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The moment also makes the two films a rare thing in 20th century Hollywood cinema: a shared cinematic universe. Although given how rotten the Duke brothers are, we fear Akeem has done more harm than good. ItвЂ™s an amusing and impossible-to-miss Easter egg for fans of MurphyвЂ™s films. The two then show up again to bang on Akeem and LisaвЂ™s window as they have dinner, shouting, вЂњLetвЂ™s have lunch.вЂќ вЂњMortimer, weвЂ™re back!вЂќ Bellamy announces with a Cheshire grin. But the two grumpy old men are thrilled with this newfound investment. However, when the camera returns to the two old-timers beneath blankets and cardboard, we learn that (gasp) itвЂ™s Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche! It seems Billy Ray and Louis really did thoroughly put these capitalist vultures out on the street. Committed to embracing a life of poverty, Akeem tells Lisa he just gave away pocket change. Late in the 1988 comedy about Prince Akeem traveling to New York City in order to meet a nice American girl, the prince and Lisa (Shari Headley) are taking a walk in the promenade near the Brooklyn Bridge when Akeem gives a handful of rolled up hundred dollar bills to two homeless men. Hence why Murphy and Landis are so keen to call back to it in Coming to America.

#WATCH COMING TO AMERICA 1988 MOVIE#

(1982), proved Murphy was a bona fide movie star outside of Saturday Night Live. Still, itвЂ™s a charmer which, alongside 48 Hrs. In other words, itвЂ™s a perfectly вЂ80s comedy in tune with that decadeвЂ™s values: humor based in a lot of stereotypes that ends with the good guys getting rich. ItвЂ™s a cynical racist game theyвЂ™re playing, and it ends up blowing up in their faces, with Billy Ray and Louis eventually joining forces to get rich while bankrupting the Dukes. Obviously Billy Ray has never had the opportunity to achieve more, and two corrupt blue bloods named Randolph and Mortimer Duke (Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche) think it would be funny to give Billy Ray that chance to succeed-if only temporarily, after all they donвЂ™t want a Black man actually flourishing at their company-while throwing their silver spoon lackey, Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd) into poverty. In that film, MurphyвЂ™s Billy Ray Valentine is an unimpressive grifter whoвЂ™s trying to get by on a put-on about being a Vietnam vet without legs. The more overt and official of these is the callback to Murphy and LandisвЂ™ previous collaboration, Trading Places (1983). Indeed, Coming to America is the film which confirmed several of director John LandisвЂ™ films all occur in the same world: One with another Eddie Murphy as Billy Ray Valentine, a small time hustler who gets one over on some rich old racists and winds up nouveau riche in Trading Places, and one with carnivorous lunar activities in An American Werewolf in London. However, whatвЂ™s often overlooked is that the picture is not-so-secretly part of a shared cinematic universe. The film has many great elements that make it a comedy classic. The sequel to the 1988 film stars Eddie Murphy (as King Akeem, formerly Prince Akeem), Arsenio Hall (as Semmi), Jermaine Fowler, Leslie Jones, Tracy Morgan, KiKi Layne, Shari Headley, Teyana Taylor, Wesley Snipes, and James Earl Jones.When one thinks about 1988вЂ™s Coming to America, a few things stand out: James Earl Jones and Madge Sinclair as the King and Queen of Zamunda speaking to their son Prince Akeem ( Eddie Murphy) at a breakfast table with intercom radios the opulence of ZamundaвЂ™s palace, which represented an idealized African nation to 1980s audiences the way Wakanda does today and of course Murphy and Arsenio HallвЂ™s Semmi fresh off the plane in Queens, New York with no idea what вЂњcommonвЂќ means-or also Murphy and Hall under pounds of makeup as the argumentative old-timers at the nearby barbershop. Eddie Murphy Coming to America is quite the gem, and fans are in for a treat with Coming to America 2! Fans were excited to see the Coming to America 2 trailer, and it's finally here. Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall tell us about the makeup process involved in the Coming to America barbershop scene, and some of the secrets behind the names Eddie Murphy and the crew came up with in Coming to America.1988 was a great year for Eddie Murphy, given the success of Coming to America we discuss why it took him so long to come up with a sequel in Coming 2 America. We talk to Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall about the sequel to Coming to America (Coming 2 America), the creative process behind the film and how Coming to America became a cult classic that led to a sequel 30 years later.

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