the am hours, cutting a concert short.

ufoclub said:

That sounds so cool! I guess he didn't want you guys to get mad for cutting the concert short.

PORN