Trading Places (1983) First Time Watching! Movie Reaction!

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  • @kylelewis4685
    @kylelewis4685 11 місяців тому +528

    The realization that this movie is 40 years old is slightly soul crushing....

    • @collectivevision9884
      @collectivevision9884 11 місяців тому +40

      The fact that I’m 40 years old is also soul crushing 😢

    • @daustin8888
      @daustin8888 11 місяців тому +28

      Going on 50

    • @sagan666
      @sagan666 11 місяців тому +21

      Mid 40's here. And. Ye.

    • @MontagZoso
      @MontagZoso 11 місяців тому +24

      @@collectivevision9884Don’t feel soul crushed! I’m 15 years older than you so 40 sounds great! 👍😁

    • @dannyheel1
      @dannyheel1 11 місяців тому +7

      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.

  • @mushdamma
    @mushdamma 11 місяців тому +189

    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.

    • @whatareyoulookingat908
      @whatareyoulookingat908 11 місяців тому +9

      So sad...but still....so beautiful. Blessings to her and your family.

    • @harrymarshall
      @harrymarshall 10 місяців тому +5

      Oh 🥺 ,, that's wonderful 🤗💋🎄🎉🌌🌠🌌🌌🕊️🕊️🕊️

    • @MessOfThings
      @MessOfThings 10 місяців тому +4

      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. 😢

    • @frankgesuele6298
      @frankgesuele6298 10 місяців тому

      When out with a 😊

  • @Cadinho93
    @Cadinho93 11 місяців тому +263

    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!

    • @adgato75
      @adgato75 11 місяців тому +42

      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.

    • @christinadoxstader3004
      @christinadoxstader3004 11 місяців тому +20

      Frank is also the voice of, among other Muppets, Miss Piggy

    • @fionnmaccumhaill3257
      @fionnmaccumhaill3257 11 місяців тому +24

      ​@christinadoxstader3004
      Frank was also the discharge officer at the prison in "The Blues Brothers".

    • @samuraiwarriorsunite
      @samuraiwarriorsunite 11 місяців тому +9

      The movie was originally written as a project for Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder but they couldn't participate.

    • @jeffburnham6611
      @jeffburnham6611 11 місяців тому +6

      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.

  • @RaymondJohnson
    @RaymondJohnson 11 місяців тому +222

    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
      @graham974 11 місяців тому +14

      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!

    • @joemckim1183
      @joemckim1183 11 місяців тому +12

      @@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.

    • @lexkanyima2195
      @lexkanyima2195 11 місяців тому +7

      Eddie came at the right time.

    • @stevenr6397
      @stevenr6397 11 місяців тому +9

      @@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

    • @joemckim1183
      @joemckim1183 11 місяців тому +3

      @@stevenr6397 It just goes to show you that no mattet how big of a star you are you cant stayvat the top forever.

  • @thefallofoscar
    @thefallofoscar 11 місяців тому +97

    I hope “Coming to America” is next on the list

    • @libertyresearch-iu4fy
      @libertyresearch-iu4fy 10 місяців тому +1

      They did it months ago, but, apparently, they missed the cameo of Duke & Duke because they were out of order.

    • @DiggitySlice
      @DiggitySlice 10 місяців тому

      ​@@libertyresearch-iu4fywho are you talking about?

    • @libertyresearch-iu4fy
      @libertyresearch-iu4fy 10 місяців тому

      @@DiggitySlice TBR Schmitt and his wife.

  • @jimtatro6550
    @jimtatro6550 11 місяців тому +74

    “I am Inga from Sweden.”
    “But….you’re wearing lederhosen.”
    “Ya, for sure Sweden.”😂😂😂
    I love this movie so much.

    • @SeenGod
      @SeenGod 10 місяців тому +2

      BEEF JERKY TIME! 😂

  • @TSIRKLAND
    @TSIRKLAND 10 місяців тому +3

    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!

  • @NemeanLion-
    @NemeanLion- 11 місяців тому +77

    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.

    • @goldenageofdinosaurs7192
      @goldenageofdinosaurs7192 11 місяців тому

      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.

    • @Eternal82Soul
      @Eternal82Soul 11 місяців тому +32

      That's what I thought, too. It wasn't a big deal back then, because people didn't get offended about every little thing.

