....in the 3 movies they were in (I haven't seen Another You) How come the white man (Gene) always got the girl? He wasn't no stud, nor not a charmer, and Richard clearly carried these movies, and always talked about pu*ssy in his stand up. Why couldn't Richard get the girl as well?
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That was probably part of the gimmick that made their films work. Gene Wilder was so clearly neurotic and Richard Pryor so "street smart' that the opposite was expected. But bottom line, those two were a great team and those movies broke down a lot of barriers.
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The OP's got it right, though, let's face it. It was because Gene is white. This was 1980 - there was no way a black romance would have figured into a mainstream movie where a white man has top billing. It just didn't happen back then (and perhaps not much even now). Poitier may have directed it, but it's the money men (i.e. studio executives and/or producers) who make those kinds of decisions.
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Well, it worked for Sidney in Guess Who's Coming To Dinner....
shareAsk yourself the question; what would be more fun? Wilder, Pryor or both getting the/a girl. To me the answer is obvious - that Wilder in all his strangeness would get the gril and relentlessly goes for it is just to funny
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To be fair,
Wilder wants to get the girl and Pryor wants to get laid.
In Stir Crazy, he was talking about his girlfriend (so he had one) agreeing to a threesome in return for some of that weed he had.
And there was only one major female character in the film, who happened to fall for Skip. But Harry "Sweetpants" Monroe still got Rory in the end, didn't he?
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To be fair,Good point! I think it's also worth pointing out that this is also the case in See no Evil, Hear no Evil (not sure about Silver Streak, as I actually haven't watched it- yet!- but I would guess not. After all, one can pretty safely assume that a thief on the run trying to avoid arrest would have more pressing things on his mind then women!). Pryor's character, Wally, makes it clear that he just wants to get Eve (the Joan Severance character) into bed with him, whereas as Dave (Wilder's character) is clearly interested in a romance with her, not just sex (keyword, "just". As we see in the scene with him oogling Eve whilst pointing his, er, "gun", at her, he's clearly not opposed to a romp or two in the sack with her!). Makes sense when you consider what we know about their off-screen personas. :) share
Wilder wants to get the girl and Pryor wants to get laid.
1. That never occurred to me, I always give props for "New" Information, so "Props" to you.
2. (My) Reason, Pryor for those types of movies (integrated? audience), I guess they don't find him getting some as funny as WE did in his BEST Movie and one of the most underrated movies of alltime, "WHICH WAY IS UP"; Mr Goodnite, Annie Mae, Pops, the Preacher, Leroy Jones,...
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I can get them finding Wilder's character more funny in a mainstream sense and choosing the same formula that worked before,..but I never noticed the "Repeat".
Prior did get the guy who kept calling him Sweetpants. It wasn't racism. It just simply wouldn't have worked the other way around, with their characters and the way they played them.
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