The night my grandmother died in 1988 after a long battle with cancer, my mother and grandfather popped this into the VCR. She stirred briefly from her haze, stated "Oh I love this movie," laughed, and drifted back into the haze. It was the last thing she ever said.
I hope they left it on for her. Even when they're not responding people at that stage are able to hear their surroundings. Im glad that there was an atmosphere she could enjoy. 😢
Yeah, it’s not really blackface. I’ve always thought of blackface as something that’s demeaning to the race. This was just a disguise, very much like Gene Wilder’s in Silver Streak.
27:54 - "Egg nog?" DECADES of class resentment boiled into those two words! Denholm Eliot as Coleman the butler is simply fantastic this this film! His character is rather dry and understated, but he does SO much with it! Earlier, when he's pretending to not know Winthorpe, just before he closes the door for the last time, there is a flash across his face that says, "My old boss may be a pompous ass, but nobody deserves this. I hate what my bosses the Dukes are doing, and I hate myself for the part I am being forced to play." All in a single half a second. SO good!
Fun Fact: Don Ameche, who played Mortimer Duke, really didn't like to curse, so he screams "Fuck him!", he actually apologized beforehand to the entire cast, crew on the set and did the scene in one take. A true professional. Another Fun Fact: The cop who says mockingly "it's an opera" back to Winthorpe is Frank Oz, the voice of Yoda. The more you know!
Frank Oz also appeared in another Dan Aykroyd movie: The Blues Brothers. Frank Oz portrayed a Correctional Officer who gave John Belushi back his belongings from when he entered Joliet Prison.
I never get over how talented Eddie Murphy was at such a young age. You accept him here as a fully formed movie star when in reality this was filmed when he was 21 and it's only his second movie.
@@graham974 Eddie's fall from being the top comic probably started around the eary 90s. I mean he's still making bank doing the donkey in the Shrek movies but its a lot less meaningful being a comic who sold out arenas and starred in his own movies.
@@joemckim1183 he aged out of the role, he played the same guy in every movie, but as he gets older he cant be the young hyper active type on screen, the nutty professor was his last major solo and he had moved past in by that point, Donkey is a perfect solution because its just voice work, he could be doing that at aged 80
Eddie Murphy was only 20 yesrs old when this was filmed. $80,000 in 1983 = $254,371 now. That's a tasty starting salary. The $42,000 that she had saved would be, $133,545. And the $394,000,000 that's the Dukes lost would be $1,252,779,178 today. The cop who found the PCP in Wimthorp's pocket was Frank Oz, the voice of Miss Piggy and Yoda. The pawn broker was legendary blues guitarist, Bo Diddly. The shorter of the two guys handling the gorilla on the train was comedian Al Franken, who later went on the become a U.S. Senator from the state of Minnesota. A few more John Landis joints you guys should check out... The Blues Brothers, with Danny Akroyd and John Belushi. Also, An American Wherewolf in London! Animal House, also with Belushi. 1941, yet another Landis/Belushi film.
Prior to this, Jamie Lee Curtis had been in "Halloween" and several other slasher / horror type films, and had a reputation as a "scream queen." This was her first sort of "breakout" role- she got to show her comedy chops, she got to show her acting skills, she got to show a LOT of things. Audiences really got to see a LOT of Jamie Lee Curtis, that they had never seen before! 😉 (That is both a double entendre regarding her first on-screen nudity, as well as the truth, because her acting in this role honestly was a tremendous opportunity, that opened a lot of doors for other non-horror roles!)
The guy playing Beeks is also the principal in "Breakfast Club". Two great roles. One of the baggage handlers is future US Senator Al Franken & the pawn broker is rock n roll icon Bo Didley
Thw way Coleman told Billy on his first day "whatever you do, just be yourself, they cant take that from you", you can tell Coleman not only appreciated Billy's appreciation of Coleman, but also Coleman despised what the Dukes were doing and felt bad that Billy was caught up in it. Thats a good writing moment.
Fun fact: This "sell high then buy back cheap to cover the 'Short Sales'" is exactly how that whole Gamestop fiasco happened a few years ago. They literally made a small fortune on this tactic, and because "outsiders" pulled it off, the stock market changed the rules for market trading.
@@scott-mercer actually 48Hrs. was Eddie's first film, in 1982. Best Defense was in 1984. I remember it when I went to see it, and was mad at my date (she begged to go see it) because the movie was so bad (IMO) and Eddie was used so sporadically in it. Murphy needed to bounce back after that turkey Best Defense, and that's when he followed up with Beverly Hills Cop, a fantastic film.
Aykroyd and Murphy were good friends already from the extended SNL community. Their chemistry in this when taking on the Dukes is just gold. I absolutely love the crazy shit going on in the train, between the accents and gorillas and DGAF staff, it's all so zany and great. Just a wild sketch they decided to keep in the film. And Don Ameche's meltdown when the Dukes are ruined is one of the all time great meltdowns in a comedy. It's still very weird to me watching Aykroyd and Murphy walk past the entrance to World Trade Center 2.
This was a pretty big movie for Aykroyd since a lot of folks in Hollywood thought he wouldn't work as an actor/comedian following the death of John Belushi (since they were such a double-act onscreen). This put those fears to rest and then with "Ghostbusters" the next year, it was completely forgotten.
*Coming to America (1988)* is a must-watch follow-up. Eddie Murphy and John Landis join forces again to hit it even further out of the park, and it's even an unofficial sequel to this movie. One tip: don't do any research before watching it, but make sure to check out the cast in the credits afterwards.