    • @lexkanyima2195
      @lexkanyima2195 11 місяців тому +6

      ​@@Eternal82Soulbut at that time it was before PC got really over the top.

    • @MLBlue30
      @MLBlue30 11 місяців тому +6

      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.

    • @MLBlue30
      @MLBlue30 11 місяців тому +1

      ​@@Eternal82SoulMore like they didn't care since they were getting paid.

  • @tomfrankiewicz4030
    @tomfrankiewicz4030 11 місяців тому +92

    The Actors playing the Duke Brothers. Ralph Belemay and Dom Ameche always talked very highly of Eddie Murphy's improvisation and comedic talents

  • @teowiz4210
    @teowiz4210 11 місяців тому +12

    fun fact. in Italy this movie has been broadcasted for the last 30 years straight every christmas eve evening. it's become a tradition

  • @IggyStardust1967
    @IggyStardust1967 11 місяців тому +108

    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.

  • @jrmahan3405
    @jrmahan3405 11 місяців тому +109

    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.

    • @frankplaysdrums
      @frankplaysdrums 11 місяців тому +11

      I've been waiting FOREVER for one of my favorite reaction channels to do 48hrs.

    • @scott-mercer
      @scott-mercer 11 місяців тому +1

      His first film was actually Best Defense, but it was just a cameo.

    • @rfmonii
      @rfmonii 11 місяців тому +3

      @@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.

    • @jonc7739
      @jonc7739 11 місяців тому +3

      I can't recommend 48 Hours enough. It really is a must watch. It was the first buddy cop movie, predating Lethal Weapon.

    • @JasonGilbert-yl8hf
      @JasonGilbert-yl8hf 11 місяців тому +1

      Yes!!

  • @jjkcharlie
    @jjkcharlie 11 місяців тому +27

    My personal favorite Jamie Lee Curtis movie is, A Fish Called Wanda.

    • @jh5131
      @jh5131 11 місяців тому +5

      i think they would love that movie it's hilarious

  • @deanackerman6664
    @deanackerman6664 11 місяців тому +91

    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

    • @dustman820
      @dustman820 11 місяців тому +19

      He is also the jerk police guy in Die Hard.

    • @joeno-say5504
      @joeno-say5504 11 місяців тому +12

      ​@dustman820 So depending on where you see this movie, it may be the second time he gets buttf****d on national TV

    • @nicholaswachter1974
      @nicholaswachter1974 11 місяців тому +9

      “Does Barry Manilow know you raid his wardrobe?”

    • @DIGMyers
      @DIGMyers 11 місяців тому +5

      Paul Gleason was a vice principal in "Breakfast Club".

    • @MLBlue30
      @MLBlue30 11 місяців тому +8

      Mess with the bull, you get the horns.

  • @I_ll_beer_back
    @I_ll_beer_back 11 місяців тому +55

    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. 👏

    • @LarryFleetwood8675
      @LarryFleetwood8675 11 місяців тому +1

      Filming even began in December '82 for all the outdoors Christmas scenes.

    • @derrickbrown6387
      @derrickbrown6387 11 місяців тому +2

      He also starred in a TV series in the 80's Called "The Equalizer" the very first original.

    • @LarryFleetwood8675
      @LarryFleetwood8675 10 місяців тому +1

      @@derrickbrown6387 That was Edward Woodward. Paul Gleason was in one episode, though.

    • @harrymarshall
      @harrymarshall 10 місяців тому +2

      He's brilliant in the Michael Caine classic,, Alfie (1966)🐕🎻

    • @derrickbrown6387
      @derrickbrown6387 10 місяців тому +1

      @@LarryFleetwood8675 You are right sir .I stand corrected

  • @jamescurran6277
    @jamescurran6277 11 місяців тому +11

    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.

  • @GhostWatcher2024
    @GhostWatcher2024 11 місяців тому +18

    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.

  • @santiago451
    @santiago451 11 місяців тому +126

    *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.

    • @dirkvervecken4054
      @dirkvervecken4054 11 місяців тому +12

      And we also see the return of the Duke brothers in a hilarious scene in that movie.

