Trading
Places (1983)
6/10
Starring
Dan
Aykroyd
Eddie
Murphy
Jamie
Lee Curtis
Directed
by John Landis
Dan
Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy teamed up in 1983 to give us a movie about a
social experiment which was carried out by two stingy, greedy and
evil men. Trading Places was a hit when it was done, being both
critically and commercially successful. Seeing it now doesn’t take
away anything from this movie, it is still fun to watch.
This
John Landis directed movie tries to give answers to what some think
about nature vs nurture being the result of what makes a man. Well,
that is what the evil men did. They used the idea of luck and a
nurturing environment and the reverse of such on two men to see if
this will change them. One from a high horse to a criminal and the
other from a criminal to sitting on a high horse.
The
movie plot introduces the first person Louis Winthorpe III (Dan
Aykroyd), he works for a commodity brokerage firm. The firm is owned
by the wealthy Duke brothers and they are not just wealthy, they are
dubious, stingy and greedy.
We
also meet the second person, Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) who
is a common crook. Louis and Billy run into each other with Louis
making a scene and getting Billy arrested for absolutely nothing.
The
men witness this and decide to conduct the above social experiment.
They ruin Louis stripping him of everything and making sure he has
nothing and his name was wrecked. Louis was not at the mercy of
Ophelia (Jamie Lee Curtis), a prostitute who was unwilling part of
the people that ruins Louis, She has mercy on him and takes him in to
care for him.
Billy
was bailed from jail and giving everything Louis had and we are set
to watch as these two struggle at first to get their life together
then settle in to the new life they had. How things turned on its
head against the Dukes, is for you to see when you watch this movie.
The
movie is fun to watch and Jamie Lee Curtis on her own was just a
thrill. It was fun to see how the experiment would go even though we
know this is a movie and not a real life situation. As a movie
Trading Places delivers in excitement, thrill and suspense. It makes
you sit and wonder how things were going to turn out and how much you
want to see these evil men get theirs served back on a hot plate.
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