7:52 - That man playing Coleman the butler is late actor Denholm Elliott (1922-1992). You likely recognize him from the Indiana Jones series of movies with Harrison Ford. He was Indie's right hand man, Marcus Brody.
The actor who plays the butler in "Trading Places" is named Denholm Elliott. Elliott played Dr. Marcus Brody alongside Harrison Ford (--> Indiana Jones) in "Raiders of the Lost Ark". In total, Denholm Elliott appeared in two Indiana Jones movies and many other productions. "Trading Places" is a great movie. Although it was filmed in 1983, it is still relevant today and absolutely worth seeing. Great reaction. 👏
48 hours, trading places, Beverly Hills Cop no Comedian will ever start a career on fire like that again in the movies. Was a treat to see you both discuss it and debate it. Fun watch. Timeless Film
30:13 - The double-switch of the suitcases. This confused me for a long time, too. (I've seen this film about a million times) Eventually I realized that the first switch was to get their hands on the REAL crop report. But they had no way of knowing what would be on it! So they needed to swap it out for a FAKE crop report that was faked to their advantage (based on what the real report said). So they had to steal it, get it to Winthorpe in the bathroom to make the necessary changes / swap for the proper whatever, then give it BACK to him, so he could make the drop as planned. The fact that he got onto them, they had to improvise and take his place at the drop. Bonus: they got his money! Edit: You figured it out. You got it.
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"Timothy... "Harris conceived the outline for Trading Places in the early 1980s after meeting two wealthy brothers who were engaged in an ongoing rivalry with each other. He and his writing partner Weingrod developed the idea as a project to star Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. When they were unable to participate, Landis cast Aykroyd-with whom he had worked previously-and a young but increasingly popular Murphy in his second feature-film role."
13:19 - The police officer here, taking the inventory of Winthorpe's belongings, is actor/director Frank Oz. He's the man who does the voice of master Jedi Yoda in all of the Star Wars films franchise! He also does the voice of a few characters in many The Muppets films. Oz also had a small part in the cult film, An American Werewolf in London. He's also the one who directed the movies: "Little Shop of Horrors" (1986), "Bowfinger" (1999) (hilarious movie, btw), and "The Score" (2001) which stars Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Angela Bassett, and Marlon Brando (The Godfather).
The term "blackface" has been redefined in the last couple of decades or so. The reason Eddie Murphy had no problem with what Dan Akroyde did here (and virtually no one else did either) is because, from the 1920s or so, up until recently, no one called that blackface. Blackface was a very specific type of theater where white people would put on super dark shoe polish, leaving a cartoonish 'lips' area unpainted, and then did stereotypical music in an exaggerated 'black voice'. It was incredibly insulting and came from racist motives. By the 1970s most people recognized blackface was horrible. But, no one considered realistic skin tone matching to be "blackface". For example, if you wanted to be Mr. T for Halloween, and you didn't have his skin tone, you would use makeup along with the mohawk to look like him. Anyone who saw you would know you were a fan of Mr. T. This was absolutely not called "blackface" or thought to be bad (even by most black people). It was just looking like the person. There was no cartoonish lip left in the makeup. There was not necessarily any racist motivation or intention to make fun of black people in general. But sometime after the 90s people started suddenly calling any realistic skin tone matching of a darker skinned person to be "blackface", maybe in order to give it the same negative connotation.
during the train scene, the needed to steal Beek's case to get the crop report, then swap it with a fake crop report while they made off with the original. This way when Beek's opened his briefcase, it's still his - with a seemingly real crop report to sell to the Dukes.
Hey Sam and Daniel, one of my favorite Flicks ever. Great choice. ---- Even I laugh at the black face and the Jamaican accent. Don't worry if you laugh (ITS FUNNY STUFF!!!!!) Laughs a minute, I think Sam's face is still hurting after watching this flick.
When the restaurant went silent to hear Valentine's prediction it was a take off on the old EF Hutton stockbroker ads. "When EF Hutton talks, people listen."
The shorter of the two Gorilla handlers was Senator Al Franken. He also showed up in the end of Ghostbusters 2. Former SNL cast with Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy.
Fun reaction! 😁 21:45 The silence was a play on the “when E.F. Hutton talks… people listen” commercials back from back in the day. 😊 18:38 This part always cracks me up. One of my favorite fourth wall breaks in any film. Eddie/Valentine’s expression like “do you see this? These mother-effers think I’m slow.” 💀😂🤣 Hope you guys get a chance to watch *Coming to America.* If you liked this movie, you’ll _love_ that one. 😊
Great reactions guys like always a fun-fact. The cop in booking that finds the PCP on Louis was Frank Oz, the famous puppeteer and voice for Yoda and many other Muppets and characters like Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Grover and Cookie Monster. He plays a similar role in Blues Brothers. Keep up the amazing work
"It was the Dukes It was the Dukes" 😂😂😂 It's funny you were speculating about the behind-the-scenes conversation with Dan Acroyd in blackface, the lore around this movie is that the conversation took place around Don Ameche saying the N-word in the bathroom. He didn't want to do it but Eddie Murphy convinced him to do one take and they used it. It was something that came up when Ameche passed a few years ago.
This movie led to a new law being introduced called 'The Eddie Murphy Law' to stop the exact situation that happens in the movie from ever happening to the stock market in real life. The movie studio didn't want Jamie Lee Curtis in the movie but the director fought them on it. They thought she was just the scream queen from Halloween and still an unknown actress. And director John Landis always puts a fake movie poster called "See You Next Wednesday" in every one of his movies. In this movie, it's in Jamie's apartment on the bedroom wall. In American Werewolf in London it was in the subway tube :)
I was just going to add this point, yes I read that in University courses on Finance, etc and as you said it's called "The Eddie Murphy rule" based on the fact that it was insider training.
