FIRST TIME WATCHING: Trading Places (1983) REACTION (Movie Commentary)
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When Don Ameche yelled "Fuck him!", it was a great shock. He was an old-time Hollywood star, famous for playing suave characters. He loved the script, but insisted the set be cleared for that scene, because he was only going to say that line ONE time. He nailed it, of course, and gave the movie a brilliant punch line. :D
I'd heard that he only did one take of the n-word as well.
No he didnt clear the floor for that scene, He just insisted no one screw up the scene cause he was only gonna do it once
@@cypher515 He was a Civil Rights activist, so yeah.
The N word was the hardest for him to say.
Don had a hard time saying those words especially the "N" word. Even though, he and Ralph Bellamy (Randolph) comes from the Era when African Americans were treated badly. Plus MPAA had stricter rules before these rules were changed so some of those words can be mentioned like Fuck Him or "N" word. I know that you already probably reacted "Blazing Saddles" where that word is used so much thanks to Richard Pryor who co wrote screenplay with Mel Brooks. Purpose is to satirized Racism. But in a recently interview, Mel Brooks stated Blazing Saddles would never be made today due over the top Political Correctness or Cancel Culture.
@@MrTech226 He also said, "You couldn't make it then either, but we did it anyway!"
I still find it hard to believe that Eddie Murphy was only 22 when this movie was released. He has such a confidence and is such a comedic charisma. Such a talent he is.
That’s crazy, he’s acting like he’s been doing it forever
@@CapedInformer I know right! So confident, and just grabs everyone's full attention (in an outstanding way).
So that means he was like 20 or 21 when it was filmed, unreal. I was all confidence at that age too but unlike Eddy I had no real skill or experience to be confident about, hahaha.
It's unusual to find anyone that brilliant at an early age.
He started on SNL at 19.
Jamie Lee Curtis was nicknamed “Freeze Frame” for obvious reasons. Her other nickname was “The Body”
Perfect from 1985, holy shit!
Us 90s babies were deceived from all her “mom” roles
@@CapedInformer You should check out her husband's work: Spinal Tap, Princess Bride (he has a supporting role), Best in Show, among others.
@@The_Bermuda_Nonagon Jamie Lee Curtis wasn’t topless on Halloween, this was her first time filming nude scenes.
Dan Akroyd was in Ghostbusters 1 & 2, Nothing But Trouble and Dr. Detroit.
Eddie Murphy delivers the greatest fourth wall break in cinema in the BLT scene.
Yeah, that look was hilarious, genius.
This part has me crying 😭 lol 😂 yes
The better because it's so unexpected. It's the only time in the film that the fourth wall is broken.
John Landis made him do that take over and over and over again until he got "the look" right; Landis said "when you do the look right, you'll know it".
Eddie saw the final film, saw "the look", and thought "yeah... he was right".
So damn funny
I forgot Bo Diddley (famous Blues artist) played the pawn shop owner!!
How much was he paid for his part?
FIFTY BUCKS
I believe his music was also playing in the background of that scene.
I knew he looked familiar. Even if you didn’t know who he was, you could tell that he was a blues singer….or a pawn shop owner.
@@jdm1066 No, that's Dick Vernon & Carl 😂
Dude , your face when Jamie Lee got topless was absolutely priceless! Also it was the same face EVERY MAN mans when they saw that scene for the first time!
For scenes of that sort, it's up there with Phoebe Cates at the pool in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."
@@alanfriesen9837 truth
not just every man... like Stacy's mom, she got it going on!
Not just every man…..every woman ☝🏾
@@NF40375 touché ma’dame!
When Eddie's in that jail cell with the two big guys......& that smaller dude is standing beside him......THAT's a young Giancarlo Esposito. If you saw 'Breaking Bad'.......he plays Gus Fring.
Yeah, didn't he say the phone in his limo was busted? LOL
And Moff Gideon in the Mandalorian and Vaught CEO Stan Edgar in The Boys.
