a dollar gamble

Jerod 2022-03-23 09:01:40

Trading Places

Trading Places

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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  • Barrett 2021-11-13 08:01:25

    A comedy that explores the impact of the environment on people, exaggerated and bantering, it is thought-provoking. Jamie Lee Curtis contributes welfare to the audience~

  • Jaquan 2021-11-13 08:01:25

    "The theme of comedy is social integration, and it is usually realized in the form of the central role being integrated into this society." The duty of comedy is to return unordered things to order, tolerate or control the factors that awaken its explosive power. For example, poverty is one of the final problems that comedy needs to solve. Poverty and class differences disappeared in this film, and it tells us that the root of poverty directly stems from the selfishness and abuse of privilege of capitalists.

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  • Official #1: [the President of the Exchange and two officials come over to the Duke brothers, with one looking at them like "We got you now, assholes!", after they realized they just been had by Billy Ray and Lewis] Margin call, gentlemen.

    Mortimer Duke: [Frantically] Oh, you can't expect us to...

    President of Exchange: [Cuts him off] You KNOW the rules of the Exchange, Mr. Duke! All accounts are to be settled at the end of the day's trading, WITHOUT exceptions.

    Randolph Duke: You know perfectly WELL we don't have three hundred and ninety-four million dollars in CASH!

    Official #2: I'm sorry, boys. Put the--Dukes's seats on the Exchange up for sale at once, and seize all holdings of Duke & Duke Commodities Brokers as well as all personal holdings of Randolph and Mortimer Duke.

    Randolph Duke: My God. We're RUINED.

    [clutches his chest]

    Mortimer Duke: This is an outrage! I DEMAND an investigation! YOU can't sell our seats! A Duke has been SITTING on this Exchange since it was FOUNDED! We FOUNDED this Exchange! It's OURS! It belongs to US!

    Randolph Duke: My God...

    [collapses in shock]

    Official #2: Mortimer, your brother's not well! We'd better call an ambulance!

    Mortimer Duke: *FUCK HIM!* Now you listen to me. I want trading reopened *right now.* Get those brokers back in here! Turn those machines back on!

    [shouting, in a pathetic echo throughout the Exchange trading floor and hall]

    Mortimer Duke: TURN THOSE MACHINES BACK ON!

  • Billy Ray Valentine: [Both on the trading floor waiting patiently as FCOJ keeps going up] Louis?

    Louis Winthorpe III: Not yet! Almost!

    [the shares hit 142, to Billy Ray]

    Louis Winthorpe III: Now.

    [Yelling]

    Louis Winthorpe III: Sell 200 April at 142!

    [Everybody flocks to them]

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