The rule was named after the film but it wasn't the film that lead to the rule. The rule wasn't introduced until 2010 and was a rule for the commodities market, it was already illegal to use insider info on the stock market long before the movie came out.
YAY! LOVE THIS MOVIE! It was originally going to star Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor as a stock broker and his chauffeur switch lives for a week in order to see how different their lives would have turned out.
Great reaction. 👍 I’ve watched this movie hundreds of times because it’s so funny. But just now listening to them talking about the name of it, I just got the double meaning of the word “trading”. Wow do I feel dumb?😂
You guys laughed so much i can tell you loved it! ❤ The Duke brothers have a cameo in Eddie Murphys Coming To America that youd only get after watching this movie. The guy who played Clarence Beeks was always great at playing assholes. He was an incompetent cop in Die Hard, but he's best known as the school principal in The Breakfast Club.
Paul Gleason also played the Yankee executive who hired George Costanza at Steinbrenner’s behest. I’m real life, he very briefly played minor league baseball in the Cleveland Indians system.
When I was in the army in the '80s I only owned two movies on VHS. This one and Enter the Dragon. I seen them both many times. And they just get better every time.
I had to look this up: They had to see what the real crop report said so they could swap it with whatever was the opposite. The first case they swapped had nothing in it. It was just so Mr. Beaks would not notice his case was missing. Once they viewed what the report said they switched it with a report that stated the opposite. At this point they now had to switch the cases again.
This movie was originally intended for Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder, but Pryor went into rehab just before filming. The studio objected to Jamie Lee Curtis, calling her a B-Movie actress.
Going to love this, and I'm already looking forward to you guys reaction to " Coming to America" staring Eddie Murphy which takes place in the same universe.
The Dukes' trader, Wilson, is Richard Hunt - who was a puppeteer on The Muppet Show. He performed Scooter, Janice, Statler, and many others. The big black guy "YEAH!" in the jail is football player J.T. Turner who played for the Giants and Redskins. Great job spotting a young Gus Fring in the jail scene!
nice... the Booking Officer at the jail was played by Frank Oz who also did Muppet Voices (Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal & Sam Eagle, as week as Cookie Monster, Bert & Grover from Sesame Street) and Yoda in the Star Wars movies
Frozen concentrate orange juice was a huge supermarket product back in the 1970s and 1980s. It was relatable to audiences at that time. PS. There is a restaurant in Philly today named Winthorp and Valentine.
So, fun US history fact. What Dan and Eddie do at the end in this movie, was nit only possible. . . But not illegal, because no one ever tried it in real life. But in the 80s, a couple real life traders pulled the stunt. And our congress passed a regulatory law making the "Trading places stunt" or "Aykroyd/Murphy scheme" illegal. And it hasnt been done since. This movie, actually resulted in new laws in the real world lol
Great reaction to a classic! Also, that's not Blackface. I'm a Black man. Trust me. Blackface would be a person wearing Black shoe polish, exaggerated large lips with bright red lipstick. It's an exaggerated and insulting depiction of Black people where the person acts dumb or slow. Akroid was just hilariously impersonating a Rasta.
RATED R?!?!?!? Here in Italy it's rated as movie for everyone! It's a family movie sent in tv every single christmas, prime time, for more than 30 years, it's an italian tradition now.
Some additional interesting cast notes. The cop who announces that the white powder in a baggy he pulls from Louis’ coat is PCP was, Frank Oz. The Pawnbroker was early rock singer/musician, Bo Diddley. One of the two baggage handlers tending the Gorilla on the train was, Al Franken. Also, after Billy Ray and Louis get off the train and are walking to the commodities exchange in NYC, they pass in front of the ground floor of one of the twin-towers of the WTC. The exterior steel frame work is unmistakable.
In my opinion the whole train scene was just a reason to do a series of Saturday night live skits. It largely did not really fit into the movie but it was just pure comedy.
31:50 "All these briefcases look the same" Now that makes me want to see your reaction to What's Up, Doc? (1972), especially as we sadly just lost Ryan O'Neal.
Fun fact: The pawn shop owner is played by Bo Diddley, blues man extraordinaire! Jim Belushi is the guy in the fakey looking gorilla suit, and Al Franken is one of the train porters.
You guys are my favorite movie reactors! Always the right amount of showing the movie, you're not hung up on people going to your patreon, and insightful commentary 🎉
Both Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd got their start on Saturday Night Live. I think that train black face "ba buya" song skit might have been inspired by an SNL skit.
So the short of what happened at the end was because the orange crops weren't affected by winter, then there would large amounts of cheap oranges. The Dukes thought the crops were affected, so instead of selling high then buying low, they bought high then sold low. Aykroyd and Murphy knew the real crop report so they sold high and bought low. The numbers they showed on the boards meant that Aykroyd and Murphy made contracts to buy oranges at $0.29 a pound in units of a thousand, and also made contracts to sell those exact same oranges at $1.42 a pound, making a profit of 545%. Oranges are traded in units of a thousand pounds, with several units per single contract, and you could hear traders talking about buying and selling hundreds of contracts. It's not exactly known how much they invested with the life savings and the money meant for Beaks, but the current guesstimate is in the tens of millions, possibly over 100 million. What was done to achieve such success (trading commodities on inside information obtained from the government) wasn't illegal back when the movie was made, but when it was made illegal in 2010, it was appropriately named the Eddie Murphy Rule.
