***FULL REACTION*** TRADING PLACES
Added 2024-12-25 23:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Ah I just realised that Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis were in My Girl together too. They make such a cute couple! I hope at least they’re good friends 🥰 I like when actors have real life relationships and I get to know about it 🤣
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It's also about racism. Not just about money.
Jay Perry
2024-12-31 23:30:34 +0000 UTC
Alan, she reacted to it on June 3, 2021, which I believe was before she started her Patreon account, so there is no full-length version. But the edited version is available on her Youtube channel. Enjoy!
Duke Pootentooter
2024-12-26 20:59:42 +0000 UTC
The trading activity is slightly easier to comprehend if you realize they aren't buying and sellings goods on hand, but future commitments to buy and sell. So Louis and Billy Ray can enter the market by "selling," because they are promising to sell a quantity of Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice (FCOJ) in the future. After acquiring a sufficient quantity of "sells" at the inflated high price caused by the Dukes' run on the market, they stop selling and just wait for the price to turn around. After the crop report kicks off the selling panic, they can match up their "sells" with offsetting buys at the deflated low price. Once they've "bought" off an equal number of "sells," they're out of the market with a huge profit, because they sold high in the early going, after which they bought low at the end of trading.
The crop report indicates whether the crops had been damaged by winter weather, leading to a scarcity which drives prices up, or whether they came though undamaged, in which case there should be plenty of supply, and thus a lower price. By feeding the Dukes the wrong info in the fake report, they made them think the crop was damaged, thus scarce (and higher priced). Once the actual report comes that the crop was not damaged, the true price is much lower, thus the panic to sell.
Alan Jones
2024-12-26 14:25:10 +0000 UTC
Another Jamie Lee Curtis film to consider is A Fish Called Wanda (1988) also starring Kevin Kline, John Cleese, and Michael Palin. A little bit of Python vibe, but mostly a wild farcical comedy about a jewel heist.
Alan Jones
2024-12-26 14:07:07 +0000 UTC
Dawn, I knew you would like this one. Glad you watched it.
John A
2024-12-26 02:47:41 +0000 UTC
The two older actors that played the brothers were Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy. They were well known leading men from the 1930's thru the 1960's
Tom
2024-12-26 02:04:06 +0000 UTC
Need to watch Eddie Murphy "Coming To America " it has a scene that references characters in this movie!!!
Craig 'Bad Habit' Babbitt
2024-12-25 23:07:46 +0000 UTC