3 Chains o' Gold

3 Chains o' Gold
Directed by	Parris Patton Randee St. Nicholas Prince (as Paisley Park)
Produced by	Paisley Park
Starring	Prince and The New Power Generation
Music by	Prince
Distributed by	Warner Music Vision
Release dates	August 16, 1994
Running time	73 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

3 Chains o' Gold is a 1994 direct-to-video film produced and directed by Prince and starring Prince and The New Power Generation.^[1] It is a video collection, tied together with a loose plotline. The film was the 69th best-selling video of 1994.^[2]

Plot

The story begins with the assassination of Egyptian Princess Mayte's father by seven unknown assailants. Mayte believes that the assassins were after the sacred "3 Chains of Gold". She sets out to meet with Prince, as she believes he is the only one that can protect the chains from the seven assassins. What follows is a romance between Prince and Mayte, and Prince organizing the assassination of the assailants (accompanied by the song "7"). Local television anchors Randy Meier and Lauren Green were featured in this film, sitting at the anchor desk, while Kirstie Alley reported from the field.

Epilogue

At the end of the film, prior to the credits, is an explanation of the name change, attributing it to Prince's desire to be "reborn" and start a perfect life:

Upon the seventh day of the sixth month
Nineteen hundred and ninety-three
Marking the beginning and ending of cycles of creation
Prince, reaching the balance of thirty-five years,
Put into practice the precepts of perfection:
Voicing bliss through the freedom of being one's self
Incarnating the New Power Generation into
The close of the six periods of involution giving
Birth upon himself to regenerate his name as (the Love Symbol)
For in the dawn, all will require no speakable name
To differentiate the ineffable one that shall remain.

Film and album

The film was accompanied by the Love Symbol album, however not all of the album's songs make an appearance in the film, and some of the songs are edited versions. The film's title song is only an instrumental at the end. However, some of the dialogue from the album does appear in the film (a phone call from a reporter, played by Kirstie Alley, to Prince). The final speech of the film (made by Mayte) does not appear on the album, instead another phone call is in its place. The actual songs that appear in the film are:

• "My Name Is Prince"
• "Sexy MF"
• "Love 2 the 9s"
• "The Morning Papers"
• "The Max"
• "Blue Light"
• "I Wanna Melt with U"
• "Sweet Baby"
• "The Continental"
• "Damn U"
• "7"
• "The Call"

References

1. Amy Linden (1994-09-16). "3 Chains O' Gold Review | Reviews and News". EW.com. Retrieved 2011-09-01.
2. Billboard - Google Books. Books.google.co.uk. 1995-01-07. Retrieved 2011-09-01.

External links

• 3 Chains o' Gold at the Internet Movie Database
• 3 Chains o' Gold at AllMovie