The realization that this movie is 40 years old is slightly soul crushing....
The fact that I’m 40 years old is also soul crushing 😢
Going on 50
Mid 40's here. And. Ye.
@@collectivevision9884Don’t feel soul crushed! I’m 15 years older than you so 40 sounds great! 👍😁
Does it make you feel better that we are young enough that we had to sneak and watch it when it came out? It doesn't help me much.
The night my grandmother died in 1988 after a long battle with cancer, my mother and grandfather popped this into the VCR. She stirred briefly from her haze, stated "Oh I love this movie," laughed, and drifted back into the haze. It was the last thing she ever said.
So sad...but still....so beautiful. Blessings to her and your family.
Oh 🥺 ,, that's wonderful 🤗💋🎄🎉🌌🌠🌌🌌🕊️🕊️🕊️
I hope they left it on for her. Even when they're not responding people at that stage are able to hear their surroundings. Im glad that there was an atmosphere she could enjoy. 😢
When out with a 😊
"How many drunk, stumbling santas are out walking the streets?" In Philadelphia , on new years, literally thousands. It's called the Mummer's Parade
I think Aykroyd said in an interview that no one cared about the blackface. Murphy and his team didn’t think twice about it either. Different times.
Yeah, it’s not really blackface. I’ve always thought of blackface as something that’s demeaning to the race. This was just a disguise, very much like Gene Wilder’s in Silver Streak.
That's what I thought, too. It wasn't a big deal back then, because people didn't get offended about every little thing.
@@Eternal82Soulbut at that time it was before PC got really over the top.
Thank God those days are over, I like discovering new ways about how my sense of humor is complete shit and feeling bad about myself.
@@Eternal82SoulMore like they didn't care since they were getting paid.
I hope “Coming to America” is next on the list
They did it months ago, but, apparently, they missed the cameo of Duke & Duke because they were out of order.
@@libertyresearch-iu4fywho are you talking about?
@@DiggitySlice TBR Schmitt and his wife.
27:54 - "Egg nog?" DECADES of class resentment boiled into those two words! Denholm Eliot as Coleman the butler is simply fantastic this this film! His character is rather dry and understated, but he does SO much with it!
Earlier, when he's pretending to not know Winthorpe, just before he closes the door for the last time, there is a flash across his face that says, "My old boss may be a pompous ass, but nobody deserves this. I hate what my bosses the Dukes are doing, and I hate myself for the part I am being forced to play." All in a single half a second. SO good!
Fun Fact: Don Ameche, who played Mortimer Duke, really didn't like to curse, so he screams "Fuck him!", he actually apologized beforehand to the entire cast, crew on the set and did the scene in one take. A true professional.
Another Fun Fact: The cop who says mockingly "it's an opera" back to Winthorpe is Frank Oz, the voice of Yoda. The more you know!
He also very much didn't want to say the N-word, Eddie Murphy had a talk with him. persuading him that it was okay.
Frank is also the voice of, among other Muppets, Miss Piggy
@christinadoxstader3004
Frank was also the discharge officer at the prison in "The Blues Brothers".
The movie was originally written as a project for Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder but they couldn't participate.
Frank Oz also appeared in another Dan Aykroyd movie: The Blues Brothers. Frank Oz portrayed a Correctional Officer who gave John Belushi back his belongings from when he entered Joliet Prison.
I never get over how talented Eddie Murphy was at such a young age. You accept him here as a fully formed movie star when in reality this was filmed when he was 21 and it's only his second movie.
Trading Places, Coming to America, Beverly Hills Cop, SNL, comedy specials…He went from the funniest person alive to…well, not so much, so fast!
@@graham974 Eddie's fall from being the top comic probably started around the eary 90s. I mean he's still making bank doing the donkey in the Shrek movies but its a lot less meaningful being a comic who sold out arenas and starred in his own movies.
Eddie came at the right time.
@@joemckim1183 he aged out of the role, he played the same guy in every movie, but as he gets older he cant be the young hyper active type on screen, the nutty professor was his last major solo and he had moved past in by that point, Donkey is a perfect solution because its just voice work, he could be doing that at aged 80
@@stevenr6397 It just goes to show you that no mattet how big of a star you are you cant stayvat the top forever.
Eddie Murphy was only 20 yesrs old when this was filmed.
$80,000 in 1983 = $254,371 now. That's a tasty starting salary.
The $42,000 that she had saved would be, $133,545.
And the $394,000,000 that's the Dukes lost would be $1,252,779,178 today.
The cop who found the PCP in Wimthorp's pocket was Frank Oz, the voice of Miss Piggy and Yoda.
The pawn broker was legendary blues guitarist, Bo Diddly.
The shorter of the two guys handling the gorilla on the train was comedian Al Franken, who later went on the become a U.S. Senator from the state of Minnesota.
A few more John Landis joints you guys should check out...
The Blues Brothers, with Danny Akroyd and John Belushi.
Also, An American Wherewolf in London!
Animal House, also with Belushi.
1941, yet another Landis/Belushi film.
fun fact. in Italy this movie has been broadcasted for the last 30 years straight every christmas eve evening. it's become a tradition
The Actors playing the Duke Brothers. Ralph Belemay and Dom Ameche always talked very highly of Eddie Murphy's improvisation and comedic talents
“I am Inga from Sweden.”
“But….you’re wearing lederhosen.”
“Ya, for sure Sweden.”😂😂😂
I love this movie so much.
