a dollar gamble

Jerod 2022-03-23 09:01:40

This movie is older than me, but I still seem to think he's special today.
One is a young tramp begging along the street pretending to be a disabled veteran, the black Billy Ray Warren, and the other is a successful senior manager of a futures company, Louis Winthorpe III. He was taken to the police station. These are seen by two investors, betting on whether the environment can shape a person, so they use various means to exchange their identities...
If the story only reaches this bet, it may be normal, and the ending is still satisfactory Let’s punish evil and promote good, everyone gets what they need.
But it is indeed in this movie that I learned an important economic knowledge, "Whether the customer makes money or loses money, we all make money."

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  • Melba 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    A dollar bet can distort people's lives arbitrarily... Is it knowledge or circumstance that makes a person... Sure enough, it's the butt that decides the head, the movie 30 years ago... It's pretty good

  • Cullen 2022-04-22 07:01:09

    You've got to be kidding me!

Trading Places quotes

  • Louis Winthorpe III: I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor and no one liked me. I lost my job, I lost my house, Penelope hated me, and it was all because of this terrible, awful Negro!

  • Louis Winthorpe III: [approaching the New York Commodities Exchange] Think big, think positive, never show any sign of weakness. Always go for the throat. Buy low, sell high. Fear? That's the other guy's problem. Nothing you have ever experienced will prepare you for the absolute carnage you are about to witness. Super Bowl, World Series - they don't know what pressure is. In this building, it's either kill or be killed. You make no friends in the pits and you take no prisoners. One minute you're up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley. Are you with me?

    Billy Ray Valentine: Yeah, we got to kill the motherf... - we got to kill 'em!