FEED presents occasional clips of movies that shaped the writing of WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT… as selected by playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury.
First up is COMING TO AMERICA (1988).
FEED presents occasional clips of movies that shaped the writing of WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT… as selected by playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury.
First up is COMING TO AMERICA (1988).
2 thoughts on “Pop culture we’re proud to present #1”
So what do you think? Racist or just simply hilarious? And what’s with that “African voice”? The best defense — or take down — of COMING TO AMERICA (as voted on by Soho Rep staff) gets a free pair of tickets to WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT…
This movie is a classic. It not only takes down the ‘American dream’ constructed paradigm that so many movies do, but does it in a way that makes us laugh at ourselves as Americans, and does it in a fresh way. Eddie Murphy is Borat long before Borat ever came into the mind of Sasha Baron Cohen- and it rallies among an almost universal New York experience- moving here as a big shot and learning to cope with the reality that no one in this city gives a shit. It is racially insensitive, but I dare anyone who has a funny bone to sit through this movie and not laugh, it’s impossible! Self-aware American comedy at its best.