Yea I thought so but he looked so different lol
If you like Giancarlo, look up Nothing to Lose
Wow!!
I love Coleman 'what a scumbag' and the ways he asks Jamie Lee to a drink and looks at Billy Ray on his first day and says Billy Ray Valentine : [on his first day of work] What if I can't do this job, Coleman? What if I'm not what they expected?
Coleman : Just be yourself, sir. Whatever happens, they can't take that away from you.
Also when he turns Louis away with the look at sadness in his eyes is amazing very overlooked character.
Sir Denholm Elliot.
He played Indiana Jones's mentor in Raiders of the Lost Ark. A great English actor, he enjoyed doing these comedic roles.
@@Serai3 And last crusade. the pen is truly mightier than the sword.
If you really want to see Mr Elliot in a weird role for him....The Whoopie Boys.
"Coleman" was a gem of a character!
Fun Fact: The scheme at the end of the film was completely legal at the time. Regulations were later put in place to prevent this sort of use of illicitly obtained insider information. It was called "The Eddie Murphy Rule".
No way
XD
I've often said to other people: Don't tell me that you know how the economy works if you don't understand the last 30 minutes of the movie "Trading Places."
And the scams are so much more complicated now.
You can sort of understand how selling short works ("I make a promise to sell you a share at the current value no matter what it is at a later time").
Then you go watch 'the big short' and try and figure out how mortgage default swaps, CDO's and synthetics work and you have to dumb it down so much it's insane. Not even the people inside the burning house knew how fucked up things were (and there were very specific financial reasons they had to not look into it).
Then go read Flash Boys for the next scheme.
@@fugitiveunknown7806
*'the big short'*
Even then they didn't cover some of the major players just to make it palatable to the masses. Nothing about AIG in it at all. Or even the fact that the misuse of credit default swaps from its intended purpose helped fuel things. I had to go read the book to get a better idea of how things happened.
It's not really that complicated. They forged documents that ended up artificially driving the price of future orange juice contracts. Then when all the rich assholes started scooping up orange juice futures at massively inflated prices, including their contracts, the news broke that orange harvests were fine so the price plummeted and they were able to buy contracts at a low price when they already sold theirs at the ridiculously inflated price. The Dukes went broke because they basically did the opposite. They bought contracts at a ridiculously inflated price and now they have to sell them for practically nothing which causes them to bankrupt.
Fun fact: here in Italy "Trading places" is probably the favorite Christmas movie of all time and one TV channel has been aired it on Christmas eve regularly for more than 20 years.
" The best way to get revenge with rich people, is to turn them into poor people... "
I love that quote bro 🔥🔥🔥
My dad took me to see this. Fun divorced dad weekend followed by restaurants and shopping. But along there that weekend he talked to me about the ideas raised in the movie. First impressions, assumptions including judging Jamie Lee Curtis's character.
Two weeks later we saw it again and started a lifelong serious dialogue about comedy and social commentary.
This is one of my favourite movie Eddie and Dan are funny as hell in this
It's a pity they never did another film together. They were a great team.
@@Serai3 they still could, who knows?
I watched this movie over and over on cable TV when I was a kid.
Dan Aykroyd is a great comedic straight man. Some of his other great movies from this era are "Ghostbusters" and "The Blues Brothers"
Spies Like Us. Dragnet.
Nothing But Trouble (but he is far from ‘straight man’)
Great Outdoors, My Girl 1 & 2, Get On Up, 50 First Dates
Your reaction to Dan Aykroyd doing ‘blackface’ was gold 🤣
It's one of the finest comedies of all time! One of the smartest! For some people Die Hard is their Christmas movie, for me Trading Places is my Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Years movie!
"Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" is my go-to Thanksgiving movie.
Scrooged all day long
I love this movie but Christmas Vacation is my all time Christmas movie
Prrrrrrreach 🙌🏾
She's great in "A fish called Wanda."
