Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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COMING to America is the movie one always suspected Eddie Murphy could make if he would only put some thought and effort into it: a movie in which he doesn't try for laughs by coasting upon the established pan-offending loudmouth persona that has carried him through his last...
Yeah, he's not Olivier, but one only needs to think back to the diversity of characters Murphy played on Saturday Night Live (Buckwheat, Gumby, Mr. Robinson, Stevie Wonder and even Elvis) to realize how much he has wasted his thespian talents since then in most, if not all, of...
HOW, then, to stretch a talent best suited to the five-minute sketch to fit a full-length film? Until now, the answer has been either to have Murphy simulate a variety of roles while actually playing a single character, as in his cop/action flicks, or, perversely, to have him...
Coming to America's answer is much better and much more appropriate for Murphy. He does play a single character who assumes an additional role or two during the course of the film. But he also appears in a variety of sly cameos throughout the film: a garrulous old barber...
As a fictional character, Tyson would be an offense to everyone, a stereotype wrung out past infinity to obscenity. He is the black Brooklyn street thug from reform school, adopted by the white benevolent old character from the country who could only imagine the terrible violence done to the boy...