WHY PRINCE WROTE this 7 DAY SCREENPLAY

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As I look at the typo on this episode number on this...the TWELFTH episode of ONCE UPON A TIME IN MINNEAPOLIS I feel empathy. EVERYBODY MAKES MISTAKES. Right now in Prince Rogers Nelson's career he is getting ready to make a landmark mistake.

Its not as if Prince had not made mistakes in the past. Critics destroyed Under the Cherry Moon. Fans of Purple Rain did not understand UTCM for the most part. Fans were mixed on Around the world in a day and the parade albums. Sign O the Times was brilliant, while sales were far from PR levels. Lovesexy was confusing to most as well. It seemed that Prince's hardcore fans and some holdovers from the salad days were left in the Minneapolis Genius' corner.

BATMAN changed everything. Hanging with Batman heightened Prince's public awareness to PR levels. Warner Bros spent unholy amounts of money on Batman and Prince benefitted. Prince was the hero again. He cashed in, and started a reputedly wild affair with Batman's leading lady and hollywood rising star Kim Basinger.

Prince and Kim retired to Paisley Park and lived happily ever after.

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ENJOY!!!

In his 1992 Rolling Stone interview, Burton reveals that Prince and the studio's eagerness to make this collaboration happen left him feeling trapped. "What happens is, you get engaged in this world, and then there’s no way out. There’s too much money. There’s this guy you respect and is good and has got this thing going. It got to a point where there was no turning back. And I don’t want to get into that situation again."

As he did with his first two films - Pee Wee's Big Adventure and Beetlejuice - Burton largely leaned on a score provided by Oingo Boingo's Danny Elfman throughout the movie. Besides "Trust," the only song to receive major screen time is the Nicholson-inspired "Partyman," which accompanies the Joker's destructive visit to a museum.

Burton's reluctance - if it was ever made known to him - didn't stop Prince from throwing himself headfirst into the project. He attributed the lyrics for each of the nine songs to various characters from the movie, and made liberal use of samples from the film across many of the songs.

With anticipation for the film at a fever pitch two weeks prior to its release, "Batdance," the highly unconventional first single from the soundtrack, was released on June 8. It rocketed up to the top of the charts, giving Prince his first No. 1 hit since 1986's "Kiss."

A last-minute replacement for "Dance With the Devil," which Prince deemed too dark for the project, "Batdance" isn't a song so much as a sample-heavy sonic collage that shifts from one intentionally disjointed musical setting to the next, while sketching out the basic plot and conflicts of the movie. For the video, Prince split himself in half, dressing as Batman on the left and Joker on the right. It's a period piece, for sure, which wouldn't have worked without the context of, and excitement for, the upcoming movie.