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Well, I've done it again.
I completely innocuously said to my mother,

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Hey, want to go see this
movie with me? Okay, not realizing

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so much sex in that movie.
Well, I know it's not Saltburn,

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didn't he Saltburn? With her?
I saw Poor Things, Oh okay,

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which I'd seen the director's other films
before, so I thought, I'm okay,

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it might be a little spicy,
but I don't think there's anything going

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to be I don't think I'm gonna
be able to draw Emma Stone's vulva from

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memory after seeing this movie. It's
a very vulva forward performance. Oh wait,

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could I? And actually no,
but I literally could draw her tits

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from memory right now because I saw
them so much, and Luny gave one

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thing. I don't mind nudity,
but so much sex. I like apologize

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to my mother at the end of
the movie. I was like, hey,

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I'm sorry. I didn't know that
I was gonna have so much sex

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in it. And did she slap
you in the face? She did?

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She did. Okay, I'm glad
she's at least holding tight to her morals.

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She gave. Then she splashed me
with holy water. No, she

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loved the movie. She actually thought
it was hilarious and and we'll talk about

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it in another place, but like
it is a good movie, but so

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much said, like why do I
keep doing this? It's the time after

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Christmas I took my entire family to
see Wolf of Wall Street all over again.

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It's the time I took my dad
to see Django and Chain the day

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after Christmas all over again. That
one was on me. He Now America,

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and this is that aged well,
yesterday's pop culture today and this is

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February, Erica. So we have
a new theme, and the theme is

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movies starring musicians. Yes, we're
gonna see some lousy performances this month.

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We sure are, We sure are. We're starting with a bang, starting

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with a banger heads up in terms
of musicians who really should not act,

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We're starting with the Citizen Kane.
I have to say, watching this movie

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really gave me like new respect for
Lady Gaga because I was like, you

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know what she's like, Like,
I do understand we're getting very galaxy brained

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about this very quickly, but I
do understand that like when you when you

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are an internationally famous pop star,
that like you have to put up certain

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guards right, because you're so famous
and people invest the parasocial relationship between you

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and your fans is so insane that
like, to be a good actor,

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you kind of have to expose part
of yourself, right, And like like

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Beyonce, she's not a good actress
because she's like very private, and I

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understand why, right, But like
Lady Gaga, actually I'm not gonna say

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she's the actress of a generation,
but like she can turn in a pretty

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very good she's a pretty good actress. She does a good job. And

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like when I think about other act
musicians who have done decent jobs, like

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you know what, respect respect for
that. We're not gonna find that moment

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in this movie. But that's okay. But before, Erica, before we've

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already said too much, we've already
given everything away. But we do have

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a five star Apple podcast review.
Should I serenade you with it? Did

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you see any please do? My
friend Mike Crooner Uh huh. This is

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from ss Ripley, and ss Ripley
writes five stars. Baby Okay, Hi,

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Erica and Paul, I am writing
my five star review of that aged

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well. As I listened to the
start of your Titanic part two episode.

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Spoiler alert, everything turns out fine. Yes, spoiler alert. The ship

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doesn't sink. Yeah, it doesn't
sink. Leonardo DiCaprio survives. It's all

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good. Don't worry about it.
Don't worry about it. They just have

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sex in the car. End of
movie. End of movie. I love

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your podcast, and I love it
more with every new episode. You are

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hilarious and irrepressible. We are irrepressible. Dancing through movies with you is a

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charming delight. Well, get your
tap shoes on for this one, because

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this is gonna be some work.
I am one of your older listeners,

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and I am going to suggest a
couple of older films for the show.

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They are both, gasp, black
and white. Ooh okayo first apropos of

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Titanic. I suggest you do a
really deep dive to honor the stories of

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the Titanic passengers and watch A Night
to Remember from nineteen fifty eight. Oh

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yeah, this is the Titanic film, well written, well directed, well

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acted, etc. And based on
real Titanic facts, so it will be

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familiar ground story wise, but it
is just a darn good movie. So

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there, Okay, all right,
I've read the book I have not a

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knight to remember. I did not
see the film. Have all right?

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Okay, the book is a what's
the word ginormous bummer. I'm not sure

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I'm like mentally ready for the film
Virginia. Is the world ready for a

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Titanic comedy? Is it still too
soon? I think Titanique gave it one

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and bestro That's all we need.
The door is open for a Titanic comedy.

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I think it's ready. Ss Ripley
goes on my second suggestion, some

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like It Hot? Need I say
more? Super best? Stephen, you

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do not need to say more,
Stephen, you don't. We almost did

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some Like It Hot this past November
because we were considering doing Billy Wilder.

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We were gonna do just do an
entire month of Billy Wilder as an excuse

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for me to rewatch a bunch of
Billy Wilder films. But we landed on

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Sunset Boulevard instead of something hot.
Maybe some like It Hot will be called

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up to the plate this coming November. Who knows? Maybe? I mean,

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guys, let's get into Billy Wilder. Let's make twenty twenty four of

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the year ago we all rediscovered Billy
Wilder ss Ripley Steven, thank you so

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much for this review. We greatly
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that age, wel tope bag,
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I almost give us a ring like
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number. Should we get a phone
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ringy Dingy Valley twenty seven thirty five. Hello hello, Lasa twelve sixty three.

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This is that age well coming through. We would love to send you

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a topag. Just let us know
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Erica, what is the opus that
we are beginning February with. I'm

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still trying to think of like ways
you can make Titanic funnier. Maybe you

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should. You have to tell the
story of the guys who lost their tickets

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on the Titanic in the beginning of
James Cameron's Titanic. Yeah, the two

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Swedish people you like, don't die
horribly because they lost that poker game.

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Maybe there's some like there's a lifeboat
that just had a real cut up on

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it. Someone who was like,
all right, guys, I know this

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is a bummer, but hey,
a rabbi, a priest walk into a

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bar. Tell me if you've heard
this one before, all right, Today's

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film, of course, of course, today's so speaking of hilarity is the

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nineteen eighty four rock musical drama Capitol
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Rain was requested by Shawnice, by
Josephine, by Monique, by Stephen,

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by Mercedes, by Camille, by
Melissa, by Stephanie, by Lana,

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and by Shannon, and by god
you are all correct, By gum they

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done it by ah Okay. Purple
Rain was written by Albert Magnoli and William

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Blind. It was directed by Magnoli
and stars the musician in question, Prince

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Prince Rogers Nelson as I believe his
God given name is Apollonia Kotero and Morris

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Day. Morris Day. Can I
tell you something right now? I loved

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Morris Day this movie. He's not
good. His acting is so bad that

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he makes Prince look like al Pacino. Like by the end of it.

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I was like, is Appollonia a
pretty good actress? And I was like,

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no, it's just that everyone around
he literally can't do anything. She

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is the Meryl Streep of this film, but she's just literally able to put

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like some level of emotion behind words
and you're like, what a performance.

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But Morris Day and his side kicked
Jerome are the heroes in this film.

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Morris Day, look again, not
a good actor, but the king of

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the take to camera, the king
of like the double take. It's like,

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what is happening him and Jerome?
Honestly like a whole movie movie just

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them. I'm gonna let the listeners
know right now there were a lot of

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dialogue scenes transcribed in the in the
course of recapping this movie, and we

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will be performing a Jerome and Morris
scene for you later. I can't wait.

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I'm excited. Purple Rain was nominated
for an Oscar mhmm for Best Original

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Song Score. Okay, yep,
yep, yeah that de Tracks, which

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Prince won. However, none of
its songs were even nominated for Best Original

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Song. Is it because the album
came out first? No, I looked

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into it. It seems to just
be one of those weird Academy things where

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maybe there was like some racism going
on or something. The music was too

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racy or I don't mean like capitol
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There's been no explanation that I couldn't
guess what I thought too. I

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was like, maybe because the album
came out, it wasn't deemed eligible,

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But it seems like they were eligible. So if someone knows different, let

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me know. A world in which
Purple Rain and Let's Go Crazy are not

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nominated for Best Song is fucking insane. Yeah, okay, I'm moving on,

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but I'm now forming an argument,
ladies and gentlemen of the jury.

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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
I present to you a perfect song.

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It is entitled When Doves Cry,
and it deserves all the oscars. Okay,

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so, actually you were very good. You gave me all the nominees

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here. I knew you would want
to know, literally about to be like,

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what the hell was of that year? Against all odds? Take a

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look at me now, right,
So take a look at me now.

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I actually love that song. It's
a great song. It's it's not great,

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Paul, but it's it is.
No, I stand by my original

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standard. It's a great song footloose, let's hear it for the boy Ghostbusters

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busting makes me feel good. You
know what, I can't argue with any

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of those, can't argue with any
of those. What was against all odds

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in do you know no, top
my Head? I wanted to be in

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some like top Gun. I wanted
to be an apocalypse now does not belong.

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Yeah, and the eventual winner of
that year, which is I just

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called to say I love you,
look, I love Stevie Wonder. Yeah,

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that is not the winner. That
is even the winner of the of

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the ones that were nominated. Yeah, you throw Purple Rain in there and

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fuck off all of you. I
think I would drop Footloose pretty like.

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You don't need two nominees from the
same movie when you have Purple Rain sitting

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there. I would drop Let's Hear
It for the Boy. I fully believe

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that Let's Hear It for the Boys
a better song than the song Footloose.

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Oh, I don't know. The
song for Loose has the sheer joy of

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being completely nonsensical. And you don't
care Footloose, lime juice, no,

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no, no, Nema, boom
boop. So take a look at me

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now ahead. Love that song because
it's a great song. It is great,

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all right, buckle up. Purple
Rain has a seventy two percent critical

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rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a seventy
eight percent audience score. It has a

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sixty one percent critical rating on cherry
Picks. What movie were they watching?

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Here's here is my genuine, my
genuine theory on it. Tell me please

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that they literally were like the performances
you get to see of Prince performing are

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so good, which they are,
they are. This is still completely worth

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watching. Yeah that nothing else,
literally, nothing else matters, because these

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riveting performances of songs from Purple Rain
are all sandwiched in between a truly fucking

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terrible movie. It's awful. The
best I can say about it is that

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it like, like I understand what
the characters want. Oh good, I'm

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glad you do because I don't.
Literally, in my notes, Paul I

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wrote about Prince's character, I wrote, literally, what is his motivation in

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any scene? What is happening?
What does he want? He wants people

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to recognize his genius. It's like
what they do. Well, that's that's

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the other thing all the time.
Yeah, the audiences love him, and

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they're like, these audiences don't like
him, And I'm like, then stop

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showing audiences screaming for him but he's
performing. Don't show Prince being Prince.

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Yeah, Oh my god, this
movie is a garbage jump and it is

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borderline offensive in terms of like it's
take on domestic violence. Oh, it's

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I would say it's not borderline offensive. About that, I would say it's

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fully offensive. It is. It
is like, hey, sometimes domestic violence

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is just a hardcore form of romance, YEP or Erica. When did you

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first see Purple Rain? Yesterday?
Okay, it's the journey I went on

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because I watched it with my dad. Remember when called open when I said,

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hey, I watched that sexy movie
with my mom. Watched this with

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my dad because I was sure that
what this actually was is a concert film.

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I really one hundred percent saw like
Purple Rain listed in our like list

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of movies, and I was like, you know what, we should do

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a concert film that would be interesting
for us to talk about, because what

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is there to talk about in a
concert film? It is not a concert

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film. And the first time I
recognized that was when there was full fucking

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nudity by Appollonia in the movie,
and I was like, whoa watching it

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with my dad, Prince? What
are we doing? Paul? When did

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you first see Purple Rain? About
three days ago? And I had a

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similar journey. I didn't think it
was a concert film. I had kind

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of presumed it was kind of like
one of Beyonce's visual albums. I thought

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I was going to be getting like
music video imagery, abstract art kind of

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thing, and it was gonna,
you know, maybe like like a bare

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bones kind of scene that you would
see in a music video. I was

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expecting a long form music video of
these and because I never saw it,

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because I knew the album Purple Rain, and like, full disclosure, I've

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never watched Lemonade either, Like I
don't watch visual Lemonade. I'm sure it's

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excellent, I don't. I just
it's just simply not a form of art

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I generally partake of. So I
was never watched Purple Rain. And then

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a bunch of people requested it and
I was like, wait, is this

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a narrative film, And that I
did a little research. I was like,

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oh, it is. And the
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didn't have the domestic violence and the
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every level of it, the scenes
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gonna put on a show because I
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are still not good, but they're
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way where I'm like I can kind
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the rivalry between him and Morris,
it's like, oh, it's very gem

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in the Holograms versus the Misfits.
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exactly that. I love that part
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I was getting. I was gonna
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not that Morris's E Day's band is
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a sort of throwback to them,
like a motowny kind of bars these days

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feel yes, like with the with
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they move, and the songs are
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Friends, who is just like a
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I thought that's what we were gonna
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spoiler, then Appollonia is gonna have
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good. I can't wait to watch
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that song isn't embarrassing. That song
is so funny. But not only

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is that song funny, the perform. You know what, we're getting ahead

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of ourselves. The performance of that
song so fucking bad, And I was

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like, why did they cass Appollonia? She can't fucking sing. The whole

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point is she's a singer. Why
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beautiful? Like so I kind of
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anyway, we're getting ahead of ourselves. Ad okay, Erica. The

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tagline for Purple Rain, it appears
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There was no tagline. It was
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And that is correct. That is
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to read the synopsis for our listeners
and for me? Frankly? Rock Star

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Prince plays a headstrong, vulnerable young
musician known as the Kid. He struggles

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with his own psyche and family pressures
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I did not mess that up.
That is how it's written. That's

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correct. He sees his father's madness
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life. All right, as accurate. Yeah, I mean, I can't

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say it's wrong, but you're not
selling me on this film. Like actual

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synopsis, this is this is a
movie that could have been a music video

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and should have been. It could
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would have been vastly improved. It's
been so good. Yeah, I am

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shocked. I still can't get over
the seventy two percent critical writing. Is

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it just that Prince was so innovative
musically that the critics were just like,

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we don't care about anything else.
It's got to be it, right,

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seventy two is so high? Yeah? What would you give this movie?

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Genuinely? Like? Okay, like, look, these music sequences are totally

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worth watching, but like people are
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this movie in a movie theater.
Do I recommend this movie to them?

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I think I would have to phrase
it something like, if you want to

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sit through something to watch Prince perform, and that is worth your money,

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go, But as soon as the
music stops, you should just like on

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a take out your phone and play
a game. Tune back with the music

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starts again. Because the dialogue scenes
are look, no one in this movie

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is like a trained actor, and
actually, with one exception, are you

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sure except his father? The guy
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a trained actor because he's too good. The woman who plays his mother is

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an Italian actress. Yeah. Why
they have hamstrung the film with an Italian

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Giallo actress, Like, I don't
know, I don't know why, Like,

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why not cast an American who could
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Yeah? So anyway, everyone stick
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We're going to take you through Purple
Rain, Parple Rain, and we're

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back. We open in the great
American city of Minneapolis. Absolutely, I

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don't enough movies take place in Minneapolis. Fair. Prince did a lot of

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great in this world, and one
of the great things he did was put

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Minneapolis on the map. Him and
Mary Tyler Moore, they said, no,

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Minneapolis, It's all about Minneapolis kids. So we open at the First

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Avenue Club. Our hero, the
Kid, his name is always just going

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to be the Kid, the Kid
played by Prince or as it's pronounced on

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Saturday Night Live preance. It's on
stage with his band The Revolution and performing

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Let's Go Crazy. If I watched
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left perfect movie that like monologue at
the beginning of Let's Go Crazy. To

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start a film with like that,
it's very Bob fossy esque. Someone watched

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like three Bob Fosse movies and we're
like, that's what I'm doing. Yeah,

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because it's like superposed with like these
still shots of people at the club

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looking like very androgynous, very like
David Bowie stylized. Yeah, this opener

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mate like wrote a check. The
film did not cash. I was so

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excited for the rest of this movie
after seeing this, I was like,

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oh my god, it's gonna be
like a Bob Fosse movie. But fuck,

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Prince, I am so here for
this. That's not what happens spoiler

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alert. It didn't pan out.
It does not pan out so anyway,

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but we get an amazing, like
five minutes of Prince and the Revolution performing

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Let's Go Crazy. Paul writes here
it is I love it to point out

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here that the First Avenue Club was
absolutely packed and the entire crowd is into

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the performance, which makes sense because
it's Prince and the Revolution and they are

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performing Let's Go Crazy, which is
one of the greatest fucking songs of the

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twentieth century. Correct do you ever
notice he sings I'm not gonna let the

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elevator. Let's not let the elevator
take us down. Like now that line

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hits so fucking heart because he died
in his elevator. Oh I didn't even

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know that. Yeah, in his
house. He like got it to the

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elevator and like died in there,
and I was like, I was like,

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ah, it's like so there's there's
a few bits before shadowing about Prince's

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actual death throughout the movie that I
was like, Jesus christis is it's weird

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to watch uncanny. It's a little
uncanny. Yeah, the band tears through

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the song. We see the montage
of our major players. Morris E.