    • @bwunukey
      @bwunukey 11 місяців тому +20

      Dude spoiler

    • @coreyjones7249
      @coreyjones7249 11 місяців тому +2

      It's not a sequel at all you're wrong

    • @coreyjones7249
      @coreyjones7249 11 місяців тому +6

      That's just an Easter egg

    • @DW.Strangeman
      @DW.Strangeman 11 місяців тому +4

      ​@@dirkvervecken4054😂😂😂, d'you think that's what he could, maybe have been getting at? Sorry, don't mean to be such a 'Dukes' bag!😊

  • @SciFiCatGuy
    @SciFiCatGuy 10 місяців тому +3

    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.

  • @cchavezjr7
    @cchavezjr7 4 місяці тому +1

    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!

  • @Srial3523
    @Srial3523 11 місяців тому +3

    "How many drunk, stumbling santas are out walking the streets?" In Philadelphia , on new years, literally thousands. It's called the Mummer's Parade

  • @julius-stark
    @julius-stark 11 місяців тому +55

    I love this movie. You guys might also like Brewster's Millions (1985).

    • @sarparker5362
      @sarparker5362 11 місяців тому +14

      Good call, Brewster's is such an underated movie.

    • @jediknight73
      @jediknight73 11 місяців тому +4

      That and the toy are my favorite Pryor movies

    • @harrymarshall
      @harrymarshall 10 місяців тому

      @@sarparker5362 ,, not round our dinner table 🤗💸

  • @shainewhite2781
    @shainewhite2781 11 місяців тому +8

    12:01, lol!! "Want me to break something else?" "No!😮" 😂

  • @victornewman06
    @victornewman06 10 місяців тому +1

    Fun Fact: the Pawn Shop owner is the legendary Blues/Rock N Roll guitarist Bo Diddley

  • @lethaldose2000
    @lethaldose2000 11 місяців тому +11

    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.

  • @TSIRKLAND
    @TSIRKLAND 10 місяців тому +2

    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!)

  • @thomasmassie4379
    @thomasmassie4379 11 місяців тому +37

    More Eddie Murphy please. Many great movies!!! ❤ you guy!!!

  • @haroldlipschitz9301
    @haroldlipschitz9301 11 місяців тому +62

    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.

    • @mst3KGf
      @mst3KGf 10 місяців тому +5

      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.

    • @haroldlipschitz9301
      @haroldlipschitz9301 10 місяців тому +3

      @@mst3KGf He hit a home run in this, I love his performance. The police station 😂

  • @kingbrutusxxvi
    @kingbrutusxxvi 11 місяців тому +34

    This is one of the best "guy gets assaulted by a gorilla" films of 1983. Easily in the top three. 😉

    • @Ravenforce3
      @Ravenforce3 10 місяців тому +1

      What were the other two, out of curiosity?

  • @JasonMoir
    @JasonMoir 11 місяців тому +16

    "A karate man bruise on the inside." So true, Billy Ray.

  • @michaelcoffey1991
    @michaelcoffey1991 11 місяців тому +10

    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

  • @brettschacht4183
    @brettschacht4183 11 місяців тому +35

    That train scene is still absolutely bananas 😂

    • @ramonacosta2647
      @ramonacosta2647 11 місяців тому

      Liberals chimp out over the blackface, though.

  • @WesCoastPiano
    @WesCoastPiano 10 місяців тому +7

    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.

    • @PML78
      @PML78 4 місяці тому

      Hear no Evil🙉
      See no Evil 🙈
      😂🤣

  • @matthewryan2679
    @matthewryan2679 11 місяців тому +14

    I never thought about the ‘Trading’ in the title as a double meaning! Great reaction BTW.

  • @esclad
    @esclad 11 місяців тому +72

    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 :)

    • @Sheffield_Steve
      @Sheffield_Steve 11 місяців тому +2

      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.

    • @Henrik_Holst
      @Henrik_Holst 11 місяців тому

      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.

  • @BishopWalters12
    @BishopWalters12 11 місяців тому +65

    You can't go wrong with prime Dan and Eddie.

    • @jkhoover
      @jkhoover 11 місяців тому +1

      I disagree. Can't stand this movie.

    • @76marex
      @76marex 11 місяців тому +4

      @@jkhoover i remember you. you said this about every movie

    • @x_mau9355
      @x_mau9355 11 місяців тому +2

      OMG dude this movie has been going great for 40yrs! Make peace with the fact.

    • @TalaCruz
      @TalaCruz 11 місяців тому

      @@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.

  • @Kantami
    @Kantami 11 місяців тому +7

    absolute classic movie.
    watched this so much as a teenager i wore out the VHS tape.

