Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis and starring Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy. It tells the story of a high-end commodity broker and a homeless street traveler who passes his life unconsciously to be part of an elaborate bet. Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis also became stars. The plot is often called modern in the classic novel of the 19th century Mark Twain The Prince and the Pauper .
The film was written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod and produced by Aaron Russo. It was released to theaters in North America on June 8, 1983, where it was distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film earned more than $ 90 million during theatrical run in the United States, finishing as the fourth highest-earning film of the year and the second-highest R-rated movie in 1983.
Denholm Elliott and Jamie Lee Curtis won the Best Actor Award in the Supporting Role and Best Actress in Supporting Roles, respectively, at the 37th Academy of England Film Awards. The film was nominated for several additional awards including Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy at the 41st Golden Globe Awards.
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Plot
The Duke of Randolph and Mortimer have successful commodity brokers in Philadelphia. Holding opposing views of the matter of nature versus parenting, they make a bet and agree to conduct experiments that divert the lives of two unconscious people on the opposite side of the social hierarchy and observe the results. They witnessed a meeting between their managing director - educated and educated Louis Winthorpe III, engaged to the nephew of the Pensioner Dukes - and a poor street lover named Billy Ray Valentine; Valentine was arrested at Winthorpe's insistence on suspicion of robbery. The Dukes decided to use two men for their experiments.
Winthorpe was openly framed as a thief, drug dealer and seducer by Clarence Beeks at the request of the Dukes. Winthorpe fired from Duke & amp; Duke, his bank account was frozen, he was denied entry to Duke's house, and he quickly found himself vilified by Penelope and his former friends. She befriends Ophelia, a prostitute who agrees to help her in exchange for a prize money once she is released. Meanwhile, Duke frees Valentine from prison, installs it at his previous job at Winthorpe and gives him the opportunity to use Winthorpe's house. Valentine soon became good at business using his street smarts to achieve success, and started acting decently.
During the corporate Christmas party, Winthorpe was caught planting medicine on the Valentine's table in an attempt to trap him, and he swung his gun to escape. Then, Dukes discussed their experiments and settled their bets for a dollar, before planning to return Valentine to the streets. Valentine overhears the conversation, and searches for Winthorpe, who attempts suicide over an overdose of pills. Valentine's waitress, Ophelia and Winthorpe, looked after her well and told her about the Dukes experiment. On television, they learned that Clarence Beeks was carrying a secret USDA report about citrus planting forecasts. Winthorpe and Valentine recall the huge payments made to Beeks by Dukes and realize that Dukes plans to get a report to corner the market on frozen orange juice.
On New Year's Eve, four Philadelphia train boards-bound Beeks, intend to alter original reports with forgeries that predict low citrus yields. Beeks uncovered their scheme and tried to kill them, but he collapsed by the gorilla being transported on the train. Four Beeks undercover with gorilla costumes and bearing them with a real gorilla. After sending false reports to Dukes in Beeks, Valentine and Winthorpe went to New York City with Coleman and Ophelia's life savings to carry out their share of the plan.
On the commodity trading floor, Dukes does all of their possession to buy futures contracts of frozen oranges; other traders are following in their footsteps, inflating prices. Meanwhile, Valentine and Winthorpe sell futures at very high prices. After the actual harvest report report and its normal forecast prediction, the price of orange futures slumped. Valentine and Winthorpe closed their futures positions by buying futures at lower prices than everyone except the Dukes, generating huge profits. The Dukes failed to meet the margin call, and was left owed $ 394 million. Valentine and Winthorpe explain to Dukes that they have bet on whether they can become rich at the same time make poor Dukes families. Valentine collects $ 1 from Winthorpe while Randolph collapses over his chest and Mortimer shouts angrily at his brother about their failed plans. Then, Valentine's, Winthorpe, Ophelia, and Coleman holidays are now rich on tropical beaches, while Beeks and gorillas are loaded onto ships to Africa.
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Cast
- And Aykroyd as Louis Winthorpe III
- Eddie Murphy as Billy Ray Valentine
- Ralph Bellamy as Randolph Duke
- Don Ameche as Duke's Mortimer
- Denholm Elliott as Coleman
- Jamie Lee Curtis as Ophelia
- Kristin Holby as Penelope Witherspoon, fiancé Louis Winthorpe.
- Paul Gleason as Clarence Beeks
The players also included Robert Curtis-Brown as Todd, Winthorpe's romantic rival for Penelope; James Belushi as Harvey, a party audience on New Year's Eve; Jamie Lee Curtis's sister, Kelly Curtis, as Penelope's friend, Muffy; Frank Oz as a police officer; James Eckhouse as a police officer; Richard Muppet as Wilson; and Bo Diddley as a pawnshop. Tom Davis and Al Franken, also cast members of Saturday Night Live, cameo as a train baggage handler.
Themes
Trafficking Stories - members of community trading places with others whose socioeconomic status is contrary to itself - often draw comparisons to Mark Twain's novel The Prince and the Poor . First published in 1881, the novel follows the life of a prince and a beggar - both teenagers - who use extraordinary similarities to each other as premises for temporary shifting; the prince lived a poor and miserable life while the poor enjoyed the luxurious luxury of the royal life. Parallels has also been drawn between Commerce Place and Mozart's 18th-century comic opera The Marriage of Figaro where a servant (Figaro) thwarts the rich master plan who tried to steal Figaro's Bride for be. Music from The Marriage of Figaro is used as a cinematic narrative in the film when viewers are introduced into the daily routine of the privileged life of protagonist Louis Winthorpe with an opera playing in the background. This work also takes inspiration from Twain's The Million Pound Bank Note .
