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Director Craig Brewer said he came up with the idea to give a hat tip to Trading Places.
The Eddie Murphy comedy is also referred to in 1988 s Coming to America. I m still a believer that there s a crossover movie to do with Coming to America and Trading Places, Brewer told Insider. Coming 2 America is filled with callbacks to the first movie. But there s also a scene in the sequel that gives a shout out to another classic Eddie Murphy movie.
In the scene where Lavelle (Jermaine Fowler), the illegitimate son of Akeem (Eddie Murphy), goes for a job interview, he sits down and calls the person interviewing him (played by Colin Jost) Mr. Duke. That should ring a bell for Murphy fans, but then the next moment should really drive it home when Duke tells Lavelle to only call him Calvin because my father is Mr. Duke and my grandfather and great uncle who founded Duke & Duke.
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“Coming 2 America,” the sequel was released this week on Amazon Prime. Coming To America set the tone [within mainstream Western cinema] for Black Panther with the African garments and the culture, says Gabrielle Tesfaye, a US director of Ethiopian and Jamaican heritage whose 2019 film Yene Fikir, Ethiopia (My Love, Ethiopia) was nominated for a Film Africa award. [People] want to see themselves within an imagined state of being that is also connected to truth, like Black Panther was. BBC (Paramount Pictures)
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However, more broadly, Tesfaye believes that “Africa” is still constantly misunderstood and generalised about, in film and otherwise, because it remains such an unknown location to most Westerners. “Never seeing it for themselves,” she says, “they really don’t know how diverse it is. In the US it’s not as travelled [to] as Asia, South America or even Europe.”…The real answer, of course, is to