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Day played by Morris E. Day. Yeah, it's true to point out

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that literally everyone except Prince who replays
the Kid will the character name will be

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the actor's name. That's it lead
singer. So Morris Day is the lead

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singer of the time, which is
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and the Holograms. Right, so, their rival bands and Morris gets ready

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to perform. Is his right right
hand man Jerome played by Jerome Benton Envy

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fucking p of the movie helps him
like get get ready. We see the

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kid getting ready for the show and
driving up to the club on his purple

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motorcycle. The amount of times Prince
almost eats it on this fucking motorcycle this

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movie. You know, there was
an intervention, right, you know,

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there was a scene where they were
like, hey, guys, maybe we

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should just give him a Cadillac or
something, and like he's like, no,

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man, I can do this.
I can ride his motorcycle. And

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they're like, no, you can't, because you've all you've eaten it like

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seven times already. You're gonna die
on set, and it's gonna be a

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bad problem, Like name yourself on
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Apollonia played by Apollonia Cato arrives in
Minneapolis. She's so beautiful. I cannot

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believe how I forgot how god damn
beautiful this woman is. She manages to

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cut out the hefty cab fare of
her ride from into the city by like

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dining and dashing. Except for a
cab it was thirty seven dollars and seventy

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five cents about one hundred and ten
dollars today. That's a lot. That's

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a lot. That's a lot of
expensive cab ride. Yeah. She rents

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herself a room at the Huntington hotel
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So she is very focused on this
club. She wants to be near

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it. She wants to be in
the scene. Yeah, Appollonia heads right

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to the First Avenue club. She
wastes no time and she manages to sneak

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in when the bouncer goes to break
up a fight in the line. I

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don't know why she has to sneak
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the manager? And he's like no, Like, just go in and ask

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her why. This doesn't make any
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Oh, Paul, Oh, Paul, Paul Paul. She runs into

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a waitress, Jill played by Jill
Jones. She knocks the waitress trade of

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the floor. The waitress is extremely
put out. She asks Jill if she

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can see the manager, and now
Erica, I've transcribed the scene here frustrated.

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It's very short, this one,
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the feel of the level of dialogue
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would you like to play Apollonia or
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Jill. Okay. So now I
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into the club. She has knocked
Jill's tray to the floor. Jill is

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now trying to clean up the floor
in this extremely crowded club, and Apollonia

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says, listen, I'm from out
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manager. It's important. I'm a
pretty good singer and dancer. Maybe he

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could use me. Do you have
any experience? Yeah? Follow me.

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That's it. That's it. That's
the whole that's the whole thing. What

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I do this? Are you sure? Yeah? Okay, you have a

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job? Okay? Cool enjoyed the
enjoyed working here. So Apollonia follows Jill

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for like fifteen feet and then it's
over come by the sex god playing his

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guitar on stage. We're still in
Let's Go Crazy. By the way,

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it is eight minutes of Let's Go
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He's so goddamn hot. Apollonia practically
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the song, and then Jill reappears
and tells Apollonia that she can leave a

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note. When Apollonia admits that she
doesn't have a phone to leave a number

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for the manager to call her,
Jill tells her the manager will be back

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the following day talk about a meeting
that could have been an email. Did

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you notice the whist her age is
nineteen? I did not notice that she's

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not even she's like twenty five.
She's not. Yeah, like, but

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she looks thirty five. Well,
because all the makeup of the hair makeup

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in the eighties was excessive. Everyone
looks a good decade older than they're supposed

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to be. Yeah. After the
Kids set, Apollonia stays in the club

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and watches as Morris takes the stage
with his band The Time. He takes

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time to mock the Kid's performance as
they switch, which sisly, guys,

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Can I make two quick points about
the times performance? You may, okay?

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So first of all, this will
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The time is like the number one
act in the club. The kids act

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is like struggling to keep up with
them. And there's a third act that

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you see for like two seconds.
Do you see that third I actually have

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this whole thing in my brain because
I don't remember seeing the third act.

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You see them very briefly. In
my head, I'm like, what if

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it's like the B fifty two's like
they cut to like a really weird random

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banch and if they're doing like rock
lobster, and everyone in this club was

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like, I don't understand what I'm
looking at. I don't know. This

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is a note for me, This
is a no for me. Does not

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fit in with the rest of what
we're doing here. So in the middle

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of this song is called Jungle Love
and Morris is performing and he has Jerome

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come out with a mirror and they
dance while he looks at himself in the

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mirror and fix his hair absolutely no
notes, keep everything perfect. And then

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this happens because the Time performs twice
in the movie. Both times they have

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an intercut shot where clearly, like
on a balcony across from the stage,

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behind the entire audience, there are
like five or six dancers dancing in silhouette

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to no one, like they're dancing
like with the band, so like it's

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all it's all choreographed, it's all
in sync, but no one's looking at

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them because they're literally behind the audience. Like this doesn't make any sense.

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Yes, that damn movie. I
love the movie. Tell me more about

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that other band. What were they
like? They it was, it's it's

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the modern airs and the guy's name
is Dez. It's it's alliterative does something,

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does diamond or something. I don't
know how I missed it. It's

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very brief and they don't dwell on
it. They don't do any like close

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ups of them. It's just one
of the times where the kid probably walks

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into the club and they're performing.
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the fact later in the movie that
there are three acts and the Revolution is

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the third. The revolution is just
barely hanging on, and I'm are you

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don't show me the actual revolution,
right, show me a Prince cover band

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pretending to be the revolution or literally, you can show me the revolution,

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but you have to have the people
in the club reacting as if they don't

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like it. It's straight up not
It's physically impossible to not enjoy yourself watching

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the Revolution. I get people being
like, that's a different look, and

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I don't like it. Yeah like
that, Yeah, I mean, it's

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it's a lot of look this whole, look this whole, this whole like

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purple Pirate for there. You don't
remember what Prince's whole look was in nineteen

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eighty four. Prince looks like a
man who owns a parakeet menagerie. Yeah,

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it's like it's a pirate, it's
a sex pirate. It's yeah,

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it's the best part about the best
part about the Revolution is everyone else has

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to kind of also have that look, except for one guy who gets to

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dress up like a doctor. Yeah. I don't know why, but I

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love that guy. He just scrupts
to work and he's done. But everyone

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else has to kind of match that
look. And the women carry it off

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fine, but there's one the poor
drummer, Yeah, drummer. Every time

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they cut to him, I was
like, I can't even look at you.

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Man. He's dressed like Prince,
but he's not Prince. Only Prince

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can make that work. Everyone else
just looks unbelievably stupid with this like thin

404
00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:34.640
Casanova mustache and his puffy shirt from
Seinfeld. Yeah, oh my god,

405
00:29:34.680 --> 00:29:47.240
it's so funny. Prince is like
Captain Crunchberry's gay son. Prince looks like

406
00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:49.720
a man who found a time machine
and is dressed up like he's gonna go

407
00:29:49.799 --> 00:29:53.039
back to the French Revolution. But
he this is the best he could do.

408
00:29:53.839 --> 00:30:04.319
Prince looks like a librarian slash adventurer
from a steampunk novel. Oh god,

409
00:30:04.400 --> 00:30:10.279
oh god, it's so like the
whole look the whole because it's kind

410
00:30:10.319 --> 00:30:12.680
of vampire. He looks like a
vampire. Yeah, it's very vampirey.

411
00:30:12.799 --> 00:30:26.359
It's so good. Prince looks like
Louis and Lestat's interior decorator. Oh god,

412
00:30:26.440 --> 00:30:29.960
Okay, okay, okay, we
are We are eight minutes into this

413
00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:37.119
movie. And by the way,
I can't say this enough. I would

414
00:30:37.160 --> 00:30:42.279
fuck him so hard. I want
to make it very clear. All of

415
00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:47.200
this is not a negative. Somehow
he managed to make this whole thing.

416
00:30:47.799 --> 00:30:49.400
Yes, so, sad Am I
wrong? Am I crazy? Is he

417
00:30:49.480 --> 00:30:55.000
not? No? It's famously very
sexy, fucking sexiest person alive. I

418
00:30:55.000 --> 00:30:57.279
have no idea how he did it. Again, no idea how he did

419
00:30:57.279 --> 00:31:00.920
it. Okay, So, while
Morris has been and is performing, the

420
00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:07.799
kid exits the club. He approaches
Apollonia, says nothing as a Victorian serial

421
00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:11.599
killing doll would do. Uh huh, then just stands directly behind her,

422
00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:15.720
puts sunglasses on. Well, he
just kind of grinds his teeth behind her.

423
00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:18.519
Jill stands between them and acts as
if something momentous has just occurred.

424
00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:22.279
She's like, oh, oh,
oh, a meeting of minds has occurred.

425
00:31:23.400 --> 00:31:29.200
The time is continuing their performance.
The kid watches Jill put Apollonia's information

426
00:31:29.279 --> 00:31:32.799
onto like a corkboard. Yeah,
just like pins it onto like a public

427
00:31:32.839 --> 00:31:37.640
corkboard. Okay, yeah, Apollonia
screws up her courage and she turns around

428
00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:41.400
to say, I like your song
too, But alas he has disappeared into

429
00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:47.680
the night, like the sexy vampire
that he is like a vampire. If

430
00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:51.240
this were a movie about a vampire
who was also in a rock band,

431
00:31:51.759 --> 00:31:56.920
oh, Academy Award winning film,
yeah, all of the angst, Yes,

432
00:31:57.319 --> 00:32:01.559
it would make so much more sense. This was about a rock star

433
00:32:01.720 --> 00:32:06.000
vampire. I mean it kind of
is. What was Prince? If not

434
00:32:06.039 --> 00:32:10.160
a rock star vampire, what was
Prince? What Prince? Prince looks like

435
00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:21.720
a vampire who's also a matador.
So the kid heads home on his motorcycle,

436
00:32:21.839 --> 00:32:24.519
only to find his father and mother
played by Clarence Williams the Third and

437
00:32:24.720 --> 00:32:30.880
Olga Carlatos having a vicious fight,
like physically vicious. Yeah, like this

438
00:32:30.920 --> 00:32:36.599
is like after school special. Immediately
Helen Hunt's gonna take take PCP and throw

439
00:32:36.640 --> 00:32:42.960
herself out a window any second.
Now, his father is screaming at his

440
00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:45.279
mother that she needs to stay home
and keep the house clean, and he

441
00:32:45.359 --> 00:32:49.920
keeps slamming her against the wall,
and his mother is screaming at at his

442
00:32:49.960 --> 00:32:52.799
father. The kid runs in to
try to interfere. He tries to get

443
00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:55.720
his father off his mother, and
his father slaps him so hard that he

444
00:32:57.000 --> 00:33:00.759
spins through the air through a swing
door and lands in the next room.

445
00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:07.799
Now that's what happens when you smack
something that that has bird bones and weighs

446
00:33:07.799 --> 00:33:12.880
fourteen pounds. I was gonna say, you know what, I believe Clarence

447
00:33:12.920 --> 00:33:15.920
Williams could knock Prince room room.
I do. I think I could.

448
00:33:16.119 --> 00:33:19.200
I think I could have. I
think I could have just given him a

449
00:33:19.240 --> 00:33:23.359
gentle shove. And he looks like
Prince looks like a peacock. It became

450
00:33:23.400 --> 00:33:34.960
a human and skinned grimace to Prince
looks like a peacock, fell into a

451
00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:45.519
pile of scarves and emerged a person. Oh god, all right, So

452
00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:49.559
that that scene cuts off very quickly, Can I tell you my journey real

453
00:33:49.640 --> 00:33:52.839
quickly here? Because I was not
expecting this at all, and I had

454
00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:55.440
to pause the movie. This is
a point I paused it to be like

455
00:33:57.240 --> 00:34:00.039
the fuck is happening? Why are
we in this domestic violent drama all of

456
00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:02.720
a sudden, And I googled it
because I was like, oh, maybe

457
00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:06.480
this is based on Prince's real life, like maybe he had a really troubled

458
00:34:06.519 --> 00:34:10.360
child, And honestly, I didn't
find anything. I found that it's semi

459
00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:15.119
autobiographical, like like it's not a
one to one from what I could tell.

460
00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:20.760
But I also Prince was extremely private
about any any like real history of

461
00:34:20.760 --> 00:34:23.039
his own and any real facts about
his own history, like like I actually

462
00:34:23.039 --> 00:34:27.159
it was just like, oh,
is Prince biracial? I never realized Prince

463
00:34:27.239 --> 00:34:30.599
was biracial because he cast a white
woman as his mother and a black man

464
00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:35.079
as his father in this And then
I couldn't even find that. He's like,

465
00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:37.280
I'm all racist, I'm no racist, Like he just didn't he did

466
00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:40.079
not participate in the car. I
don't understand the question, and I won't

467
00:34:40.079 --> 00:34:44.159
respond to it. It was like, remember when he changed his name to

468
00:34:44.159 --> 00:34:47.039
a symbol. This is how fucking
cool Prince was. Well we were all

469
00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:51.159
like, oh that's so cool.
We were like fine, I guess sure

470
00:34:51.320 --> 00:34:55.079
whatever, like Beyonnesce could maybe pull
that off. But we've literally any other

471
00:34:55.199 --> 00:34:59.599
artists today tried that, Yeah,
to pull that bullshit, we'd all be

472
00:34:59.639 --> 00:35:02.119
like, off, forget it,
No, we're done. Shut up,

473
00:35:02.199 --> 00:35:06.599
jay Z. Your name is jay
Z forever. Yeah, so let me

474
00:35:06.639 --> 00:35:08.280
continue with my journey here, so
then I please. I was like,

475
00:35:08.400 --> 00:35:10.880
I looked at the Wikipedia page and
I was like, oh, okay,

476
00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:15.280
so this is actually going to become
like a domestic violence trauma. Okay,

477
00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:19.960
I'm gonna have to recalibrate my whole
idea of this movie and before I continue

478
00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:21.880
to watch it. And then I
went back and watched the scene again.

479
00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:24.400
Prince is really good at the top
of the scene when he walks in and

480
00:35:24.440 --> 00:35:29.800
he goes Mama, Daddy, know, like he's like like really like genuine

481
00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:31.239
and like I was like, Oh, he's a good actor. Do not

482
00:35:31.320 --> 00:35:36.280
be welted into a sense of health, sense of security. I'm sorry to

483
00:35:36.280 --> 00:35:38.760
tell you he is not. There's
so much tonal whiplash in the movie that

484
00:35:38.840 --> 00:35:43.239
I genuinely don't know what I'm watching
half the time. I think that's the

485
00:35:43.679 --> 00:35:46.360
big takeaway from it, truly,
like the tonal whiplash, Like this stuff

486
00:35:46.599 --> 00:35:52.960
with his family is so dark and
played so melodramatically, but meant to be

487
00:35:53.039 --> 00:35:57.960
taken realistically, Like the movie wants
you to take it realistically. Even though

488
00:35:57.960 --> 00:36:02.199
it is melodramatic, it's too serious
to have fun with, like with the

489
00:36:02.199 --> 00:36:06.800
camp value of it, right,
because it's just so violent. Yeah,

490
00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:08.920
this is not a Mommy DearS where
we can kind of laugh at child abuse.

491
00:36:09.159 --> 00:36:14.280
Yeah. And then like the Apollonia
storyline with Prince is like, I

492
00:36:14.320 --> 00:36:19.320
don't know, like a star is
born through a funhouse mirror kind of situation

493
00:36:19.480 --> 00:36:22.519
that like I don't know what that
is. And then the one you want

494
00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:24.159
to see, which is the Battle
of the Bands, which is just silly

495
00:36:24.679 --> 00:36:30.360
and kind of like fun and energetic, the very very lopsided Battle of the

496
00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:36.519
Bands. Yeah, so we cut
from this drama to Morris. Thank god

497
00:36:36.519 --> 00:36:40.559
we're back with Morris. He's walking
with Billy, Billy Sparks, the first

498
00:36:40.559 --> 00:36:45.400
Avenue Clubs manager, and it turns
out that the kid has missed an important

499
00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:49.079
meeting. Billy had high hopes for
the kid being the next big act to

500
00:36:49.079 --> 00:36:50.920
come out of the club. I
don't know if he should say that to

501
00:36:51.079 --> 00:36:53.159
Morris's face. No, He's like, I really thought he was going to

502
00:36:53.199 --> 00:36:55.960
blow you all out of the water. I was shocked, that's not what's

503
00:36:57.000 --> 00:37:00.360
happening. But apparently the kid keeps
fucking it all up. He makes mistakes

504
00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:04.239
left and right. He's great on
stage, but off stage he's a disaster.

505
00:37:05.280 --> 00:37:08.360
He further comments that the kid isn't
getting the audiences like he used to,

506
00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:13.199
to which Paul and I say,
what movie are you watching? Yeah?

507
00:37:13.400 --> 00:37:15.000
What did you see last night?
Yeah? Did you not see five

508
00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:20.239
hundred people getting pregnant at the same
time? By Prince Bye by one Man,

509
00:37:20.280 --> 00:37:25.480
by one by one, Tiny little
Mannic Pixie Purple Man's Prince's cumshot is

510
00:37:25.519 --> 00:37:30.960
just a it's on, It's on
the spray. See it's done, like

511
00:37:30.679 --> 00:37:34.960
you can get everyone. It's not
even come. It's just glitter that falls

512
00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:39.079
from the sky. And Morris says, man, the kid is just playing

513
00:37:39.159 --> 00:37:44.519
music that no one wants to hear, you know, terrible music like let's

514
00:37:44.599 --> 00:37:49.480
go crazy like Prince like Prince.
Billy says he's just like his father,

515
00:37:49.599 --> 00:37:52.239
Francis, And this is where we
get a siny bit of backstory about the

516
00:37:52.320 --> 00:37:55.159
drama that we saw the night before. Francis ruined his whole career and his

517
00:37:55.239 --> 00:37:59.639
wife's too, apparently, although they
never get into that later in the movie

518
00:37:59.719 --> 00:38:02.679
by I guess being difficult right,
Moura says Billy needs to get rid of

519
00:38:02.679 --> 00:38:07.000
the kid who's having intra band problems
on top of everything else, because there's

520
00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:09.480
a whole subplot where the two women
in the band, Lisa and Wendy,

521
00:38:09.800 --> 00:38:14.719
who are real life musicians that went
on to have solo career, Like not

522
00:38:14.840 --> 00:38:19.519
solo, they became Lisa and Wendy
and performed together and we're great and we're

523
00:38:20.159 --> 00:38:24.480
romantic partners as well as musician.
Yeah, together for years that the two

524
00:38:24.480 --> 00:38:29.079
of them, I've written songs that
the kid won't even look at. Yeah,

525
00:38:29.119 --> 00:38:31.440
And then he suggests maybe I should
form a girl group with Lisa and

526
00:38:31.480 --> 00:38:37.840
Wendy. Billy thinks this is a
great idea, Mariscopius Bengali to some sad,

527
00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:40.320
pathetic girl group who will have you. The kid shows up at the

528
00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:45.519
club and he takes a good look
at Apollonia's information on the public corkboard.