American philosopher and professor at Harvard University Stanley Cavell writes about the Trading Places in his 2005 book Cavell on Film . Cavell postulates that film is sometimes used as a new technology in the production and opera experience. He explained that this axiom underscores the importance not in the fact that "our time" sees the rising expectations of new operas being developed but, more precisely, in the fact that there is an increased expectation of "the production of new operas." Cavell drew the comparison theme between the Trading Places and the opera The Marriage of Figaro , stating that "what Trading Places wants from references to Figaro is largely an idea of ​​poor and socially disadvantaged youth and poor coping with the disguises of unfriendly and affluent parents but without the sense that the old can be redeemed by their confession and no revolutionary will. to see the world formed on a new foundation. "
David Budd, in his 2002 book Culture Meets Culture in the Movies, writes about character experiences when the expected role of race in society is sometimes reversed. The 1991 fiction film White Man's Burden and the factual book John Howard Griffin Black Like Me was used as a basis to show how different the white man's experience was when exposed to the prejudices faced by blacks. In that case, Budd proclaimed Trading Places as "very badly described if it is heavy". Starting from the premise that, in the film, "race expectations also stand on their heads", Budd states that "through even a very violent comedy vessel of hard messages asking for reassessment of prejudices, and for the field of level playing, is heard."
Reception
box office
Trading Places was released theatrically in the United States on June 10, 1983. During the opening weekend, the film earned $ 7.3 million from 1,375 theaters - an average of $ 5,334 per theater - the third highest rating. - weekend movie launch, behind Octopussy ($ 8.9 million) - debuted on the same weekend - and The Return of Jedi ($ 12 million).
The movie remains in 10 best-selling movies for 17 weeks. It continued to generate $ 90.4 million during the US theater, making it the 4th best-selling movie in 1983, behind Flashdance ($ 92.9 million), Disapproval Conditions ($ 108.4 million ) and Return of Jedi ($ 252.5 million), and the second best-selling R-rated movie of 1983, behind Flashdance . Adapted to inflation, the movie remains a film with the best-selling 58 of all time.
Critical response
Place of Commerce greeted with positive reviews from critics. Review the aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gave this film an 86% approval rating, based on 42 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3 out of 10. The site consensus states: "Featuring a strong interaction between Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd, -the place is a very interesting social allusion. "Metacritic gave the film a score of 66 out of 100, based on 9 critics, showing" favorable public reviews ".
Author and critic Richard Schickel of the Time magazine called the Trading Places one of the emotionally satisfying and morally satisfying comedies of late. While acknowledging Aykroyd's success in showing "perfect resilience as Winthorpe", Schickel commented on Murphy's appearance as Valentine summoned Murphy "a force to be reckoned with" and stated that he "made Trading Places something more than good. He turned it into an event. "Movie critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times awarded the film three and a half stars out of four, while offering that movie to resemble Tootsie and compared it to comedy Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. Ebert states "This is a good comedy"; he portrays the character as a "remarkable comic discovery" that rises above what could be stereotyped due to the skill of the actors and explains that the comedy is successful because "it develops its habits and distinctive character, so they are funny because of who they are." commenting on the players by positively commenting on acting as "interesting", stating that "Murphy and Aykroyd are the perfect foils for each other", that they both are capable of being "eccentrically special", that "they both play characters with lots of original intelligence" and concludes that "It's great to see them think." Commenting on Bellamy and Ameche in the role of Duke's brother, Ebert calls their involvement in the movie "masterstroke casting."
Janet Maslin of The New York Times repeated several sentiments of Roger Ebert stating that "Preston Sturges may have made films like Trading Places - if he has a little inspiration and more money. "He, once again, also praises the performers for calling him" well chosen ", commenting on Murphy and Aykroyd as" the two most suitable actors ", stating that the Duke's brother" played happily "by Ameche and Bellamy and - concluded that" supporters are also pretty good "- praised Curtis for managing" to turn fragile slut prostitutes into an unexpected charm character. " Jay Carr of The Boston Globe calls it "easy to be the best of the movies I've watched by various Saturday Night Live alumni." Empire gives the movie a four-star rating of five, classifies Place of Commerce as "Extraordinary" per star rating system magazine, stating that Murphy and Aykroyd are show-buyers. A review of the film published by Variety magazine calls the movie "lightheartedness created by schtick shifted by Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy." The review gave further praise to the supporting actors, who stated that Murphy and Aykroyd "can not exclude this without the contributions of three veterans - Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche and England coach Denholm Elliott" and called Jamie Lee Curtis the presence "fun."
Accolades
The film received several award nominations in 1984 including an Academy Award, two Golden Globes, and three BAFTA awards. Elliott and Curtis drew two film wins, each earning, a BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress.
Soundtrack
The album score was released by La-La Land Records on October 11, 2011 and limited to 2000 copies. The album features nominated Oscar nominations of Elmer Bernstein, as well as the source material he wrote and arranged, including the traditional Christmas song that appeared in the film. Much of Bernstein's music is based on Mozart's music from The Marriage of Figaro. "Do Ya Wanna Funk," a hit song by Sylvester featured in the film, was omitted from the album. The song "The Loco-Motion" by Little Eva is also heard on the train scene and is credited to the movie.
Legacy
Nearly 30 years after its release, the plot for the film is part of the inspiration for new regulations on financial markets. On March 3, 2010, Head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Gary Gensler stated in his testimony he gave to the 111th Congress: "We have recommended the ban using misinformed government information to trade in commodity markets." In the Place of Commerce , starring Eddie Murphy, the Duchess's brothers and sisters wanted to profit from trading in a concentrated orange juice contract that was concentrated using reports of illegally-obtained and unannounced orange plant from the Ministry of Agriculture. "
The "Eddie Murphy Rule", as it came to be known, then came into effect as Section 136 of the Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, under Section 746, which deals with insider trading.
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