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Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Ameche, Ralph Bellamy, Denholm Elliott
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Trading Places |
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The Duke brothers make a bet on nature vs. nurture and switch the lives of Winthorpe and Valentine. One is given a life of luxuries and the other is put on the street and resorts to crime. The two get together and ruin their business while getting rich off of the stock market.
--Dan McMillen, Resident Scholar
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The Duke brothers (Bellamy & Ameche), a pair of wealthy businessmen, decide to have a wager over environment vs. genetics. They take their best employee, the wealthy & up-and-coming stockbroker Winthrop Louis III (Ackroyd), and arrange a trading of places between him and Billy Ray Valentine (Murphy) a con man who was recently arrested. But once Valentine and Louis find out about the wager, they decide to enact a hilarious revenge on the Duke brothers for toying with their lives.
--Ari Rosner, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Trading Places |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Kind of comedy
- rags to riches
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- stockbroker
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- business executive
- trader
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- (man) average build
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 60's-90's
Profession/status:
- trader
- business executive
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
- 90%-100%
Hair color
- white
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
- Midwest
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
- dirty, grimy (like New York)
- dangerous
- wealthy
- rude people
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- prison
- moving train
- bar
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- full of laughter
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- seeing breasts
If this isn't a movie...
- Episode of TV show
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Rap/hip-hop
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