529
00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:49.800
Jill is there and she says she's
got something for him, and he says,

530
00:38:49.920 --> 00:38:52.960
in just the most perfect joke.
You know, you always eat for

531
00:38:52.039 --> 00:38:55.280
jokes. You less fewer words,
you know, get to the point,

532
00:38:55.320 --> 00:39:00.400
really really show something to the audience
make it catch them off guard. So

533
00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:04.960
Jill says, I've got something for
you and he says, what a subpoena?

534
00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:07.880
I can't tell you about? And
know how bad of an actor Prince

535
00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:12.239
is when he's not in like melodrama. The melodrama scene is the only scenes

536
00:39:12.239 --> 00:39:15.000
I believe him. And he's also
bad at subeduction. That was shocking to

537
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:17.360
me. I was like, that's
the one thing I know you do.

538
00:39:17.760 --> 00:39:22.880
That's the one thing I know you
do well because they seduce people. Why

539
00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:27.280
are you so bad at pretending to
seduce people? So Jill has a tape

540
00:39:27.360 --> 00:39:30.960
of a song that Lisa and Wendy
wrote. Jill had promised to give it

541
00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:34.400
to him after she listened to it, and she assures him that it's good.

542
00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:37.079
So now the two women in the
kid's band had to go through the

543
00:39:37.079 --> 00:39:43.639
club's waitress, yeah, to convince
her, to convince him to even give

544
00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:46.079
it a listen. I'm like,
oh, no, are these two supposed

545
00:39:46.119 --> 00:39:50.840
to be lovers? Is that what's
happening is the kids sleeping with Jill the

546
00:39:50.840 --> 00:39:53.039
waitress. They never make it clear. It seems to me that she wants

547
00:39:53.079 --> 00:39:55.920
to sleep with him, but they
are not sleeping together, because that's the

548
00:39:55.960 --> 00:40:00.440
only reason I could think of why
they would think they needed her help to

549
00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:02.400
get him to even Oh, you're
yeah, I think you're putting way too

550
00:40:02.440 --> 00:40:08.199
much thought into this. You know, you tried to justify something that the

551
00:40:08.400 --> 00:40:14.719
writers had felt no need to justify. We cut to Morris and Jerome.

552
00:40:14.760 --> 00:40:17.480
They've already started rehearsing two women for
the potential girls group, and they are

553
00:40:17.480 --> 00:40:22.360
disappointed with the product. And I
must say they're not wrong. These two

554
00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:27.280
women, like, look, there's
an aspect of this kind of thing where

555
00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:29.400
I'm like, you don't you actually
don't have to be a good singer,

556
00:40:29.639 --> 00:40:31.239
right, You have to be a
dancer, and you have to be like

557
00:40:31.280 --> 00:40:35.159
a good performer, and we can
work. We need one good singer and

558
00:40:35.199 --> 00:40:37.800
a girl group of three, right, and everything else you can kind of

559
00:40:37.840 --> 00:40:40.239
work around. These two are not
even good dancers. I don't know what's

560
00:40:40.320 --> 00:40:45.800
going on. You you can't have
you can't the others at least have to

561
00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:51.119
dance. You get on who can't
do shit? Yeah, So Morris and

562
00:40:51.199 --> 00:40:54.599
Jerome leave the leave the studio.
They're upset, and they agree that the

563
00:40:54.639 --> 00:41:00.000
bitches are okay, but we need
something exciting and then they decide something excited

564
00:41:00.280 --> 00:41:05.119
is Apollonia, who I can't stress
enough. Neither one of them have met

565
00:41:05.159 --> 00:41:09.119
on screen yet, so presumptively there's
either a cutscene or they just didn't again,

566
00:41:09.159 --> 00:41:14.280
didn't bother. He just heard about
her magical beauty. They heard about

567
00:41:14.280 --> 00:41:19.880
Apollonia. Okay, And now we
get to the scene where Paul realizes you

568
00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:22.840
just never know what's gonna happen in
this movie. This movie is a twist

569
00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:27.840
machine. This movie inspired the movie
Twister. This woman comes out, she

570
00:41:27.880 --> 00:41:30.920
appears on the street. She is
you know, you know, when you're

571
00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:34.800
a kid and you're and you're doing
a scene and it's usually something like really

572
00:41:34.840 --> 00:41:37.920
dramatic, and you can feel like
you're about to start laughing because it's a

573
00:41:37.960 --> 00:41:40.679
kid, you can't really like sink
into that super dramatic place. That is

574
00:41:40.719 --> 00:41:45.280
what this woman is doing. She
looks like she's going to laugh the entire

575
00:41:45.639 --> 00:41:50.639
time he's giving church. He giggles, acting yeah. She busts out and

576
00:41:50.719 --> 00:41:53.440
she starts yelling at Morris, how
dare you not call me? Who the

577
00:41:53.480 --> 00:41:58.960
fuck do you think I am?
And Morris says Jerome, and Jerome goes

578
00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:04.639
behind her, grabs her around like
her torso she's screaming, Jerome, stop

579
00:42:04.639 --> 00:42:07.840
it, what are you doing?
He drags her into an alley there's a

580
00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:14.159
cut. Jerome picks up clearly a
dummy and lifts her, lifts the dummy

581
00:42:14.280 --> 00:42:19.320
over his head body, slams her
into an open dumpster in a way that

582
00:42:19.360 --> 00:42:22.360
if this was a real woman,
her neck would be broken and she would

583
00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:28.199
be dead. Huh, slams the
dumpster closed, and then walks out.

584
00:42:28.519 --> 00:42:31.360
Morris says, such nastiness, and
then the woman pops up out of the

585
00:42:31.400 --> 00:42:35.559
dumpster, like it's meant to be
a joke. The thing is, everything

586
00:42:35.599 --> 00:42:37.599
about Morris and Jerome is meant to
be a joke. In the movie.

587
00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:40.320
They're supposed to be the comic relief, and in a lot of ways they

588
00:42:40.360 --> 00:42:45.719
are, uh huh. They're so
mean to women, and the misogyny is

589
00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:49.559
so real that it's like this isn't
funny. Though. This was so much

590
00:42:49.599 --> 00:42:52.719
that I the misogyny in this movie
and this is like I'm saying this,

591
00:42:52.760 --> 00:42:59.639
I'm not joking. It was so
rampant and overt that about halfway through I

592
00:42:59.719 --> 00:43:02.559
literally was like, Okay, this
is the point they're going to arrive at

593
00:43:02.559 --> 00:43:07.719
a point about this, and I
cannot stress enough that they do not arrive

594
00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:10.320
at a point about this. This
is not intentional, This is like this,

595
00:43:10.320 --> 00:43:14.480
this is genuinely meant to be funny
in like a Looney Tunes kind of

596
00:43:14.519 --> 00:43:21.880
way. Yeah. All the other
misogyny and violence against women is just put

597
00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:25.599
up as that's life, I guess
stage. Yeah, it's just like,

598
00:43:25.639 --> 00:43:30.719
well that's life. It's yeah,
it's really it's it's super unpleasant. It's

599
00:43:30.760 --> 00:43:34.400
super unpleasant to watch. Yeah,
and I and I really had convinced myself

600
00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:37.880
for about thirty five to seventy five
percent of the movie that like, Okay,

601
00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:39.679
they're doing this on purpose, they're
really building up to something. And

602
00:43:39.679 --> 00:43:44.199
then I was like, I don't
think they're building up to anything. I

603
00:43:44.199 --> 00:43:47.000
think this is just what we're doing
here. Yeah, So we cut to

604
00:43:47.039 --> 00:43:52.639
Apollonio. She's window shopping. The
kid appears behind her again, Sexty vampiring

605
00:43:52.719 --> 00:44:00.239
behind her, and we have more
dialogue to perform. Oh cool balls written

606
00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:05.599
more dialogue? Ready? Would you
like to be the kid or Apollonia?

607
00:44:06.159 --> 00:44:08.679
I kind of want to be the
kid. I don't thunder no, no,

608
00:44:08.760 --> 00:44:12.400
I think I actually think you're you
have more of the kid energy.

609
00:44:12.679 --> 00:44:15.639
So I'll be Apollonia and you'll be
the kid. Okay, Okay, if

610
00:44:15.719 --> 00:44:17.880
one of us is going to become
a sex god music performer, I actually

611
00:44:17.880 --> 00:44:22.239
think it's going to be way before
me. Yeah, so kind it's just

612
00:44:22.239 --> 00:44:24.199
because I can stay up past ten. That's a big part of it.

613
00:44:24.199 --> 00:44:28.320
It's a big part of it.
I'm the first sex god music performer who

614
00:44:28.320 --> 00:44:34.079
mostly plays cafes at eleven am.
Okay, so let me set the scene

615
00:44:34.119 --> 00:44:37.519
for you. She's she's looking at
a window, she's window shopping. She's

616
00:44:37.559 --> 00:44:40.960
wearing like really cute like thy hide, not thie hide, but like knee

617
00:44:42.000 --> 00:44:45.119
high boots. But there's like an
anklet around her boot, like a bracelet

618
00:44:45.239 --> 00:44:50.320
around her very eighties, yes,
very cool looking. So he sees this,

619
00:44:50.519 --> 00:44:54.880
right, here's the kid. Give
me that there on your boot.

620
00:44:55.079 --> 00:44:58.239
So she gives him it, and
then the kid takes it and starts to

621
00:44:58.280 --> 00:45:01.199
walk away, and Apollonia says,
hey, wait, give it back to

622
00:45:01.239 --> 00:45:06.639
me. You can have it back
later. I want it now. Okay,

623
00:45:06.920 --> 00:45:12.559
who gave it to you? A
person? Male or female? Huh,

624
00:45:12.760 --> 00:45:16.119
you're a lion. I can tell
just by your reaction. You're lion.

625
00:45:16.760 --> 00:45:22.119
You gave it to me. It's
not yours anymore. That's the best

626
00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:24.320
I could do. That is the
that I'm not That is the That is

627
00:45:24.360 --> 00:45:31.639
the inflection he is using in the
entire film. So I guess I guess

628
00:45:31.679 --> 00:45:37.280
he's saying, you stole it and
I'm taking it. But it's like it

629
00:45:37.280 --> 00:45:42.039
just makes it's this is meant to
be their meet cute. It makes no

630
00:45:42.079 --> 00:45:45.480
sense. It makes no sense.
It's like trying to decipher like alien writing,

631
00:45:45.679 --> 00:45:51.280
like the two Aliens came to Earth. It's hieroglyphs. It's hieroglyphs.

632
00:45:51.360 --> 00:45:53.719
Okay, So he does some stuff
to her in this whole like first date

633
00:45:53.880 --> 00:46:00.360
scene. That shocking, Yeah,
shocking. Okay. So after after all

634
00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:05.079
of this fucking nonsense, the kid
like sees a beautiful white guitar in a

635
00:46:05.079 --> 00:46:07.199
shop window and he stops and looks
at it. Right, She asks him

636
00:46:07.239 --> 00:46:10.199
if he sees something he likes,
and he says, let's go, and

637
00:46:10.320 --> 00:46:14.760
tosses the bracelet back to her,
like over his shoulder. Right. Yeah,

638
00:46:14.840 --> 00:46:16.480
he just starts walking and she has
to follow him, and I'm like,

639
00:46:16.880 --> 00:46:21.719
okay, look, I like you're
not prints yet, dude. So

640
00:46:21.840 --> 00:46:28.679
these two like leather clad aliens climb
onto the kid's motorcycle and drive out to

641
00:46:28.760 --> 00:46:32.039
the country. As the song take
Me with You plays, they wind up

642
00:46:32.079 --> 00:46:37.239
walking on a lake side. I
cannot express to you how funny it is

643
00:46:37.280 --> 00:46:43.360
to see these two in like full
leather regalia. She's wearing black leather pants,

644
00:46:43.480 --> 00:46:46.119
a black leather like jacket but like
it looks almost like a business suit

645
00:46:46.199 --> 00:46:51.199
jacket with a peplum, except it's
really low cut. So he looks like

646
00:46:51.320 --> 00:46:54.280
if like the Rolling Stones had a
female lawyer, like if Trinity from The

647
00:46:54.320 --> 00:47:00.400
Matrix had to go undercover with a
big hair blowout. Yes, yeah,

648
00:47:00.559 --> 00:47:05.840
Training from the Matrix goes to business
school. I mean he's wearing something low

649
00:47:05.920 --> 00:47:09.280
key for him. It's leather pants
with studs up the side and high heeled

650
00:47:09.280 --> 00:47:13.800
boots and an overcoat and a scarf
and leather gloves. But like that's so

651
00:47:14.079 --> 00:47:17.079
much, it's so much. He
looks like a close up magician on a

652
00:47:17.119 --> 00:47:22.559
pirate ship. He looks like someone
who you would call a close up magician.

653
00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:25.360
And he say no, no,
I'm a presdigitator and like m say

654
00:47:25.360 --> 00:47:34.000
it, like super seriously. He
looks like a man who inherited an absence

655
00:47:34.159 --> 00:47:43.360
fortune. So these two are walking
on this lake side of these clothes and

656
00:47:43.400 --> 00:47:46.239
they're kind of talking, and Apollonia
admits that she wants to quote unquote make

657
00:47:46.320 --> 00:47:51.320
it, which visibly upsets the kid. Right yeah, She's like, I

658
00:47:51.360 --> 00:47:53.519
would like to be paid as a
professional singer someday. And he was like,

659
00:47:53.840 --> 00:47:58.239
oh, you can sell out.
So she says, will you help

660
00:47:58.280 --> 00:48:00.960
me? And the kid's like no, and she says why not and he

661
00:48:00.039 --> 00:48:04.760
says, well, you would never
pass the initiation. You have to purify

662
00:48:04.760 --> 00:48:12.960
yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka, which is something actually said in this

663
00:48:13.119 --> 00:48:22.559
movie The Lake. This is something
that Prince says. Prince says, you

664
00:48:22.599 --> 00:48:30.480
have to purify yourselves. Appolonia like, okay, you said it. She

665
00:48:30.800 --> 00:48:36.159
strips down to just her underwear.
All the leather comes off. Okay,

666
00:48:36.320 --> 00:48:39.079
wearing leather, by the way,
like full nudity. You know, this

667
00:48:39.119 --> 00:48:43.000
is the moment in the movie was
like, whoa, yeah, we're snoot

668
00:48:43.079 --> 00:48:47.280
free. But but tits tits out? What is this? Prince is staring

669
00:48:47.360 --> 00:48:52.639
at her, watching her strip down
in front of him. This is daytime,

670
00:48:52.800 --> 00:48:55.039
full daylight, full daylight. If
you go up the shore a little

671
00:48:55.039 --> 00:49:00.119
bit, there's a family having a
picnic watching. Yes, She's like like,

672
00:49:00.159 --> 00:49:02.239
Okay, I'm gonna do it.
She rushes towards the water, and

673
00:49:02.320 --> 00:49:06.960
Prince waits until she's essentially like mid
air to be like, oh wait,

674
00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:09.199
but hang on, that's not and
then she jumps into the lake, right,

675
00:49:09.239 --> 00:49:14.119
She does a cannonball into the lake. She gets out, and he

676
00:49:14.320 --> 00:49:20.559
smirks and says, well, that's
not Lake Minnetonka, which is a real

677
00:49:20.639 --> 00:49:23.039
danger in the Land of a Thousand
Lakes. If you're a being for a

678
00:49:23.039 --> 00:49:28.079
specific lake in Michigan, make sure
you have the right one in Minnesota.

679
00:49:28.239 --> 00:49:31.599
In Minnesota, e ah. The
idea that she takes him seriously though,

680
00:49:31.599 --> 00:49:35.280
because at first she's like what an
asshole this guy is? And then I'm

681
00:49:35.280 --> 00:49:37.159
like, wait a minute, Yeah, that was a dick thing to say,

682
00:49:37.400 --> 00:49:40.599
But how could he have possibly known
she'd be this stupid? But he

683
00:49:40.719 --> 00:49:45.199
watched her undress for like thirty seconds. You know what I would too,

684
00:49:45.280 --> 00:49:46.360
because I would be like, no, she's fucking with me, right,

685
00:49:46.400 --> 00:49:52.599
She's like this stupid can I double
across the world's dumbest dummy of all time?

686
00:49:52.960 --> 00:49:58.599
So he says that's not Lake Minnetonka, and then he gets on his

687
00:49:58.679 --> 00:50:01.639
motorcycle and leaves her. They are
naked on the side of the lake.

688
00:50:02.559 --> 00:50:07.079
She has to put on a full
leather outfit, wildwall, soaking wet in

689
00:50:07.719 --> 00:50:14.440
dirty lake water. I mean,
now everyone calmed down. He comes back

690
00:50:14.480 --> 00:50:17.159
almost immediately, so he doesn't leave
for naked in public for tear long.

