Talk:Trading Places

message: "In the years followings its release, some critics have praised the film while highlighting elements that they believe have aged poorly and become seen by some as problematic, including racial language, the use of blackface, and the implied rape of Beeks by a gorilla." The deadpan delivery of the final fact.--Bellerophon5685 (talk) 02:18, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah...I've made an attempt to clean that up. DonIago (talk) 14:28, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

text: I like to read it in the voice and tone of the Police chief in Beverly Hills Cop when he says "who disabled an unmarked unit...with a banana?" Darkwarriorblake (talk) 15:02, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Best sentence in Wiki history 

message: Can anybody identify the song the guys in the club sing to the ladies before Winthorpe shows up in his cheap clothes from Ophelia? Hodsha (talk) 21:37, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Constance Fry, Constance Fry,
Anytime you call,
Constance will fulfill your needs,
Winter, spring, or fall
Absolute classic! Surely it's Love Me Tender. Or whatever that itself ripped off?  :)   SN54129 22:08, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  In the club 

message: "Ameche was opposed to using foul language and often apologized in advance to his crewmates for what he was scripted to say; he only performed one take of his final scene where he shouts "fuck him" towards Randolph."
The line wasn't directed to Randolph. Ameche was being advised by an employee of the firm, and when advised of his brother's heart attack, Ameche yelled the line to the employee. 2600:1700:BF10:69D0:9C17:8997:9736:1D18 (talk) 20:03, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: He's saying "fuck [him]", [him] being Randolph. Darkwarriorblake (talk) 21:55, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed, IIRC, replying to Alfred Drake, Exchange chief, whom we have already met discussing escargots and being advised against going long on April wheat  :)  ——Serial 15:00, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

text: Quite odd response, to say the least. One might even observe that some of the responses to Wiki article issues in general have become moribund and some would say somewhat Philistine in nature. The eff-him statement was NOT made "TOWARDS" Randolph. It was OF Randolph, and made TO the Drake character. These niddly quirk responses contribute, bit by bit, to a diminishment of the stature and correctness of Wiki's reputation and construct. (And contribute to a reluctance of readers to make any suggested corrections at all.) 2600:1700:BF10:69D0:4022:E813:6B13:1A66 (talk) 15:08, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: You're splitting hairs. And taking the whole thing a little too seriously. Don "Hey Martez" Ameche (Mortimer) effectively says "Fuck Randolph" (Ralph "Randy Jackson from the Jackson 5" Bellamy) to Drake, in Randolph's presence, and that's all you need to know. Cheers!  ——Serial 15:30, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: The hairs you split are not by me, they are yours. Ameche screams the line to the exchange character, NOT to his collapsing brother, and he says "Eff HIM", NOT "Eff Randolph". For your own personal verification, kindly see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLySXTIBS3c&ab_channel=BloombergOriginals. I stand by my original comments. "Hair splitting" my ratz rump. 2600:1700:BF10:69D0:4022:E813:6B13:1A66 (talk) 16:46, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: a) . Yes; I have said this multiple times myself now; and b) He says . Note I said "effectively says...", meaning, "can be parsed as", while not avoiding the original confusion above where certain parties to this discussion were confused to whom the "him" was directed; c) May I suggest using your night stick?  ——Serial 17:08, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ameche's Heart Attack line wasn't to Randolph 

message: Noting how I agree with much of them. Also noted for the record:  misuse of rollback (see: WP:ROLLBACKUSE) to revert a non-vandalising edit.  ——Serial Number 54129 13:25, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Good for you I guess? Removing large swathes of the lede summary and interpeting "Instead, the characters do not dismantle or expose the corruption of the financial system" as not correct because insider trading, which was a part of the system til 2010, isn't part of the financial system or assuming that the intent of the sentence is about them literally bringing down the financial system. Their edits are basically "I don't understand the content, I'm going to change it until I personally do." Same with removing the comment about screwball comedy because (according to Wikipedia) it's a subgenre of Romantic Comedy, ignoring the multiple references to it as a screwball comedy throughout the article or that while Winthorpe indeed does not bang Valentine, he does woo Ophelia. Darkwarriorblake (talk) 13:35, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Also changing Social stratification to Social class, I'm not expert but the former groups people by things including race, which is important to the film, while the latter groups them by working class to upper class, when Valentine is not working class, he's a poor black hustler who is assessed by the Dukes' primarily on his race, assuming he comes from a broken home, etc. Darkwarriorblake (talk) 13:42, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

text: Please see WP:IND, and join me, also, in condemning the misuse of rollback.  ——Serial Number 54129 13:48, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: , I accept you criticism and I apologise if I really misused the rollback tool, but I (may be erroneously?) interpreted the edit I reverted as a reiteration of a disruptive action by part of the IP. In that sense I considered it as a vandalic edit. --DoebLoggs (talk) 13:51, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent IP edits