INTRO
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This week on FilmSack instead of trading gifts we are TRADING PLACES… for Christmas! Tis the season to trade commodities fa-la-la-la-la la-la-la… hey! I got an Eddie Murphy…it’s legless. it has no legs.. oh there they are.. hey! what did you guys get… half of the hit comedy duo that the studio didn’t want after Belushi died… no not the Belushi in the cheap ape costume… the other Belushi.. the one we liked… yep it looks like you guys got a Dan Akroyd in a 1983 Holiday Comedy now punching you right in the Peacock streaming service with it’s colorful language nature… and cavalier attitude nurture… towards our modern sensibilities. Take that decency. Never have so many pairs of boobs shown up for a holiday movie. fa-la-la-la-la-luh-la-la-la
Anywho, if you are gonna make a movie you got to establish some context for the viewers early on. Let’s see… Tone… we got a Mozart in Morning opener. Fancy! How about the Location… throw some Philly City shit in there. show them the Rocky! oh… and the cracked bell!!! niiiiicce… how about the weather outside? a bit frightful you say… those workers look wet and cold! How about the rich people, how they doing? Still in bed you say. Those pork bellied bastards.
Randy, I’m sick and cold… snuggle me like Jamie Lee Curtis… topless. fa-la-la-la…. laaaaaaaa
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BRIEF
A wealthy commodities broker and a street hustler have their lives deliberately swapped by two billionaire brothers as part of a wager to prove whether success is determined by nature or nurture. As their experiment spirals out of control, the victims team up to turn the tables in a classic 80s comedy packed with satire, holiday chaos, and financial crime.
1983 | R | Comedy | 1h 56m
LINKS
IMDB: Trading Places (1983)
Wikipedia: Trading Places Wiki
Rotten Tomatoes: RT Page
TVTropes: TV Tropes
WHERE TO WATCH
Streaming: [Check availability on JustWatch]
TRAILER/CLIPS
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Trading Places (1983) – Like a Nice Pair of Pork Bellies, needs more Jamie Lee Curtis.
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SHOW NOTES
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- The music has been established. The location… established. Philly! The season…. established… the city is a character. Established. Tone… established.. We make this city work. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- From the slums to the rich folks… alternating as the morning starts in the city.
- Rocky!!
- Uh… your breakfast sir… would you like a shave.
- Porkbellys… interesting… something exciting is going to happen in the pork bellys today.
- Hands off morning. His intuition is too valuable.
- You always have to morning the rich folks as the help.
- The eternal question. Heredity vs Environment.
- Lot of Pork Bellies…
- Randy, get me Winthorpe.
- Vietnam did this to me… but I am not bitter. I’m on my knees for life.
- I can never not hear Donkey when Eddie Murphy screams.
- How would you like a stump up your ass.
- Apple II Ad!
- Those are giving this genetics the prize.
- Randy, mother always said you were greedy… she meant it as a compliment.
- $5 dollars… maybe I will go to the movies by myself.
- We are about to make a ton on frozen oranges.
- 50k… who is Clarence Beaks… he is doing something top secret.
- He is dating the grand neice.
- Breeding Randolph. It is in the blood. Nature vs Environment.
- Hey baby. What’s happening… Porgy and Bess
- Now he is doing Stevie Wonder.
- We’ve had some complaints… I was in Sang Bang… Unit battalion. My nickname was agent orange.
- I can see… I have legs… oh shit look at this this… I can walk… praise Jesus. Glory be to God. What a happy day.
- Eddie wearing them Pumas.
- Please don’t kill me. I’m getting married.
- Just a little bump and run.
- That man is the product of a poor environment.
- A negro! That is not something I have heard a rich old white guy say in a movie in a very long time. Checks date 1983
- I think we will take our drinks in the living room by the fire.
- No desert sir? You have it… trash.
- Take away his job, his house and his fiance… he would find a way.
- Jan 2nd Party cause mom. It is the day the crop reports come out. Can’t do it. It is the busiest time of the year in the office. Pork Bellies, Soy Beans and Frozen Orange Juice.
- I’ll just have Brad take me.
- That is the quart of blood technique.. You do that and a quart of blood will fall out of their body.
