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Purple Rain
1984 · Film · 111 min
Directed by Albert Magnoli
A victim of his own anger, the Kid is a Minneapolis musician on the rise with his band, the Revolution, escaping a tumultuous home life through music. While trying to avoid making the same mistakes as his truculent father, the Kid navigates the club scene and a rocky relationship with a captivating singer, Apollonia. But another musician, Morris, looks to steal the Kid's spotlight -- and his girl.
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Purple Rain in the Saharan Desert: How a remake of Prince’s cult classic became the first-ever Tuareg-language fiction film
Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai
(“rain the color of blue with a little red in it”)
The alcoholic, wife-beating father character from Purple Rain is swapped for a pious Muslim who bans music in his household and burns Moctar’s guitar for the sake of his son’s soul (“only drug addicts and alcoholics play guitar,” the father declares). Instead of the protagonist ordering his lover to “purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka,” Moctar tries to woo his love interest by driving her into the middle of the desert and pretending that his motorcycle has run out of gas. And, instead of one-upping Morris Day in a showdown on First Avenue, the Tuareg six-stringer squares off against his real-life rival Kader Tanoutanoute at the Agadez branch of the Alliance Française, a French language and cultural center.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/purple-rain-in-the-saharan-desert/385234/
> I'm not going to risk $1.50 to an unknown website.
$1.50 isn't much of a risk you know, even if you don't know the website. You'd probably even get the song!
Also, if a song is on Audio CD, it's probably on iTunes too.
> in the current atmosphere, $1.50 seems like it's too much
This makes no sense. If you're a true music lover, a great song will give you countless hours of enjoyment and appreciation. Do you seriously think $1.50 is too much for that?
Compare to paying $10 for a movie ticket. You get 2 hours of entertainment, the movie might suck, and you don't get much from watching it again. That's massively worse value than $1.50 for a great song you can listen to over and over again.
I would gladly pay $1000 for Prince's Purple Rain, if there was no other way to get it.