Well it is a Prince video after all.

ernestsewell said:

I've noticed when watching PR that the captions don't always say exactly what the 'actor' said in the film

I'm ever so tempted to take a screengrab of the Sheila record, but I think DVD is R1 and the player in my PC is R2.

Someone else do it.

Cravens said:

it was anything but rushed

review form the now defunct thedatabank site ;


Mountains Video Filming

April 1986

Numerous different takes of "Mountains" / B&W crowd footage intended for "Under The Cherry Moon"

COMMENT

Watching this is like being let into a secret. Various takes of Prince & The Revolution performing the video for Mountains - verse after verse, take after take, camera angle after camera angle. It's quite hard to sit through the entire thing without hitting the FF button, so God knows what it was like actually DOING it. Although Wendy & Lisa's faces during their part of the filming appears to show how they felt - bored, tired and very pissed off. Prince's dance moves are a joy to watch, as are him and Jerome fooling about. Bobby Z drumming totally out of synch with the music (and looking like he's gonna explode!). And Lisa blowing her fringe out of her face - I counted (no joke here!!!) 95, yes 95 times within the first 40 minutes - I gave up after that! Brilliant , but repetitive.

owen said:

He says "For now, anyway". I didn't get that from the CC, I got it from hearing. And it makes perfect sense too, because she's still taking it slow with him, whereas he wants to jump her right then and there.
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NouveauDance said:

It's behind the lamp on his night stand.






[Edited 1/11/10 12:09pm]

Here's the Miles Davis record, You're Under Arrest



I can't make out the record behind the chair, but it has the word "GOLD" in the title, and it's a female singer.

The record behind the chair is Aretha Franklin's "Aretha's Gold"

owen said:

Indeed!

well never mind then
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But I'm still adamant he doesn't say "for now"!
Can we have a third opinion?! lol

owen said:

I looked again, and corrected my earlier reply. He says, "For now, anyway." The subtitles said the same thing.

This is only the 2nd time I've checked the subtitles for something, the other being "Quel scandale!" which means "What a scandal!", a recurring Prince turn of phrase - that phrase in English later appeared on one of the segues on the album.

OnlyNDaUsa said:

Never mind what?

ernestsewell said:

i said I though it might have said "serious gold" (an old jazz record label)

A bit back on topic:

Here are three stills: One is widescreen matted, one is 4:3, and then there's the rough edges I spoke about. The widescreen shot is VERY rough and unpolished compared to other wide shot blue screen shots later on. It even has a weird corner on the top left.

you can see the chrome drum stand is reflecting the blue thus putting the clouds on the stand itself. As far as the edge blur that would have been fixed or at least minimized with some minor adjustments to the levels of the sky and the band shot.

I wonder guess they must have intended to release it black and white?

OnlyNDaUsa said:

It does look better in black and white overall. But the rough edges on the 3rd picture, and the back and forth w/ 16:9 and 4:3 is cheap.

Those bent corners at the beginning are in the movie too (I have it in my PC DVD player), as the credits start to roll.


I had to laugh at whoever said "'Alphabet St' makes 'Mountains' look like Avatar." hahahaha

Nice. Thanks for posting

I knew about the Miles Davis album, but I'd never seen the Sheila E. 12" before. I know it well, Sister Fate is one of my favs.

BTW, if you look closely, you can briefly spot a tub of Crisco by the side of the bed too, thus confirming Christopher and Tricky's "special" relationship once and for all


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Going by all the hours on the outtakes to the 'Mountains' video,you think they would of nailed it

I love that song... the video was cute, I think it was great for that time period.

Well green screen technology wasnt that advanced back then so I give that a pass.....

paisleypark4 said:

Oh come on. Meteorologists and weathermen on podunk town stations looked better against a map of the US than Prince did in that video. LOL (Of course, it got worse with Alphabet St.)

It's one thing to shoot on video, but the whole green screen thing is just lazy. Same goes with "The Screams of Passion".

OldFriends4Sale said:

Oh Prince

Mountains is one of the best pop songs written ever. The song takes nice twist at the end, and really isn't your average pop song at all.


The video is...meh... charming for it's tackiness.

^dude what the hell is that in your avatar ?

You guys are too hard in general on Prince videos. He is the center of all attention and therefore his videos need not be filled with top of the line special effects, visually stunning choreography or celebrity guest appearances. Let it go.

ernestsewell said:

Well I love the song too, but I like the video even more than the song. Yeah one could say that technically it aged and that it's fucked up but Prince's moves are cool and the video is so psychedelic and kitsch. I mean, time gave it even more style.

thedance said:

Wendy & Lisa wrote the song. Prince was responsible for the arrangement.

paisleypark4 said:

There's a little movie called Star Wars that came out in 1977...

ufoclub said:

BINGO! Lucas fucking mastered green and blue screen technology, and indeed Star Wars was made 10 years before "Mountains".