"He's Knee-Grow.... probably been stealing since he could crawl."
Man....
Edit: OH! Something I want to mention that no one else ever does....
The 3rd act of this movie(the Stock Exchange stuff) is what happened earlier this year in real life, with regards to the whole Gamestop stock. They literally "broke" a bunch of rich people by "short selling" the Orange Juice crops. They "sold" shares they didn't own when the prices were high, then bought enough shares to cover those "short sold" shares when the price dropped. That's how they(Windthorp and Billy-Ray) made so much money. It's a prime example of how life imitates art.
Yea I noticed that too lol
Also the scheme in this movie was legal at the time, it was made illegal many years later and the law is widely known as "the Eddie Murphy rule".
Careful there, Billy and Winthorp DID buy shares. That's why we have the scene where Coleman and Ophelia hand to them their life savings - to finance this scheme.
Actually I think it was the opposite, some big buyers had short-sold the stock and the crowd bought shares to drive the price up.
The two old men make a cameo in Eddie Murphy’s Coming To America (the original one) as their Trading Places characters living as homeless people. 😂
He mentioned that both before and after the video.
Akeem (Eddie) giving nearly all the money to them as he walked with Lisa by them. Randolph Duke (Bellamy) replied to Mortimer (Don Ameche), "Mortimer!" "We are Back!"
By that point, they had been homeless for 5 straight years on the streets of New York. I wonder if they had changed after their punishment, or if they were the same A-holes they were in this movie?
He said that in the reaction keep up muppet
The butler was portrayed by Denholm Elliott. He was the museum curator, Marcus, in Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Great actor who sadly passed away in 1992 at the age of 70
You should try and find "Spies Like Us." Another underrated Dan Ackroyd comedy from the 80's. Also, "Ghostbusters" if you haven't done that one yet.
Spies like us isn't really all that good. Funny when I was ten, great song, but now...
If you want a goofy movie in that vein from the 80s, I would recommend The Three Amigos.
But now if your going to do a Steve Martin film, and you like Eddie, then it's got to be Bowfinger. Just watched it last night. Still amazing.
@@Reggie2000 There is no giant foot trying to squash me.
lol fun fact, we saw this in the cinema, in the middle there was a loud explosion and rumble in a weird spot, but it sounded so real! We left the cinema to find it was actually the cop shop down the street being bombed. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Street_bombing
A great movie wroth seeing btw.. not a classic, but great fun
@@kosh6612 Saw which movie in the theaters? GB was in 84, Trading Places was 83, Three Amigos came out in Dec of 86.
Spies like us was late 1985. Was that the film you were watching?
@@Reggie2000 at that time there was a significant delay with US movies hitting Australian theaters.. it was s a different world then. Non blockbusters like this were even slower. Video distribution was and still is in a stranglehold with VIllage Roadshow, so even the video releases were only after they had aired in local cinemas. Thanks to to that stranglehold along with Murdoch's FOXtel cable network are the reasons Netflix only launched here in 2015!!! It's essentially NEW to us. The concept of a global release date where movies aired here before the USA was a totally new experience
You’ll love Jamie Lee in A Fish Called Wanda too.
Love your, “She was BAD in the 80’s” comment. Yes, she was; or very good, depending on how you look at it.
For more Jamie body hotness also try Perfect (1985).
If I'm not mistaken, there was a rumor in Hollywierd (or urban legend) that Jamie Lee Curtis was born a hermaphrodite.
@@primemover1416 you are gravely mistaken! Jamie Lee Curtis is 100% woman. She's been married and has several kids of her own. None of which became actors, she wouldn't let them
@@BondFreek I'm mistaken? So there never was a rumor or urban legend, of which can be confirmed with a Google search? I didn't say she WAS born with both sex organs, just that there was a rumor/urban myth.
@@BondFreek False! A quick Google search shows that her two kid are adopted, because she CAN'T have kids herself.
