26 Facts About Trading Places

Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis, with a screenplay by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod.

Trading Places was considered a box-office success on its release, earning over $90.

Trading Places befriends Ophelia, a prostitute who helps him in exchange for a financial reward once he is exonerated to secure her own retirement.

Trading Places had worked previously with Aykroyd on the musical comedy film The Blues Brothers ; the experience had been positive.

Trading Places's wanted to move away from horror films as she was conscious that the association would limit her future career prospects.

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Trading Places had used classical music in his previous films to represent the upper classes and felt that it would be fitting for the pompous elites of the financial industry.

Trading Places continued that even as a farcical film, the events were too unbelievable.

Trading Places appreciated that Trading Places did not rely on obvious racial plot points or employ sitcom tropes for the social-status swaps of Winthorpe and Valentine.

Trading Places commended the focus on developing each character so that they were funny because of their individual quirks and personalities.

Trading Places concluded that this required a deeper script than would normally be developed for a comedy.

Canby said that Trading Places gave Murphy an opportunity to demonstrate the range of his abilities in a "lithe, graceful, uproarious" performance.

Trading Places said that Aykroyd had demonstrated that his success was not dependent upon his partnership with John Belushi.

Trading Places continued that Ameche was as funny in Trading Places as he was always meant to be.

Trading Places said he knew it was a success because people were trying to take credit for it.

Trading Places is considered responsible for launching, changing, or re-launching the careers of many of its stars.

Trading Places rose from a TV comedian to a superstar with two of the most successful films of the year.

Trading Places's rapid rise to fame led to Murphy leaving Saturday Night Live the following year; he said he had grown to dislike the job and felt he was resented for his success.

Trading Places earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance in the comedy-drama Driving Miss Daisy .

Trading Places is considered Curtis' breakout performance, allowing her to move into films outside the horror genre; actor John Cleese cast Curtis in the 1988 heist comedy A Fish Called Wanda specifically because of her performance in Trading Places.

The Prince and the Pauper is seen as a classic tale of American literature; Trading Places adds a twist by casting an African-American as the pauper raised up in status, playing on fears of black usurpation and appropriation.

Vincent Canby said that although the film is an homage to social satire screwball comedies of the early 20th century, Trading Places is a symbol of its time.

Where the earlier films espoused the benefits of things other than money, Trading Places is built around the value of money and those who aspire to have it.

Trading Places employs several conventions of its Christmas setting to highlight the individual loneliness of the main characters, in particular, Winthorpe.

Harris described one incident where a person told him they had obtained a career in finance because of Trading Places; Harris said that this was counter to the film's message.

Trading Places is considered one of the best comedies of the 1980s and one of the best Christmas films.

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Trading Places considered it dangerous to pretend a word never existed as in turn other negative events could be ignored.