Two question of movies 02142026

It is interesting, the question says, overrated movie that everyone loves... that part invalidates most films. I can't think of a film everyone loves and no work of art is truly overrated because all art has those who love it. Gone with the wind or Birth of a nation or king kong or ... star wars or lord of the rings were not loved by everyone and are evenly rated by those who love it, as well as evenly rated by those who do not. I argue the question is dysfunctional. Yes, millions didn't get lord of the rings, and millions didn't get gone with the wind, and millions didn't get birth of a nation. Now if the question was, movie that everyone I know loves, but I just don't get... now you have an even question. A small enough everyone, and no false sense of rating, so that it doesn't have an automatic millions of people not getting it regardless of the movie you choose, or an uneven assessment of ratings when people rate all art as they feel about it. And my answer to the adjusted question is I don't know:) I can see why any film, ANY FILM is loved I can see why any art is loved. If anything I argue the artists who can't see why a work of art is loved is hurting themselves as an artist. You have to have an open mind to comprehend the eternity that is art. ... I will make another adjustment, movie that everyone I know loves, that I wish didn't and why? To that end I can answer. I get the lion king 100% , I don't think it is falsely rated. But I wish people I know didn't love it. It is a beautiful animation, simple, a little crude, but an uplifting story, has fun. I just wish it had humanoid characters instead of the nonhumans. I have aesthetic desires. Call them biased, negatively or positively, but they are true for me. If I was in control of disney, which I am not, the lion king has humanoid characters. the princess and the frog has a human princess the whole movie and the male lead is a frog. And comprehend I 100% get the lion king or the princess and the frog. I think they both have lovely elements. Both have for me, lame elements. but that is art

Wanna know one of the changes when Murphy was hired? The love interest went out the window.

Just thought you should know.

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On this date in 1984, "Beverly Hills Cop" premiered in Los Angeles.

In 1977, Paramount executive Don Simpson came up with a movie idea about a cop from East L.A. who transferred to Beverly Hills. Screenwriter Danilo Bach was called in to write the screenplay. Bach pitched his idea to Simpson and Paramount in 1981 under the name "Beverly Drive", about a cop from Pittsburgh named Elly Axel. However, his script was a straight action film and Bach was forced to make changes to the script, but after a few attempts the project went stale. With the success of "Flashdance" (1983), Simpson saw the Beverly Hills film as his next big project. Daniel Petrie, Jr. was brought in to rewrite the script and Paramount loved Petrie's humorous approach to the project, with the lead character now called Axel Elly, from Detroit. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer claimed that the role of Axel Foley was first offered to Mickey Rourke, who signed a $400,000 holding contract to do the film. When revisions and other preparations took longer than expected, Rourke left the project to do another film.

Sylvester Stallone was originally considered for the part of Foley. Stallone gave the script a dramatic rewrite and made it into a straight action film. In one of the previous drafts written for Stallone, the character of Billy Rosewood was called "Siddons" and was killed off half-way through the script during one of the action scenes. Stallone had renamed the lead character to Axel Cobretti, with the character of Michael Tandino being his brother and Jenny Summers playing his love interest. Stallone has said that his script for "Beverly Hills Cop" would have "looked like the opening scene from 'Saving Private Ryan' (1998) on the beaches of Normandy. Believe it or not, the finale was me in a stolen Lamborghini playing chicken with an oncoming freight train being driven by the ultra-slimy bad guy." However, Stallone's ideas were deemed "too expensive" for Paramount to produce and Stallone ultimately pulled out two weeks before filming was to start. Two days later, the film's producers, Simpson and Bruckheimer, convinced Eddie Murphy to replace Stallone in the film, prompting more rewrites. Besides Stallone and Rourke, other actors who were considered for the role of Axel Foley included Richard Pryor, Al Pacino, and James Caan.

Murphy, John Ashton, and Judge Reinhold improvised most of their comic lines. Literally hundreds of takes were ruined by cast members, actors or the director laughing during shooting. During the "super-cops" monologue, Ashton is pinching his face hard and looking down in apparent frustration. He is actually laughing. Reinhold put his hand in his pocket and pinched his thigh really hard, trying to prevent himself from laughing.

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hahaha I knew you would mention that:) In defense , look at the amount of rewrites this project took on. I don't deny that the white writers took out the love interest when eddie came in, ala eddie murphy's desire for love interest in boomerang and coming to america, but you read what stallone wanted to do... part of me can imagine stallone's. bless karl urban for his judge dredd. The reality that it took all of these rewrites and development drama for murphy to get the job is telling in itself.

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 well concerning the issue of black heterosexual activity in films , the issue is not about one film right it is about patterns or lack thereof . In the case of films financed by whites in the usa, a pattern displaying an absence of black heterosexual activity in films financed or written or directed by whites is clear to see. And can only be denied by the dishonest. You know my thoughts, the question is always how to fix problems. In my view only black produced films will provide the width of black characterizations that is absent in white produced films. I don't think white produced films will ever expand black characterizations in any robust way. In one film here or there? yes, but not enough to ever make a pattern.