6/7/2023 0 Comments Trading places![]() (Muffy is played by Jamie Curtis’ sister!) When she picks Louis up from jail a tiny, funny exchange is gone where a homeless man comments that she has a nice purse, and she sprays perfume on his bald head while she waits.Ħ. The club scene where Louis comes to borrow money is deleted when the twits sing to Aura Lee. Penelope is pretty much gone from the film. The snip about what to do with Billy Ray’s clothes is gone, along with the racist quip about being from a very musical people.ĥ. No statement of “shit” remains, and in the Jacuzzi, “We used to fart in the tub” is replaced with “fight”, but later in the film the Dukes use the N-word. Some of the replacement swears are pretty great. The first scene I noticed was missing was Winthorpe’s fireside date with Penelope, where she’s wearing a bra and panties. This is not an edit, but when Eddie is acting as a disabled Vet in the beginning, he makes a Porgy and Bess joke that I never got before.Ģ. What was cut out is much of what makes the film funny, or at least, makes it very funny. This is a normal thing that one generally ignores, but because Trading Places was originally 116 minutes long, it was edited in many bizarre ways in order to make it closer to 90 minutes long. It has been formatted to fit this screen and edited for content. This film has been modified from its original version. I was greeted with the following message from United: On my flight home from London, I chose it to watch as comfort viewing, having not seen it in probably a decade. Anyway, this was one of my favorite films of childhood, even though I didn’t really understand it. It is a John Landis film that was originally written for Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder, but was recast with the rising star Eddie Murphy and still-foxy Canadian Dan Aykroyd. Trading Places is a film that came out in 1983, which I enjoyed as a child many, many (too many) times.
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