BEEF JERKY TIME! 😂
Prior to this, Jamie Lee Curtis had been in "Halloween" and several other slasher / horror type films, and had a reputation as a "scream queen."
This was her first sort of "breakout" role- she got to show her comedy chops, she got to show her acting skills, she got to show a LOT of things. Audiences really got to see a LOT of Jamie Lee Curtis, that they had never seen before! 😉
(That is both a double entendre regarding her first on-screen nudity, as well as the truth, because her acting in this role honestly was a tremendous opportunity, that opened a lot of doors for other non-horror roles!)
Bo Didley is the pawn store owner, and the song played at the restaurant ia the same song played at the restaurant in The Blues Brothers.
My personal favorite Jamie Lee Curtis movie is, A Fish Called Wanda.
i think they would love that movie it's hilarious
The guy playing Beeks is also the principal in "Breakfast Club". Two great roles.
One of the baggage handlers is future US Senator Al Franken & the pawn broker is rock n roll icon Bo Didley
He is also the jerk police guy in Die Hard.
@dustman820 So depending on where you see this movie, it may be the second time he gets buttf****d on national TV
“Does Barry Manilow know you raid his wardrobe?”
Paul Gleason was a vice principal in "Breakfast Club".
Mess with the bull, you get the horns.
Thw way Coleman told Billy on his first day "whatever you do, just be yourself, they cant take that from you", you can tell Coleman not only appreciated Billy's appreciation of Coleman, but also Coleman despised what the Dukes were doing and felt bad that Billy was caught up in it. Thats a good writing moment.
Fun fact: This "sell high then buy back cheap to cover the 'Short Sales'" is exactly how that whole Gamestop fiasco happened a few years ago. They literally made a small fortune on this tactic, and because "outsiders" pulled it off, the stock market changed the rules for market trading.
Again. 😂
If you guys get a chance, "48 Hours" is a great Eddie Murphy film. It was Murphy's first movie, and my favorite of his.
I've been waiting FOREVER for one of my favorite reaction channels to do 48hrs.
His first film was actually Best Defense, but it was just a cameo.
@@scott-mercer actually 48Hrs. was Eddie's first film, in 1982. Best Defense was in 1984. I remember it when I went to see it, and was mad at my date (she begged to go see it) because the movie was so bad (IMO) and Eddie was used so sporadically in it. Murphy needed to bounce back after that turkey Best Defense, and that's when he followed up with Beverly Hills Cop, a fantastic film.
I can't recommend 48 Hours enough. It really is a must watch. It was the first buddy cop movie, predating Lethal Weapon.
Yes!!
Fun Fact: the Pawn Shop owner is the legendary Blues/Rock N Roll guitarist Bo Diddley
I love this movie. You guys might also like Brewster's Millions (1985).
Good call, Brewster's is such an underated movie.
That and the toy are my favorite Pryor movies
@@sarparker5362 ,, not round our dinner table 🤗💸
LMAO they got "black face" on the ratings list? Thats probably the funniest thing I've heard today.
Love this movie, classic.
1st time I've ever seen it listed.
Think that's bad,Aliens is cited for having outdated language.
@@mrtim5363 lol yea me too
The next step will be to remove all that "offensive" content altogether. Buy your own discs while or if you can.
You can't go wrong with prime Dan and Eddie.
I disagree. Can't stand this movie.
@@jkhoover i remember you. you said this about every movie
OMG dude this movie has been going great for 40yrs! Make peace with the fact.
@@76marex He's a LIE. He not see movie. I see it.
That girl tell man you can stay at my house.
but then she show him her boobies. shes a bad one.
Aykroyd and Murphy were good friends already from the extended SNL community. Their chemistry in this when taking on the Dukes is just gold. I absolutely love the crazy shit going on in the train, between the accents and gorillas and DGAF staff, it's all so zany and great. Just a wild sketch they decided to keep in the film. And Don Ameche's meltdown when the Dukes are ruined is one of the all time great meltdowns in a comedy.
It's still very weird to me watching Aykroyd and Murphy walk past the entrance to World Trade Center 2.
This was a pretty big movie for Aykroyd since a lot of folks in Hollywood thought he wouldn't work as an actor/comedian following the death of John Belushi (since they were such a double-act onscreen). This put those fears to rest and then with "Ghostbusters" the next year, it was completely forgotten.
@@mst3KGf He hit a home run in this, I love his performance. The police station 😂
That train scene is still absolutely bananas 😂
Liberals chimp out over the blackface, though.
*Coming to America (1988)* is a must-watch follow-up. Eddie Murphy and John Landis join forces again to hit it even further out of the park, and it's even an unofficial sequel to this movie. One tip: don't do any research before watching it, but make sure to check out the cast in the credits afterwards.
And we also see the return of the Duke brothers in a hilarious scene in that movie.
Dude spoiler
It's not a sequel at all you're wrong
That's just an Easter egg
@@dirkvervecken4054😂😂😂, d'you think that's what he could, maybe have been getting at? Sorry, don't mean to be such a 'Dukes' bag!😊
12:01, lol!! "Want me to break something else?" "No!😮" 😂
7:52 - That man playing Coleman the butler is late actor Denholm Elliott (1922-1992). You likely recognize him from the Indiana Jones series of movies with Harrison Ford. He was Indie's right hand man, Marcus Brody.
The actor who plays the butler in "Trading Places" is named Denholm Elliott.
Elliott played Dr. Marcus Brody alongside Harrison Ford (--> Indiana Jones) in "Raiders of the Lost Ark".
