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I would say my number one movie: Purple Rain. I could probably teach a semester of film studies on the first eight minutes of Purple Rain. And if you watch that first eight minutes, you're going to see why, because the way the music -- it's like the extended version of "Let's Go Crazy" -- the way it's cut, continuity completely goes out the window. You'll be on stage with Prince, but then you'll cut and you'll see him getting ready to go on stage, then you'll see him at his house, blowing out candles. Then you see him on his motorcycle coming to the club, cuts to him on stage in the club, cuts to Apollonia coming into town... By the end of that eight minutes, you know everybody's character, you know their relationship to each other, and the music never stopped. It's a dizzying... I think you see three tongues within the first eight minutes. You know, Apollonia's boobs were like an atom bomb going off in my world, because up until that moment, I wanted to marry women, like, "I like that girl. I would want her to be my wife and have kids with her." But then I saw Apollonia, and I was like, "I have thoughts now in my head that I didn't have before, and feelings that I've never had before!" The same poster that I got at a fair in Vallejo, California of Apollonia in a bikini is up on my wall here in my office, and people still come in here and go, "Damn, I had that poster on my wall!"

I love what he said there and I agree that film was brilliantly edited and directed.

and Hustle and Flow is an excellent film...check it out if you haven't.

The beginning of the film was one of the greatest film openers of all time to me.

Timmy84 said:

The beginning of the film was one of the greatest film openers of all time to me.

Already a thread on this. Not that it really went anywhere: http://prince.org/msg/7/364165

gee i guess he's right, i never thought of purple rain as a great movie in and of itself. the acting wasn't that great, the story i guess hit home with many adolescents like myself but in retrospect, i usually didn't think of it as a cinematic piece of greatness. this guys points out some great stuff.