Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
1:57 – 4:48… Exorcist. Yeah. Makes sense. Beverly Hills Cop. A personal movie for me because I just, Eddie Murphy was my guy. Yeah. And this was the natural, talk about Apex Mountain. Should we name Apex Mountain after Eddie? Axel Foley Mountain? This was really it. Mount Foley? Mount Foley. Mount Foley. SNL, 48 hours, trading places, Beverly Hills Cop. Yeah. This is the movie that got me into smoking king-sized Kents. What do you mean? How old were you when you saw it? You don't see a lot of king-sized Kent smokers anymore. I know. No. No. How old were you when you saw this? I saw it in the theaters. I was seven. Yeah. …
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Was the highest grossing R-rated film for 19 years until The Matrix Reloaded in 2003. Seriously? Was adjusted for inflation the third biggest R-rated movie ever behind Godfather and Exorcist. Yeah. Makes sense. Beverly Hills Cop. A personal movie for me because I just, Eddie Murphy was my guy. Yeah. And this was the natural, talk about Apex Mountain. Should we name Apex Mountain after Eddie? Axel Foley Mountain? This was really it. Mount Foley? Mount Foley. Mount Foley. SNL, 48 hours, trading places, Beverly Hills Cop. Yeah. This is the movie that got me into smoking king-sized Kents. What do you mean? How old were you when you saw it? You don't see a lot of king-sized Kent smokers anymore. I know. No. No. How old were you when you saw this? I saw it in the theaters. I was seven. Yeah. Oh, so you were like a kid. It became a complete and total youth obsession. Yeah. This is on the level of Madonna, Prince, Bruce Springsteen. Like people, I knew kids who taught themselves how to play Axel F on the synth. Everybody started dressing like Axel Foley. Everybody started talking like Axel Foley. We all started cursing like Axel Foley, even though that was not always appropriate. It was just like an absolute cultural phenomenon. It's impossible to explain how huge this was. We've talked about Eddie Wesley. Yes. When you see this movie and him in all his glory, what's your first reaction? Okay. I had a number of reactions. Because, you know, I have not, I will be honest, I have not seen this movie in its entirety. Oh my God. In maybe 20 years. High school? Might even be longer than that. I mean, I saw it when it was, I saw it on cable. I saw Beverly Hills Cop 2 in the theaters. But I saw this on cable. Both ones had a lot of cable. Yeah. A lot of cable runs. So there are sequences that I know very well. But here are some things I was, first of all, Eddie is very soft in this. And I mean, I mean, like, like, like, soft in, I don't, I don't know what kind of training he has as an actor. But there's something very present about him and not like waiting for somebody else to say something so he can then say something funnier or funny at all. He's connected with everybody he has a scene with. Now, I don't know what the other actors would say about Eddie's presentness. But as a viewer, Eddie is very present and very aware of what's going on around him and in the moment. Right. And some comedians, like, like Richard Pryor was like this and Bill Murray can be like this where you can tell that they're waiting for their moment to do the thing that they're going to do that steals the scene. They're calculating, you can see Bill Murray calculating sometimes when he's going to pull the rug out from under the people in the scene with him. Eddie Murphy is just, he's just present and he trusts his comedy enough to know that he doesn't have to win all the time. Because we had a Michael Douglas conversation about how Michael Douglas trusts the movies to be on his side.
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