Typical Hollywood comedy with a black hippie highlight

Laurianne 2022-03-23 09:01:40

Take a look at it, skip a lot of plots, and the ending is as expected. The actors' performances are really good, especially the black people, others are a little blunt. Black hippies lead everyone in the movie through a rollercoaster of addictions. The big ups and downs may be the fate of the financial compradors in the capital market. Maybe the reality is not so exaggerated, but at least from one aspect, we can see the role of money and the role of materials in today's society. The degree of worship. Sometimes all the bubbles in the material world are really blown out by the makers of these dreams. It's not that material changes can really bring people anything, but this dream and this hope have caused countless people to fall for it.
The so-called fashion and entertainment circles always make people see feasting and money, but they are only some appearances, but the infinitely exaggerated hope is sought after by countless people here, which creates a void and hopelessness in the world.
I don't like this kind of non-substantial game, this kind of random manipulation drama, but it is indispensable to this society. Today, when various problems are highlighted and conflicts are increasingly intensified, I think, these dreams wake up. The days are not far away.

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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!