颠倒乾坤

一个片子看完了，感觉有什么东西不太对。

最后的一代新人换旧人，什么都没有变，连1块钱的赌注都传承下来了，只是换了两个人。

上流的财富阶级被刻画的那么傻，只认钱，其他什么都不认，没有友情没有爱情没有亲情，只有利益，钱就是他们的全部，没有了钱就废了！

他们几个人更像是最后有了友情和爱情，还有享受生活？但最后他们管的也只有管家和女人呀，还是只有他们身边的人，就像原来的两位老资本家照顾侄女！

兜兜转转一大圈，除了换了人，其他什么都没变！

这是环境论帝国主义者的片子吗，

直接将人按在底线上摩擦，

然后向对手学习，再次强大，回敬之

总感觉有些东西怪怪的！

当然其中也涉及了正向的

原有规则不好用时，

积极改正，学习更好的。

还有贫民窟打拼的女一，

是为了钱还是为了

心里自洽把落魄的男主带回了家

“上车吧，我一定会后悔的”

这话听着真的挺有意思的！

真心期望世界可以变得越来越好！

A 1980s American satire about capitalism and Reagan-era’s wealth accumulation, John Landis’s TRADING PLACES is an essentially “nature versus nurture” debate transposed to the racial soil of USA’s class echelons. Saliently launching Eddie Murphy’s superstar career, to a lesser extent, reviving Dan Aykroyd’s swindling box office clout, and introducing James Lee Curtis to the mainstream audience for the first time, the film ages well courtesy to the performances and its absorbing tempo and jollification, though on the debit side, in lieu of revealing the sordid side of American Dream, it chooses a conformable coda that leaves today’s audience a less toothsome taste.

In Philadelphia, life circumstances are wantonly swapped between white upper-class commodity broker Louis Winthorpe III (Aykroyd) and Billy Ray Valentine (Murphy), a black street punk, all because of a spontaneous bet of Winthorpe’s bosses, Randolph and Mortimer Duke (Bellamy and Ameche, both exceed audience’s expectation with their time-honored comedic bent and faux-respectability), two wealthy brothers have nothing better to do than callously putting a lid on their competent employee’s posh life. The entrenched racism is flagged up by Louis’s knee-jerking reaction about Billy Ray’s black usurpation, with the former instantly pegging the latter as his sworn enemy. It never occurs to Louis that obviously it should be the Dukes who are answerable for his untoward misery, and his encounter with Ophelia (Curtis) fits the stock a-guy-down-on-his-luck-meets-a-prostitute-with-a-golden-heart scenario. However, an invigorating Curtis does her best against the character’s exploitative designation, gratuitous nudity, that is, and engenders enough pizzazz and intelligence to make Ophelia an eyeful.

Meantime, Valentine’s reaction toward such a ginormous windfall is mined less for his psychological reasoning and dubiety than a colorblind affirmation that he is equally capable. Valentine simply accepts the offer and plays along with a distinctly elevated flair, acting priggish toward his prior bottom-feeding trappings and ever smooth in inhabiting a white-people privileged surrounding, that is until the story teams him up with Louis to exact revenge on the Dukes, to euchre them in their own game. A self-defeating third act, toying with future contracts, commodities trading and other perplexing financial ploys, only reverts to a retrogressive validation of the filthy lucre the films ostensibly sets about to ridicule, which also betrays the sign of the times.

Jettisoning any illusion of progressive profundity, a viewer can satisfactorily enjoy the film as a delightful comedy, Winthorpe’s downward adversity is contrived too on the nose and framing him as a petty pilferer is a cheap invention, but the gorilla joke is goofily off-color and TRADING PLACES is studded with heartily funny cameos (Frank Oz, Jim Belushi, Bo Diddley, among others), not to mention the main cast is uniformly game and enterprising. To my lights, the best parts are Murphy’s street-smart wiles (still far from unbridled but the potential is there) and a pitch-perfect Denholm Elliott as the British butler Coleman, whose loyalty wavers inexplicably but who can always bring subtle amusement and incredibility to the plot’s tickling nonsensicality.

referential entries: Ivan Reitman’s GHOSTBUSTERS (1984, 7.3/10); John G. Avildsen’s ROCKY (1976, 7.5/10); PLANES TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES (1987,7.3/10).

