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I always laugh when I read Purple Rain and Black film together

iZsaZsa said:

They forgot UTCM.

UTCM is for the cultured and intellectual, for people who like to sample fine wines meats and deserts.

You mean Graffiti Bridge lol

OldFriends4Sale said:

I always laugh when I read Purple Rain and Black film together

Why? I'm interested to know because the star of the movie is black and the cast is largely black or mixed race. It's about music of course but why do you laugh when black people see Purple Rain and see a lot of black people and identify it as a black movie? There weren't many movie casts in the 80's where minorities outnumbered whites.

OldFriends4Sale said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

I always laugh when I read Purple Rain and Black film together

really you must be white..it was a black film with black cast and not only that a unknown black guy got financing from a major studio and it was hugely successful..you shoudl give up your moderator status for that one

Polo1026 said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

I always laugh when I read Purple Rain and Black film together

Why? I'm interested to know because the star of the movie is black and the cast is largely black or mixed race. It's about music of course but why do you laugh when black people see Purple Rain and see a lot of black people and identify it as a black movie? There weren't many movie casts in the 80's where minorities outnumbered whites.

Let's clear something up first, because there is a line ^ that I'm not saying. You said: Why do you laugh when black people see PR and see a lot of black people and identify it as a black movie(wtf?).

I had a whole reply typed out until I read that again. I will post the reply later, after I know that you know that line ^ is your words not mine. That is something very different from what I said. It doesn't matter if a white person or black person says it.

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I also laugh(ed) when in the 1980s music was labelled 'Black' music. If someone does Rock Music then situate it in the Rock catagory, If an asian or 'white' person does RnB don't put it in the Pop section put it in the RnB (or back then Black) section

iZsaZsa said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

UTCM is for the cultured and intellectual, for people who like to sample fine wines meats and deserts.

You mean Graffiti Bridge lol

Black people love skrimps and filet mcnon too. But, yes, I forgot Graffiti Bridge. That too!

lol but the people who get UTCM are cultured and intellectual

lwr001 said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

I always laugh when I read Purple Rain and Black film together

really you must be white..it was a black film with black cast and not only that a unknown black guy got financing from a major studio and it was hugely successful..you shoudl give up your moderator status for that one

Film screenwritten by an Italian-American about a troubled musician from a Interracial family...

The Time: Morris Day and 2 white musicians 4 black

The Revolution: the Kid and 1 black musician 4 white (more politically correct 2 1/2 Jewish musicians)

Jill Jones: mixed race
Apollonia 6: 1 white 1 Mexican 1 Carribean/mixed descendant

Billy: Club owner -black
the Kids family 1 African-American 1 Greek American

An unknown 'black' guy who since the early 80s was passing off as, biracial(not politically correct for the times)

Black cast?

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to keep your race card?

How about to keep your Purple card, there are Prince fans who haven't seen Sign o the Times,

OldFriends4Sale said:

lwr001 said:

really you must be white..it was a black film with black cast and not only that a unknown black guy got financing from a major studio and it was hugely successful..you shoudl give up your moderator status for that one

Film screenwritten by an Italian-American about a troubled musician from a Interracial family...

The Time: Morris Day and 2 white musicians 4 black

The Revolution: the Kid and 1 black musician 4 white (more politically correct 2 1/2 Jewish musicians)

Jill Jones: mixed race
Apollonia 6: 1 white 1 Mexican 1 Carribean descendant

Billy: Club owner -black
the Kids family 1 African-American 1 Greek American

An unknown 'black' guy who since the early 80s was passing off as, biracial(not politically correct for the times)

Black cast?

ok ,, ill let you stick with that

OldFriends4Sale said:

Polo1026 said:

Why? I'm interested to know because the star of the movie is black and the cast is largely black or mixed race. It's about music of course but why do you laugh when black people see Purple Rain and see a lot of black people and identify it as a black movie? There weren't many movie casts in the 80's where minorities outnumbered whites.

Let's clear something up first, because there is a line ^ that I'm not saying. You said: Why do you laugh when black people see PR and see a lot of black people and identify it as a black movie (wtf?)

.

I had a whole reply typed out until I read that again. I will post the reply later, after I know that you know that line ^ is your words not mine. That is something very different from what I said. It doesn't matter if a white person or black person says it.

