Episode 675: Purple Rain (1984)

The Projection Booth

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Summary

Samm Deighan and Bill Ackerman join Mike to discuss 1984's box office smash Purple Rain which launched Prince's movie career and made him a household name. The film stars Prince as "The Kid", a musician from Minneapolis who struggles to find his place in the music scene while battling personal demons.

Our episode features an interview with Alan Light, author of Let's Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.1	Shut it off.
0:25.5	Turn it off.
0:27.6	Turn it off.
0:31.6	Andro!
0:32.6	Yeah! Prince in his first motion picture
0:47.0	Don't lie
0:50.2	Was you living here
0:52.6	Before he created the music, he lived every bit of it.
0:58.0	I call my own lady
1:00.0	for friendly world
1:03.0	jumping up on the floor
1:06.0	is all I heard
1:09.0	I'm gonna let the elevator break
1:11.6	Let's go
1:13.6	He risked too much
1:15.6	That's getting us
1:17.6	Just the for the part for the man I did it
	...

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