Title: Trading Places

Year: 1983

Genre: Comedy

Country: USA

Language: English

Director: John Landis

Screenwriters: Timothy Harris, Herschel Weingrod

Music: Elmer Bernstein

Cinematography: Robert Paynter

Editor: Malcolm Campbell

Cast:

Dan Aykroyd

Eddie Murphy

Jamie Lee Curtis

Denholm Elliott

Ralph Bellamy

Don Ameche

Paul Gleason

Kristin Holby

Robert Curtis-Brown

Jim Belushi

Bo Diddley

Alfred Drake

Frank Oz

Richard Hunt

Tom Davis

Al Franken

Ron Taylor

J.T. Turner

Giancarlo Esposito

Avon Long

Rating: 7.0/10

故事用诙谐幽默的形式完美的展现了资本家用1美元打赌人命运的安排，揭露了资本家的嘴脸，并且简单浅显的讲述了一点点期货知识。

总之，是一部适合对金融感兴趣的小伙伴入门级别的电影，推荐～

给我的感悟是:

1.人是好环境的产物。在不同的环境下人的举动会受到影响，即使是现在所谓的好人换了个极端环境也不一定会做出什么举动，所以没有所谓的好人，只不过没有所谓的坏的理由。

2.人性是复杂的，永远不要考验人性。即使男主最后和stripper在一起了，也不一定有好得结果，毕竟stripper说过一句话“我要好好的保护我的投资”。目的就不纯，但谁和谁在一起不图点啥？

3.资本才是王道。相比一些普通人，资本家们只是更接近于资本，他们善于用钱赚钱而不是为钱打工。但是一旦资产没有配置好，或是因为像剧中所谓的虚假内幕交易信息导致自身倾家荡产，也不过是资本的奴隶罢了。人生漫漫，即使现在不如意又怎样？股市还有牛熊市之分，怕啥？！

4.电影真的是很好的体现了一场没有硝烟的战争。看着那一串串数字跌了或涨了，人们随之买入卖出那种急切又兴奋的场面，正如屏幕前盯着股市行情的你我他。

周末的下午，在下雨，点开一部轻喜剧《运转乾坤》。

影片开头用一段无对白的都市清晨的外景，配着古典乐，缓缓拉起序幕。

路易斯是住豪宅有管家的有钱的受尊敬的期货员，他对市场似乎非常敏感，能准确判断期货的最高点位。

贫困潦倒靠扮越南战后伤残又瞎又没腿的瓦伦丁，因为被歧视性的误会而遇上路易斯。

巨富资本家兄弟，一个认为人在坏的恶劣的环境便会受影响做坑蒙拐骗的勾当，一个认为人的血统不受影响，在糟糕的环境仍可出色优秀。他们打赌把路易斯和瓦伦汀的身份对换。

这剧全是双男主，同样重要，同等份量，同样的戏份。但观众一定会更喜欢瓦伦汀一点。

他在变富的第一个晚上从黑人酒吧拉了一堆牛鬼蛇神来豪宅作乐，但他很快就冷静下来，意识到“他们才不是我的朋友，只不过是群见便宜就上的死皮赖脸的家伙”（特意翻回去看的台词）。他跟管家说谢谢。他一触期货就准确地预测了走势和价格（这里合理怀疑剧本开了金手指）。他看到了路易斯的贫困潦倒，自暴自弃和悲愤交加，他得知了这一切的内幕后一刻都没有犹豫，马上找到了路易斯。当路易斯说要把资本家暴打一顿的时候，他说“我意识到伤害有钱人最好的方法就让他们变得贫穷。”

然后他们将计就计，把玩期货的资本家玩死了。（这段80年代期货交易大厅的戏码真好看，但我还没看懂整个交易流程是怎样的。）

都说“是金子总会发亮的”，瓦伦汀无疑就是那颗金子，凭借他的善良，理智，和聪明而发亮。那么如果是蒙尘的金子呢？沦落后的路易斯，和靠扮残疾军人的瓦伦丁呢？他们一直处在蒙尘的恶劣环境中的话，还是否能发亮呢？