In total, Denholm Elliott appeared in two Indiana Jones movies and many other productions.
"Trading Places" is a great movie.
Although it was filmed in 1983, it is still relevant today and absolutely worth seeing.
Great reaction. 👏
Filming even began in December '82 for all the outdoors Christmas scenes.
He also starred in a TV series in the 80's Called "The Equalizer" the very first original.
@@derrickbrown6387 That was Edward Woodward. Paul Gleason was in one episode, though.
He's brilliant in the Michael Caine classic,, Alfie (1966)🐕🎻
@@LarryFleetwood8675 You are right sir .I stand corrected
This is one of the best "guy gets assaulted by a gorilla" films of 1983. Easily in the top three. 😉
What were the other two, out of curiosity?
Fun fact: this was supposed to be Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder's 4th movie together but Pryor lit himself on fire and the rest is history.
Hear no Evil🙉
See no Evil 🙈
😂🤣
Stir Crazy!
"How many drunk, stumbling, Santa's are there?"
A lot, TBR. A Lot.
"A karate man bruise on the inside." So true, Billy Ray.
7:51 That guy is Denholm Elliott and played Marcus Brody in Indiana Jones.
48 hours, trading places, Beverly Hills Cop no Comedian will ever start a career on fire like that again in the movies. Was a treat to see you both discuss it and debate it. Fun watch. Timeless Film
30:13 - The double-switch of the suitcases. This confused me for a long time, too. (I've seen this film about a million times) Eventually I realized that the first switch was to get their hands on the REAL crop report. But they had no way of knowing what would be on it! So they needed to swap it out for a FAKE crop report that was faked to their advantage (based on what the real report said). So they had to steal it, get it to Winthorpe in the bathroom to make the necessary changes / swap for the proper whatever, then give it BACK to him, so he could make the drop as planned. The fact that he got onto them, they had to improvise and take his place at the drop. Bonus: they got his money!
Edit: You figured it out. You got it.
YOUR INTRO MUSIC IS LIKE A WARM HUG WHEN I NEED IT THE MOST.
ALL ALONE I AM & FACING MANY CHALLENGES.
I FIND COMFORT & PEACE IN YOUR VIDEOS.
THANK YOU. SINCERELY. THANK YOU BOTH.
Please stop shouting.
@@Argumemnon IM NOT. IM BLIND IN ONE EYE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR RESPONSE.
Keep hanging tough, amigo. The holidays can be a difficult time. Keep the faith, you got this.
@@davelong4416 YESSIR & THANKS
The way Dan Aykroyd delivers the line "I was poor and no one liked me" always cracks me up. Great movie.
More Eddie Murphy please. Many great movies!!! ❤ you guy!!!
"Timothy... "Harris conceived the outline for Trading Places in the early 1980s after meeting two wealthy brothers who were engaged in an ongoing rivalry with each other. He and his writing partner Weingrod developed the idea as a project to star Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. When they were unable to participate, Landis cast Aykroyd-with whom he had worked previously-and a young but increasingly popular Murphy in his second feature-film role."
Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd are quite the duo in this funny Christmas film with some strong themes under its hood.
13:19 - The police officer here, taking the inventory of Winthorpe's belongings, is actor/director Frank Oz. He's the man who does the voice of master Jedi Yoda in all of the Star Wars films franchise! He also does the voice of a few characters in many The Muppets films. Oz also had a small part in the cult film, An American Werewolf in London. He's also the one who directed the movies: "Little Shop of Horrors" (1986), "Bowfinger" (1999) (hilarious movie, btw), and "The Score" (2001) which stars Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Angela Bassett, and Marlon Brando (The Godfather).
I never thought about the ‘Trading’ in the title as a double meaning! Great reaction BTW.
In Germany, the film is called Glücksritter. I love this film. In Prince of Zamunda, the two old men can be seen as bums.
they call that movie 'Coming to America' over here
The term "blackface" has been redefined in the last couple of decades or so. The reason Eddie Murphy had no problem with what Dan Akroyde did here (and virtually no one else did either) is because, from the 1920s or so, up until recently, no one called that blackface. Blackface was a very specific type of theater where white people would put on super dark shoe polish, leaving a cartoonish 'lips' area unpainted, and then did stereotypical music in an exaggerated 'black voice'. It was incredibly insulting and came from racist motives. By the 1970s most people recognized blackface was horrible. But, no one considered realistic skin tone matching to be "blackface". For example, if you wanted to be Mr. T for Halloween, and you didn't have his skin tone, you would use makeup along with the mohawk to look like him. Anyone who saw you would know you were a fan of Mr. T. This was absolutely not called "blackface" or thought to be bad (even by most black people). It was just looking like the person. There was no cartoonish lip left in the makeup. There was not necessarily any racist motivation or intention to make fun of black people in general. But sometime after the 90s people started suddenly calling any realistic skin tone matching of a darker skinned person to be "blackface", maybe in order to give it the same negative connotation.
during the train scene, the needed to steal Beek's case to get the crop report, then swap it with a fake crop report while they made off with the original. This way when Beek's opened his briefcase, it's still his - with a seemingly real crop report to sell to the Dukes.
I bet $1 y'all are gonna like this movie.
Now you're gonna have to react to Coming to America. The quasi sequel to Trading Places.
Not even quasi. More like a nod.
Hey Sam and Daniel, one of my favorite Flicks ever. Great choice. ---- Even I laugh at the black face and the Jamaican accent. Don't worry if you laugh (ITS FUNNY STUFF!!!!!)
