Purple Rain

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Two takes of "The matter with this house..." sequence were filmed. According to the director's [...]	D
Originally, The Kid's father was to die of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. At the l [...]	D
A few days before the premiere, Prince had a nightmare that Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert despise [...]	D
Morris says a total of 18 words to the Kid. The Kid never says a word to Morris.	D
The audio from the three songs in the final concert, which included "I Would Die 4U", "Baby I'm [...]	D
The third verse of 'Darling Nikki' was omitted from the final film. It appears on the movie's s [...]	D
One of the production assistants was a young Lee Daniels, future director and producer of the h [...]	D
A dance group known as Game Boyz dance on the balcony during the Time's "Jungle Love" performan [...]	D
Aside from Prince and his onscreen parents, almost every character in the movie is named after [...]	D
Three different Honda motorcycles portray Prince's motorcycle. He rides a highly stylized 1981 [...]	D
Prince's management offered James Foley the job of director by after seeing a rough cut of Amar [...]	D
The film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress [...]	D
Prince did most of his own bike riding next to a camera truck.	D
Prince's protÃ©gÃ©e, Vanity, was originally slated to be cast as the Kid's love interest. S [...]	D
The Kid tells Wendy and Lisa, "Nobody cares about your music." Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman l [...]	D
Following the performance of "Darling Nikki," Billy Sparks tells the Kid, "Nobody understands y [...]	D
Brown Mark is the only member of the Revolution who never speaks in the film.	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 [...]	D
Apollonia Kotero was married at the time of filming. She was sworn to secrecy about it, so peop [...]	D
According to the director's commentary, three versions of the love scene were filmed: a "G" rat [...]	D
Jennifer Beals was offered the role of Apollonia. She turned it down in order to study at Yale. [...]	D
Albert Magnoli filmed a second love scene that wasn't included in the final cut of the film. It [...]	D
William Blinn's first draft of the script was titled "Dreams". Prince didn't like the story and [...]	D
When The Kid's father is playing the piano, the music is actually being played by Prince.	D
The success of this project benefitted just about every division of Warner Brothers. The box of [...]	D
Morris Day apparently had a substance abuse problem throughout production, and was high during [...]	D
Around the half hour mark into the film, Prince pops in a cassette tape labeled GEMINI. Gemini [...]	D
At 26, Prince was the youngest person to win the Academy Award for Best Score, surpassing Georg [...]	D
Morris Day uses the same dialogue in the song Chili Sauce on the album Ice Cream Castles that h [...]	D
Some people thought this was the only Prince film that he didn't direct himself. Albert Magnoli [...]	D
Morris and Jerome's "What's the password" conversation is reminiscent of Abbot and Costello's c [...]	D
An early, simpler version of the unpronounceable symbol that Prince changed his name to during [...]	D
While shooting the Lake Minnetonka scene, Apollonia Kotero actually jumped into freezing cold w [...]	D
Clarence Williams III, Olga Karlatos, and Apollonia Kotero were the only professional actors in [...]	D
The story is based loosely on Prince's own life.	D
The speech that Morris Day gives before The Time performs the song The Bird can be heard in it' [...]	D
As Apollonia pursues the Kid for her bracelet, a flash of light can be seen bouncing off the st [...]	D
Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman used the intro music from the song "Purple Rain" as the basis fo [...]	D
Karenna Gore, the then-11-year-old daughter of former Vice President Al Gore and Tipper Gore, r [...]	D
The "father's song" played by the father after he beats The Kid's mother and The Kid walks up t [...]	D
The script was shopped around to numerous production companies, including Indigo Films, which w [...]	D
The original screenplay, found on various websites, contained an extremely explicit sex scene b [...]	D
Although Albert Magnoli and William Blinn shared the writing credits, it is not known how much [...]	D
Morris' pick-up lines to Apollonia, before the Revolution performs "The Beautiful Ones", are pa [...]	D
Albert Magnoli told Rolling Stone that when the concept was first brought to Warner Bros., they [...]	D
During his conversation with the Kid about Morris girl group,Billy mentions that he has three a [...]	D
The songs were pre-recorded, but Prince and the Revolution played live along with the tracks to [...]	D
The Kid's treatment of Wendy and Lisa in the film is pretty much how Prince treated them in rea [...]	D
In the original script, The Kid takes Vanity to a barn, and they make love during "When Doves C [...]	D
By the time the film was released, Morris Day and Prince were not on speaking terms due to "cre [...]	D
The scene in which The Kid brings Apollonia to his basement includes a shot of a Pegasus statue [...]	D
Scenes of Wendy and Lisa kissing, suggesting a same-sex relationship, were deleted from the fin [...]	D
Prince cast Apollonia Kotero, a virtual unknown at the time, after he saw her in I predatori dell'id [...]	D
Albert Magnoli admitted that the "Never get married" scene between the Kid and his father moved him [...]	D

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