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Dan Aykroyd does not get the respect he deserves and the title of this article is just one example.

steveklabnik 3y ago
The title comes from the name of the rule. The rule is named after Eddie because his character is the one that came up with the idea. I agree Dan is fantastic but I think the rule is correctly named.
- jedberg 3y ago
  Actually it was Jamie Lee Curtis who comes up with the idea, and Dan who explains the logistics of how it will work.
  - steveklabnik 3y ago
    I do think this is debatable, but we find Dan, readying a shotgun, saying "well do you have any better ideas?" and Eddie says "the best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people." It is true that Jamie Lee then sees the news about the report, and they all kind of have a collective realization about it. I think it can be argued that they all played a role, but if you have to pick someone, I'd argue that Eddie's line is the beginning of the idea. Actually, reflecting on it further, I think that if this were real life, I would personally give them all credit, but it being a movie, I give Eddie's character the most, if not all, the credit.
    - jedberg 3y ago
      I honestly think OP is right, it's just called that because Eddie was the most famous person in the movie at the time as his career was on fire, and he's most closely associated with it. The movie doesn't really show whose idea it was. But now you got me thinking about another question -- who actually delivered the crop report to the USDA? Beeks was locked in the cage, so someone had to actually deliver the real report. Who did that?
      - sumtechguy 3y ago
        I believe He had a copy. He was paid by the dukes to get a copy before anyone else saw it?
        jedberg 3y ago
        No he was carrying the briefcase with the handcuffs because it was the real report and he was on his way to DC to deliver it.
      - steveklabnik 3y ago
        I could believe that; I was born three years after the film came out, so I am less familiar with that sort of context. I haven't seen it in a while, but Wikipedia's plot summary says: > The group deliver the forged report to the Dukes in Beeks' place. I think they like meet him in a parking lot and it's dark so they can't tell it's not him? Maybe this is a good excuse to watch the movie again sometime soon.
        jedberg 3y ago
        Right, they pretend to be Beeks to deliver their fake copy of the report to the Dukes. But that still leaves the question of who delivered the real copy to the USDA, which they read live on the air, and which they were expecting to be delivered by Beeks.
        steveklabnik 3y ago
        Ah, fair. A good question!
        justin66 3y ago
        This is going to haunt me. I recently discovered a major plot hole in Fletch (I know) and now this is going to bother me too.
        justin66 3y ago
        > Maybe this is a good excuse to watch the movie again sometime soon. I feel the same way. I'm happy I managed to provoke such a conversation. If because of this, just one person interrupted their work so they could stream Trading Places, well... perhaps we've made the world a better place. Ahem. edit: and I for some reason feel delighted that my post turned into one of those controversial ones that gets upvoted and downvoted multiple times for no apparent reason. Dan Aykroyd's greatness should provoke controversy. Is he merely great, or the greatest?
    - sumtechguy 3y ago
      'or beats them to it' Basically they got the report before the dukes and changed it. Louis showed the need to get back at them. Billy showed the way to properly get back at them with no possible actionable item. Ophelia showed what the dukes were doing and a possible thing to get at them with. Coleman showed that they need to get that report first and find out which way it went. They all played a part. They all even helped finance it. It was a very nicely written piece with each character playing in character to help solve the problem proposed by the main character.
      - SoftTalker 3y ago
        But where is Beakes?
      - steveklabnik 3y ago
        > It was a very nicely written piece with each character playing in character to help solve the problem proposed by the main character. I fully agree with this, which is why because it's a movie, it being attributed mostly to the main character makes sense, but if it weren't, I'd think they all played a part. Anyway my opinion on this is 100% irrelevant so I'm going to leave it at that. I think it's a great movie, all in all.

The title comes from the name of the rule. The rule is named after Eddie because his character is the one that came up with the idea. I agree Dan is fantastic but I think the rule is correctly named.

jedberg 3y ago
Actually it was Jamie Lee Curtis who comes up with the idea, and Dan who explains the logistics of how it will work.
- steveklabnik 3y ago
  I do think this is debatable, but we find Dan, readying a shotgun, saying "well do you have any better ideas?" and Eddie says "the best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people." It is true that Jamie Lee then sees the news about the report, and they all kind of have a collective realization about it. I think it can be argued that they all played a role, but if you have to pick someone, I'd argue that Eddie's line is the beginning of the idea. Actually, reflecting on it further, I think that if this were real life, I would personally give them all credit, but it being a movie, I give Eddie's character the most, if not all, the credit.
  - jedberg 3y ago
    I honestly think OP is right, it's just called that because Eddie was the most famous person in the movie at the time as his career was on fire, and he's most closely associated with it. The movie doesn't really show whose idea it was. But now you got me thinking about another question -- who actually delivered the crop report to the USDA? Beeks was locked in the cage, so someone had to actually deliver the real report. Who did that?
    - sumtechguy 3y ago
      I believe He had a copy. He was paid by the dukes to get a copy before anyone else saw it?
      - jedberg 3y ago
        No he was carrying the briefcase with the handcuffs because it was the real report and he was on his way to DC to deliver it.
    - steveklabnik 3y ago
      I could believe that; I was born three years after the film came out, so I am less familiar with that sort of context. I haven't seen it in a while, but Wikipedia's plot summary says: > The group deliver the forged report to the Dukes in Beeks' place. I think they like meet him in a parking lot and it's dark so they can't tell it's not him? Maybe this is a good excuse to watch the movie again sometime soon.
      - jedberg 3y ago
        Right, they pretend to be Beeks to deliver their fake copy of the report to the Dukes. But that still leaves the question of who delivered the real copy to the USDA, which they read live on the air, and which they were expecting to be delivered by Beeks.
        steveklabnik 3y ago
        Ah, fair. A good question!
        justin66 3y ago
        This is going to haunt me. I recently discovered a major plot hole in Fletch (I know) and now this is going to bother me too.
      - justin66 3y ago
        > Maybe this is a good excuse to watch the movie again sometime soon. I feel the same way. I'm happy I managed to provoke such a conversation. If because of this, just one person interrupted their work so they could stream Trading Places, well... perhaps we've made the world a better place. Ahem. edit: and I for some reason feel delighted that my post turned into one of those controversial ones that gets upvoted and downvoted multiple times for no apparent reason. Dan Aykroyd's greatness should provoke controversy. Is he merely great, or the greatest?
  - sumtechguy 3y ago
    'or beats them to it' Basically they got the report before the dukes and changed it. Louis showed the need to get back at them. Billy showed the way to properly get back at them with no possible actionable item. Ophelia showed what the dukes were doing and a possible thing to get at them with. Coleman showed that they need to get that report first and find out which way it went. They all played a part. They all even helped finance it. It was a very nicely written piece with each character playing in character to help solve the problem proposed by the main character.
    - SoftTalker 3y ago
      But where is Beakes?
    - steveklabnik 3y ago
      > It was a very nicely written piece with each character playing in character to help solve the problem proposed by the main character. I fully agree with this, which is why because it's a movie, it being attributed mostly to the main character makes sense, but if it weren't, I'd think they all played a part. Anyway my opinion on this is 100% irrelevant so I'm going to leave it at that. I think it's a great movie, all in all.