691
00:50:17.320 --> 00:50:22.239
Yeah, that family having a picture
down the road all he got to see

692
00:50:22.280 --> 00:50:24.199
her naked for like two minutes.
Yeah, so he's like, get on,

693
00:50:24.639 --> 00:50:27.920
and then he does that fun thing
where he keeps hitting the gas every

694
00:50:27.920 --> 00:50:31.000
time she tries to climb on the
motorcycle, which I know women love so

695
00:50:31.159 --> 00:50:36.280
hot, so sadly, yeah,
okay, look, because I have such

696
00:50:36.320 --> 00:50:39.440
an image in my mind of Prince
as being like the actual coolest person to

697
00:50:39.480 --> 00:50:46.440
ever live, watching these scenes is
so weird because the character is so such

698
00:50:46.519 --> 00:50:51.519
a dufus, But it's yeah,
Prince, and like I knew, I

699
00:50:51.559 --> 00:50:53.559
know in real life he had like
a sense of humor and was very funny

700
00:50:53.639 --> 00:50:58.440
apparently, and like kind of doofy. I don't want to see it.

701
00:50:58.559 --> 00:51:00.280
I don't want to see it as
the Prince I want to see. I

702
00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:05.719
don't need. I don't need this
version, this teenage dick wad version of

703
00:51:05.800 --> 00:51:08.880
Prince. But it's also the movie
does nothing to imply that anything he has

704
00:51:08.880 --> 00:51:13.400
done in this scene is incorrect.
If you want to show me a doofy

705
00:51:13.559 --> 00:51:16.679
Prince that like didn't know how to
hit on women, on women, I

706
00:51:16.679 --> 00:51:21.280
don't necessarily believe that Prince the actor
would be able to act that, but

707
00:51:21.360 --> 00:51:24.239
like I can understand that you want
to show me that this is not an

708
00:51:24.280 --> 00:51:29.000
indictment on the character of the kid. I cannot stress enough how this is

709
00:51:29.079 --> 00:51:32.679
meant to be She she smiles and
laughs and kisses him on the cheek and

710
00:51:32.679 --> 00:51:37.599
gets on the back of the motorcycle. Yes, like that is the end

711
00:51:37.639 --> 00:51:40.400
of this scene. Like he's done
nothing wrong or weird, even, like

712
00:51:40.480 --> 00:51:44.599
he's just being adorable and funny.
And I'm like, no, this isn't

713
00:51:44.639 --> 00:51:47.559
adorable. None of this is adorable. Yeah. We cut back to Thank

714
00:51:47.639 --> 00:51:52.440
God Morris and Jerome I needed them. Hello, dear friends, Hello,

715
00:51:52.519 --> 00:51:55.800
dear friends. I can't stress enough
how terrible the actors they are. They

716
00:51:55.840 --> 00:52:00.320
are terrible, terrible actors, and
yet somehow they still manage to be the

717
00:52:00.360 --> 00:52:04.280
best part of this movie. What
they are like to be part of this

718
00:52:04.360 --> 00:52:07.840
movie. They they're at the level
of good high school actors. Yes,

719
00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:12.920
the class clowns. Yes, yes, the exactly class clowns in your high

720
00:52:12.960 --> 00:52:15.719
school that you were like, Yeah
yeah, the kind of shitty people,

721
00:52:15.760 --> 00:52:20.239
but they're funny. Yeah yeah.
So they're doing an extended who's on first

722
00:52:20.320 --> 00:52:22.440
riff? Paul, this is my
favorite part of the movie that is not

723
00:52:22.519 --> 00:52:27.519
a musical scene. Fair. I
wrote the entire scene down for us so

724
00:52:27.559 --> 00:52:30.800
we can share it with the listeners. It is so good. Yeah,

725
00:52:30.960 --> 00:52:34.599
this is how bad the rest of
the movie is. This is so good.

726
00:52:35.400 --> 00:52:38.599
Yeah. Morris says he needs a
password so that Jerome can let him

727
00:52:38.639 --> 00:52:43.079
know when Appollonia arrives at the club
that night, so he can excuse himself

728
00:52:43.079 --> 00:52:46.239
from all of his standby sexies without
offending them. I mean ten out of

729
00:52:46.239 --> 00:52:50.800
ten, no notes, Do you
want to play Morris at Jerome? I

730
00:52:50.880 --> 00:52:53.679
will play Jerome. Okay, I
will be because I feel like you again.

731
00:52:53.719 --> 00:53:00.159
You have more of the alpha energy. All right, So password is

732
00:53:00.239 --> 00:53:02.800
needed? Okay, what's the password? You got? It? Got?

733
00:53:02.840 --> 00:53:07.800
What the password? The password is? What? Exactly? The password is

734
00:53:07.840 --> 00:53:12.559
exactly? No, it's okay.
The password is okay far as I'm concerned.

735
00:53:12.760 --> 00:53:15.159
Damn it. Say the password?
What say the password? Onion head?

736
00:53:15.519 --> 00:53:20.559
The password is what. That's what
I'm asking you. It's the password.

737
00:53:20.719 --> 00:53:23.960
The password is it? Ah?
The password is what it? You

738
00:53:24.039 --> 00:53:29.280
just said, So the password isn't
it? The password is what? Got

739
00:53:29.280 --> 00:53:34.360
it? I got it? Right
it? Or right? What? No?

740
00:53:34.360 --> 00:53:37.079
No? I almost wish Morris Day
was a better singer, because then

741
00:53:37.119 --> 00:53:45.519
the movie could be about him,
and Prince could just be Prince in my

742
00:53:45.599 --> 00:53:49.599
head, and I'd never had to
watch him try to act. Yeah.

743
00:53:49.800 --> 00:53:53.280
We cut the backstage of the club
the kid is getting ready. Wendy and

744
00:53:53.320 --> 00:54:00.239
Lisa played by real life Wendy Meloin
and Lisa Coleman asked tentatively and hopeful if

745
00:54:00.239 --> 00:54:01.519
he listened to the song they wrote, the one that they gave so the

746
00:54:01.519 --> 00:54:05.599
waitress did then give to him.
The kid says nothing, and the women

747
00:54:05.719 --> 00:54:08.199
surmise that he didn't even listen to
their work. Wendy's mad. She tells

748
00:54:08.199 --> 00:54:10.679
the kid that he's full of shit
and he should know by now that they

749
00:54:10.719 --> 00:54:15.000
are not out to hurt him.
We are not out here to upstage you.

750
00:54:15.119 --> 00:54:17.960
We are also musicians and artists,
and we just want to be taken

751
00:54:19.039 --> 00:54:22.559
seriously as such. Wendy is actually
a decent actress. She is actually you're

752
00:54:22.559 --> 00:54:28.400
again by the standards of this film. I don't know how she would do

753
00:54:28.519 --> 00:54:30.840
surrounded by actors, but he or
she can get a point across. Yeah,

754
00:54:30.840 --> 00:54:34.760
like in a movie where no one
is a professional actor, she's one

755
00:54:34.800 --> 00:54:39.800
of the better non professionals. Yeah. The kid so fucking dismissive and cruel

756
00:54:40.719 --> 00:54:45.320
uses this like handpuppet that he's holding. Yeah, I didn't know what else

757
00:54:45.360 --> 00:54:47.280
to call it. This is where
we learned that sex god Prince has a

758
00:54:47.360 --> 00:54:52.480
second talent. Huh, an amazing
second talent. He is an incredible ventriloquist.

759
00:54:55.519 --> 00:55:00.519
Why is this movie not about a
vampire Ventralok, because he's already dressed

760
00:55:00.519 --> 00:55:05.119
like a vampire tru ventriloquist. If
you had shown me a picture of him

761
00:55:05.320 --> 00:55:08.400
and said, what does this person
do my top five in the top five

762
00:55:08.440 --> 00:55:13.800
answers, vampire ventriloquist would have been
up there. Yeah, right along with

763
00:55:14.400 --> 00:55:20.199
right along with head valet at a
Victorian gay club. Yeah, right along

764
00:55:20.239 --> 00:55:27.679
with world's meanest ice dancer. That's
that's what I would have made. So

765
00:55:27.719 --> 00:55:30.679
anyway, this scene is really hard
to watch because he's such a dick to

766
00:55:30.719 --> 00:55:34.320
his cast. But all I can
think is, well, Prince is such

767
00:55:34.320 --> 00:55:37.760
a good ventral he's so good at
ventriloquism. Yeah, honestly, you didn't

768
00:55:37.760 --> 00:55:38.960
even have to be Prince. You
would have been famous for this too,

769
00:55:39.000 --> 00:55:43.320
if you'd just done this instead.
So he uses the hand puppet to tell

770
00:55:43.360 --> 00:55:45.119
them there's no chance in hell he's
ever gonna listen to their song, much

771
00:55:45.159 --> 00:55:49.199
less agree to play it. Fuck
off, it's my band, it's my

772
00:55:49.320 --> 00:55:52.400
music. Wendy and Lisa leave.
They're pissed off. Right. My journey

773
00:55:52.440 --> 00:55:55.079
from here on out. Every time
they show back up in the movie is

774
00:55:55.119 --> 00:55:59.679
I was like, didn't you quit
the band? But didn't you quit the

775
00:56:00.079 --> 00:56:02.480
Why are you still here? If
you quit? Because they're like, we're

776
00:56:02.599 --> 00:56:07.280
done, and then they leave and
I expected them to never come back,

777
00:56:07.320 --> 00:56:10.360
but they keep coming back. The
kid uses the puppet to assure himself that

778
00:56:10.400 --> 00:56:14.760
he only needs himself and that life
is a bitch. Everyone's got to get

779
00:56:14.800 --> 00:56:16.840
you, kid, Paul Rights.
Here is the kid under the spell of

780
00:56:16.880 --> 00:56:22.280
an underworld demon that speaks through this
puppet. That easily could have been the

781
00:56:22.280 --> 00:56:25.800
film that should have been the film
we're watching. Yes, yeah, in

782
00:56:25.840 --> 00:56:30.639
any case, The kid puts on
Wendy and Lisa's demo tape and he hears

783
00:56:30.679 --> 00:56:34.039
the opening strains of Purple Rain,
and I'm like, sorry, are we

784
00:56:34.159 --> 00:56:37.639
not living in a world where someone
else wrote Purple Rain? That's correct,

785
00:56:37.159 --> 00:56:40.599
that is correct. It couldn't have
been any other song but Purple Rain.

786
00:56:44.440 --> 00:56:46.800
I wanted to take a minute.
I know I use the words hand puppet,

787
00:56:47.000 --> 00:56:51.960
but it's really not accurate. What
it is is a it's a cone

788
00:56:52.639 --> 00:56:57.239
that's purple, like in that Prince
purple. And he holds it upside down,

789
00:56:57.480 --> 00:57:00.519
so the narrow end is on the
bottom, and there's a stick coming

790
00:57:00.559 --> 00:57:05.519
out of it, and he pushes
the stick up and then this like little

791
00:57:05.719 --> 00:57:10.719
felt I don't know, like very
elementary looking head and arms pop out,

792
00:57:10.760 --> 00:57:15.239
and that's the puppet that he's using. It's like a punch and Judy doll.

793
00:57:15.960 --> 00:57:17.760
Yeah, it's not like a real
It's like Marionette, I guess,

794
00:57:17.800 --> 00:57:22.280
except from below and not from above. I guess. Let's top here to

795
00:57:22.320 --> 00:57:27.159
talk about the amount of close ups
we have to watch this film of puppets

796
00:57:27.199 --> 00:57:31.880
and dolls and creepy like half masks
on the wall. Why why, oh,

797
00:57:31.920 --> 00:57:37.000
I don't know, why don't If
this whole movie was taking place in

798
00:57:37.039 --> 00:57:39.280
some Victorian child's fever dream, I'd
believe you. I'd be like, oh

799
00:57:39.360 --> 00:57:43.400
yeah, I don't know how they
knew about Morris Day. And if this

800
00:57:43.599 --> 00:57:49.519
was a horror movie where the demon
that possessed that puppet was actually stealing children

801
00:57:49.599 --> 00:57:52.599
off the streets and transforming them into
masks to hang on the wall, then

802
00:57:52.639 --> 00:57:55.400
it would all make sense. You
would have to change almost nothing about the

803
00:57:55.440 --> 00:58:00.119
film. You could just dub dialogue
over. It would all be fine.

804
00:58:01.000 --> 00:58:05.119
So we cut to the club.
I believe this is where the other band

805
00:58:05.199 --> 00:58:07.199
is playing, because Morris, neither
Morris or Prince is on the stage,

806
00:58:07.199 --> 00:58:12.119
so this must be when they're when
they're playing got it again? In my

807
00:58:12.199 --> 00:58:15.400
brain, it's what if it's R
E. M and it's just them going

808
00:58:15.079 --> 00:58:22.519
everybody and the audience is like,
fuck, yeah, this is way better

809
00:58:22.559 --> 00:58:30.000
than the Revolution. Yeah. Morris
finds Appollonia. He hits on her by

810
00:58:30.039 --> 00:58:35.719
saying things like your lips would make
a lollipop too happy, and I've got

811
00:58:35.719 --> 00:58:39.079
a brass waterbed an Italian cook,
Now what that one would work on me?

812
00:58:40.360 --> 00:58:44.440
Did your did your waterbed have a
brass frame when you were growing up?

813
00:58:45.400 --> 00:58:46.480
I wish it had. I wish
it had if I had had an

814
00:58:46.480 --> 00:58:51.000
Italian cook, my life would have
been perfect. He buys a bottle of

815
00:58:51.119 --> 00:58:53.800
champagne that is, for some reason
served in Martini glasses. I cannot I

816
00:58:53.840 --> 00:58:57.880
can't parse why this would be,
but who knows. The kid takes the

817
00:58:57.920 --> 00:59:01.360
stage and he starts to perform the
beautiful great song starts out as like a

818
00:59:01.400 --> 00:59:07.079
slow jam ballad, and then it
kind of escalates really quickly into the this

819
00:59:07.280 --> 00:59:13.760
like shout singing, ah wow,
you yaow me and he's just singing it

820
00:59:13.800 --> 00:59:17.400
all at Apollonia, right. So
Apollonia is moved to tears as the kid

821
00:59:17.599 --> 00:59:22.159
rides on the floor. The kid
finishes the song and then immediately leaves the

822
00:59:22.199 --> 00:59:28.480
stage after one performance and heads to
his motorcycle in the back alley. Apollonia

823
00:59:28.599 --> 00:59:30.400
is there, and of course,
I mean, the connection between these two

824
00:59:30.440 --> 00:59:35.639
is overwhelming, and I have more
dialogue for us to perform. I believe

825
00:59:35.639 --> 00:59:37.360
we have established it. You will
be playing the kid and I'll be playing

826
00:59:37.360 --> 00:59:43.159
Apollonia. Okay, just to just
to keep the consistency. So Apollonia emerges

827
00:59:43.199 --> 00:59:45.840
from the shadows and she says,
hey, we have to go to your

828
00:59:45.880 --> 00:59:51.000
place. What for I want to
show you something? No, we can't.

829
00:59:51.440 --> 00:59:54.920
Why is somebody there. Why do
you always think that there's somebody else

830
00:59:55.599 --> 01:00:00.519
Let's go, Yeah, but we're
not going to my place. And then

831
01:00:00.559 --> 01:00:06.519
they leave such good writing. Honestly, I don't think Eugene O'Neil could do

832
01:00:06.599 --> 01:00:10.639
better. Tennessee Williams rolled over in
his grave and said, why not me?

833
01:00:15.039 --> 01:00:20.719
Shakespeare was like poetry, it's only
Shakespeare's ghost grows up and was like,

834
01:00:20.760 --> 01:00:27.840
burn my folio. They go to
the kid's house and they're outside the

835
01:00:27.880 --> 01:00:31.079
house looking in, and they watch
his parents making out on the couch through

836
01:00:31.119 --> 01:00:36.039
the window. Right. Again,
she doesn't know any of the backstory.

837
01:00:36.159 --> 01:00:39.519
She has no idea that there's some
weird psycho sexual thing happening on the other

838
01:00:39.559 --> 01:00:43.760
side of that window. She just
sees two people making out. They're about

839
01:00:43.800 --> 01:00:45.239
to go to Bonetown. Oh yeah. She's like, oh, these are

840
01:00:45.280 --> 01:00:49.199
your parents, and he's like,
yeah, the freak show. And I'm

841
01:00:49.199 --> 01:00:52.559
like what I think. He's also
supposed to be like twenty, but because

842
01:00:52.840 --> 01:00:58.920
he's in the makeup and he looks
thirty two. So it's so he takes

843
01:00:58.920 --> 01:01:01.679
Apolonia around the side to the house. They entered his basement apartment through a

844
01:01:01.719 --> 01:01:06.519
window. Right. Poor girl,
she's wearing like six in Chields. She

845
01:01:06.559 --> 01:01:09.599
has to climb down through a window
jump into the apartment. There is Paul

846
01:01:09.639 --> 01:01:13.960
Wright's here, and he is not
wrong. There are an uncomfortable number of

847
01:01:14.039 --> 01:01:17.440
masks, dolls and pictures of women's
faces on the wall. Yeah, so

848
01:01:17.559 --> 01:01:22.360
Prince is definitely an ancient Victorian serial
killer. Uh huh, Yeah, who

849
01:01:22.559 --> 01:01:27.239
is inhabiting the doll like a Barbie
doll's body? Right, that's what happening.

850
01:01:27.599 --> 01:01:30.199
He was a Victorian archaeologist who went
into Egypt and he got absolutely possessed

851
01:01:30.239 --> 01:01:36.360
by the spirit of like an old
pharaoh and now ah ha been moving through

852
01:01:36.800 --> 01:01:40.599
the world ever since. He's definitely
like an ancient wizard who's come to her

853
01:01:40.679 --> 01:01:45.920
land. She sees all of this
and is like, Okay, no probub,

854
01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:49.400
cool, cool, all of this
I'm fine with. She starts playing

855
01:01:49.400 --> 01:01:52.880
one of his tapes and that there's
like a woman moaning over a beat,

856
01:01:52.000 --> 01:01:55.320
right, and she asks who the
orgasming woman is. She's like, ooh,

857
01:01:55.360 --> 01:01:58.960
I'm jealous of her, and he
explains it it's not an orgasm,

858
01:01:59.280 --> 01:02:04.599
it's a woman weeping and he's playing
it backwards. Okay, how fast are

859
01:02:04.599 --> 01:02:07.239
you out of there at that moment? Oh? So this is right when

860
01:02:07.280 --> 01:02:10.119
she realized you were going to kill
her. That's what's happening here. I

861
01:02:10.119 --> 01:02:14.840
would don't drink anything he hands you. That's all I'm saying. The one

862
01:02:14.840 --> 01:02:16.360
advantage she has is she's a foot
and a half taller than him, So

863
01:02:16.400 --> 01:02:22.000
she was taken. Yeah, if
it comes down to it, Oh god.

864
01:02:22.119 --> 01:02:25.880
Okay. So after some more indecipherable
bottle dialogue, okay, he takes

865
01:02:25.880 --> 01:02:30.840
his shirt off, right, and
she goes King Kong or she she like

866
01:02:30.039 --> 01:02:34.960
rubs her hand on his chest and
says, King Kong. I have what

867
01:02:35.000 --> 01:02:38.440
does that mean? No idea?
Well I was I literally and my Google

868
01:02:38.440 --> 01:02:43.119
search history there is did Prince have
a King Kong tattoo on his chest?

869
01:02:43.159 --> 01:02:46.239
That was just like common knowledge and
I just don't know that. But no,

870
01:02:46.400 --> 01:02:49.400
not that I could find. Like
we see him with his shirt off

871
01:02:49.400 --> 01:02:52.039
and he has a little bit of
chest hair. I was like, maybe

872
01:02:52.079 --> 01:02:54.400
she's like touching his chest hair and
she's saying, hey, King Kong because

873
01:02:54.400 --> 01:02:58.960
he's got chest hair. But it's
I can't tell you enough help how much

874
01:02:59.000 --> 01:03:01.920
of a normal amount of chest hair. Maybe she's drunked, Like she's so

875
01:03:02.039 --> 01:03:05.599
much taller than him, She's like
come on King Kong, scale me like

876
01:03:05.599 --> 01:03:08.800
the Empire State Building. She also
just scramble up the side of her legs

877
01:03:08.840 --> 01:03:12.960
like a little gremlin. I want
to hold you like Fay Ray. Come

878
01:03:13.000 --> 01:03:17.239
in my hands, Come into my
hands, you little magical sex elf.

879
01:03:22.119 --> 01:03:25.400
So she tries to take his shirt
off. They both say no to each

880
01:03:25.440 --> 01:03:29.039
other. She's like he like leans
in for kiss. She's like no,

881
01:03:29.400 --> 01:03:31.400
and then she leans in for kiss. He's like no, yeah, and

882
01:03:31.440 --> 01:03:35.920
then they bone down and then they
fuck it. They fuck. I have

883
01:03:36.239 --> 01:03:40.280
never seen underwear with so many knots
in it, Like, I don't know

884
01:03:40.280 --> 01:03:45.760
how Apollonia got dressed. These panties
are a disaster. Like, you can't

885
01:03:45.800 --> 01:03:50.679
tell me she's broke. She's wearing
five hundred dollars Frederick's of Hollywood underwear.

886
01:03:51.880 --> 01:03:54.679
That bitch is not broke, all
right. So the kid drops Apollonia off

887
01:03:54.679 --> 01:03:59.000
at her apartment the next morning.
She promises to see him that night.

888
01:03:59.239 --> 01:04:01.000
By the way, this whole thing
about like we can't go to my place,

889
01:04:01.039 --> 01:04:04.320
and it seems to be implied that
it's because she's like embarrassed of where

890
01:04:04.320 --> 01:04:09.039
she lives, but he knows where
she lives. Also, the second she

891
01:04:09.079 --> 01:04:12.079
saw his weird basement apartment. She
should have been like, you know what,

892
01:04:12.719 --> 01:04:15.079
You're right, let's go to We're
going to my flo which is a

893
01:04:15.119 --> 01:04:19.360
hotel, which is the appropriate place
to be having this sexual congress. Yeah,

894
01:04:19.400 --> 01:04:23.639
so she promises to see him that
night. The Kid heads into the

895
01:04:23.639 --> 01:04:27.000
club and finds Lisa and Wendy playing
some music together, and he's like,

896
01:04:27.039 --> 01:04:30.519
where is everybody? And they're like, well, you're late, so everybody

897
01:04:30.599 --> 01:04:32.840
left. The kid, by the
way, seems horrible as a bandleader,

898
01:04:33.239 --> 01:04:40.000
seems like he super sucks. He
sucks so hard. And again I miss

899
01:04:40.039 --> 01:04:42.280
half the scene because I was like, why are they there? Why are

900
01:04:42.320 --> 01:04:46.039
Wendy and Lisa there? Why they
rehearsal So they were working on their own

901
01:04:46.119 --> 01:04:49.800
music, and he tells them get
off it. I'm never going to do

902
01:04:49.920 --> 01:04:59.639
your stupid music. Why. What
is the problem? Everything about this script

903
01:05:00.239 --> 01:05:09.079
a first draft that was written very
quickly. They had a deadline. Uh.

904
01:05:09.239 --> 01:05:13.920
Morris intercepts Apollonia as she leaves her
apartment and he pitches her on joining

905
01:05:13.960 --> 01:05:16.079
his girl group, and she says, no, the Kid's gonna help me,

906
01:05:16.119 --> 01:05:19.440
and Morris laughs in her face and
says, the kid hasn't helped anyone

907
01:05:19.480 --> 01:05:23.119
but himself and his whole life,
and I have to say, no lies

908
01:05:23.119 --> 01:05:26.639
detected here. Yeah, I mean, the movie is telling me that Morris

909
01:05:26.679 --> 01:05:29.679
is telling the truth. Here.
Apoloni is intrigued, but she kind of

910
01:05:29.719 --> 01:05:32.079
wants to make sure that the kid
knows has nothing to do with their relationship,

911
01:05:32.519 --> 01:05:36.679
so she pawns some jewelry and uses
the money to buy the white guitar

912
01:05:36.800 --> 01:05:43.159
that the kid had admired previously,
five thousand dollars Fender than she was something

913
01:05:43.199 --> 01:05:45.280
like that, Yeah, what kind
of jewelry do you have, lady?

914
01:05:45.760 --> 01:05:49.679
We cut to the kid. He's
sitting in his basement apartment under red lights,

915
01:05:50.119 --> 01:05:55.400
listening to Wendy and Lisa's demo tape
while his father and mother screamed at

916
01:05:55.400 --> 01:06:00.320
each other above, and there's like
like things falling. They're obviously having a

917
01:06:00.440 --> 01:06:03.320
physical brawl. Yeah. Yeah.
The fight spills into the basement again and

918
01:06:03.400 --> 01:06:08.960
the father slaps her to the ground. She moans that she's trapped in this

919
01:06:09.159 --> 01:06:13.800
loveless, terrible relationship, and his
father says, you'll always have a roof

920
01:06:13.840 --> 01:06:15.880
over your head, and she weeps
and says, you never let me have

921
01:06:16.000 --> 01:06:21.519
any fun. Can I tell you? The actress says, it so slowly

922
01:06:21.559 --> 01:06:27.840
that I was waiting for something really, like, like meaningful, like you,

923
01:06:28.039 --> 01:06:31.440
like you. You won't let me
leave the house. You're murdering me,

924
01:06:31.599 --> 01:06:41.760
and then you won't let me have
any fun. What I think,

925
01:06:41.800 --> 01:06:48.840
Tommy Wiseo dates the room off of
this movie. You're tearing me upon exactly.

926
01:06:49.519 --> 01:06:55.280
Both his parents weep as his father
says, if you only believed in

927
01:06:55.440 --> 01:07:02.320
me, I would die for you, and then they just fuckingly. He

928
01:07:02.360 --> 01:07:04.679
goes to his mother and he tries
to console her, but I'm like,

929
01:07:05.679 --> 01:07:13.440
why is it happening? I implore
you get on the first bus to Los

930
01:07:13.440 --> 01:07:16.920
Angeles. Why are you still in? Where are you still? Oh?

931
01:07:16.920 --> 01:07:21.559
Oh god? Uh. We cut
to later. The kid has fallen asleep

932
01:07:21.599 --> 01:07:26.199
in his basement with about four thousand
candles lit, which is not what the

933
01:07:26.239 --> 01:07:30.960
fire safety code would suggest that you
do. Apollonia climbs to the window and

934
01:07:30.000 --> 01:07:34.920
she gives him his gift. He's
thrilled. He's so overcome with emotion that

935
01:07:34.960 --> 01:07:39.840
he takes off his earring and he
gives her his earring. His pirate earring.

936
01:07:40.360 --> 01:07:44.440
Is pirate earring, the source of
all his powers. A bunch of

937
01:07:44.559 --> 01:07:48.920
insert shots make it look like all
the masks are watching them. Why this

938
01:07:48.920 --> 01:07:58.079
is here? Oh my god,
I'm gonna do a spit take. Like

939
01:07:58.159 --> 01:08:03.039
the masks have consciousness, they're staring
at these two give each other gifts.

940
01:08:04.199 --> 01:08:09.920
Oh my god. Apollonia tells him
I'm gonna be joining Morris's girl group,

941
01:08:10.119 --> 01:08:15.840
and he this look of rage comes
over him. He backhands her so hard

942
01:08:15.880 --> 01:08:18.600
that she spins around and falls to
the floor. She manages to catch herself

943
01:08:19.119 --> 01:08:24.039
on the top of his dresser.
He tells her he doesn't want her in

944
01:08:24.079 --> 01:08:27.600
his life this way, and she
snaps at he's jealous, and she leaves.

945
01:08:28.479 --> 01:08:30.680
I know the movie was telling me
the entire time what kind of movie

946
01:08:30.680 --> 01:08:33.399
this is. But I can't tell
you what an idiot I am, because

947
01:08:33.439 --> 01:08:41.279
I was genuinely shocked when he hit
her. They met yesterday, they met

948
01:08:41.319 --> 01:08:45.600
like literally forty eight hours ago,
and he's She's like, I have a

949
01:08:45.720 --> 01:08:49.520
job opportunity, and he's like,
boom, Now, whare in the kisser?

950
01:08:50.319 --> 01:08:55.960
Now? Is that a red flag
to the moon? Now? Jesus

951
01:08:56.119 --> 01:09:00.479
Christ, how did this get so
svu so quickly? If I were her,

952
01:09:00.560 --> 01:09:02.680
I would have grabbed that guitar out
of his hand and been like,

953
01:09:02.720 --> 01:09:05.479
well, I guess I'm taking this
with me. If I was her,

954
01:09:05.520 --> 01:09:09.319
I would have picked him up by
the neck and slammed him into the wall

955
01:09:09.920 --> 01:09:13.920
one hand. I don't ever fucking
do that again, your little prick.

956
01:09:14.439 --> 01:09:17.039
The next time you even think of
hitting me, I'll fucking destroy you.

957
01:09:17.560 --> 01:09:21.279
Yeah, I will rip your dick
off with my bare hand. You weigh

958
01:09:21.399 --> 01:09:28.760
seventy pounds. You are a Victorian
dummy that's come to life. I don't

959
01:09:28.760 --> 01:09:31.199
think I won't destroy you. I
will. I am Mexican. You think

960
01:09:31.239 --> 01:09:33.960
I don't have someone who with some
holy water back home? Yeah? You

961
01:09:34.000 --> 01:09:36.920
think I don't know how to sage
this shit out of this house? We

962
01:09:38.039 --> 01:09:42.199
didn't. We never mentioned that before. Apollonia is Mexican. That's true.

963
01:09:42.439 --> 01:09:46.760
Yay diversity, So much diversity in
this movie, that really is so things

964
01:09:46.760 --> 01:09:50.920
are already going bad for our hero, the kid. Why this poor guy

965
01:09:51.000 --> 01:09:55.199
can't catch him break he is in
it. He's in a downward spiral.

966
01:09:55.239 --> 01:10:00.640
As said, not only is his
girlfriend a lying, backstabbing but of his

967
01:10:00.840 --> 01:10:04.960
genius. Well, Wendy and Lisa
suddenly decide they're not showing up to rehearsal,

968
01:10:05.279 --> 01:10:08.600
and one of the guys in the
band is like, I think they're

969
01:10:08.640 --> 01:10:13.319
periods SYNCD up for some fucking terrible
joke. It's earlier, he says.

970
01:10:13.359 --> 01:10:16.560
He says, God got Wendy's periods
wrong. She's nice every twenty eight days,

971
01:10:17.840 --> 01:10:23.239
excellent humor, no no, no
notes led it, perfect fucking joke,

972
01:10:23.359 --> 01:10:29.439
purple rain and perfect fucking joke.
And then to make matters worse,

973
01:10:29.600 --> 01:10:32.920
Apollonius six, which is the girl
group that's spun up in the last twelve

974
01:10:32.920 --> 01:10:40.760
hours. Uh it supposedly now fucking
amazing, so good, and they're gonna

975
01:10:40.800 --> 01:10:44.000
be one of the regular acts of
the club. And then Billy. This

976
01:10:44.039 --> 01:10:45.920
is when Erica learned just a third
band, as she did not realize.

977
01:10:46.439 --> 01:10:50.319
Billy's like, I now I've got
four bands, and I only need three,

978
01:10:50.520 --> 01:10:54.880
so one of you's got to go. It only becomes funnier once you

979
01:10:54.880 --> 01:10:59.640
see Apollonia six quote unquote perform.
I would have loved it if he had

980
01:10:59.640 --> 01:11:02.359
cut to the other band. And
it was like literally like Michael Jackson and

981
01:11:02.359 --> 01:11:10.479
he's like, you gotta go,
kid. So the kid goes the kids

982
01:11:10.600 --> 01:11:15.119
back on his death trap motorcycle and
goes back out to not like Minatonka,

983
01:11:16.279 --> 01:11:19.840
and he remembers better times except Paul
that's what Paul writes here. That's not

984
01:11:19.880 --> 01:11:30.439
what's happening because he's remembering things that
have not happened. It's correct fully remembering

985
01:11:30.560 --> 01:11:34.199
scenes we have not seen before in
the movie, and there has not been

986
01:11:34.319 --> 01:11:38.479
enough time for them to have happened, because again, this is like three

987
01:11:38.560 --> 01:11:42.439
days after he met Apollonio. He's
like, he's like riding his bike by

988
01:11:42.479 --> 01:11:45.640
the motor by the lake, and
I think this is when Doves Cry is

989
01:11:45.680 --> 01:11:48.479
playing. This is when is such
a good song that I almost didn't notice

990
01:11:48.479 --> 01:11:53.359
how terrible this part of the movie
he was. But he has his memory

991
01:11:53.399 --> 01:11:59.079
of banging Apolonia on the on the
floor of a barn covered in a pile

992
01:11:59.159 --> 01:12:01.520
of hay, and I'm like,
wait, when were they in a barn?

993
01:12:09.319 --> 01:12:12.359
No, it couldn't be because he
just had sex the night before the

994
01:12:12.399 --> 01:12:15.159
first that had to do in their
first time having sex, yeah, which

995
01:12:15.159 --> 01:12:17.680
she had all yet, right,
No, he is literally inventing things that

996
01:12:17.760 --> 01:12:21.479
have not yet happened or have not
happened. So yeah, he's he's remembering

997
01:12:21.520 --> 01:12:25.800
the time they fucked in a barn
then made out in the grass by the

998
01:12:25.880 --> 01:12:30.039
lake, which absolutely did not happen
because we saw the entire scene from beginning

999
01:12:30.119 --> 01:12:34.319
to end, all right, The
kid comes home to find his mother weeping

1000
01:12:34.359 --> 01:12:39.399
in front of the house. He
heads inside to find his father like noodling

1001
01:12:39.439 --> 01:12:42.960
on the piano, basically remembers,
I have to stop you right there,

1002
01:12:43.039 --> 01:12:47.800
because please, one of my favorite
stupid moments in the movie. He pulls

1003
01:12:47.880 --> 01:12:50.359
up to the house. The mother
is covering her hands with her face,

1004
01:12:50.359 --> 01:12:55.479
so the father has the implication is
he has done something terrible. He's broken

1005
01:12:55.560 --> 01:12:59.000
her nose or given her a black
eye or something. He stomps into the

1006
01:12:59.039 --> 01:13:05.640
house and just like a man wearing
puffy sleeves and and ruffled risk cups parawets

1007
01:13:05.680 --> 01:13:13.760
and turns around and says, where
are you, motherfucker? Should those should

1008
01:13:13.760 --> 01:13:17.720
those risk ruffles be called cuffles?
Scuffles? He cuffles literally fucking does a

1009
01:13:17.880 --> 01:13:20.880
pirouet in the house. He turns
in, he goes, where are you,

1010
01:13:21.039 --> 01:13:29.239
motherfucker? Piauwet he does, You're
right, you are right. I

1011
01:13:29.279 --> 01:13:32.000
can't unsee it. Oh, So
he goes downstairs. He finds his father

1012
01:13:32.159 --> 01:13:36.279
kind of playing the piano. Remember
his father as a musician whose dreams died,

1013
01:13:36.359 --> 01:13:39.760
right, he didn't make it,
And he tells the kid that he's

1014
01:13:39.760 --> 01:13:42.640
composed a lot of music, but
he hasn't written any of it down truly.

1015
01:13:42.680 --> 01:13:45.520
Clarence Williams is way too Like Clarence
Williams makes all of these lines work

1016
01:13:45.960 --> 01:13:49.560
in a way that is actually not
helpful to the movie. Yeah, because

1017
01:13:49.560 --> 01:13:53.119
he feels really bad for him.
You're like, oh, no, he's

1018
01:13:53.159 --> 01:13:56.760
suffering. Yeah, you're he's a
monster, but he's good enough to make

1019
01:13:56.760 --> 01:13:59.920
you feel to show you the human
underneath the monster. Right, So,

1020
01:14:00.159 --> 01:14:03.239
like everyone else is spinning off in
wildly different directions, and you have this

1021
01:14:03.279 --> 01:14:10.960
guy having a really real moment of
like he's become this awful person. Yeah,

1022
01:14:10.960 --> 01:14:14.760
but he was not always that person. And the movie kind of reflects

1023
01:14:14.760 --> 01:14:16.680
it too, because Prince comes down
there. The kid comes down there all

1024
01:14:16.720 --> 01:14:19.840
hot, like he's gonna fucking kill
his father, right, and then he

1025
01:14:20.319 --> 01:14:25.399
finds him at the piano and immediately
softens and he's like, hey, are

1026
01:14:25.399 --> 01:14:28.760
you okay, Tad? And I'm
like, did he beat the shit out

1027
01:14:28.760 --> 01:14:31.439
of your mom? Who's still outside? Anyway? Keep going. The father

1028
01:14:31.560 --> 01:14:35.000
asks the kid do you have a
girlfriend? And the kid says yes,

1029
01:14:35.159 --> 01:14:40.760
and Paul says do you? But
do you? Though it seemed like,

1030
01:14:41.000 --> 01:14:43.600
you didn't have a band or a
girlfriend the last time I checked, and

1031
01:14:43.640 --> 01:14:45.039
you still seem to think you have
both, which, by the way,

1032
01:14:45.079 --> 01:14:47.600
the movie will pan out that you
are correct and I'm wrong, so that's

1033
01:14:47.600 --> 01:14:53.800
on me. But yeah, okay, the father mutters, never get married,

1034
01:14:54.159 --> 01:14:58.359
and yeah, that's definitely the problem
with that relationship, the fact that

1035
01:14:58.359 --> 01:15:02.239
they got married. H If they've
never gotten married, they would have been

1036
01:15:02.359 --> 01:15:06.920
so happy together those two. We
cut back to the club and the Kid

1037
01:15:08.039 --> 01:15:12.319
is performing and Wendy and Lisa,
who deigned to show up so few,

1038
01:15:13.399 --> 01:15:16.000
are on stage with him, and
they're performing computer Blue, not one of

1039
01:15:16.039 --> 01:15:19.079
the more famous songs from Purple Rain, but I actually really liked it.

1040
01:15:19.159 --> 01:15:23.439
Every song is great. Yeah.
We cut to outside the club. Appollonia

1041
01:15:23.560 --> 01:15:26.039
is in a car with Morris.
He's like, come on inside, and

1042
01:15:26.039 --> 01:15:28.640
she's like, absolutely not going in
there. My ex is in there.

1043
01:15:28.640 --> 01:15:30.399
The guy who beat the shit out
of me last night is in there,

1044
01:15:30.760 --> 01:15:32.920
and Morris is like, this is
you gotta do it. It's good for

1045
01:15:32.960 --> 01:15:36.840
your image to be seen in public. So she finally like agrees to do

1046
01:15:36.920 --> 01:15:41.680
it. They walk in. The
Kid sees the two of them walking in

1047
01:15:41.720 --> 01:15:45.239
together to the club together and then
he launches into Darling Nicky, which I

1048
01:15:45.279 --> 01:15:48.279
have to admit I've never really listened
to the lyrics of before. Oh really,

1049
01:15:48.720 --> 01:15:54.520
holy shit, the very song that
inspired Tipper Gore to make sure we

1050
01:15:54.600 --> 01:15:57.640
got those parental warning labels on CDs. Darling Nicky, you know what,

1051
01:15:57.680 --> 01:16:02.279
You're right, Tipper Gore, because
that song calient. I guess she was

1052
01:16:02.359 --> 01:16:05.119
kind of a sex fiend or whatever
the opposite of a sex fiend was.

1053
01:16:05.159 --> 01:16:10.039
That was Tipper Gore. Nikki was
the sex fiend. Ha ha. So

1054
01:16:10.319 --> 01:16:13.880
yeah, So he sings it scornfully
at her, and instead of finding it

1055
01:16:13.920 --> 01:16:19.159
to be the absolute treasure of a
compliment that that song is, Apollonia leaves

1056
01:16:19.159 --> 01:16:25.039
the club in tears while the kid
is humping the floor to Darling Nikky.

1057
01:16:26.279 --> 01:16:29.560
Timsy humping the floor to notice she's
left, and he looks up. He's

1058
01:16:29.560 --> 01:16:31.359
like, oh, she left.
He departs the stage. He goes to

1059
01:16:31.479 --> 01:16:36.000
his dressing room, and then Paul
writes here that he rages that he just

1060
01:16:36.039 --> 01:16:41.199
has the most just such a snit. He's having a spit that the best

1061
01:16:41.239 --> 01:16:46.159
prince can do. He snits in
his dressing room. He's like, throws

1062
01:16:46.199 --> 01:16:48.760
things around, and I'm like bitch, I don't believe you. I just

1063
01:16:48.800 --> 01:16:53.720
don't believe you. Billy confronts him
and tells him that no one is digging

1064
01:16:53.760 --> 01:16:57.520
his music but him. Again,
bitch, show us an audience that does

1065
01:16:57.600 --> 01:17:00.039
not like it that because the minute
he started in to Darling Nikki, the

1066
01:17:00.119 --> 01:17:06.840
audience was in and fucking computer blue. He's like doing the dance with a

1067
01:17:06.880 --> 01:17:12.600
blindfold on, and he's shirtless and
he's like ripped hot in the scene.

1068
01:17:12.920 --> 01:17:15.560
It's so the wedding and the blindfold. It's not a blindfold. I mean

1069
01:17:15.600 --> 01:17:18.119
it is, but it's like it's
like a domino mask almost, but it's

1070
01:17:18.119 --> 01:17:21.199
made of lace, of black lace. I'm like, Jesus Christ, this

1071
01:17:21.319 --> 01:17:27.600
is so. This is every romance
novel ever rolled into one moment. So

1072
01:17:27.680 --> 01:17:30.920
then Billy goes for the juggular with
what a fucking waste, Like father,

1073
01:17:31.159 --> 01:17:35.840
like son, Jesus Billy. Oh. Also, Billy is maybe twenty five

1074
01:17:35.920 --> 01:17:39.399
years old. How does he know
the fire? He is the same just

1075
01:17:39.439 --> 01:17:43.760
everyone else in this movie. Billy
leaves and Jerome appears to give the kid

1076
01:17:43.760 --> 01:17:47.079
a couple of tickets to Apollonius six's
debut the next night at a different club.

1077
01:17:47.119 --> 01:17:51.560
He's like you should bring a girlfriend
with you because I guess, like

1078
01:17:51.960 --> 01:17:55.920
I guess, because Morris will be
banging Apollonia. I guess it's the thing.

1079
01:17:56.000 --> 01:18:00.680
Yeah. So Apolonia six, the
band that started yesterday, ah,

1080
01:18:01.000 --> 01:18:06.359
already has a gig tomorrow at a
club and they're fucking amazing. I mean,

1081
01:18:06.399 --> 01:18:10.840
the fact that they started yesterday does
make sense given the performance that we're

1082
01:18:10.880 --> 01:18:14.880
about to describe, because look,
we have all of the performances up to

1083
01:18:14.920 --> 01:18:17.119
this point have been no notes,
even Morris Morris and the time, it's

1084
01:18:17.159 --> 01:18:20.720
really fun like this, Their performance
is great. It is such as a

1085
01:18:20.760 --> 01:18:24.319
little cheese ball, but it's good. It's good. Yeah, but cheese

1086
01:18:24.359 --> 01:18:28.039
ball in like a great way in
a way that I personally love. But

1087
01:18:28.159 --> 01:18:30.760
Okay, so they cut to the
Taste, which is another nightclub, and

1088
01:18:30.760 --> 01:18:33.960
that's where Apollonia six is debuting.
Morris, Jerome, and Billy are all

1089
01:18:33.960 --> 01:18:38.640
in the audience, and so it's
Apollonia and the two other women that we

1090
01:18:38.680 --> 01:18:43.239
saw rehearsing with Jerome and Morris earlier. Okay, their outfits are basically like

1091
01:18:43.399 --> 01:18:47.640
negliges and kind of graduation robes that
are open in the front slash capes.

1092
01:18:47.720 --> 01:18:53.960
You're going for if if the X
men were just lingerie models. Yeah.

1093
01:18:54.199 --> 01:18:59.000
Yeah, it's also, by the
way, canonically three women in Apollonia six.

1094
01:18:59.359 --> 01:19:02.359
It's very refusing fighting that out.
That's because each of them is enough

1095
01:19:02.439 --> 01:19:06.079
woman for two men. Ah,
that's why. So they do this song

1096
01:19:06.279 --> 01:19:13.079
sex Shooter, which hau it is
a it is it is a prince song.

1097
01:19:13.760 --> 01:19:16.479
Look, first of all, let's
say the lyrics like I'm a sex

1098
01:19:16.560 --> 01:19:23.880
shooter make much much more sense if
it's being sung by someone with a penis.

1099
01:19:23.960 --> 01:19:30.079
Someone with a penis not to deny
the the the the the female ejaculators

1100
01:19:30.119 --> 01:19:34.439
out there in the world. Lady, we see you girls and we love

1101
01:19:34.479 --> 01:19:43.279
you, but like the lyrics don't
make like make like come on kiss the

1102
01:19:43.359 --> 01:19:49.239
gun. Guarantee for fun makes sexy
sense when sung by someone with a penis

1103
01:19:49.840 --> 01:19:55.600
that they are celebrating in song.
You know, I barely noticed the lyrics

1104
01:19:55.640 --> 01:20:01.439
because those too busy going oh no, oh no, they're terrible. Remember

1105
01:20:01.720 --> 01:20:08.880
remember Katie and and Regina and mean
girls. They are significantly worse than that

1106
01:20:08.960 --> 01:20:14.600
Christmas performance. Yeah, I expected
something better. Iet I, for some

1107
01:20:14.680 --> 01:20:16.520
reason in my head she sounded like
Shila e. I don't know why,

1108
01:20:17.079 --> 01:20:21.720
Well, because you're like Prince Proge. Yeah, like fantastic. I thought

1109
01:20:21.760 --> 01:20:25.680
she would sound like Shila E.
And I'm like, but that's she's so

1110
01:20:25.920 --> 01:20:30.079
bad. Like you said, do
the song, but I mean they're barely

1111
01:20:30.119 --> 01:20:34.399
half They're half assing this like like
step toe step toe, Like, oh,

1112
01:20:34.439 --> 01:20:40.520
it's so bad. It is a
middle school talent show lip sync performance

1113
01:20:40.560 --> 01:20:44.359
of a mediocre song that kids are
being forced to do because their parents said

1114
01:20:44.399 --> 01:20:46.680
they had to for extra credit or
some shit like that. By the way,

1115
01:20:46.720 --> 01:20:50.000
they cut to the audience, and
the audience is reacting as though they

1116
01:20:50.039 --> 01:20:57.279
are watching Majonna perform Vogue for the
first time. Aretha Franklin just showed up

1117
01:20:57.279 --> 01:21:00.960
and started singing respect. They keep
cutting to this one lady, this older

1118
01:21:01.319 --> 01:21:06.000
black woman in a cardigan. I
think the parlance is an aunty. She

1119
01:21:06.119 --> 01:21:10.880
is an aunty. I'm sorry.
Yeah, she is clapping along, she

1120
01:21:11.000 --> 01:21:14.960
is into it, and I'm like, there's no fucking way this auntie is

1121
01:21:14.960 --> 01:21:17.840
into this song. I'm sorry.
The extra should have been the extras from

1122
01:21:18.159 --> 01:21:23.920
Adventures in Babysitting when Elizabeth Shoe has
to do that performance and the opening when

1123
01:21:24.359 --> 01:21:27.520
all those people just sitting there like
this is a no, it's a no.

1124
01:21:27.720 --> 01:21:30.079
For me's that should have been the
react to this? Okay, So

1125
01:21:30.960 --> 01:21:35.319
Apollonia six is performing. The kid
stands in the back of the audience watching

1126
01:21:35.479 --> 01:21:40.439
in sunglasses. So many people in
dark clubs with sunglasses in this movie.

1127
01:21:40.439 --> 01:21:44.159
You're like, how can you say? Anyway, After the show, we

1128
01:21:44.279 --> 01:21:48.039
find a clearly hammered Morris and Apollonia. They're thrilled with the debut. They're

1129
01:21:48.079 --> 01:21:53.720
heading for her car and Apollonia is
still wearing her stage wear like the Negligee

1130
01:21:53.760 --> 01:21:58.119
and the Cape alarm bells go off
in her head and when she asks,

1131
01:21:58.159 --> 01:22:01.239
where's Jerome, and Morris says,
is just the two of them? And

1132
01:22:01.279 --> 01:22:05.640
then he staggers back and he has
his overcoat kind of wrapped around him really

1133
01:22:05.640 --> 01:22:11.319
tightly, and then he throws open
the overcoat as if he's a splasher,

1134
01:22:12.000 --> 01:22:16.920
and then he starts moving his hips
around and he's like upset. We talked

1135
01:22:16.920 --> 01:22:19.880
about honking, squawking and quacking in
them up at Christmas, Carol, but

1136
01:22:20.000 --> 01:22:24.159
this is none of those things.
This is it's kind of a caw meets

1137
01:22:24.159 --> 01:22:27.239
a gobble. It is the sound
of sexual assault and I'm not here for

1138
01:22:27.279 --> 01:22:31.640
it. I was both genuinely relieved
and genuinely surprised that we did not get

1139
01:22:31.680 --> 01:22:34.960
an Apollonia rape scene. Yep.
Agreed. The fact that we got out

1140
01:22:34.960 --> 01:22:43.640
of this movie with its history without
a woman being raped is surprising. That's

1141
01:22:43.800 --> 01:22:47.000
awful to say. But I really
did think that she was going to be

1142
01:22:47.079 --> 01:22:51.199
at the very least sexually assaulted.
Y Yep, agreed. Agreed. I

1143
01:22:51.239 --> 01:22:55.039
mean, I think that's where the
scene is going before. Oh yeah,

1144
01:22:55.039 --> 01:23:00.359
that's definitely intervention appeared right so in
the form in the form of an ancient

1145
01:23:00.479 --> 01:23:06.520
pirate king on a motorbike. Morris
is swinging his hips around. He's making

1146
01:23:06.520 --> 01:23:13.359
that upsetting bird noise. The kid
appears from nowhere, from the mist,

1147
01:23:14.239 --> 01:23:20.199
from the mist of Lake Minnetonka.
He drives his motorcycle into Jerome, knocking

1148
01:23:20.279 --> 01:23:26.000
him backwards into a pile of boxes. He skids up in front of Apollonia.

1149
01:23:26.039 --> 01:23:30.520
He's like, get on, and
they drive off together. Morris jumps

1150
01:23:30.520 --> 01:23:32.880
out. He shouts, there's an
F bomb in this movie too, you

1151
01:23:33.079 --> 01:23:39.760
long haired F bomb. I okay. I'm of two minds about this because

1152
01:23:40.319 --> 01:23:46.479
Prince has a very complicated history with
the LGBT community's he went through a Jehovah's

1153
01:23:46.479 --> 01:23:50.960
Witness era I don't remember if he
came through it or not. For he

1154
01:23:51.960 --> 01:23:57.199
that quite anti LGBT, and to
my recollection, I tried to do some

1155
01:23:57.239 --> 01:24:00.640
research on this, and it seems
like he was supportive earlier, like Wendy

1156
01:24:00.680 --> 01:24:03.880
and Lisa in his band in real
life are in a lesbian relationship. Also

1157
01:24:03.960 --> 01:24:09.199
the most effeminate man, yeah,
on the face of the earth. So

1158
01:24:09.399 --> 01:24:15.439
I am one hundred percent certain that
this word would have been flung at Prince

1159
01:24:15.760 --> 01:24:19.000
in his life. So I get
it. I'm not offended by the word

1160
01:24:19.079 --> 01:24:24.560
here, It's just it's it was
another moment, kind of like the domestic

1161
01:24:24.640 --> 01:24:27.399
violence where I'm like, this is
not called for in this movie. We

1162
01:24:27.479 --> 01:24:30.720
don't need a real moment here.
This You just hit this man with your

1163
01:24:30.760 --> 01:24:38.560
purple motorcycle while he was threatening to
sexually assault your girlfriend who can't sing.

1164
01:24:38.960 --> 01:24:43.840
We don't need we don't need gayeslers
popping up your girlfriend who you beat up

1165
01:24:43.840 --> 01:24:47.199
in the last time she saw you, he beat her up? Can I

1166
01:24:47.239 --> 01:24:51.079
tell you him? Like? Knocking
Morris over with his motorcycle was my biggest

1167
01:24:51.119 --> 01:24:57.159
laugh of the movie though, Oh
yeah, that was hilarious. So the

1168
01:24:57.319 --> 01:25:01.199
can in Apollonia drive away until they
up in an overpass next to some train

1169
01:25:01.319 --> 01:25:08.399
tracks the most romantic part of town. Apollonia tries to pull her cape over

1170
01:25:08.439 --> 01:25:12.960
herself and the kid says uh uh, and he pulls her cape cape open

1171
01:25:13.239 --> 01:25:16.000
and kisses her. She pushes him
off, and she says she's gonna go

1172
01:25:16.039 --> 01:25:18.600
take a drink from a flask.
Right. She's like, no, I

1173
01:25:19.079 --> 01:25:23.960
don't care if you just saved me
from another awful situation. She starts to

1174
01:25:24.039 --> 01:25:27.520
drink. He gets angry, and
Paul writes here the two of them come

1175
01:25:27.560 --> 01:25:31.239
to blows. That's that's not exactly
what's happening, though. Like he attacks

1176
01:25:31.239 --> 01:25:35.319
her, she tries to defend herself. She winds up on the ground.

1177
01:25:35.720 --> 01:25:39.960
She dares the kid to hit her
again. He's about to and then stops

1178
01:25:40.000 --> 01:25:43.359
himself as she throws the earring that
he gave her in the dirt at his

1179
01:25:43.399 --> 01:25:47.600
feet. Yep, they have been
together three times. I'm like all three

1180
01:25:47.680 --> 01:25:53.800
times it just escalates like the next
scene is it just him like what like

1181
01:25:53.800 --> 01:25:59.359
like hitting her with a car?
Like break the fuck. The kid returns

1182
01:25:59.359 --> 01:26:00.920
home to find his house is a
mess. His mother is nowhere to be

1183
01:26:00.960 --> 01:26:05.039
foundt row he heads down seriously to
the basement he finds his father holding a

1184
01:26:05.039 --> 01:26:10.560
gun. His father immediately attempts suicide, but does not succeed. I was

1185
01:26:10.560 --> 01:26:13.119
looking down for a split second,
and then I heard a gun shot,

1186
01:26:13.119 --> 01:26:15.439
and I looked up and I'm like, wait, what just happened? I

1187
01:26:15.479 --> 01:26:18.159
thought maybe Prince had shot his father
or the kid rather had shot it father.

1188
01:26:18.439 --> 01:26:23.359
I wasn't sure. We cut to
the kid being in shock because his

1189
01:26:23.359 --> 01:26:27.359
father is taken away by paramedics and
he's being questioned by the police. He

1190
01:26:27.399 --> 01:26:31.000
starts to panic. He sees himself
in the basement. He sees like all

1191
01:26:31.039 --> 01:26:35.039
the parallels I suppose between his behavior
and his father's behavior, and he has

1192
01:26:35.079 --> 01:26:42.479
a vision of himself hanging from the
rafters. It's very clearly a dummy of

1193
01:26:42.640 --> 01:26:45.800
Prince, which is it really does
take the teeth out of the whole imagery?

1194
01:26:45.399 --> 01:26:47.399
Was it? Do you think was
the same dummy that they throw into

1195
01:26:47.439 --> 01:26:53.199
the dumpster earlier? One thousand percent? He has this moment where he's like,

1196
01:26:53.199 --> 01:26:56.159
I'm not going to become that.
He trashes the basement. He just

1197
01:26:56.279 --> 01:27:04.039
like, again, it's very funny
to watch the little tiny trashing a room.

1198
01:27:04.199 --> 01:27:08.359
I'm just having a memory of those
the SNL sketch with the horny elves

1199
01:27:08.359 --> 01:27:10.800
that they did for Santa. Oh, they kept wine to be punished by

1200
01:27:10.800 --> 01:27:19.159
Santa. Yes. So he trashes
the basement and he eventually stumbles across like

1201
01:27:19.359 --> 01:27:25.000
a crate or something filled with pages
of music that his father wrote. Remember,

1202
01:27:25.000 --> 01:27:27.239
his father told him before that he
never wrote his music down, it

1203
01:27:27.279 --> 01:27:30.159
was all in his head. But
he's lying, ha ha liar, because

1204
01:27:30.199 --> 01:27:33.640
he had all these like, like
hundreds of pages of beautiful songs written down.

1205
01:27:34.159 --> 01:27:38.239
The kid passes out after looking at
the songs. He wakes up the

1206
01:27:38.239 --> 01:27:43.000
next morning and he suddenly inspired to
listen to Wendy and Lisa's song. We

1207
01:27:43.039 --> 01:27:45.520
cut to the club. Morris is
doing a set. He is performing the

1208
01:27:45.600 --> 01:27:53.319
Bird with lots of squawking right,
not quacking, not honking, not gobbling,

1209
01:27:53.359 --> 01:27:56.359
not calling. This is squawking one
hundred percent, squawk hundred percent.

1210
01:27:56.760 --> 01:28:00.239
Afterwards, he and his band laugh
at the kid in the Revolution and as

1211
01:28:00.239 --> 01:28:02.520
they walk past their dressing room,
and then Morris is like, how's the

1212
01:28:02.560 --> 01:28:08.000
family, damn? And then they
walk off and then there's like this moment

1213
01:28:08.039 --> 01:28:13.159
where Morris like feels bad as he
should, as he should, but like

1214
01:28:13.680 --> 01:28:16.439
what why He's been a prick the
whole movie. Doesn't it be a prick?

1215
01:28:17.039 --> 01:28:19.520
If he was like, how's the
family a hi, and then immediately

1216
01:28:19.520 --> 01:28:21.359
turned back around, I was like, you know what, that was a

1217
01:28:21.399 --> 01:28:25.079
bridge too far. That was over
the line. I apologize, not mean

1218
01:28:25.159 --> 01:28:27.920
to make fun of your father who
is currently in the hospital with a bullet

1219
01:28:27.920 --> 01:28:30.520
in his head. I'm really sorry
about that. Yeah, please do not

1220
01:28:30.600 --> 01:28:33.159
sick that demonic puppet on me.
It is on me. I'm gonna donate.

1221
01:28:33.279 --> 01:28:36.279
I'm going to donate money to suicide
prevention. That's what I'm gonna do

1222
01:28:36.279 --> 01:28:40.239
it. I really apologize. Well, I'm really sorry about that. That's

1223
01:28:40.279 --> 01:28:43.640
not that that was fucked up.
It was completely below the belt. It's

1224
01:28:43.880 --> 01:28:47.479
entirely on me. The kid takes
the stage and announces that he's dedicating this

1225
01:28:47.600 --> 01:28:54.159
song to his father and that Wendy
and Lisa wrote it hashtag feminism. There's

1226
01:28:54.199 --> 01:28:57.279
a great moment where he says that
and then Wendy and Lisa. Wendy like

1227
01:28:57.279 --> 01:28:59.479
looks over at him like, oh, we're doing our song, Like did

1228
01:28:59.479 --> 01:29:02.520
he tell them? Also, all
the whole rest of the band knows the

1229
01:29:02.520 --> 01:29:04.880
song. Yeah, uh, you
know what will follow along? I'm sure

1230
01:29:04.880 --> 01:29:08.520
it's easy Yeah, don't worry,
it's no big deal. It's no big

1231
01:29:08.560 --> 01:29:12.880
deal. It's just a seven minute
vallid. So he launches into Purple Rain,

1232
01:29:13.039 --> 01:29:15.640
which is a cool song to dedicate
to your dad until you can come

1233
01:29:15.640 --> 01:29:20.399
to the line I never wanted to
be your weekend lover, which it's weird.

1234
01:29:20.439 --> 01:29:23.760
I guess you can dedicate a song
to someone without being like, I'm

1235
01:29:23.760 --> 01:29:27.000
singing this to you, and I'm
singing this for you. I guess I'm

1236
01:29:27.039 --> 01:29:30.479
putting the emotion I'm feeling for you
into this song, but still weird.

1237
01:29:30.479 --> 01:29:32.680
It's a little weird. Whatever,
anyway, it's a weird. Yeah.

1238
01:29:32.720 --> 01:29:36.800
The final twenty minutes of this movie
is basically just a Prince concert, and

1239
01:29:36.840 --> 01:29:42.920
what a delightful Prince concert it is. You immediately forget about everything else you've

1240
01:29:42.960 --> 01:29:45.239
just seen. That's what me and
I was like, I put my computer

1241
01:29:45.319 --> 01:29:47.399
down. I wasn't even taking notes. I was just like, yeah,

1242
01:29:47.600 --> 01:29:51.760
clapping along and enjoying it. My
one thing that I did notice is that

1243
01:29:51.800 --> 01:29:56.079
clearly the extras had been in that
room for too long and they were all

1244
01:29:56.199 --> 01:29:59.880
very tired, because at one point
they're doing that handwaving thing to Purple Rain,

1245
01:30:00.199 --> 01:30:03.600
and they're all like half a beat
off. They're two stud like our

1246
01:30:03.720 --> 01:30:08.239
arms are really hurting? Can we
stop waving now? Can we put our

1247
01:30:08.319 --> 01:30:12.600
arms down? The song goes over
like Gangbusters, And in this battle of

1248
01:30:12.640 --> 01:30:16.600
the bands, the revolution has won, and weirdly, Apollonia six took out

1249
01:30:16.600 --> 01:30:20.199
the Time unexpected. Yeah, I
think Apollonia six is now number two.

1250
01:30:20.279 --> 01:30:25.439
The Time is still number three,
and you two, which was the other

1251
01:30:25.479 --> 01:30:30.039
house band, I've been sent back
and they're going back to Ireland Abba gets

1252
01:30:30.039 --> 01:30:35.199
getting shipped back to Sweden a A
and poor Cindi Lauper is going back home

1253
01:30:35.239 --> 01:30:40.640
to sing time after time in Queens. Yeah. So the crowd is going

1254
01:30:40.680 --> 01:30:45.039
crazy and there's so loud that the
kid tries to make his usual departure after

1255
01:30:45.199 --> 01:30:49.560
singing one song, and then he
hears them for the first time, actually

1256
01:30:49.600 --> 01:30:54.439
hears the audience going crazy for him, and it pulls him back on stage.

1257
01:30:54.760 --> 01:30:58.039
He turns around in his dressing room
and Jill is standing there weeping.

1258
01:30:58.920 --> 01:31:02.119
Jill. Wait, why is Jill? Why is look look all other things

1259
01:31:02.159 --> 01:31:06.840
aside? Why is it not Apollonia
standing in his dressing room door? I

1260
01:31:06.840 --> 01:31:11.840
guess Jill is still a thing?
Hi, Jill? Nice to see you

1261
01:31:11.920 --> 01:31:15.800
if I forgot you were in this
movie. The kid says hi, and

1262
01:31:15.840 --> 01:31:20.279
she says hi, and then he
walks back to the stage. He sees

1263
01:31:20.319 --> 01:31:25.920
a weeping Appollonia in the hallway.
He kisses her on the cheek and they

1264
01:31:26.039 --> 01:31:29.920
smile at each other, and then
the kid goes on stage and performs I

1265
01:31:29.960 --> 01:31:32.680
Would Die for You, and we
see him kissing his father in the hospital

1266
01:31:32.720 --> 01:31:36.439
bed while where his mother is also
sleeping. They fix the problems, yeah,

1267
01:31:36.479 --> 01:31:41.680
one hundred percent. He organizes his
father's music into like clean and neat

1268
01:31:41.720 --> 01:31:48.439
piles. Hopefully it's actually good music. What it's all just bock ripoffs.

1269
01:31:49.560 --> 01:31:53.239
It's like, this is just Mozart. What are we doing here? Yeah.

1270
01:31:53.479 --> 01:31:56.199
He sees the earring that he had
given to Apollonia on the floor of

1271
01:31:56.239 --> 01:31:59.520
the basement. He tosses it in
the air and she catches it. What.

1272
01:32:00.600 --> 01:32:03.159
Yeah, what He's in the basement
and you don't know she's there,

1273
01:32:03.319 --> 01:32:06.159
and he picks it up off the
floor and then he tossed it over his

1274
01:32:06.199 --> 01:32:10.640
shoulder and she's like sitting on the
basement steps and she catches it. Yeah,

1275
01:32:10.680 --> 01:32:14.960
And it's like the reveal that she's
there. She is perhaps forgiving to

1276
01:32:15.119 --> 01:32:16.920
a fault. I'm gonna say that
right now. She is forgiving to a

1277
01:32:17.000 --> 01:32:20.119
fault because a man that she has
known for less than one week has now

1278
01:32:20.159 --> 01:32:25.079
assaulted her physically twice. And she's
like, I'm give him a third shot.

1279
01:32:25.239 --> 01:32:28.720
Yeah, third times of charm kids, that's right. Baby. The

1280
01:32:28.800 --> 01:32:31.800
kid launches into baby, I'm a
Star, and we eventually freeze frame on

1281
01:32:31.800 --> 01:32:34.920
his face while he's performing. Boy, did I wish they had gone back

1282
01:32:34.920 --> 01:32:38.720
to Let's go crazy? But that's
okay, it's okay. I have to

1283
01:32:38.760 --> 01:32:43.479
say, these last two performances,
it really feels like Prince drops like any

1284
01:32:43.520 --> 01:32:45.199
facade that he had of trying to
be quote unquote the kid, and it

1285
01:32:45.239 --> 01:32:48.840
just looks like Prince having a blast
performing on stage. Yea, And it

1286
01:32:48.920 --> 01:32:54.640
is riveting. It is so entertaining. Rest of the movie not so much.

1287
01:32:54.680 --> 01:32:57.800
The whole movie should have just been
this. I'm really really sorry.

1288
01:32:57.840 --> 01:33:00.760
I'm never gonna get a chance to
see Prince live ever. Yeah, that's

1289
01:33:00.800 --> 01:33:03.359
a bummer that I didn't get that. I didn't try to make that a

1290
01:33:03.399 --> 01:33:08.880
thing. And that is the end
of Purple Rain. So stick around.

1291
01:33:08.920 --> 01:33:20.920
We will come right back with our
random observations and final rankings. And we're

1292
01:33:20.960 --> 01:33:27.119
back, Erica. Do you have
any any any lingering thoughts on purple Rain

1293
01:33:27.279 --> 01:33:30.640
and any any less little droplets you
want to sprinkle upon the audience some purple

1294
01:33:30.680 --> 01:33:33.399
rain to sprinkle on them. I
just want to see. I just want

1295
01:33:33.439 --> 01:33:36.560
to give you off some purple rain. That's my impression of prints in that

1296
01:33:36.680 --> 01:33:41.079
ritten part of Purple Rain. I
can't do the voice. I cannot do

1297
01:33:41.399 --> 01:33:45.159
the singing voice. It is too
good. Yeah, that weird. That

1298
01:33:45.319 --> 01:33:50.079
sex scene is weirdly graphic for two
clothed people, because the sex scene is

1299
01:33:50.199 --> 01:33:55.479
it's mostly just she gets on the
bed right and she to off her shirt,

1300
01:33:55.560 --> 01:33:58.680
I think, in her clothes,
so she's wearing like a boostia and

1301
01:33:58.800 --> 01:34:02.439
panties. He's standing behind her shirtless, but he's wearing his pants, and

1302
01:34:02.479 --> 01:34:08.279
then they're both facing the camera and
it's almost as if they're looking right at

1303
01:34:08.319 --> 01:34:11.520
you while he kind of just like
plays with her crotch and I'm like,

1304
01:34:11.840 --> 01:34:16.079
I don't this is so uncomfortable,
please stop. It's the hand for me.

1305
01:34:16.239 --> 01:34:19.600
It looks like he's he looks like
he's rummaging around in the in the

1306
01:34:19.760 --> 01:34:25.439
very very tiny strip of fabric,
and I'm like he's touching her volva like

1307
01:34:25.479 --> 01:34:29.960
the princess touching Caupolodia's volva. Right
now, it looks like he's like playing

1308
01:34:30.000 --> 01:34:34.199
the guitar but with his with her
pussy instead of I hate it. I

1309
01:34:34.199 --> 01:34:36.680
hate it's you know what it is
that I have nothing against any of this.

1310
01:34:36.760 --> 01:34:40.720
It's just the fact that they're both
kind of looking at the camera like

1311
01:34:40.880 --> 01:34:44.680
you're both watching me, watch them, and I'm like, no, sop,

1312
01:34:44.760 --> 01:34:49.279
I hate this. I only have
one. I left a lot on

1313
01:34:49.279 --> 01:34:53.520
the field of this movie, but
I just want to do a deeper dive

1314
01:34:53.680 --> 01:35:00.199
into the Jerome Morris relationship, huh, because it is fascinating. Like so,

1315
01:35:00.960 --> 01:35:05.880
Jerome is like Morris's personal valet,
Like he drives him places, he's

1316
01:35:05.920 --> 01:35:10.880
his sidekick. He's a sidekick,
like the he drives them. By the

1317
01:35:10.920 --> 01:35:13.399
way, in the very first scene, you see Morris get ready and he

1318
01:35:13.439 --> 01:35:18.319
comes out in a yellow suit jacket
with yellow leopard print lapels. Everything everything

1319
01:35:18.479 --> 01:35:25.520
incredible. No note, he drives
Morris up to the Jerome drives Morris up

1320
01:35:25.520 --> 01:35:27.840
to the theater and then he comes
out and he does the mirror thing where

1321
01:35:27.840 --> 01:35:30.560
he's like holding the mirrors as Jerome, Like, I apologize this is my

1322
01:35:30.640 --> 01:35:33.319
reference. He Phonsie's in the mirror. He like combs his hair. There

1323
01:35:33.319 --> 01:35:36.079
may be a cooler reference. I
don't know. There is no such thing

1324
01:35:36.119 --> 01:35:40.640
as a cooler reference than Phonsie,
right of course, of course. But

1325
01:35:40.680 --> 01:35:44.560
then like Jerome also joins him on
stage and does like dances with him.

1326
01:35:44.680 --> 01:35:50.199
Yeah, I just I'm dying to
brothers employer employee, best friends. I

1327
01:35:50.239 --> 01:35:53.520
don't know what it is. There's
nothing sexual. I'm not even gonna pretend

1328
01:35:53.520 --> 01:35:59.640
they're boyfriends. They're obviously not boyfriends. Yeah, like, what is going

1329
01:35:59.680 --> 01:36:03.319
on? I'm dying to know.
Definitely, like does every function of an

1330
01:36:03.439 --> 01:36:06.800
entourage, but just one guy doing
it? Good for you to know,

1331
01:36:06.960 --> 01:36:12.279
get shit done. Michael Myers and
Jerome from Purple Rain. Jerome gets shipped

1332
01:36:12.319 --> 01:36:15.560
done on the level of Michael Myers
from Halloween. I just have one word

1333
01:36:15.560 --> 01:36:19.840
too. And it's also a fashion
thing. I truly, everything Appolonia wears

1334
01:36:19.880 --> 01:36:24.880
it's terrific, no notes. Everything
Prince wears is terrific, no notes,

1335
01:36:24.880 --> 01:36:29.479
there's really fashion wise. There are
almost no misses in the entire movie except

1336
01:36:29.479 --> 01:36:33.399
for she's wearing that like again,
the boustier and underwear and a long,

1337
01:36:33.680 --> 01:36:38.720
long cape that goes down to the
floor when when Prince Like rolls up on

1338
01:36:38.720 --> 01:36:43.000
his motorcycle gets and it's like get
on and she just jumps on the back

1339
01:36:43.039 --> 01:36:45.680
of that motorcycle and I'm like,
yeah, he sa for this episode is

1340
01:36:45.680 --> 01:36:50.680
a Dora duncan he Hello? Yeah, do not wear a full length cape

1341
01:36:50.680 --> 01:36:56.600
on a motorcycle. You are crazy
unless you are an actual superhero. So

1342
01:36:56.680 --> 01:36:59.720
you know it's not gonna get caught. Yeah, impossible, all right,

1343
01:36:59.800 --> 01:37:02.359
Eric Erica, tell me how how
are we gonna rank? How are we

1344
01:37:02.359 --> 01:37:10.279
gonna rank? Purple Rain one to
ten? Lake Minnetonka's purifying yourself in the

1345
01:37:10.640 --> 01:37:16.560
in the cooling waters of Lake Minnetonka, Not Lake Minnetonka, purifying yourself in

1346
01:37:16.680 --> 01:37:29.199
Fake Minnetonka. In Fake one to
ten. Demonic hand puppets Again, it's

1347
01:37:29.239 --> 01:37:30.760
not a hand puppet. I don't
know what it's called. There's so many

1348
01:37:30.840 --> 01:37:34.439
demonic dolls in this movie. Oh
my god, the mask and you know

1349
01:37:34.479 --> 01:37:38.000
what, they are not out of
place, they are They are far less

1350
01:37:38.039 --> 01:37:41.119
out of place than so much else
that's in this movie. Like, yeah,

1351
01:37:41.159 --> 01:37:47.239
just make that movie instead. Yeah. One to ten Force bands that

1352
01:37:47.319 --> 01:37:51.159
got cut from the lineup. Oh
yeah, uh huh, like like like

1353
01:37:51.319 --> 01:38:03.520
Mike and the Mechanics specific bit men
at work. Oh kaja goo goo.

1354
01:38:05.720 --> 01:38:11.600
He really just knocks on the door
and opens it and Genesis is there and

1355
01:38:11.640 --> 01:38:14.960
he's like, sorry, Phil Collins
and Peter Gabriel, you gotta go.

1356
01:38:15.640 --> 01:38:19.039
What if it was Tony Basil,
Tony Basil would have killed at the first

1357
01:38:19.039 --> 01:38:23.920
avenue. You know what, if
Tony Basil had gotten the boot over Apollonia

1358
01:38:24.039 --> 01:38:30.319
six, I would have rioted blood
into streets of Minneapolis. He opens the

1359
01:38:30.319 --> 01:38:31.840
door, Billy's locks to the door
and he's like, sorry, Toto,

1360
01:38:32.000 --> 01:38:35.920
you gotta go. Sorry, flock
of seagulls, take your hair, and

1361
01:38:35.960 --> 01:38:39.479
get the hell out of here.
Toto, by the way, just dressed

1362
01:38:39.479 --> 01:38:44.479
in full African garb, even though
they are white men, white, absolutely

1363
01:38:44.520 --> 01:38:49.239
white. Get out of here,
Katrina and the Waves. One to ten

1364
01:38:49.520 --> 01:38:55.039
Dumpster women, Oh women, you
just throw in dumpsters? Yeah, because

1365
01:38:55.039 --> 01:38:58.159
that's where they belong. Yeah,
yeah, that's what this movie. That's

1366
01:38:58.159 --> 01:39:01.840
this whole movie's like seasons. All
women are dumpster women. Yeah, they're

1367
01:39:01.880 --> 01:39:06.319
garbage to be put in their place. One to ten went out of ten

1368
01:39:06.720 --> 01:39:12.439
things that prince looks like what prince
really is? Yeah, prince prince who

1369
01:39:12.560 --> 01:39:15.840
really is a prince is like if
a leprechaun was dressed up like a French

1370
01:39:15.960 --> 01:39:23.159
duke. It's this one. It's
this we know it's this one. We

1371
01:39:23.479 --> 01:39:27.119
all a lot. Do you want
to go first or shall I go first?

1372
01:39:27.359 --> 01:39:30.399
I'll go first on this one.
Okay, Yeah, it's gonna be

1373
01:39:30.439 --> 01:39:32.439
low. It's gonna be It's gonna
be low. It has to be so

1374
01:39:32.560 --> 01:39:36.239
misogynistic. The one thing I will
say is I think it does pass.

1375
01:39:36.279 --> 01:39:40.600
The thing is it passes the Bechdel
test. I'm pretty sure because I'm pretty

1376
01:39:40.600 --> 01:39:45.960
sure Wendy and Lisa talk about their
music. I think I have to remember,

1377
01:39:46.039 --> 01:39:49.960
like I'm trying to remember. I'm
racking my brain to remember the movie.

1378
01:39:51.159 --> 01:39:58.600
Well, Jill and Appollonia talk about
Apolonia getting a job there you go

1379
01:39:58.960 --> 01:40:01.680
definitely does pass. Are There are
some women characters. They're mostly treated as

1380
01:40:01.720 --> 01:40:05.199
though they are punching bags and or
something you would throw in a dumpster.

1381
01:40:05.399 --> 01:40:12.600
Literally, it's very diverse for a
movie that was filmed in nineteen eighty four.

1382
01:40:13.239 --> 01:40:16.079
Most of the main characters are people
of color. Yeah, it's fantastic.

1383
01:40:16.159 --> 01:40:18.960
Most of them are not even actors. That's how diverse this movie is.

1384
01:40:21.119 --> 01:40:26.520
He didn't even cast actors to be
in it. However, the like

1385
01:40:26.800 --> 01:40:29.520
it's a bad movie. First of
all, it's a bad movie with a

1386
01:40:29.560 --> 01:40:33.600
bad message about domestic violence being like
some ultimate form of romance because the parents

1387
01:40:33.680 --> 01:40:36.800
stay together at the end of the
film, and he and Apollonia keeps coming

1388
01:40:36.840 --> 01:40:43.119
back to him even though he's horrible
to her. Women keep flocking to Morris,

1389
01:40:43.159 --> 01:40:45.920
even though he's obviously a monster.
None of it's good. It's like

1390
01:40:46.159 --> 01:40:50.199
it's like cycle after cycle of bad
behavior on everyone's parts. It's just got

1391
01:40:50.239 --> 01:40:54.560
all this underlying misogyny to it.
As Paul pointed out, it's also just

1392
01:40:55.039 --> 01:40:58.720
really sloppy, Like as a movie, it's just so fucking sloppy, and

1393
01:40:58.760 --> 01:41:02.199
like I actually like when when actors, when non actors are in a movie,

1394
01:41:02.239 --> 01:41:05.880
actually find that really fun and fascinating
to watch, even in a good

1395
01:41:05.920 --> 01:41:11.039
way, like movies that starred dancers, because they're never like very good as

1396
01:41:11.079 --> 01:41:14.880
actors, but they're still compelling to
watch. This is not one of those

1397
01:41:14.920 --> 01:41:17.159
movies, because they ask for too
much, they make them all do too

1398
01:41:17.239 --> 01:41:25.439
much. I'm gonna give it because
of the diversity of the cast. I'm

1399
01:41:25.479 --> 01:41:29.600
gonna give it a four. Okay, it's not a good movie. I

1400
01:41:29.680 --> 01:41:32.039
actually don't recommend watching it. Go
on YouTube and just watch the music,

1401
01:41:32.039 --> 01:41:36.159
the music parts which are that's my
palate cleanser. Just watch the music parts

1402
01:41:36.199 --> 01:41:40.399
of the movie and don't watch the
intervening dialogue scenes. Yeah. Mus the

1403
01:41:40.479 --> 01:41:44.000
music of the film is so fucking
good. And this the scene, all

1404
01:41:44.119 --> 01:41:47.720
the like concert scenes are so it's
like being at a Prince concert, which

1405
01:41:47.800 --> 01:41:50.680
even if you saw it like in
the theater, imagine how that must have

1406
01:41:50.720 --> 01:41:54.920
felt. Like. Those parts are
worth watching, but none of nothing else

1407
01:41:55.000 --> 01:41:57.760
is worth watching. I don't think
so. Yeah, four out of ten.

1408
01:42:00.520 --> 01:42:06.359
Prince who looks like Dracula's ballet dancer, cousin Prince who looks like a

1409
01:42:06.560 --> 01:42:15.279
like a youth pastor denying his sexuality
while playing Captain Hook in a really overtly

1410
01:42:15.359 --> 01:42:21.760
sexual production of Yeahce who looks like
if a nymph ran ran a sex shop.

1411
01:42:23.439 --> 01:42:29.079
Yeah, that's right, a pixie. How about you, Paul,

1412
01:42:29.159 --> 01:42:31.319
what do you think? Yeah,
Yeah, that's it. It's it's It

1413
01:42:31.439 --> 01:42:40.439
is so nakedly misogynistic that it is
shocking, even taking out the physical assault

1414
01:42:40.439 --> 01:42:45.359
and the domestic violence of it.
The way that he specifically treats Wendy Lisa

1415
01:42:45.359 --> 01:42:48.319
because none of none of the men
are even writing other music in the band

1416
01:42:48.319 --> 01:42:51.520
as far as we know, it's
them, And he literally says, I'm

1417
01:42:51.560 --> 01:42:59.760
not playing your stupid music. Stop
trying, and like dismisses them as if

1418
01:42:59.760 --> 01:43:03.039
they're you're here to do my bidding, and if you're not doing my bidding,

1419
01:43:03.079 --> 01:43:06.560
you're out to betray me like this
lack of trust. And I don't

1420
01:43:06.600 --> 01:43:10.039
know if the because there is that
brief scenum, like are they trying to

1421
01:43:10.079 --> 01:43:14.199
say, like because of the distrust
between his parents' relationship, it's destroyed his

1422
01:43:14.279 --> 01:43:16.479
relationship with women. I don't think
anyone who wrote this movie thought about this

1423
01:43:16.680 --> 01:43:21.199
as much, but like you try
to make things make sense, yeah,

1424
01:43:21.279 --> 01:43:26.279
naturally as a viewer, they just
don't. It simply doesn't. But you're

1425
01:43:26.359 --> 01:43:30.199
right, it's very diverse. There
are no gay or queer characters in the

1426
01:43:30.239 --> 01:43:32.720
movie because they did take out the
windy and least a subplot. There was

1427
01:43:32.760 --> 01:43:36.680
supposed to be a subplot of them
actually being together, which I'm sure would

1428
01:43:36.680 --> 01:43:42.279
have been handled with an enormous amount
of sensitivity. Actually, that would have

1429
01:43:42.279 --> 01:43:46.640
been really revolutionary in nineteen eighty four, Like truly revolutionary. Yeah, yeah,

1430
01:43:46.680 --> 01:43:51.119
but they took it out. And
there is a queer aesthetic obviously to

1431
01:43:51.640 --> 01:43:55.880
this, like you know, outsiders
coming to this club and hearing this music.

1432
01:43:56.119 --> 01:43:59.680
People who go to the club are
all dressed in that very androgynost nineteen

1433
01:43:59.680 --> 01:44:05.720
eighty five or like men wearing makeup, like like it's very cool like in

1434
01:44:05.760 --> 01:44:10.279
that sense. So I'm kind of
left where you were left where like it's

1435
01:44:10.399 --> 01:44:15.439
it's it's diverse, and it's fine
on the queer community stuff, particularly for

1436
01:44:15.520 --> 01:44:17.359
nineteen eighty four, but like,
oh my god, the way this movie

1437
01:44:17.439 --> 01:44:23.000
treats its women will will make your
jaw hit the floor because it is so

1438
01:44:23.199 --> 01:44:28.079
harsh. And the fact even that
at the end one of his parents who

1439
01:44:28.079 --> 01:44:31.520
gets like an arc is his father, Like they redeem his father. I

1440
01:44:31.520 --> 01:44:34.880
don't know a damn thing about his
mother. We never find out what kind

1441
01:44:34.920 --> 01:44:38.920
of artist she was, that her
career was like truncated. We don't we

1442
01:44:39.000 --> 01:44:42.239
never find out, like what her
story is, what her desires are.

1443
01:44:42.600 --> 01:44:45.119
It doesn't exist as a person.
She doesn't even get named. He gets

1444
01:44:45.199 --> 01:44:49.279
named, Yeah, he's Francis l
and she is just the wife the mom.

1445
01:44:49.520 --> 01:44:53.800
Yeah, I'll agree with you.
I'll say four. I'll say four

1446
01:44:53.840 --> 01:44:58.079
on the power of those performances and
the fact that it's diverse. Yeah,

1447
01:44:58.079 --> 01:45:00.600
but it's really shocking to watch now, like, oh my god, how

1448
01:45:00.640 --> 01:45:08.760
did this get made? Four out
of ten? Things that Prince looks like

1449
01:45:08.760 --> 01:45:14.800
in this movie something like like like
P. T. Barnum's cousin from the

1450
01:45:14.800 --> 01:45:21.159
Wrong Side of the Tracks, you
know what I mean, a fire eater

1451
01:45:21.520 --> 01:45:31.520
from the Edwardian Times. So Erica
I already said. My palate cleanser is

1452
01:45:31.880 --> 01:45:34.920
watch Purple Rain, but just fast, when people start talking, just watch

1453
01:45:34.960 --> 01:45:38.479
Prince when he's on stage with a
guitar. Yeah, and you will be

1454
01:45:38.560 --> 01:45:43.399
golden well and then stop for that
who's on first scene with Morris, which

1455
01:45:43.399 --> 01:45:47.880
is perfect. Yeah. My pilot
cleanser is the Prince was on one episode

1456
01:45:47.880 --> 01:45:51.520
of New Girl in like twenty fourteen. He was on the super Bowl episode

1457
01:45:51.520 --> 01:45:55.039
I think. Yeah, he died
not long after that, so it's maybe

1458
01:45:55.079 --> 01:45:57.960
one of the last things you ever
did. And he was really funny in

1459
01:45:58.000 --> 01:46:01.439
it. It's the only other time
I've ever seen friends act. It wasn't

1460
01:46:01.439 --> 01:46:04.039
that. And he does very little
and he plays himself, so it's very

1461
01:46:04.119 --> 01:46:08.199
it's not asking for much. But
yeah, yeah, he's funny in it

1462
01:46:08.680 --> 01:46:11.680
all right. Well, that is
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1463
01:46:11.680 --> 01:46:15.960
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1464
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1474
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1475
01:47:01.319 --> 01:47:04.720
how many of you have seen it
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1476
01:47:04.800 --> 01:47:09.680
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1484
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I'm about to infiltrate a Swiss chalet
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1485
01:47:45.079 --> 01:47:49.239
an urgent message from Moneypenny that Erica
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1486
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you, So you've got me until
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One moment while I pull my parachute. Right, well, you all

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know what's happened. I've lost my
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don't even know what's coming for them, do they? They really don't.

1498
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It's gonna be It's gonna be exciting
and shocking. I think, ha ha

1499
01:48:44.079 --> 01:48:49.560
ha, Yeah, Erica, any
final thoughts on Purple Rain, Paul?

1500
01:48:49.640 --> 01:48:53.479
What movie are we watching? Purple
Rain? Purple Rain, the Song of

1501
01:48:53.560 --> 01:48:56.359
Purple Rain, the movie Purple Ring, the movie Purple Rain, the Song

1502
01:48:56.399 --> 01:48:58.479
of Purple Rain, the movie See
I can't do it, I can't do

1503
01:48:58.520 --> 01:49:01.560
it. Try it doesn't work.
Yeah, it doesn't work. That's why

1504
01:49:01.600 --> 01:49:15.720
women go in the dumpster. Are
these people supposed to be like eighteen and

1505
01:49:15.880 --> 01:49:19.399
nineteen? I think so. I
think they are. It makes everything so much funnier