The hit movie Eddie Murphy called a piece of shit
Eddie Murphy had a meteoric rise in the 1980s, transitioning from comedy to Hollywood more seamlessly than any other comic.
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Wed 12 February 2025 14:15, UK
Eddie Murphy was an industry pioneer in the 1980s. After catching the attention of NBC producers, he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live and ran away with the show. He was so popular that he singlehandedly saved the floundering sketch series from cancellation, and not surprisingly, it didn’t take long before he’d outgrown it.
He branched out into Hollywood and struck gold with his very first film, the 1982 buddy action comedy 48 Hrs. It was a box office and critical hit, and Murphy earned a Golden Globe nomination for his performance. His next film, Trading Places, fared even better, raking in more than $120million from a $15m budget.
It’s easy to forget just how remarkable his shift from stand-up and sketch comedy to movies was. Few actors aside from Robin Williams have been able to make that leap, especially after enjoying such widespread popularity on the comedy circuit. Performers like Dan Ackroyd, Bill Murray, and Will Ferrell all took the leap from Saturday Night Live to Hollywood, but none of them had the instant and sustained success as a movie star that Murphy did in the first decade.
Once Beverly Hills Cop was released in 1984 and amassed $316million at the box office off a budget of a mere $13m, Murphy could do no wrong. Out of nowhere, it seemed, he was one of the biggest movie stars in the world, and no matter what film he was in, it was almost guaranteed to be a box office success. In that respect, he was the definition of a movie star, an actor whose fans would go to see him in absolutely anything.
Murphy was well aware of his status and didn’t take it for granted. Nor did he pretend that every movie he made was worthy of its box office returns. “Beverly Hills Cop II was probably the most successful mediocre picture in history,” he told Rolling Stone in 1989. “It made $250million worldwide, and it was a half-assed movie. Cop II was basically a rehash of Cop I, but it wasn’t as spontaneous and funny.”
Less than a decade into his Hollywood career, he was clear-eyed about how the business operated. “My pictures make their money back,” he explained. “No matter how I feel, for instance, about The Golden Child – which was a piece of shit – the movie made more than $100million. So who am I to say it sucks?”
Released in 1986, The Golden Child was, as the actor attested, a piece of shit. Murphy played a social worker in LA who learns that he has been chosen to rescue ‘The Golden Child’, a mystically gifted Tibetan boy who is prophesied to save the world. The actor played a variation of his Beverly Hills Cop character Axel Foley, but the script wasn’t in the same ballpark. Critics panned the film, and Murphy himself clearly thought it was subpar.
Despite its commercial success, The Golden Child foreshadowed the end of Murphy’s supremacy at the box office. He scored another hit in 1988 with Coming to America, but shortly thereafter, his career began to slide. He tried his hand at a few more sequels (to 48 Hrs and Beverly Hills Cop) and took on a few costly and unsuccessful passion projects, mostly notably 1989’s Harlem Nights.
As quickly as he ascended to the top of Hollywood’s ranks, he slid back down again and never reached the same heights as a movie star, even though many of his subsequent films did well financially.
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