Trading Places (1983)
Two wealthy commodity brokers bet on whether a homeless con artist and an Ivy League executive can switch places, with the climax at the New Year’s Eve trading floor.
Eddie Murphy
This page collects the films featuring Eddie Murphy reviewed at Master of Worlds: “Mulan (1998)”, “The Shrek Franchise (2001-2022)”, and “Trading Places (1983)”. Each review examines the performance and the role it plays in the film’s larger design, approaching the work as storytelling first. The collection grows as further titles are added.
The Shrek Franchise (2001-2022) — Review
The Shrek franchise consists of six feature productions across approximately twenty-one years of continuous DreamWorks production. The 2001 original is one of the great American animated films of the early twenty-first century and the production that established DreamWorks Animation as substantial…
Mulan (1998) — Review
Mulan is one of the substantial late Disney Renaissance productions and the studio’s most successful engagement with Chinese cultural material. Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook directed. Rita Hsiao, Christopher Sanders, Philip LaZebnik, Raymond Singer, and Eugenia Bostwick-Singer wrote the screenplay….