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- Coming to America Started An Eddie Murphy Trend
Clearly, the most important of the Coming to America Eddie Murphy characters is the protagonist Prince Akeem. Murphy plays it mostly straight in the lead role. Previously, he'd portrayed comic figures in 48 Hrs., Trading Places, and Beverly Hills Cop; characters who would punctuate scenes with one-liners. With Coming to America, Murphy dials it dow...
39 minutes into Coming to America, Akeem attends Black Awareness Week and catches a performance by Jackson Heights native Randy Watson. The character's voice gives Murphy away as the singer, especially when he stumbles through a rendition of "The Greatest Love of All" by Whitney Houston. By the end, Randy screams out his band's name, Sexual Chocola...
In perhaps the wildest transformation of all the Coming to America Eddie Murphy characters, he also plays an elderly Jewish man named Saul. The character first appears at the 26-minute mark in the famous barbershop scene that features a Coming to America role for young Cuba Gooding Jr. Saul defends the boxers Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali during a bar...
In the final Coming to America Eddie Murphy character, the actor portrays a barber named Clarence. The character looks like an older version of Murphy, and speaks with a distinct high-pitched tone. Clarence likes to make boasts during barber shop conversations and often gets called out for exaggerating his life experiences or downright making up st...
The Coming to America Eddie Murphy characters were received so well in the movie that the actor brought the idea back again and again. There have been multiple movies with Eddie Murphy playing multiple characters with the Nutty Professormovies being the most popular among them. In that instance, Murphy really shows his talents in playing every adul...
Feb 28, 2021 · The four My-T-Sharp barbershop characters in Coming to America, all set to return for the sequel, are barbers Clarence, Morris, and Sweets, plus their seemingly always present regular customer Saul, an old Jewish man. Clarence and Saul are played by Eddie Murphy, while Morris is played by Arsenio Hall, and Sweets is played by Clint Smith.
Jun 29, 1988 · Coming to America: Directed by John Landis. With Paul Bates, Eddie Murphy, Garcelle Beauvais, Feather. An extremely pampered African prince travels to Queens, New York and goes undercover to find a wife that he can respect for her intelligence and strong will.
Mar 4, 2021 · Mirembe (Nomzamo Mbatha), his royal groomer and love interest, disagrees. Zamundan cinema isn’t so great, she says, and some of those sequels aren’t so bad. Their conversation is one of ...