- Cause I am a karate man. Karate man bruises on the inside. They don’t show their weakness.
- Randy, didn’t I tell you my phone in my limo is busted and I can’t get in touch with my … ladies. What are you ignorant.
- “You don’t know who you are messing with.”
- Whisky… all you want.
- F word. N word. Now we just need the R word.
- No. I believe I can hang out you with you fellas.
- Capricorn
- Coleman is here to be your servant… Get away from my stuff.
- You are Jacuzzing anybody.
- He will need to keep his clothes when we send him back to the ghetto.
- He still has the street talk.
- Perfectly alright… that was your vase.
- Using Mr. Beaks for this and the crop report. He is reliable.
- Some kind of weird partner pocket pick
- I’ve been framed… and the police are in on it.
- 1 gold watch.. 1 fancy wallet… Le Bohem.. it is an opera… 1 cellophane bag… PCP Angel Dust.
- I got your 27 dollars.
- The help likes the new guy cause he is more like them.
- Money changes people. This is a persian rug from persia
- Who has been putting out their coals on my floor… haven’t you people ever heard of coasters.
- And then the boobs showed up to the party… all the boobs. Party is over.
- They have Traded Places. On the way down.
- Oh hey!! More like Mr. Whisper
- Bianca spray to Henry Rollins face in the police station.
- Those men wanted to have sex with me.
- I am not an angel dust dealer.
- Jamie Lee Curtis does not take credit cards.
- It was not heroin. It was PCP!
- Why is someone deliberately trying to ruin my life.
- Now he is on his knees…
- The hands of a man says it all.
- Just be yourself. They can’t take that away from you.
- Coffee, Wheat, Bacon, Frozen Orange Juice and Gold. Speculation.
- Could be fondling my fiance right now.
- These clothes were here when I moved on.
- I know. Hamlets girlfriend.
- I don’t do drugs and I don’t have a pimp.
- Jamie Lee Curtis’ character is smarter than you would assume.
- Randy, you dropped your money clip… it’s all there count it.
- … And she stepped on the ball. – weird tennis lady.
- Nobody wants to buy your drugs here Randy.
- …. look at that S Car go.
- Living
- Randy, I’m sick and cold… snuggle me like Jamie Lee Curtis… topless.
- Christmas huh… I’ll give him a Christmas he will never forget
- Money isn’t everything…
- Clarence Beeks
- A whole Salmon in your Santa Suit.
- The wager has 2 parts… about a 2nd part that turns to crime.
- Living with an attractive prostitute could be worse.
- Planting Drugs..
- Look here in his office drawer, he’s got all the bad drugs here: marijuana joints, pills, quaaludes, Valium, yellow ones, red ones, cocaine grinder, drug needles…
- His transformation is complete. He has no empathy.
- A one dollar bet.
- N Word alert!
- Duke & Duke
- Gross Scott out… that Salmon mixed in with dirty Santa Beard.
- Images of Suicide… this movie has it all. Boobies, Slurs, Alcohol Abuse, Suicide Attempts, Greed, and BLACK FACE, Bestiality … F bombs and Christmas. It was a different time.
- I was poor and no one liked me.
- Cornering the frozen orange juice market.
- Jim Belushi in an ape suit yelling Happy New Year!
- You drove the Anchovy Paste. It is my turn.
- Merry New Year! Didn’t he play this same role in Coming to America?
- ooohhh… eeeeehhh… Beef Jerky Time….
- I’ll rip out your eyes and piss on your brain.
- Do the locomotion on the train for New Years.
- No more Jerky Beef.
- Ape go bonk.
- Eddie does a pretty good impersonation of Beeks
- I still don’t understand the “Trading Floor.”
- In the end. They team up and beat the Dukes.
- Several times they have to explain how markets work.
- Insider trading. Somebody is going to jail.
- How is your crop report? I got a crop report for you.
- Tell him to sell! Buy! Sell. Trade… oooh Trading Places.
- Shortest trading day ever…. did they close the markets early?
- I lost… one dollar.
- 1 Gorilla… 2 Gorilla… what do I care… they are in love.
- Obligatory Island Living Ending.
- Looking good Billy Ray, Feeling Good Lewis.
- End scene.
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