Blog 16.

The movie that I am watching is called Trading Places. It stars Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd. The basic plot is two rich aristocrats make a bet over a dollar to see if a con-artist (Eddie Murphy) can run a company just like a snotty Investor (Dan Akroyd). The two test subjects had clearly no idea. Through several antics, and arguments, fights and nights in jail, The two eventually work together to bring down the bet makers.
The main setting throughout most of the movie is the eccentric Wall Street. There are a lot of things mentioned about the Stock Market as well. A person could learn a thing or two about it from this movie. The movie also shows the slums of New York during the 1980’s (Manhattan and Brooklyn). There are several scenes of the movie where characters are Incarcerated in jail. In the movie, the current season is Winter. It is in the month of December to be exact. The movie shows the cold and how undesirable it is. Also the hardships that people have to deal with. Christmas time was terrible for some. The movie also shows the kinds of people that live in this urban setting. There aren’t many citizens that were wealthy in New York City. They make the movie a lot more realistic this way. The movie also switches back between what the rich life looks like as well as the not so wealthy.
The viewer can see vast differences between the two. This movie also could work as a metaphor to break the boundaries of social class. It also seems as though the director wants the spectator to see how different everything is, and also probably have undertones or clues showing that people should be more generous or just not snobby. There are big happenings going on in the country and not just the city of New York. There were several lessons learned and was a very entertaining movie. It had its fair share of comedy as well as drama. This is a very great representation of New York City in the 1980s.