“Pure, cinematic, gold” no truer words have ever been spoken
Dan Aykroyd is Canadian, and was one of the "Not Ready For Prime Time Players" who were the original group who started Saturday Night Live in 1975. His famous routines included the "Coneheads", the "Blues Brothers", and the deli chef in the "Cheeseburger cheeseburger cheesburger, no coke, pepsi" sketch. He's done good dramatic work as well, in "Driving Miss Daisy" and 'The Arrow", a docudrama about the 1950's development of the Canadian supersonic "Avro Arrow" fighter jet.
BTW Trivia: the two train attendents..the smaller one with the curley hair is comedian Al Franken, who ended up as a writer on Saturday Night Live, and the one time Senator of Minnesota.
Jamie Lee Curtis was known as ‘The Body’ back in the 1980’s!! YOU AIN’T KNOW?!?!
I know now lol
I'm pretty sure that anyone just born in the 80s or younger didn't know. Lol
@@CapedInformer my man welcome to the club
This is one of my dad's favorite movies! Eddie Murphy and Dan Ackroyd are perfect in this film.
Dan Akroyd was one of the original Saturday night live cast members. Eddie was part of the cast at one time.
22:27 the two guys on the left were also on Saturday night live. Al Franken and Tommy Davis. They wrote and appeared in a few sketches. Al Franken went into politics and became a senator in Minnesota.
Great movie. You should see his other great movies Beverly hills cop 1 and 2, 48 hours, The Golden Child. You should also see his great 80s stand ups Delirious and Raw. The twp bad guys millionaire were in coming in america as the homeless after the events of this movie. so Coming to america is in the same universe as this movie.
Totally agree!! 💯
The Golden Child was a strange case for me, hilarious as a kid but not one laugh as an adult
48Hrs (1982) is a masterpiece, the sequel's quite good too.
The Golden child sucked. I saw as a kid and hated it. Then I saw it as an adult and warned a puke.
@@BondFreek Eddie Murphy once admitted he kind of walked through that movie.
It was *barely* out in 1983- It took a little while to take hold and then in 1984 it hit 2nd run theatres. That's when most everyone I knew (we were in our 3rd or 4th year of college) saw it. It is still a holiday classic and one of my personal favorites.
I suggest the movie "Life" (1999) with Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence!
I found Life in a box of my nanas vhs copies about 20 years ago and when I could face my loss I went through all. . Life was one. I was about 13 and to this day it is one of my favourite movies
Hell yes I’ll back this request!!
YOU DIDNT KNOW DAN AKROYD WAS THIS FUNNY!??! Dude Ghostbusters, Coneheads, Spies Like Us, Blues Brothers, Dragnet, The Great Outdoors(shots out John Candy), NOTHING BUT TROUBLE, CADDYSHACK! The man is a legend worth a deep dive
Martin Lawrence isn't funny. At all.
"LIFE" is a fabuloys and funny movie. Will always be on my top 10 list
Fun Trivia: In Eddie Murphy's "Coming to America" (1988), Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche reprise their roles as Randolph and Mortimer Duke - they're the two derelicts that Akeem (Murphy) gives the bag of money to after arguing with Semmi (Arsenio Hall).
Dan Aykroyd had a pretty busy agenda during the 80s: The Blues Brothers, Neighbors, Doctor Detroit, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Trading Places, Ghostbusters, a cameo in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the rare Nothing Lasts Forever, a small role in Into the Night, Spies Like Us, Dragnet, The Couch Trip, The Great Outdoors, a cameo in the end credits of She's Having a Baby, My Stepmother is an Alien, Caddyshack II, Ghostbusters 2 and Driving Miss Daisy. He also sang in the We Are the World video and appeared in Paul Mc Cartney's Spies Like Us and Michael Jackson's Liberian Girl.
I loved my stepmother is an alien, a true classic
@@amariebloom featuring Alyson Hannigan and Seth Green at a very young age.