  • @TheNextStep851
    @TheNextStep851 10 місяців тому +2

    The way Dan Aykroyd delivers the line "I was poor and no one liked me" always cracks me up. Great movie.

  • @thefatman2780
    @thefatman2780 11 місяців тому +12

    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.

    • @Argumemnon
      @Argumemnon 11 місяців тому +1

      Please stop shouting.

    • @thefatman2780
      @thefatman2780 11 місяців тому +1

      @@Argumemnon IM NOT. IM BLIND IN ONE EYE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR RESPONSE.

    • @davelong4416
      @davelong4416 11 місяців тому +1

      Keep hanging tough, amigo. The holidays can be a difficult time. Keep the faith, you got this.

    • @thefatman2780
      @thefatman2780 11 місяців тому +1

      @@davelong4416 YESSIR & THANKS

  • @YoureMrLebowski
    @YoureMrLebowski 11 місяців тому +7

    6:45 "omg. is this gonna be like a bet between two rich guys?" -daniel
    called it ✅

  • @YoureMrLebowski
    @YoureMrLebowski 11 місяців тому +7

    1:59 "i don't know. i have to check if she has a playlist." -sam
    she does now. 👍🏼

  • @tidepride86
    @tidepride86 11 місяців тому +13

    LMAO they got "black face" on the ratings list? Thats probably the funniest thing I've heard today.
    Love this movie, classic.

    • @mrtim5363
      @mrtim5363 11 місяців тому +1

      1st time I've ever seen it listed.

    • @garypasquill2355
      @garypasquill2355 11 місяців тому +2

      Think that's bad,Aliens is cited for having outdated language.

    • @tidepride86
      @tidepride86 11 місяців тому

      @@mrtim5363 lol yea me too

    • @Tr0nzoid
      @Tr0nzoid 10 місяців тому +1

      The next step will be to remove all that "offensive" content altogether. Buy your own discs while or if you can.

  • @genghisgalahad8465
    @genghisgalahad8465 11 місяців тому +12

    Another great classic movie is Heaven Can Wait. Oh and Brewster's Million. And Coming to America.

    • @R1ch4rd74
      @R1ch4rd74 11 місяців тому +3

      loved Brewster's millions. we actually saw this movie in the theatre. dang. i'm giving away how old i am. lol

  • @loomi28
    @loomi28 11 місяців тому +3

    In Germany, the film is called Glücksritter. I love this film. In Prince of Zamunda, the two old men can be seen as bums.

    • @billymuellerTikTok
      @billymuellerTikTok 6 місяців тому

      they call that movie 'Coming to America' over here

  • @yesitislikethat
    @yesitislikethat 11 місяців тому +5

    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. 😊

  • @terrylandess6072
    @terrylandess6072 10 місяців тому +1

    "People in the back don't have a table". I never thought about it. This is one reason reactions are fun.

  • @daustin8888
    @daustin8888 11 місяців тому +16

    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.

  • @dunbarf2413
    @dunbarf2413 9 місяців тому +1

    "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."

  • @Jordashian93
    @Jordashian93 11 місяців тому +31

    Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd are quite the duo in this funny Christmas film with some strong themes under its hood.

  • @rickgiles8426
    @rickgiles8426 11 місяців тому +2

    "How many drunk, stumbling, Santa's are there?"
    A lot, TBR. A Lot.

  • @blackpowder99
    @blackpowder99 11 місяців тому +34

    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.

    • @nicholaswachter1974
      @nicholaswachter1974 11 місяців тому +3

      Gotta check out the deleted scene from Coming to America where Prince Akeem helps out the two homeless beggars . . . .

    • @dwaynejohnson5062
      @dwaynejohnson5062 11 місяців тому +4

      That scene is actually in the movie, they put it in.

    • @LordLOC
      @LordLOC 10 місяців тому

      I'm pretty sure they reacted to Coming to America a few months ago actually.

  • @TSIRKLAND
    @TSIRKLAND 10 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @shainewhite2781
    @shainewhite2781 11 місяців тому +5

    8:06* that's Denholm Elliot from Indiana Jones And The Raiders Of The Lost Ark.

  • @islandmarketer
    @islandmarketer 9 місяців тому +2

    The butler is Denholm elliot. A fantastic British actor. He was alas in Indiana jones...