Laughs a minute, I think Sam's face is still hurting after watching this flick.
absolute classic movie.
watched this so much as a teenager i wore out the VHS tape.
When the restaurant went silent to hear Valentine's prediction it was a take off on the old EF Hutton stockbroker ads. "When EF Hutton talks, people listen."
Another great classic movie is Heaven Can Wait. Oh and Brewster's Million. And Coming to America.
loved Brewster's millions. we actually saw this movie in the theatre. dang. i'm giving away how old i am. lol
8:06* that's Denholm Elliot from Indiana Jones And The Raiders Of The Lost Ark.
6:45 "omg. is this gonna be like a bet between two rich guys?" -daniel
called it ✅
Mr Beaks was played by Paul Gleason, the principal in ''The Breakfast Club''.
1:59 "i don't know. i have to check if she has a playlist." -sam
she does now. 👍🏼
Hey! It's you! 😲
This is my #1 comedy all time to me. I don't think there's a limit to how many times I can see this and still not laugh at every part!
The shorter of the two Gorilla handlers was Senator Al Franken. He also showed up in the end of Ghostbusters 2. Former SNL cast with Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy.
Also starred in a very funny/heartwarming movie called 'Stuart Saves His Family', based off his SNL character!
The other handler was Tom Davis, Franken's friend and writing partner at SNL.
"People in the back don't have a table". I never thought about it. This is one reason reactions are fun.
Fun reaction! 😁
21:45 The silence was a play on the “when E.F. Hutton talks… people listen” commercials back from back in the day. 😊
18:38 This part always cracks me up. One of my favorite fourth wall breaks in any film. Eddie/Valentine’s expression like “do you see this? These mother-effers think I’m slow.” 💀😂🤣
Hope you guys get a chance to watch *Coming to America.* If you liked this movie, you’ll _love_ that one. 😊
The butler is Denholm elliot. A fantastic British actor. He was alas in Indiana jones...
Great reactions guys like always a fun-fact. The cop in booking that finds the PCP on Louis was Frank Oz, the famous puppeteer and voice for Yoda and many other Muppets and characters like Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Grover and Cookie Monster. He plays a similar role in Blues Brothers. Keep up the amazing work
Yeah, Frank Oz has a cameo, but also the pawn broker is played by the one-and-only Bo Diddly...!
@@davelong4416You beat me to it!
Speaking of Bo, director Landis' next movie Into the Night (1985) would be cool for the channel as well.
"It was the Dukes
It was the Dukes"
😂😂😂
It's funny you were speculating about the behind-the-scenes conversation with Dan Acroyd in blackface, the lore around this movie is that the conversation took place around Don Ameche saying the N-word in the bathroom. He didn't want to do it but Eddie Murphy convinced him to do one take and they used it. It was something that came up when Ameche passed a few years ago.
This movie led to a new law being introduced called 'The Eddie Murphy Law' to stop the exact situation that happens in the movie from ever happening to the stock market in real life. The movie studio didn't want Jamie Lee Curtis in the movie but the director fought them on it. They thought she was just the scream queen from Halloween and still an unknown actress. And director John Landis always puts a fake movie poster called "See You Next Wednesday" in every one of his movies. In this movie, it's in Jamie's apartment on the bedroom wall. In American Werewolf in London it was in the subway tube :)
I was just going to add this point, yes I read that in University courses on Finance, etc and as you said it's called "The Eddie Murphy rule" based on the fact that it was insider training.
The rule was named after the film but it wasn't the film that lead to the rule. The rule wasn't introduced until 2010 and was a rule for the commodities market, it was already illegal to use insider info on the stock market long before the movie came out.
14:15, "This Persian rug is from Persia!" Lol!!
1:21 "two comedy people." -sam
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The Butler is Marcus Brody from INDIANA JONES holding the red phone ☎️
YAY!
LOVE THIS MOVIE!
It was originally going to star Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor as a stock broker and his chauffeur switch lives for a week in order to see how different their lives would have turned out.
Both Silver Streak (1976) and Stir Crazy (1980) with Wilder and Pryor would make good reaction movies.
Great reaction. 👍
I’ve watched this movie hundreds of times because it’s so funny. But just now listening to them talking about the name of it, I just got the double meaning of the word “trading”. Wow do I feel dumb?😂
You guys laughed so much i can tell you loved it! ❤ The Duke brothers have a cameo in Eddie Murphys Coming To America that youd only get after watching this movie.
The guy who played Clarence Beeks was always great at playing assholes. He was an incompetent cop in Die Hard, but he's best known as the school principal in The Breakfast Club.
Paul Gleason also played the Yankee executive who hired George Costanza at Steinbrenner’s behest.
I’m real life, he very briefly played minor league baseball in the Cleveland Indians system.
When I was in the army in the '80s I only owned two movies on VHS. This one and Enter the Dragon. I seen them both many times. And they just get better every time.
Wolf of wall st also made it clear brokers make commissions whether or not their clients lose or make money. Trade via apps. Less fees.
I had to look this up: They had to see what the real crop report said so they could swap it with whatever was the opposite. The first case they swapped had nothing in it. It was just so Mr. Beaks would not notice his case was missing. Once they viewed what the report said they switched it with a report that stated the opposite. At this point they now had to switch the cases again.
13:16 That's Frank Oz, the voice of some Sesame Street characters (Grover, Burt, Cookie Monster) and most notable Star Wars character... Yoda.
This movie was originally intended for Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder, but Pryor went into rehab just before filming.
The studio objected to Jamie Lee Curtis, calling her a B-Movie actress.