Films of this time period weren't afraid of using what would be considered highly "offensive" humor now to drive home their points, but by using these stereotypes and turning them upside down, they were progressive in a way that modern movies could never hope to match.
You should watch “Blues Brothers” with Dan Aykroyd from 1980.
The curly haired ape-handler from the train was Al Franken, who would become a Senator for Minnesota.
Trading Places is a modern-day retelling of The Prince and the Pauper. And this is the first appearance of James Belushi right after Brother John coked-out in 82.
19:48 - Nbomb finally lands - "There it goes...they been dancing around it the whole movie"...lmfao
Movie was a classic, it never gets old.
The butler who says "$5! Now I can go to the MOVIES........my MYSELF!!" at 2:32 guy was my grandfather
OMG it hasn’t started yet and I’m already 🤣🤣🤣❤️
22:24 The guy in the center is Alan Franken. A SNL cast member who later became a US Senator. He resigned because of allegations of sexual misconduct.
Former senator Al Franken was one of the baggage drivers on the train. The Dukes will make their “homeless “ appearance in “Coming to America “.
A few other Aykroyd films of note: "Blues Brothers" (1980), "Ghostbusters" (1984), "Spies Like Us" (1985), and a serious turn in "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989), "Sneakers" (1992). And a Don Ameche flick to check out would be "Cocoon" (1985), directed by Ron Howard. Ameche won a Supporting Actor Oscar for it.
In case no one mentioned it: toward the end, when Winthorp and Billy Ray are about to go into the stock exchange and Winthorp is saying, "You gotta buy low, and sell high...", that building behind them was one of the Twin Towers that were destroyed on 9/11. And that's not where the stock exchange is, they just used that building because it looked cool. It was in the same neighborhood, but that's not Wall Street.
13:54 That Eddie Murphy look was called breaking the 4th wall in cinema. That moment was golden!!!!! 🥇
Eddie Murphy is genius. I watched "comedians having coffee in cars" with Jerry Seinfeld and Eddie Murphy had perfect recall of all the details, brilliant.
Your reaction to lovely Ms Jamie Lee is one of the best things I have seen in ages. It shows a red blooded man can be raised right.
Appreciate beauty. Be affected by beauty/attraction and still be respectful. I am showing this to my boy on how a decent man reacts.
12:27 - The bank manager used to do bank commercials back in the day. Back then anybody could recognize that voice.
“Oh he’s gonna have desert”
Had me CACKLING at work at 2 in the morning lmfao
I was 12 when I first saw this. It was years before I realized all those guys were doing cocaine in the stalls before the bell.
"A Fish Called Wanda" is another must-see with Jamie Lee Curtis from the 80s!
When you used to rent this movie on VHS the scenes where Jamie Lee Curtis got topless were always messed up on the tape from people rewinding that section so much.
The beginning showed the Legacy of Phildelphia. It was Home to American Bandstand then it's home to Northern Soul that had a Cult Following in England. The Fellow on The Far Right played Tom Hanks Brother in Philadelphia. The Actress who played Penelope was known to play "Divas". She played a Sorority Pledge in Fraternity Row from the 1970's that starred Paul Newman's Late Son Scott. I'm not sure but I think she also played Tom Hanks Wife in Bonfire Of The Vanities.
One of my all time favorites!
I love absolutely love these three actors☺️ and Jamie Lee ‘s body is just perfection!
The look on your face when Jamie lee Curtis took her top off 😆 was wondering what you were gonna say because you were complementing her so much
Blindsided me with that one
1. They didn't want Jamie Lee Curtis because she had always been a scream queen and didn't think she had comedic chops.
2. Beeks played the Vice Principal in "The Breakfast Club" and that idiot Vice Police Chief Johnson in "Die Hard".
3. The booking officer is Frank Oz from voicing the Muppets and Yoda.
Frank Oz is better known for being Yoda...
@@w41duvernay He's done a bunch of stuff. Including a very small part as an attaché in American Warewolf in London.
