...we can only talk about general things about Prince...However did someone ever noticed the following mistakes in the videos:

-When Doves Cry:
At the beginning of the video, after Prince left his bath, you can see in the mirror, one of the crew member (around 44 secondes of the video)


-Loose!:
As Mayte is dancing with Prince on the stage, her jacket is off within a glance...


-Purple Rain movie:
I don't know if you can see it on the DVD, but on the video tape: as Morris is trying to convince Appolonia to join the female group: you can see between them a huge mic going down...(above)...

Did someone noticed something else???

I did notice the microphone, in that scene.

asma said:

They changed the tires on the bike for the lake scene.

Jochem said:

I thought I saw the person in the WDC video but was never sure.

lottielooloo1968 said:

It's true, before he drives away from the lake, there is a close up of the tire.
I think they changed it for better grip in the sand.

Jochem said:

I tought you were kidding.....

In Purple Rain as Prince is driving his motor cycle down the street coming up to his home he finds his mother sitting on the curb. If you look real good as he's coming down the street you can see a palm tree in the background and yet the story is set in Minneapolis.

Or you can go to http://www.moviemistakes.com/film1028:

Purple Rain (1984) - 31 mistakes

1. 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.

2. Continuity: Apollonia jumps into the lake. She is soaking wet,
naturally. However, soon after, she's riding on the back of Prince's motorcycle
and her hair is completely dry.

3. Continuity: When Apollonia originally tries to get into the club, the
door slams on her foot. When she opens the door and sneaks in later, the door
slowly closes behind her.

4. Continuity: During the "Lake Minnetonka" scene, Prince's motorcycle
tire automagically changes from knobby to street and back.

5. Continuity: When The Kid goes home and sees his mother's crying in the
front yard it is daytime. He immediately goes inside to confront his dad and
the windows show that it is now night.

6. Visible crew/equipment: When Morris turns to face the mirror to see
what the suit that he is holding will look like pressed against him, as soon as
he turns and faces the mirror, look at the right side of the mirror where the
edge of the open door is, you can see a crew member with the white baseball cap
ducking behind the door trying to stay out of the shot.

7. Continuity: When Morris first meets Apollonia he sits at her table and
if you notice the straw in her drink, it changes positions during the entire
scene and she never touches it.

8. Continuity: When Prince arrives at First-Avenue, the box office area is
well-lit. After Apollonia checks into the Huntington Hotel, she looks down at
the venue and it's dark. When Morris arrives, it's bright again.

9. Other: When Morris is talking to the club owner about getting rid of
The Kid, the club owner says that The Kid is not even "Pulling them in like he
used to" but the subtitles say "Pooling them in".

10. Continuity: While enroute to the 'Lake Minnetonka' scene, Prince, or
his stunt double, is seen from the helicopter cam as wearing the purple coat.
As the truck cams show Prince and Apollonia on the bike, he's wearing the black
coat. This is best seen after Prince passes the horses.

11. Continuity: When Apollonia fills out the form at the club, you can see
when she's holding it in her hand after she's done that she wrote "singing and
dancing" on it. Later, when Prince looks at it on the wall, that particular
line isn't filled out.

12. Deliberate "mistake": Before going on stage in the infamous purple coat
for the first time in the movie, the Kid is in his dressing room. The silver
jewelry/decoration on his coat is on the left shoulder. In all subsequent
shots, the silver jewelry/decoration is on his right shoulder.

13. Continuity: In the scene where The Kid "flips-out" and destroys his
basement with a stick, he deliberately breaks several mason jars of preserves
that are sitting on two adjacent bookshelves. Near the end of that scene just
before he finds his father's music sheets, you can see that the same jars he
just exploded all over the basement are now back on the bookshelf perfectly
intact.

14. Continuity: When The Kid knocks Morris into the pile of boxes in the
alley, you can see that the stunt double taking the fall is white, and when he
lands in the pile of boxes he is seen in the next camera angle laying on a
different set of boxes.

15. Continuity: After The Kid runs off the stage while singing "Darling
Nikkie" he is seen in his dressing room with sweat on his back and chest. When
the club owner goes in to yell at him for leaving the stage, he is now
completely dry.

16. Continuity: When The Kid is at home he puts Wendy and Lisa's tape in
his player and you see him put the tape holder on the player in front of the
small lamp. The camera angle changes to a close up and the tape holder is now
on the side on the lamp which has moved to allow the holder to be on the side.

