So the plot is - Morris Day owns a club, name Pandemonium, and one half of Glam Slam, the other half owned by Prince. Glam Slam was given to Morris and Prince by Billy through his Will.

So my question is - why did Morris want Glam Slam? Was he just greedy?

I know with a lot of Prince work, it can be as deep as a toddler's pool. Haha

Mixed in with Morris taking over all the clubs in 7 Corners is the fact that Prince is playing his spiritual shit that isn't pulling in the punters - so Morris isn't just greedy, Prince is pissing away the business and half of it belongs to Morris. Just sayin'

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In terms of how the story works, it's a mess because it's several ideas jumbled and hastily put through the mill as it got put on the backburner for years until it eventually saw the light of day in 1990.

The way I read it as was:

Billy didn't 'trust' The Kid enough or whatever with his own club and seemed to favour Morris, so gave Morris his own club and gave the one half of Glam Slam to him and the other half to The Kid. He would have done that so that Morris could keep nicks on The Kids club and if he was doing anything wrong he could use his 'buisiness initiative' to put it right. But Morris being Morris just wanted to bully The Kid because of whatever reason (old rivalry, whatever).

As for him taking over the other clubs, probably just that mixed in with greed and his love of the $$$$.

[Edited 11/12/16 12:43pm]

NouveauDance said:

A ton of this movie wound up on the cutting room floor.

If Prince had a real movie producer could have been half way bearable.

Movie still holds much sentimental value because it was my wife and I's first date.

ChimChimBadass said:

"Graffiti bridge" was one big disaster and it still ranks high in my "Worst Movies Ever Top 10"; somekind of bad "Purple Rain" mixed in a hiphop era with very poor taste clothing and over-sampled music. I still don't understand why Prince didn't used music from "Pandemonium" for The Time "live sequences" and give them such shitty tracks as "Shake".

The clothing is one of the best parts of the movie! I love it.

Although I would happily watch any movie (or anything) with Prince in it at the drop of a hat, my issue with both PR and GB was the premise - Prince having trouble attracting an audience? Seems ludicrous to me. The clear answer to the booking problem in PR was to get rid of the Modernaires.

Poorlovelycomputer said:

The way the first movie ended kinda tied everything together by the time the credits rolled.6 years after the fact GB didn't come across as clearly as the original.The lack of real outdoor scenes(only one in the film as I remember) and I've forgotten but I don't think it is mentioned what happened to Prince's mother from PR 1. Too much had changed outside of Prince's world to get the same audience the first one did.

She's in a home/mental institution. After morbid-azzed Prince killed off his dad which he didn't get to do in PR.

Remember when Billy said "you not packing 'em in like you used to. Nobody digs your music buy yourself?"

Well obviously Aura, along with those from the Graffiti Bridge realm took notice, of Billy's threat and timelapsed over when Billy was grooving to "Baby I'm a Star" because the spiritual plane involves time space differentials.

So when the time-space differential cleared the world was certainly different. First Avenue was no more and in its place was deserted streets in front of the New Seven Corners - Seven.

So Morris after the transformation obviously retained no recollection of the Kid burning it up playing Purple Rain, also, obviously Jermome.

With the transformation new members of the Time were brought into this reality.

Which brings us up to the moment when Morris is reciting his A,B,C's.

So Morris was just being Morris.

Simple right?

[Edited 11/14/16 23:09pm]