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'I Fell for the Ole Purify Yourself in the Waters of Lake Minnetonka Trick Again'

An Indiana man with a great moustache splices himself into Lake Minnetonka's moment in Prince's movie 'Purple Rain.'

 

Don't tell Prince, but someone has posted a short online video clip with the new Vine app, based on the famed Lake Minnetonka scene from the movie Purple Rain.

Jimmy theCornCracker (aka @roadkill3x on Twitter) intercut his own responses to Prince in the scene in which he tells co-star Apollonia to "purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka" as a kind of initiation.

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The video is in the form of a Vine, a 6-second, GIF-like clip that repeats until you turn it off. (See it in the window above or at Twitter.com.) Gutsy move on @roadkill3x's part, considering Prince filed a lawsuit over a Vine earlier in the week (see that one here).

SPOILER ALERT if you haven't seen the movie Purple Rain (1984).

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Here's the way the Lake Minnetonka scene goes, according to the screenplay at the Internet Movie Script Database (with Vanity instead of Apollonia as the initiate):

PRINCE
You have to purify yourself in
Lake Minnetonka.

... Suddenly she turns on her heels, moves
purposefully toward the water. He's
shocked, realizes that she's about to
go in--

PRINCE
Hey, wait a minute! Thats--

But she silences him savagely--

VANITY
We made a deal!

And before he can react she scampers
along a log, DIVES beneath the surface.
He can't believe it -- her spirit really
impresses him. She breaks the surface
coughing and sputtering, hops and jumps
to the shore--

PRINCE
Hold it.

VANITY
What?

PRINCE
That ain't Lake Minnetonka.


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