Have you seen Coming To America? I'd HIGHLY recommend checking it out after watching this.
@20:45 the pawn broker was the legendary Bo Didley
Going to love this, and I'm already looking forward to you guys reaction to " Coming to America" staring Eddie Murphy which takes place in the same universe.
Gotta check out the deleted scene from Coming to America where Prince Akeem helps out the two homeless beggars . . . .
That scene is actually in the movie, they put it in.
I'm pretty sure they reacted to Coming to America a few months ago actually.
The Dukes' trader, Wilson, is Richard Hunt - who was a puppeteer on The Muppet Show. He performed Scooter, Janice, Statler, and many others. The big black guy "YEAH!" in the jail is football player J.T. Turner who played for the Giants and Redskins. Great job spotting a young Gus Fring in the jail scene!
nice... the Booking Officer at the jail was played by Frank Oz who also did Muppet Voices (Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal & Sam Eagle, as week as Cookie Monster, Bert & Grover from Sesame Street) and Yoda in the Star Wars movies
Frozen concentrate orange juice was a huge supermarket product back in the 1970s and 1980s. It was relatable to audiences at that time.
PS. There is a restaurant in Philly today named Winthorp and Valentine.
So, fun US history fact. What Dan and Eddie do at the end in this movie, was nit only possible. . . But not illegal, because no one ever tried it in real life. But in the 80s, a couple real life traders pulled the stunt. And our congress passed a regulatory law making the "Trading places stunt" or "Aykroyd/Murphy scheme" illegal. And it hasnt been done since. This movie, actually resulted in new laws in the real world lol
Great reaction to a classic! Also, that's not Blackface. I'm a Black man. Trust me. Blackface would be a person wearing Black shoe polish, exaggerated large lips with bright red lipstick. It's an exaggerated and insulting depiction of Black people where the person acts dumb or slow. Akroid was just hilariously impersonating a Rasta.
Today people get offended for people who aren't offended themselves.
RATED R?!?!?!?
Here in Italy it's rated as movie for everyone! It's a family movie sent in tv every single christmas, prime time, for more than 30 years, it's an italian tradition now.
If shown on US TV today, it probably has to have some kind of 'viewer warning' first...
Some additional interesting cast notes. The cop who announces that the white powder in a baggy he pulls from Louis’ coat is PCP was, Frank Oz. The Pawnbroker was early rock singer/musician, Bo Diddley. One of the two baggage handlers tending the Gorilla on the train was, Al Franken.
Also, after Billy Ray and Louis get off the train and are walking to the commodities exchange in NYC, they pass in front of the ground floor of one of the twin-towers of the WTC. The exterior steel frame work is unmistakable.
The white officer with the glasses played the Muppet characters and was Yoda in Star Wars.
Penelope can GET IT!😍
16:18 "is she still going? where is she?" 😆
the synchronized gestures. 😊
In my opinion the whole train scene was just a reason to do a series of Saturday night live skits. It largely did not really fit into the movie but it was just pure comedy.
31:50 "All these briefcases look the same"
Now that makes me want to see your reaction to What's Up, Doc? (1972), especially as we sadly just lost Ryan O'Neal.
The movie also gave a non-boring introduction to how markets work.
I always wanted someone to say why is he still holding on to the suitcase. 🏆✨ My favorite line... You have it. Then right in the garbage. LoL 🥶🇨🇦❄️
Love this movie. It's not something that would be made today, but back then, it was quite funny.
It’s still funny who cares what anyone thinks? 😊
Fun fact: The pawn shop owner is played by Bo Diddley, blues man extraordinaire! Jim Belushi is the guy in the fakey looking gorilla suit, and Al Franken is one of the train porters.
You guys are my favorite movie reactors! Always the right amount of showing the movie, you're not hung up on people going to your patreon, and insightful commentary 🎉
16:19, lol!! "She's still going!"
Both Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd got their start on Saturday Night Live. I think that train black face "ba buya" song skit might have been inspired by an SNL skit.
Loved the white face skits Murphy used to do.
So the short of what happened at the end was because the orange crops weren't affected by winter, then there would large amounts of cheap oranges. The Dukes thought the crops were affected, so instead of selling high then buying low, they bought high then sold low. Aykroyd and Murphy knew the real crop report so they sold high and bought low. The numbers they showed on the boards meant that Aykroyd and Murphy made contracts to buy oranges at $0.29 a pound in units of a thousand, and also made contracts to sell those exact same oranges at $1.42 a pound, making a profit of 545%. Oranges are traded in units of a thousand pounds, with several units per single contract, and you could hear traders talking about buying and selling hundreds of contracts. It's not exactly known how much they invested with the life savings and the money meant for Beaks, but the current guesstimate is in the tens of millions, possibly over 100 million. What was done to achieve such success (trading commodities on inside information obtained from the government) wasn't illegal back when the movie was made, but when it was made illegal in 2010, it was appropriately named the Eddie Murphy Rule.
You guys should definitely react to Beverley Hills Cop 1 and 2, and Coming to America. 80s comedy films had no boundaries😂
Harlem Nights is great too with Eddie and Arsenio plus many other comedy greats in it like Richard Pryor, Redd Fox, and Della Reese.
And life
@andymc96 Yes, another good movie of Eddie's that hardly gets talked about.
@@markwilliams6394 yeah, another classic
"I can SEE! I have LEGS!" freakin' hilarious!
You two are the best. Happy to see you reacting to a great movie! Golden Child is one of my favorite Eddie Murphy movie.
''Everybody's naked!'' That's all good, unless it's a family reunion!