@@SierraSierraFoxtrot Not a fan so I left him out.
@@williamjones6031 Directed some good movies too like Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Bowfinger.
He also played a booking officer in Blues Brothers.
One of those baggage handler is Al Franken. Franken who worked as a writer and performer on SNL for many years. Franken was elected into office as a Senator from Minnesota from 2009 to 2018 until he was accused of sexual misconduct forced Franken to resign from office. Now, Franken has a radio show on Sirius/XM.
I noticed your surprised when Dan Aykroyd (Louis) wearing Blackface. It was reported that Dan didn't getting any problems being blackface. Because I think he, Eddie and others worked it out stating his character's reasoning for being blackface is to con Clarence Beeks (Paul Gleason) with with Eddie's character in proper context like Ameche saying the "N" word. Remembered this movie was released in 1983, 38 years ago. Since then, no issues mentioned from the public.
this movie and the blues brother movie are shown every year religiously on Italian television between christmas and new year
More entertaining than if I'd just watched it again myself! Next logical step for a JLC connoisseur (which you surely are) must be A Fish Called Wanda which is a damn fine British comedy to boot. 👍
Jamie Lee Curtis at her hottest in a Fish Called Wanda
@@scott_celt Never heard anyone say that before. I like your unique perspective.
It’s the writhing on the bed to Russian/Italian scene, isn’t it ?
@@tempsitch5632 No actually it's the line delivered to Kevin Klien. "Even if you were my brother I''d still want to f____ you." Plus of course her fake vulnerability when flirting with John Cleese. So super sexy.
@@scott_celt Don't get his hopes up. She doesn't get nekkid in that one. Still a great movie, though.
@@jamesgalimo1007 it's not about nudity that makes her hot in that movie. It's her attitude and flirting and the fact she's just drop dead gorgeous.
Neat fact all the extras in the stock market actually work and worked there they thought Eddie and Dan the proper words and terms during filming.
Right and that’s what makes this movie an all time favorite of mine well that and it’s really fucking funny
@@mohammedashian8094 Agreed.
My mom did extra work on this movie. She was in the party scene where Winthorp crashes it dressed as Santa.
I was only 6 years old when this movie was first released in theaters. This was such a funny movie for real. The first time I have watched this movie was on TV.
I'm glad that you pointed out it was about race and class.
I think in general people like sharing things they like with other people. Of course part of it can be looking for a sort of validation, which can put pressure on reactors cause not everybody likes everything.
I'm a fifty year old guy. Child free by choice. So watching younger reactors enjoy movies from my younger years is a really cool experience.
I read an interview with a stock dealer during one of the market crashes. 2008 I think. He had no idea the market was crashing, because he made money from doing deals. The value of the market made no difference to him.
16:47 That's the famous blues musician Bo Diddley as the pawnbroker.
The bald-headed cop with the glasses who finds the drugs in his pocket is Frank Oz the famous puppeteer and the voice of Yoda and many more characters.
I hope other commenters mentioned that the "Duke Brothers" (Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche) make cameos as homeless guys. That is sooo excellent, and it was welcome work for them, too. Don Ameche was hot suave property in the later '30s and a few '40s films, mostly singin', dancin' and romancin', but he was also one of the shining lights in 1985's COCOON, a sci-fi aliens-on-earth film. Ralph Bellamy was the most excellent groom-to-be in 1940's HIS GIRL FRIDAY, which a lotta film fans consider "best dialog'd film ever" with Cary Grant haggling with Rosalind Russell.
I think she was in a movie titled "Perfect" I believe she was an aerobics instructor in that movie. I don't know much else about it. I do believe that movie was all about her body.
Heres a fun fact if no one else mentioned it.....the cop with the glasses on who found the PCP/Angel dust is Frank Oz Aka the voice of Yoda
13:42 lol he looked at the camera like that because he thought it was funny that they thought they actually needed to explain what bacon was or where to find it LOOOOOL
Since you reacted to this you must must must react to " Brewster's Millions " with Richard Pryor and John Candy...you'll love it!!!😂👍
Love Brewster please 🙏🙏🙏
Yes!!...that's why he's got to do a reaction right?🤠👍
I haven't seen it in a while, but Jamie Lee Curtis was in a movie called, "A Fish Called Wanda" where she would easily get "turned on" to certain things very easily. FYI
Yep, it was foreign languages. She was more turned on by John Cleese's Russian than Otto's Italian.
To this day, I have no idea what they were doing in that pit, but it's one of the most exciting sequence ever.
Murphy, Akroyd, Ameche all had a good role in this film.
Jamie Lee Curtis had the best two "Parts" in the movie though
@Michael Shaughnessy Your name reminded me of this skit, watch to the end if you haven't seen it before...
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I am sure someone already mentioned. The model/actress who played Penelope was the face of Ralph Lauren at the time. The face of American old school Preppies.
Jamie Lee Curtis had longer hair in “Halloween”. That was the first movie I remember seeing her in. She was younger then. I think she had short hair in all of the movies after that.
Not sure if it’s been covered yet, but it seems like not many notice the very young Giancarlo Esposito cameo in the prison scene.
Most people know him as the owner of Los Pollos Hermanos, aka Gus/Gustavo Fring.
The Pawnbroker was played by Blues legend Bo Diddley.
Man, spot on lol Eddie M is ALWAYS perfect, Jamie Lee a damn goddess, and Dan A is brilliant. Just a perfect flick. The social commentary is right on too. That inherent racism, nature v nurture, and even showing the world that prostitutes are actually just the same as everyone else. It did everything well
My fave Christmas/New Year movie. Timeless.
I'm in my 40's and these was a classic Christmas film growing up but in this pc world it rarely gets shown, the youth of today are missing out
Pawn Shop owner was Bo Diddley, Legendary Blues Player
I love Trading Places. Its such a great film.
YOU DIDNT KNOW DAN AKROYD WAS THIS FUNNY!??! Dude Ghostbusters, Coneheads, Spies Like Us, Blues Brothers, Dragnet, The Great Outdoors(shots out John Candy), NOTHING BUT TROUBLE, CADDYSHACK! The man is a legend worth a deep dive
During the movie "Coming to America", Eddie Murphy's character comes upon a couple old homeless men living in a box and he gives them all of his pocket money. It was the Duke Brothers.
When the rich man makes the joke with the punchline 'look at that S-car-go'; the joke was rich people eat snails called escargot.
Jamie Lee Curtis' father is Tony Curtis. He was in the 1959 movie, Some Like it Hot, with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe. (Comedy)
Yes, Jamie Lee Curtis and her nice ta-tas!
Great movie... laughed my butt off at the theatre when I saw this as a teenager.
The shorter (and drunker) of the two baggage handlers -- the one with the curly hair -- is Al Franken, who later went into politics and became Senator from Minnesota.
@22:23 That's former SNL writer/actor and former US Senator (MN) Al Franken.
"He has no idea Jamie Lee Curtis is going to show the goodies... aaaaaannnnnnd there it is!" lol
Also the guy with the glasses in the pawn store is Bo Diddley
True Lies 11 years later Jamie still looking incredible
It's crazy how young Eddie and Jamie looked in this movie. Hell, even decades later! Beverly Hills Cop is another good Eddie Murphy movie! Also see Jamie Lee Curtis in 1978 Halloween.
There's a law applied to stock trading called the "Eddie Murphy Rule" inspired by the scheme in this movie.
The situation with the two rich brothers making a silly bet with a man's life was inspired by the movie "The Million Pound Note" from 1954 and short story by Mark Twain.
It's very well worth watching, with Gregory Peck in the lead role as a penniless American in London.
To be honest I always got book of Job vibes more than anything.
This is one of the funniest movies ever you left out when Eddie Murphy looks at the camera when he’s talking to the Dukes