Trading Places Eddie Murphy

    بواسطة Capucine · old hollywood: Eddie Murphy

    The whole setup in Trading Places is two wealthy guys betting on a stranger’s life like it’s a game. Then Eddie Murphy comes in and just dismantles every assumption they had, one piece at a time. It’s as sharp as it is funny.

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    You're from a broken home, of course. If it was broke, so what? You have a history of juvenile arrests, I presume, drug abuse, reform schools, state prisons and all that? Yeah, I ain't talking to this guy. I want a lawyer. Is there a lawyer in the house? That man is a product of a poor environment. There's absolutely nothing wrong with him. I can prove it. Of course there's something wrong with him. He's a Negro. Probably been stealing since he could crawl. Given the right surroundings and encouragement, I'll bet that that man could run our company as well as your young Winthorpe. Are we talking about a wager, Randolph? I suppose you think Winthorpe, say if he would lose his job, would resort to holding up people on the streets? No, I don't think just losing his job would be enough for Winthorpe. I think we'd have to heap a little more misfortune on those narrow shoulders. shoulders if he lost his job and his home and his fiancee and his friends if he were somehow disgraced and arrested with the police and thrown in jail even yes i'm sure he'd take the crime like a fish to water you'd have to put him in the wrong surroundings of course with the worst sort of people. I mean real scum, Randall. We've done it before. This time it's in a good cause. How much do you want to bet? The usual amount. Why not?