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I also laugh(ed) when in the 1980s music was labelled 'Black' music. If someone does Rock Music then situate it in the Rock catagory, If an asian or 'white' person does RnB don't put it in the Pop section put it in the RnB (or back then Black) section

dont get emo..if you believe, the truth doesnt need defending

OldFriends4Sale said:

iZsaZsa said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

lol but the people who get UTCM are cultured and intellectual

If I have to watch I'm Gonna Get You Sucka (There are 8 films on that list I haven't watched), then another sista is gonna have to watch UTCM.

lol or you might have to give up your race card, come on over 2 the Other side

My fav parts about I'm Gonna Get You Sucka is with the mother(best scenes)

OldFriends4Sale said:

iZsaZsa said:

OldFriends4Sale said: If I have to watch I'm Gonna Get You Sucka (There are 8 films on that list I haven't watched), then another sista is gonna have to watch UTCM.

lol or you might have to give up your race card, come on over 2 the Other side

My fav parts about I'm Gonna Get You Sucka is with the mother(best scenes)

i aint be got no weapon

I think because the movie was about an mixed race musician. Race was never made an issue or spotlight in the movie.

and when someone leads with Black _ I'm looking for it be more about that ethnic group and issue.

Sometimes a movie is just a movie. Purple Rain is definately a Rock Movie, a movie about people struggling to make it,

Purple Rain kinda visually represented Prince's cosmos, his utopia Uptown Erotic City etc Purple Rain,

I guess it would depend on who you asked, my dad when he saw it would not have said the cast was largely black. Purple Rain wasn't meant to be the huge hit it happened to be, Prince and the camp (I read this from Lisa Coleman too) they thought it would be 'underground' sorta like how his music scene was. That's probably why Prince ran from it for a while/still.

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I personally don't look at everything someone 'black' does to be defined by race.

For example James Baldwin's books and such are not labelled 'black thought'.

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Another example Alex Hallies 'Queen' is about a mixed race womans struggles and journeys before the emancipation of slavery. Quadroon to be more historically correct. If someone says it's an African-American or Black film, it just doesn't set well with me, even though it's a part of their full story too.

iZsaZsa said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

UTCM is for the cultured and intellectual, for people who like to sample fine wines meats and deserts.

You mean Graffiti Bridge lol

Black people love skrimps and filet mcnon too. But, yes, I forgot Graffiti Bridge. That too!

I just realised I have seen only 15 of these. Missing I feel is Glory, She's got to have it, Sweetbacks, Sweetass song, Trading Places (Much funnier than coming to America) and Bad Boys 2.

OldFriends4Sale said:

iZsaZsa said:

OldFriends4Sale said: Black people love skrimps and filet mcnon too. But, yes, I forgot Graffiti Bridge. That too!

Loved that line off Tricky

"Good evening ladies, Tricky's the name and love is my game, even if you have no money I will still love you the same".

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That whole movie should be on for those the jive ass banter between Christopher and Tricky, "Brothers, no Officer, you see he is chocolate and I am butterscotch" - "Girl I'ma slap the curls out of yo head"

I think it's an iconic film for black culture -- it ain't the most afro-american movie around at all, but it's certainly an important step toward the movies we got later. it's an essential crossover experience -- the soundtrack alone proves it. Black, white, puerto rican... hey welcome to Uptown! At least that was the dream but we still have Fergurson and wtf's that girlfriend-beating asshole's name is that I refuse to remember from Florida, so I can also see how there's still a long way to go, I guess the crossovers of yore can look ironic today.

26 out of 28 ain't bad. i need to see the jane pittman flick and the sidney poitier joint. i just copped some other classics in a 5 for $20 used dvd deal, (Buck and The Preacher, Go Tell it On the Mountain, Sounder, Tuskegee Airmen -HBO version)

SuperSoulFighter said:

I know what a black and white film is. I don't know what a black film is. A film where the screen is all black? And I know what a race car is, but I don't know what a race card is.

lol

OldFriends4Sale said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

iZsaZsa said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

lol

Are you white? Do you love cheese sandwiches? Yes? Your card is fine.

lol

how about mayo on my fries

oops

card revoked

How come Pootie Tang is not on the list? This list is all kinds of incomplete.

iZsaZsa said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

lol or you might have to give up your race card, come on over 2 the Other side

My fav parts about I'm Gonna Get You Sucka is with the mother(best scenes)

I'm trying to get it back. I don't eat chitterlings.

I have a Laotian friend who says chitterling is an Asian thing, they eat it for breakfast

OldFriends4Sale said: