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Purple Rain, newly built, is a small Jamaican-owned Guest House, nestled in the tropical bush on nearly an acre of land in the scenic fishing village of Little Bay, Westmoreland, Jamaica. Cool breezes move through the beautiful wooden house, coming off the water that is a couple of hundred yards away.
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Purple Rain is a 1984 feature film directed by Albert Magnoli and written by Magnoli and William Blinn. Prince stars in this movie, which was developed to showcase his particular talents. The film was very successful earning nearly US$100 million at the box office.
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MTV was barely three years old when Purple Rain debuted in 1984. Prior to the rise of MTV, music videos had been cheap, generally poorly-made promotional clips designed to be shown in dance clubs. They often were just shots of the band/artist in questions lip-syncing their songs, much like the typical talk/variety show "performances" of the day. In the early 1980s this paradigm changed, thanks largely to the work of Michael Jackson and other artists (such as Madonna, Godley and Creme, the Rolling Stones, the Talking Heads, and Duran Duran, to name a few) who produced videos that were designed to be mini-movies—clips that told a story (often, but not always, the story told in the song), starring the artist him- or herself. No one, though, had made that next logical leap: merging not just a song, but an entire album's worth of music into a coherent filmed narrative.
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If you have hummed along, tapped your feet or even danced in your seat while watching Purple Rain, Saturday Night Fever or Trainspotting, you are not alone. The soundtracks from those movies have been named among the 50 greatest by the editors of Vanity Fair magazine.
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[A]s noted above, the term "purple rain" belongs to more than one generation. It was brought to the fore by another, later, rock star. It is the name of the title song of his most popular album as well as the movie that was made about his life. The performer's name was "Prince" or at least this is the name he claimed for his early career. He changed it to a symbol and later reverted to "Prince". His full name (given at birth) was "Prince Rogers Nelson".
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``Purple Rain'' and its catchy, synthesized soundtrack are as entangled in this '80s myth of redemption and selfish splendor as its characters are possessed by dreams of glory. The grandest and silliest moments are the ones in which Prince is onstage, rolling on the floor screeching, while Apollonia watches, moved at the profundity of it all.
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