Turns out to be a comedy

Felipe 2021-11-13 08:01:25

I went to watch it when I heard that it was a financial movie, and I realized it was a light comedy after watching it. Probably the purpose of the director is to make a film to ridicule those greedy snakes on Wall Street.

A white man, rich and handsome, a black man, diaosi. But the two old men acted as gods, turning their lives so easily. Then their experiments came to the conclusion: human qualities and abilities are mainly determined by the environment, and have nothing to do with innate genes. If this is a documentary, I might really accept this conclusion. It's a pity that this is a commercial movie, or a comedy. The conclusion comes from the screenwriter, it is just the words of the screenwriter's family, maybe not his true thoughts. Of course, these two young men finally discovered this cruel fact, and also broke the two old men's home by killing people without seeing blood.

Okay, I think the idea of ​​this movie is pretty fun, but unfortunately there is the million-pound script in front. I forgot the specific name. It seems that I saw it in the high school English textbook. This is almost the idea. Therefore, it can only be regarded as a reference, and a different occasion has been achieved to achieve a different purpose. Of course Jobs said that the best innovations are stolen, but they just need to be kept secret.

Well, I suggest that if you don’t have much time, you don’t need to watch this film. It doesn’t make much sense. There are too many classic movies. If you want to treat it as a comedy, there are not many laughs. I realized that it was a comedy after watching it. . .

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Trading Places quotes

  • Louis Winthorpe III: [after trading ends on FCOJ, he and Billy Ray are quickly finalizing up some last minute sales. Once they're finished, they both look up to see the cost at 29. They then look at one another and scream in celebration and hug. After they're finished, they see the Dukes looking at them] Happy New Year!

    Randolph Duke: [He drops their now-worthless sales papers on the floor]

    [hoarsely]

    Randolph Duke: Winthorpe.

    Mortimer Duke: [stunned] Valentine.

    Billy Ray Valentine: Hey! How'd y'all make out today?

    Mortimer Duke: How could you do this to us after everything we've done for you?

    Billy Ray Valentine: Oh, see, I made Louis a bet here. See, Louis bet me that we couldn't both get rich and put y'all in the poor house at the same time. He didn't think we could do it. I won.

    Louis Winthorpe III: [grinning] I lost.

    [Pulls it out of his breast pocket and shows it]

    Louis Winthorpe III: One dollar.

    Billy Ray Valentine: [Accepting it] Thank you, Louis.

    Louis Winthorpe III: After you.

    Billy Ray Valentine: Certainly.

    [They both leave with Billy Ray doing Eddie's "laugh" and Lewis giving the Dukes the Aykroyd "stare"]

  • Randolph Duke: Exactly why do you think the price of pork bellies is going to keep going down, William?

    Billy Ray Valentine: Okay. Pork belly prices have been dropping all morning, which means that everybody's waiting for it to hit rock bottom so they can buy cheap and go long. Which means that the people who own the pork belly contracts are goin' bat-shit. They're saying, "Hey, we're losing all our goddamn money, and Christmas is just around the corner, and I ain't gonna have no money to buy my son the G.I. Joe with the kung-fu grip, right? And my wife won't f... my wife won't make love to me 'cuz I ain't got no money, right?" So they're panicking right now, they're screaming "SELL! SELL!" to get out before the price keeps dropping. They're panicking out there right now! I can feel it! They out there!

    Randolph Duke: [on the ticker machine, the price keeps dropping] He's right, Mortimer! My God, look at it!

    Billy Ray Valentine: I'd wait until you get to around sixty-four, THEN I'd buy. You'll have cleared out all the suckers by then.

    Randolph Duke: This is Randolph Duke. Advise our clients interested in bellies to buy at sixty-four. Mr. Valentine has set the price.

    [He punches up the numbers on his calculator]

    Randolph Duke: Do you realize how much money he just saved us?

    Mortimer Duke: Money isn't everything, Randolph!