Since when does a city get to dictate a screenplay?
Beverly Hills Cop is an all-time classic movie. In the movie, Eddie Murphy plays a cop named Axel Foley who tracks some murderers from Detroit to Beverly Hills. There, he has a major culture shock as he knocks some heads and tracks murderers into some beautiful mansions for an epic shootout. The movie was a huge hit for Paramount and was the highest-grossing R-rated action movie of all time until the third Matrix movie unseated it in the early 2000s. Adjusted for inflation, it’s the third highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time!
It’s safe to say that Beverly Hills Cop was an absolute landmark in cinema. It was probably my first exposure to Los Angeles, as I watched the movie when I was 10 years old and laughed my butt off. When I got to the real Beverly Hills, roughly 15 years later, I thought the movie did a good job lampooning a lot of what’s there.
The movie went on to spawn a trilogy, and late last year we found out Netflix was going to make the fourth installment, with Eddie Murphy returning as Foley.
Author: Jason Hellerman
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
