{"id":2488,"date":"2025-03-05T21:52:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T05:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2025-03-05T21:52:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T05:52:42","slug":"retro-movie-adventures-purple-rain-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/05\/retro-movie-adventures-purple-rain-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Movie Adventures: Purple Rain (1984)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/purple-rain.webp\" alt=\"The eyes of Prince and Apollonia in Purple Rain\" class=\"wp-image-2489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/purple-rain.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/purple-rain-300x38.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/purple-rain-768x96.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/purple-rain.jpg\" alt=\"Stylized image of Prince from Purple Rain. He is shown in black, purple, brownish orange, and white. The background is blue and purple.\" class=\"wp-image-2490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/purple-rain.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/purple-rain-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/purple-rain-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nearly 30 years ago, Fox Mulder gave the most accurate review of this movie:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/x-files-on-purple-rain.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I can&#8217;t argue with that. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Great album. Deeply flawed movie, though.&#8221; You&#8217;re spot on, Spooky Mulder!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I make fake posters, I usually put the real poster down first for layout, then build completely new elements and get rid of the original- but this time I giggled when I saw the way everything looked together and let part of it stay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/purple-rain-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A poster for Purple Rain modeled on (and partially taking directly from) the poster for The Color Purple.\" class=\"wp-image-2492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/purple-rain-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/purple-rain-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/purple-rain-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/purple-rain-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Prince Rogers Nelson, get your motorcycle out of the living room!&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty years later, he&#8217;s still looking for that purple banana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2493,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions\/2493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}