  • @MarcoMM1
    @MarcoMM1 11 місяців тому +23

    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

    • @davelong4416
      @davelong4416 11 місяців тому +4

      Yeah, Frank Oz has a cameo, but also the pawn broker is played by the one-and-only Bo Diddly...!

    • @TheTerryGene
      @TheTerryGene 11 місяців тому +2

      @@davelong4416You beat me to it!

    • @LarryFleetwood8675
      @LarryFleetwood8675 11 місяців тому

      Speaking of Bo, director Landis' next movie Into the Night (1985) would be cool for the channel as well.

  • @Whitebrowpriest
    @Whitebrowpriest 10 місяців тому +2

    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.

  • @Daniel-Strain
    @Daniel-Strain 10 місяців тому +3

    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.

  • @Whitebrowpriest
    @Whitebrowpriest 10 місяців тому +1

    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).

  • @AudieHolland
    @AudieHolland 11 місяців тому +12

    The movie also gave a non-boring introduction to how markets work.

  • @maingate7672
    @maingate7672 10 місяців тому +1

    Mr Beaks was played by Paul Gleason, the principal in ''The Breakfast Club''.

  • @NandR
    @NandR 11 місяців тому +23

    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.

    • @Halderic
      @Halderic 11 місяців тому +1

      Also starred in a very funny/heartwarming movie called 'Stuart Saves His Family', based off his SNL character!

    • @blatherama
      @blatherama 10 місяців тому

      The other handler was Tom Davis, Franken's friend and writing partner at SNL.

  • @vly9257
    @vly9257 11 місяців тому +2

    "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.

  • @TheChrisPineWorkshop
    @TheChrisPineWorkshop 11 місяців тому +7

    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.

  • @MaoKatz
    @MaoKatz 11 місяців тому +2

    7:51 That guy is Denholm Elliott and played Marcus Brody in Indiana Jones.

  • @tommigun102470
    @tommigun102470 11 місяців тому +4

    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 🎉

  • @joeyclemenza7339
    @joeyclemenza7339 10 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @shainewhite2781
    @shainewhite2781 11 місяців тому +25

    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.

    • @LarryFleetwood8675
      @LarryFleetwood8675 11 місяців тому

      Both Silver Streak (1976) and Stir Crazy (1980) with Wilder and Pryor would make good reaction movies.

  • @GoRideConnor
    @GoRideConnor 9 місяців тому +1

    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?😂

  • @dgunn2817
    @dgunn2817 11 місяців тому +9

    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.

  • @deathproofpony
    @deathproofpony 11 місяців тому +2

    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!

    • @billymuellerTikTok
      @billymuellerTikTok 6 місяців тому

      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

  • @ThatPurpleGirl81
    @ThatPurpleGirl81 11 місяців тому +10

    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.

    • @nicholaswachter1974
      @nicholaswachter1974 11 місяців тому

      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.

  • @carlosaugustorisco
    @carlosaugustorisco 8 місяців тому +2

    The Butler is Marcus Brody from INDIANA JONES holding the red phone ☎️

  • @YoureMrLebowski
    @YoureMrLebowski 11 місяців тому +6

    1:21 "two comedy people." -sam
    😆

  • @bearno8518
    @bearno8518 11 місяців тому +1

    "I can SEE! I have LEGS!" freakin' hilarious!

  • @pickthestickup
    @pickthestickup 11 місяців тому +8

    Have you seen Coming To America? I'd HIGHLY recommend checking it out after watching this.

  • @russevans3586
    @russevans3586 11 місяців тому +1

    Nice reaction, Merry Christmas to the Schmitts!

  • @TheBigTamale
    @TheBigTamale 11 місяців тому +6

    Penelope can GET IT!😍

  • @maingate7672
    @maingate7672 10 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @asiahenry7798
    @asiahenry7798 11 місяців тому +7

    This is my all time favorite movie!! It NEVER gets old!

  • @Aaerial15
    @Aaerial15 11 місяців тому +1

    this movie is the reason I say Merry New Year around New Years

  • @frankp9324
    @frankp9324 11 місяців тому +4

    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.

  • @shainewhite2781
    @shainewhite2781 11 місяців тому +2

    16:19, lol!! "She's still going!"

  • @gorettyramos9783
    @gorettyramos9783 11 місяців тому +8

    I love this movie! As an unofficial follow up you should also watch Coming to America!!!

