Alright folks...time for VHS of the week: I figured the two year anniversary of Prince’s death was an appropriate time to discuss the death of Prince’s film career. Ask people what they think of the sequel to Purple Rain and you are bound to get some puzzled looks... but a sequel does, in fact, exist. It’s called Graffiti Bridge and it was written and directed by Prince and filmed in 1990 on rain-machine soaked sets leftover from Steve Seagal’s Hard to Kill and Nothing But Trouble. So...as far as I can tell the plot is as follows: it’s five years after the events of Purple Rain. Morris Day now owns every club in town save for Glam Slam...which is owned by his longtime rival Prince (aka “The Kid”). The Kid lives in the basement of Glam Slam and has gotten his hair straightened and has turned kind of jesus-y. He wanders around shirtless mumbling shit like “are there really angels...or is it all in our minds.” The Revolution and Apollonia are nowhere to be found and their absence goes unexplained. Word on the street is that The Kid has lost his touch musically (again!?). We know this because when he plays gigs people literally run out of the club like the joint in on fire. Speaking of fires....Morris Day wants to buy Glam Slam so he’ll have a monopoly on all of the clubs in town...so he decides to try to
Graffiti Bridge
Graffiti Bridge
Graffiti Bridge
Alright folks...time for VHS of the week: I figured the two year anniversary of Prince’s death was an appropriate time to discuss the death of Prince’s film career. Ask people what they think of the sequel to Purple Rain and you are bound to get some puzzled looks... but a sequel does, in fact, exist. It’s called Graffiti Bridge and it was written and directed by Prince and filmed in 1990 on rain-machine soaked sets leftover from Steve Seagal’s Hard to Kill and Nothing But Trouble. So...as far as I can tell the plot is as follows: it’s five years after the events of Purple Rain. Morris Day now owns every club in town save for Glam Slam...which is owned by his longtime rival Prince (aka “The Kid”). The Kid lives in the basement of Glam Slam and has gotten his hair straightened and has turned kind of jesus-y. He wanders around shirtless mumbling shit like “are there really angels...or is it all in our minds.” The Revolution and Apollonia are nowhere to be found and their absence goes unexplained. Word on the street is that The Kid has lost his touch musically (again!?). We know this because when he plays gigs people literally run out of the club like the joint in on fire. Speaking of fires....Morris Day wants to buy Glam Slam so he’ll have a monopoly on all of the clubs in town...so he decides to try to