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Eddie Murphy: Movies
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Now Eddie Murphys major contribution to ethnicity would be his black influence. Throughtout all his movies he is often criticizing African American culture and stereotypes. The Pj's a TV show which he created and executively produced is a claymation depicting blacks in the projects has many stereotypes. Their is of course the kids a fat one and a skinny one, there is a fat lady that doesn't fit out the door, there is the superintendent and his friends (who sit around and drink 40's), the asians that think their black. their is ... the gangsters who always cause trouble and the junkies that come out of the blue and ask for needles excetra. By examining all these characters it's quite obvious that they are stereotypes of a project.
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In the summer of 1988 Murphy came out with a film that was a change of pace for him. In Coming to America, a lighthearted romantic comedy, Murphy's character is a departure from the brash, swaggering types of his previous films. Peter Travers of People liked the change: "This is Murphy's most heartfelt and hilarious performance. And his riskiest." Other critics knocked it. David Ansen of Newsweek wrote, "Coming to America may be more interesting as a career move than as a movie." Vincent Canby observed in the New York Times that the film has a "screenplay that seems to have escaped its doctors before it was entirely well."
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Murphy's box office results began to recover in 1996, starting with The Nutty Professor. He followed with a series of very successful family-friendly movies like Mulan, Dr. Dolittle and its sequel, the Shrek series, Daddy Day Care, and The Haunted Mansion, along with Nutty Professor II. However, most of his movies meant for more adult audiences performed moderately; Metro, I Spy, and Showtime all ended to gross less than $40 million domestically, Holy Man performed badly grossing less than $13 million, and The Adventures of Pluto Nash is on record as one of the biggest theatrical money-losers of all time, grossing just $7 million worldwide on a reported $110 million budget. A notable exception to this run of poorly received adult -themed films was the Frank Oz comedy Bowfinger... starring Steve Martin. The film garnered generally positive critical reviews, and grossed a respectable $66 million at the box office.
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In 1991 Murphy, who had criticized his previous contract with Paramount, secured for himself a four-movie deal with the film company, which had recently undergone a management shake-up. Hopes were rekindled that Murphy would now be surrounded by people who cared not only about money--Murphy's films had grossed more than $1 billion at that point--but ... about the quality of the films featuring the star. The first movie made under that contract, Boomerang, confirmed those hopes.
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Synopsis: Robert DeNiro continues to lampoon his tough-guy persona with this spoof of buddy cop movies that teams him with comic co-star Eddie Murphy. DeNiro is L.A.P.D. detective Mitch Preston, a gruff, no-nonsense 28-year veteran whose bust of a drug gang is botched one night by Trey Sellars (Murphy), aRead More
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From the beginning, Murphy acted as a loner. He was the lone holdout at the Cannes Film Festival last year when 20 minutes of the movie was shown to distributors and press.
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