Coincidence moment

Rebeca 2022-02-09 08:01:05

In the middle of the film, there is such a short but surprisingly colorful baggage. When the African prince (played by Eddie Murphy), who pretended to be a poor boy, was walking with the hostess, he occasionally gave alms to a pair of homeless men.

When both the homeless show their faces, they will find that the two had collaborated with Eddie Murphy five years ago and played the Duke brothers of Wall Street capitalists in the film "Upside Down" (1983), rich and leisurely two. Played against Murphy's life with a gambling, and eventually the truth was revealed and was bankrupt. This is also easy to understand why the two of them were sleeping on the streets in Murphy's world five years later, drowsy.

In comedy movies, it is not uncommon to quote classics in order to care for a specific group of people, such as tribute to movie fans, theater fans, comics fans, and so on.

Looking back at the two films, although the stories are unrelated, the characters have unexpected and close causal relationships. They exchange identities and classes, and forgive coincidence turns. Such examples are really rare.

(The two films were selected by the Screenwriters Association of America (WGA) as the 101 most interesting screenplays in film history.)

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Extended Reading
  • Albert 2022-04-23 07:01:27

    Eddie Murphy can use his super dark humor to interpret a mediocre story so well.

  • Duane 2022-02-09 08:01:05

    The people in Europe and the United States who were confined to their homes by the epidemic once again carried forward the dialogue of "Good morning neighbors X your mother X your mother" in the film, so Shu Shunbian watched it, although it was full of various problems. Realistic imagination, but the powerful appeal of fairy tale texture shown by the young Eddie Murphy in the film particularly moved me, and the set of studios used in fictitious African countries was also particularly colorful in the 1960s. Style.

Coming to America quotes

  • [Prince Akeem is recognised by an awestruck Zamundan immigrant who has his photo taken with him]

    Basketball Game Vendor: I will cherish this experience for the rest of my life. For the rest of my life.

    Lisa McDowell: [after he leaves] Who was that?

    Prince Akeem: Just a man I met in the restroom.

  • Cleo McDowell: [to Darryl] Look, the girl doesn't like you any more! Can't you get that through your greasy head?