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lolstill can't help thinking if the 999th day from death will be of any relevance
You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginSo being passive is all it takes :?: No action required on our part, just sit and wait? Isn’t that what has allowed the NWO to further its causes thus far? I am now officially and totally confused. :?No, on the contrary, we should warn and tell people about this illusion world. We are the ones who are going to awake the rest of humanity. We shouldn't sit and wait. It's in our hands.
So being passive is all it takes :?: No action required on our part, just sit and wait? Isn’t that what has allowed the NWO to further its causes thus far? I am now officially and totally confused. :?
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Loginlolstill can't help thinking if the 999th day from death will be of any relevanceMarch, 20th is the 999th day I think. And that picture... lolol/
Trading Placesis a 1983 American comedy film, of the genre, directed by You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, starring You are not allowed to view links. Register or Loginand You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login. It tells the story of an upper class commodities broker and a homeless street hustler whose lives cross paths when they are unknowingly made part of an elaborate bet. The storyline has been commented upon as a modern take on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login's classic 19th century novel You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, which itself was also a satire. Ralph Bellamy, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Loginand You are not allowed to view links. Register or Loginalso star. Plot Duke brothers Randolph (Ralph Bellamy) and Mortimer (Don Ameche) own Duke & Duke, a successful You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, Pennsylvania. Holding opposing views on the issue of nature versus nurture, they make a wager and agree to conduct an experiment switching the lives of two people at opposite sides of the social hierarchy and observing the results. They witness an encounter between their managing director—the well-mannered and educated Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd), engaged to the Dukes' grand-niece Penelope Kristin Holby—and a poor street hustler named Billy Ray Valentine Eddie Murphy; Valentine is arrested at Winthorpe's insistence because of a suspected robbery attempt. The Dukes decide to use the two men for their experiment.Winthorpe is publicly framed as a thief and drugs are planted on him when he is arrested. He is fired from his job, his bank accounts are frozen, and he is denied entry to the Duke-owned town-house where he resides. He befriends a prostitute named Ophelia Jamie Lee Curtis who allows him to stay at her apartment on the condition of receiving a reward once he re-establishes himself in society. Winthorpe soon finds himself ostracized and abandoned by Penelope and his former friends. Meanwhile, claiming to operate an assistance program for the underprivileged, the Dukes bail Valentine out of jail, install him in Winthorpe's position at the company and give him use of Winthorpe's home. Valentine quickly becomes well-versed in the business and acts well-mannered, even applying his street smarts to the job.During the firm's Christmas party, Winthorpe is caught planting drugs in Valentine's desk in a desperate attempt to get his job back. After Winthorpe flees, Valentine hides in a bathroom stall to smoke a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login he took from the desk. The Dukes enter the bathroom and, unaware of Valentine's presence, discuss in detail the outcome of their experiment and settle their wager for $1. Valentine overhears their exchange and learns that the Dukes have no intention of keeping him in the job due to his race. Valentine decides to seek out Winthorpe.Having unsuccessfully attempted suicide by shooting himself with a semi-automatic pistol (which fails to go off till after he throws it away), Winthorpe again attempts suicide in Ophelia's apartment by overdosing on pills. Valentine, Ophelia and Winthorpe's former butler Coleman You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login) nurse him back to health and inform him of the Dukes' experiment. On television, they learn of a Clarence Beeks You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login) transporting a secret report on orange crop forecasts. Winthorpe and Valentine recall large payments made to Beeks by Duke & Duke and realize that the Dukes are planning to obtain this report to corner the market on frozen orange juice. The group agrees to disrupt their plan as revenge.Learning of Beeks' travel plans, the four get aboard his train (aboard which a New Year's Eve costume party is also being thrown) to switch the report in Beeks' possession with a forgery. Beeks uncovers their scheme and attempts to kill them. He fails, because of the interference of a drunken partier in a gorilla costume, and is subdued, and the group dress him in a gorilla costume and lock him in a cage with a real gorilla. The forgery is then delivered to the Dukes, while Winthorpe and Valentine head to the World Trade Center to buy out the Dukes, Coleman and Ophelia providing the necessary money.On the commodities trading floor at Four World Trade Center, the Dukes commit all their holdings (Randolph doing so against Mortimer's advice) to buying frozen concentrated orange-juice You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login; other traders follow their lead, inflating the price. Before the real crop report is declassified, Valentine and Winthorpe sell futures heavily at the increased price. After the forecast that the orange crop will be normal, the price of orange-juice futures plummets. Valentine and Winthorpe successfully cover their You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, turning a profit of more than three hundred million American dollars. The Dukes fail to meet a margin call and are ruined, being left owing three hundred and ninety-four million American dollars for futures now worth a fraction of what they contracted to pay. Valentine and Winthorpe explain to the Dukes that they had made a wager on whether they could get rich while making the Dukes poor simultaneously. Valentine collects $1 from Winthorpe (who had believed their revenge plan would fail) while Randolph collapses holding his chest, a heart attack having seized him, and Mortimer shouts angrily at his brother about their failed plan.Beeks and the gorilla are last seen being loaded onto a ship headed to Africa, while Valentine, Winthorpe, Ophelia, and Coleman relax on a luxurious yacht in an un-named tropical locale. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login