This might've been posted before, but I'm doing this for the people who might've missed the thread. :p

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.

When Appolonia 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.

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.

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

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.

When Morris and Appolonia 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

Prince comes back inside First Avenue backstage after singing "Purple Rain" and gives Appolonia a kiss. Moments later she's placed in the middle of the crowd.

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.

When they remove Kid's father from the basement to rush him to the hospital they lift him off the ground on a stretcher and you can see that there are no markings on the floor. As Kid is thinking about what happened, he looks at the floor and you now see a tape outline of a body on the floor.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When The Kid first sees Apollonia, he walks around a corner and the post-it board is to his left. The camera moves quickly to the right to show that he's looking at her and you don't see the waitress standing between them. The camera angle changes and the waitress in now seen standing between them.

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.

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

Taken from moviemistakes.com

sinisterpentatonic said:

Yeah, been posted before, but that one's always fun.



And, as has been stated before, that scene was a vision in the Kid's head.

As I've said before: this simply removes any doubt that Purple Rain was directed by Paisley Park 9.

sinisterpentatonic said:

Oh jeez the great chalk outline debate again, there is NO chalk outline! The kid is imagining what could have happened, imagines seeing the outline and then he has a panic attack, then smashes up the basement. It's not a mistake it was on purpose!

I like when Billy and Morris are walking down the street talking and behind them you see a guy walk into a store (or whatever) and then walk back out backwards, and then back in again.

'Composed, produced, arranged, performed BUT NOT THAT BLOODY AWFUL CONTINUITY by Prince'

In the scene in which the Kid rides up the street on his bike to find his mother sitting out on the curb, I think I can see some plam trees in the background. I dont think there are nay in Minnesota. This verifies that some of the film was done in LA.

undulatingacrobat said:

I love that scene.

sinisterpentatonic said:

Haven't seen PR in ages, but I actually do remember that scene.

This isn't a mistake but, there's a scene in which there's an illustration of a woman who I've ALWAYS thought looked JUST like the character "Nikki" (Melody Thomas Scott) from the soap "The Young & the Restless."

1 mistake on the org;

This thread.


: )

0rlando said:

mistake # 2 that post

I only noticed 1 thing in PP and that was when Apollonia came out the lake all her makeup seemed untouched...Anyway,how in the heck did u notice 31?!
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sinisterpentatonic said:

3rd mistake: ain't nobody laughed at the both of ya'll.

and 0rlando, c'mon now...pr was far from a spielbergian venture (heck, even spielberg flicks most likely have mistakes...nobody's perfect) so yeah, there are lotsa mistakes to be seen.

and i thought i was the only one who had noticed the change in handwriting (and missing text!) on that note card. they probably lost the other one, so the continuity got fucked up there.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

I wasn't trying to make anyone laugh, just expressing myself.

undulatingacrobat said:

I had completely forgotten about that scene. It's been SO long since I've watched the movie.

1.7 Wtf?

I mean damn, you try to share something that you'd think people would be interested in, maybe I should start a thread about Prince & Larry and how much it's sucks that he's found something to believe in, I'm sure y'all would enjoy that.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

yeah that's right, the good points about this extravaganza far outwheighs the so called "mis-takes".

sinisterpentatonic said:

Oh my goodness!! That was hilarious!!

EverlastingNow said:

EverlastingNow said:

wow,I never noticed that.I'm gonna have to watch the movie again.

DavidEye said:

you never noticed that guy? yeah, it's kinna weird--it's like he was supposed to walk in there on cue but the dude was kinda like, "wait! is this the door i'm supposed to--yeah, it is!"

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

LOL...he had one simple part and STILL managed to screw that up?