In honor of director Walter Hill's impressive body of work (and a new, massive collection of his movies from imprint_films), itismitchell ranked every single one of his gritty, nuanced, deconstructive films:
upstart Eddie Murphy, the latter in his debut film role. That’s right, watchmovie. Then figure out how to get your jaw off the floor. Originally positioned by Hill as a pairing of Clint Eastwood and Richard Pryor, after years of development, it would end up being Hill’s future wife Hildy Gottlieb who would recommend Murphy and cinema would change forever.
The setup is simple: Nolte’s cop releases Murphy’s convict on parole in order to help him catch a criminal. Hill knew that was all you needed to make this work, because the trick was to lean into the personalities that these two stars bring to the table, and boy do they bring it. Murphy’s performance is one of the true star-is-born moments in film history, with him shooting out like a rocket the second he’s introduced.
At this point, we’ve seen the interracial buddy cop dynamic done plenty of times, yet something still feels remarkably fresh about. That’s in part due to how the “one of them is Black, but the other one is white!” hook is actually rarely played for laughs. Hill knew the trick was to not hit the hammer too hard on this element, instead letting it naturally flesh out from these characters and how they interact with the world from their lived experiences.
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