  • @filmschoolslave3794
    @filmschoolslave3794 11 місяців тому +2

    Good intro. to Eddie Murphy movies - others mention it here, but _48 Hours_ and _Beverly Hills Cop_ are good follow ups for an Eddie Murphy playlist. Dan Aykroyd - _The Blues Brothers_ an all time favorite. Fun as always!

  • @New-tu3mn
    @New-tu3mn 11 місяців тому +6

    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.

  • @shainewhite2781
    @shainewhite2781 11 місяців тому +2

    14:15, "This Persian rug is from Persia!" Lol!!

  • @EyeTunz
    @EyeTunz 11 місяців тому +9

    Absolute classic. Top 5 movie ever if you ask me. The "black face" wasn't even a thing at all at the time. Don't let it phase you now.

    • @lexkanyima2195
      @lexkanyima2195 11 місяців тому

      Then why it is offended

    • @MLBlue30
      @MLBlue30 11 місяців тому

      Things change, deal with it boomers.

    • @LarryFleetwood8675
      @LarryFleetwood8675 11 місяців тому +1

      Sure, sadly for values we're back in the 1950s again now.

    • @EyeTunz
      @EyeTunz 11 місяців тому

      @@MLBlue30 wow. People are super dumb these days.

  • @Cybotic
    @Cybotic 7 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @susanliltz3875
    @susanliltz3875 11 місяців тому +6

    Check out Eddie Murphy in the Beverly Hills Cop movies!!
    He’s just as great and funny in those too!!

  • @emilytrott
    @emilytrott 10 місяців тому +1

    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."

  • @buckdraper303
    @buckdraper303 11 місяців тому +9

    Love this movie. It's not something that would be made today, but back then, it was quite funny.

    • @mohammedashian8094
      @mohammedashian8094 10 місяців тому +1

      It’s still funny who cares what anyone thinks? 😊

  • @athens_1psvr31
    @athens_1psvr31 10 місяців тому +1

    The first thing I say every year is “Merry New Year!!!” in the accent of course. 👍🏾

    • @mohammedashian8094
      @mohammedashian8094 10 місяців тому

      Beeks: HAPPY new year in this country we say happy new year

  • @boshooda
    @boshooda 11 місяців тому +4

    You two are the best. Happy to see you reacting to a great movie! Golden Child is one of my favorite Eddie Murphy movie.

  • @killianlpc
    @killianlpc 11 місяців тому +1

    One of the best films of the 80s saw it in the cinema in 1983 everyone was in stitches watching it. So many funny moments too many to mention. A great film to watch at Christmas time. Cannot believe this is 40 years old this year.

  • @mpireone
    @mpireone 11 місяців тому +3

    13:16 That's Frank Oz, the voice of some Sesame Street characters (Grover, Burt, Cookie Monster) and most notable Star Wars character... Yoda.

  • @danielpopp1526
    @danielpopp1526 11 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @nealnoir
    @nealnoir 11 місяців тому +5

    Should definitely add Blues Brothers to your list of Akroyd films you need to see.

  • @CristianGiuseppone
    @CristianGiuseppone 11 місяців тому +2

    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.

    • @LarryFleetwood8675
      @LarryFleetwood8675 11 місяців тому

      If shown on US TV today, it probably has to have some kind of 'viewer warning' first...

  • @alifahabdullah2328
    @alifahabdullah2328 11 місяців тому +5

    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.

    • @fs127
      @fs127 11 місяців тому +3

      Loved the white face skits Murphy used to do.

  • @stsolomon618
    @stsolomon618 11 місяців тому +14

    You guys should definitely react to Beverley Hills Cop 1 and 2, and Coming to America. 80s comedy films had no boundaries😂

    • @markwilliams6394
      @markwilliams6394 11 місяців тому +3

      Harlem Nights is great too with Eddie and Arsenio plus many other comedy greats in it like Richard Pryor, Redd Fox, and Della Reese.

    • @andymc96
      @andymc96 11 місяців тому +2

      And life

    • @markwilliams6394
      @markwilliams6394 11 місяців тому +1

      @andymc96 Yes, another good movie of Eddie's that hardly gets talked about.

    • @stsolomon618
      @stsolomon618 11 місяців тому

      @@markwilliams6394 yeah, another classic