17. Audio problem: When The Kid and Apollonia first arrive at the lake, you
can hear them talking, but their mouths are not moving as they walk along the
edge of the lake.

18. Continuity: When The Kid goes home after playing at the club, he
arrives home without his guitar that he left the house with, and the guitar is
seen inside the house later on.

19. Audio problem: During the opening song, none of the instruments are
plugged in but sound is coming out of them.

20. Continuity: When Apollonia tells The Kid that she is going to join
Morris' group, he slaps her and makes her fall into the dresser where you see
what looks like a red shirt hanging from the top of the second draw down the
length of the dresser. The camera angle changes and the shirt is now seen much
shorter in length.

21. Continuity: When the woman confronts Morris and Jerome on the street
about how long she waited the night before for Morris, she first appears
without an over the shoulder pocketbook. The camera angle changes and you can
see the strap on her shoulder. The camera angle changes again and the strap is
gone.

22. Continuity: When The Kid Looks at Apollonia's card that the waitress is
holding, it states that she is 5'7" and her weight is also filled out. Later
when he looks at the card when it's posted on the board it now says 5'6" and
her weight is not there.

23. Continuity: When the waitress posts Apollonia's card on the board, the
large white folded paper that was seen on the board in the previous shot of The
Kid seeing her for the first time is no longer there.

24. Continuity: When The Time are first introduced, they start walking onto
the stage and the camera cuts to Apollonia who is standing at the bar. The guys
behind her are moving their heads and bodies to the sound of music, but The
Time hasn't started playing yet.

25. Continuity: When The Kid first takes Apollonia for a ride on his
motorcycle, his white scarf is blowing in the wind. The camera angle changes
and the scarf is tucked into his jacket. The camera angle changes again and the
scarf is blowing in the wind again.

26. Continuity: When Morris and Apollonia are in the car in front of the
club, you can hear them talking, but when Morris says something to Jerome,
Morris' lips move but you can't hear him.

27. Continuity: Right after The Kid sees an image of himself hanging in the
basement, he grabs a stick and starts smashing food jars on a shelf. The camera
angle changes and he's seen smashing the same jars again.

28. Factual error: Right after The Kid's father shoots himself, The Kid is
seen in the basement being interviewed by two police officers in uniform and
one detective. One of the police officers is asking the questions while the
detective is writing in his notepad. Standard procedure is for a "Lead
Detective" to be assigned to the case and he conducts all interviews.

29. Continuity: Right after The Kid rescues Apollonia from Morris in the
alley, he drives her to a secluded area where the makeup on her face is now
brighter and heavier than it was in the alley.

30. Continuity: When The Kid starts smashing the food jars in the basement
with a stick, he starts with the first shelf and then he smashes the jars on
the 2nd shelf and then there is a close up of him smashing more jars on yet
another shelf. (The jars are different). When the camera angle changes to a
wide-shot, none of the jars on the 2nd shelf are damaged, and where did the
third shelf come from? He is then seen smashing the jars on the 2nd shelf
again.

31. Continuity: When The Kid looks at Apollonia's card on the board after
Morris talks to the club owner, when he turns to walk away, you can see that
the card on the board is not the same one he was just looking at.

Jochem said:

There's a few on that list that I haven't noticed before.

Bad acting, poor continuity... still the best damn music bio-pic ever made.

I noticed that when the Graphitti Bridge came out, I went to go see it.
That was a pretty big mistake.

Alwayz 2 busy looking at Prince 2 notice stuff like this.

sexxydancer said:

Same with me

sexxydancer said:

Yep, me too.

DANGEROUSx said:

gyro34 said:

I remember seeing another "error" in Purple Rain. I believe it's right before the scene Prince looks into the store window to gaze at his dream guitar. When Prince and Apollonia are walking past the store fronts, you can see the flash of an unseen someone taking a flash photo of the two.

I always guessed it was probably a paparazzi pic taken for a magazine reporting on the making of Purple Rain or something.

Found others:

Lovesign Video: Nona first puts the gun in a suitcase, which has in it the shape to stick it. At the end of the video, the shape is gone...

Purple Rain Movie
As Morris tries to convince Billy about a female group, look after them: a man enters in a shop and then goes out again....

PurpleKnight said: