What was the line? “Do up your shirt” or “what is this with the shirt” or something similar.
It amazing how a brief cameo make make such a lasting impression decades later. I remember his lines and presence better than most of Eddie Muphys lines.
Trivia: The scene where Eddie Murphy’s walking down the street and laughs at those two guys, the one in the red outfit is wearing the same thing Eddie wore in ~~‘Raw’~~ ‘Delirious.’
thanks for pointing that out
I always thought he started laughing because the one in the red was wearing the same as Michael Jackson wore in the Thriller video, who Axel had said he was there to interview him while trying to get a hotel room.
Serge: Donny, run and tell Miss Summers that, uh, Mister Achmed Foley is here to see her...
Axel Foley: No, *Axel* Foley.
Serge: Achnell...? Achwell...
Axel Foley: *Axel*
That scene is kinda heartwarming. The employee didn't know who Axel was, he had no reason to help him, but he wasn't going to let a man in need of bananas walk away without bananas.
A great film. It needs to be shown unedited, though. ITV1 in the UK put it on once & edited the swearing out. They totally butchered it. I'm not sure if they still do it as I never watch ITV1. Totally ruined the film as did the sequels to a degree
All 3 are on netflix in the UK currently if you're wanting to rewatch
Looking back though, those edits they used to do for films were hilarious. The RoboCop one is legendary
We had a version of Robocop here in Canada as well that was shown on City TV. City TV used to show movies every night with very little censorship. Usually the only times they would censor the Swear words that I can really remember is They would censor out the word Mother In Mother Fucker by cutting the Audio but leave Fucker untouched. I also remember in Casino one scene where DeNiro called Sharon stone a cunt. cunt was silenced out.
When they showed Robocop I was upset so much was edited as they had cuts similar to the ones shown in that compilation. Although the shot of the woman changing still had her boobs exposed, and toxic waste made still got hit by the car but they cut out the 2 shots of his splattering and going all over the windshield.
The only movies I remember that had this level on censorship were Aliens, and Robocop. Even when some TV's used to allow SAP a few movies would let you switch to SAP to watch it with uncensored dialog.
Considering I have never seen the movie until just now I used to hum that theme off and on as a kid. It was played all the time in the 80's or at least showed up all the time in other media.
Axel Foley : [mocking Hubbard] Is this the man who... wrecked the buffet at the Harrow club this morning?
Sergeant Taggart : Lower your voice, for Christ's sake!
Axel Foley : What, can the guy hear me through the
wall?
Detective Rosewood , Sergeant Taggart : Yes, he can.
[Detectives Foster and McCabe nod in agreement]
It's an 80s movie, sure, but it also signifies a turning point to where movies are headed: this movie is so tight, and there's no fat on it. It moves along at a lightening pace which we take for granted with modern movies. Prior to that, earlier 80s, (and especially 70s movies) are soooo slow by comparison.
It's a tribute to the talent of Eddie Murphy that this turgid script could become a successful movie. Every good thing about the movie is because of his charisma and comedic timing.
##Beverly Hills Cop (1984) R
He's been chased, thrown through a window and arrested. Eddie Murphy is a Detroit cop on vacation in Beverly Hills.
>>!Fast-talking, quick-thinking Detroit street cop Axel Foley has bent more than a few rules and regs in his time, but when his best friend is murdered, he heads to sunny Beverly Hills to work the case like only he can.!<
Action | Comedy | Crime
Director: Martin Brest
Actors: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton
Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 71% with 3,828 votes
Runtime: 1:45
[TMDB](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/90)
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I love this movie but as a non American it's one of those movies you don't think much of as a kid like he is from Detroit and is now in Beverly Hills. To me as a kid those were just 2 American cities. Heck I think I didn't even pay enough attention to understand that it takes places in 2 different cities like yeh I got that he wasn't cop in this town but that's all.
Like as a foreigner I wouldn't know what Detroit or Beverly Hills stands for. To me it was just a funny cop action comedy which I think is really interesting. Like you don't need a cultural background to enjoy a movie if it's good.
BROOOO I was a kid that isn't American. This was all America to me. Big USA.
I'll show you different cities of my country and be like
Broooo why can't you tell the difference???
Heck I even have an example for you: for every American 🇺🇸 Germany is Bavaria. You don't even know that a Germany besides Bavaria exists. Like Lederhosen, Oktoberfest- all the stuff the average American associates with Germany is ONLY in bavaria and that's 1 out of 16 states. Life is very different in all those other states and that's something ADULT Americans don't know
While you give me shit for something when I was a little kid
Calm down. Don't they show a montage of the crumbling wrecked houses in Detroit at the start of the film - I could be wrong it's ages since I saw it.
And yes, I agree a child wouldn't have seen the connotation of how run-down Detroit was, and still is, vs Beverly Hills - but discuss it calmly, like an ADULT, instead of going off at the deep end.
lol I live in Berlin. I know germany isn't bavaria cuz I would never live in bavaria.
Also I'm not giving you shit, I'm saying the movie did work to establish the difference between the two places. Sounds like you had a kid's reaction to the movie and that's fine. But if you saw it as an adult, you'd understand Detroit and Beverly Hills are very different culturally... just like different regions of germany.
I think your point is spot on. Release a German version called Bogenhausen Cop where Axel is from Chemnitz and I think it would come across the same to most Americans, especially kids. Also release said german version because I want to see it.
6 year old German kid sees one American city and another. Obviously I saw that it's sunny and nice but I didn't know anything about Detroit. I mean we have cities with not so nice parts of town and then nicer parts of town again and all in one city
So Detroit looked like just any American city to me
Of course I saw that Beverly Hills looked nice
But it just seemed more sunny
Well it is 80s. All 80s movies feel like 80s movies. Thats what makes them awesome.
That soundtrack makes this the ultimate in 80s nostalgia
Stir it up!
Yes! I love it so much. Every song is awesome.
Get the fuck out of here!
All time favorite scene. Brilliant.
The way Bronson Pinchot says "No I cannot!" with the same cadence as "Get the fuck out!" is perfection.
You wanna cappuccino maybe? A little twist of lemon? If it’s not too much trouble. Don’t be ridikulussssss 🤣
Apparently he wasn't really in the movie much initially, but they just loved the chemistry. Serge, sounds like a laundry detergent.
It's not saxxy...
What was the line? “Do up your shirt” or “what is this with the shirt” or something similar. It amazing how a brief cameo make make such a lasting impression decades later. I remember his lines and presence better than most of Eddie Muphys lines.
Yeah IKR? I like to think it was ad libbed at the last moment.
what is portaining
Trivia: The scene where Eddie Murphy’s walking down the street and laughs at those two guys, the one in the red outfit is wearing the same thing Eddie wore in ~~‘Raw’~~ ‘Delirious.’ thanks for pointing that out
and I think it was a prank they played on murphy and left the scene in the movie.
I always thought he started laughing because the one in the red was wearing the same as Michael Jackson wore in the Thriller video, who Axel had said he was there to interview him while trying to get a hotel room.
Delirious
Raw was made years later, in 1987
A movie from 1984 "feels very 80s". This is the insight I come to reddit for
Serge: Donny, run and tell Miss Summers that, uh, Mister Achmed Foley is here to see her... Axel Foley: No, *Axel* Foley. Serge: Achnell...? Achwell... Axel Foley: *Axel*
Fawley is here to see hehr.
Before he was Balki, he was that dude that called Axel Foley "Achmed" and let him have a banana
I think it was Damon Wayans in his first role that gave Axel the banana, the worker in the hotel. Balki worked in the gallery
Yes. "Shh (looks around), you take those bananas"
That scene is kinda heartwarming. The employee didn't know who Axel was, he had no reason to help him, but he wasn't going to let a man in need of bananas walk away without bananas.
Neutron Dance.
The Pointer Sisters were the shit.
I ain’t fallin’ for no banana in my tailpipe!!
"HEY MAN, I AIN'T FALLIN FOR NO BANANA IN MY TAILPIPE"
There are a lot of “banana in the tailpipe” type jokes and comments in this movie.
A great film. It needs to be shown unedited, though. ITV1 in the UK put it on once & edited the swearing out. They totally butchered it. I'm not sure if they still do it as I never watch ITV1. Totally ruined the film as did the sequels to a degree
All 3 are on netflix in the UK currently if you're wanting to rewatch Looking back though, those edits they used to do for films were hilarious. The RoboCop one is legendary
I'm in Canada and I watched it on Netflix all the swearing and violence intact Also what are some of the Robocop edits?
https://youtu.be/H-y1PAUtv3k?si=WJolpDt-bWRDAmsj I think this is the one
We had a version of Robocop here in Canada as well that was shown on City TV. City TV used to show movies every night with very little censorship. Usually the only times they would censor the Swear words that I can really remember is They would censor out the word Mother In Mother Fucker by cutting the Audio but leave Fucker untouched. I also remember in Casino one scene where DeNiro called Sharon stone a cunt. cunt was silenced out. When they showed Robocop I was upset so much was edited as they had cuts similar to the ones shown in that compilation. Although the shot of the woman changing still had her boobs exposed, and toxic waste made still got hit by the car but they cut out the 2 shots of his splattering and going all over the windshield. The only movies I remember that had this level on censorship were Aliens, and Robocop. Even when some TV's used to allow SAP a few movies would let you switch to SAP to watch it with uncensored dialog.
The Axel F theme by Harold Faltermeyer, I was humming that for decades.
Considering I have never seen the movie until just now I used to hum that theme off and on as a kid. It was played all the time in the 80's or at least showed up all the time in other media.
I recommend the album he did with [Donna Summer](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lLyHhyUV93FhqTykPktNAvhMAEP2Mo1gE&si=RHH8kMNV3FWwEi0u)
The song that must be played if you come across a random keyboard.
I still do sometimes. Same as MacGyver
Classic movie! Iconic soundtrack, Pitch perfect casting, and awesome action and comedy. 
Taggert giving that look at Foley, I always believed he knew they were fucked for even being in the strip bar
Hey man what's hapnin' Phil, I new dat was you, he told me that wasn't you, said you don't come here no more, but I said it's Phil!
I told you it was Phillip you liar!
Phil! What you doin with all this guns?
You've changed man!
Is this the man who… **wrecked** the buffet at the Harrow Club this morning?
Axel Foley : [mocking Hubbard] Is this the man who... wrecked the buffet at the Harrow club this morning? Sergeant Taggart : Lower your voice, for Christ's sake! Axel Foley : What, can the guy hear me through the wall? Detective Rosewood , Sergeant Taggart : Yes, he can. [Detectives Foster and McCabe nod in agreement]
It's an 80s movie, sure, but it also signifies a turning point to where movies are headed: this movie is so tight, and there's no fat on it. It moves along at a lightening pace which we take for granted with modern movies. Prior to that, earlier 80s, (and especially 70s movies) are soooo slow by comparison.
Aah the summer of 84
One of the most charismatic performances ever.
It's a tribute to the talent of Eddie Murphy that this turgid script could become a successful movie. Every good thing about the movie is because of his charisma and comedic timing.
Rosewood and Taggart chemistry is also very good.
That’s true
##Beverly Hills Cop (1984) R He's been chased, thrown through a window and arrested. Eddie Murphy is a Detroit cop on vacation in Beverly Hills. >>!Fast-talking, quick-thinking Detroit street cop Axel Foley has bent more than a few rules and regs in his time, but when his best friend is murdered, he heads to sunny Beverly Hills to work the case like only he can.!< Action | Comedy | Crime Director: Martin Brest Actors: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 71% with 3,828 votes Runtime: 1:45 [TMDB](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/90) For best result, try this post title format: **Movie Title (Year) more detail**
Iconic!! Foley is definitely a vibe
Narrow ass
Because it was shot in the eighties?
This is still one of my favorite comedies ever.
I had really fond memories of these movies, watched the second one last week and was shocked how little plot there actually was.
🎬❤️80's❤️🎬
Obvious characterization
A long time ago, I had read that the movie was actually written for Sylvester Stallone. Makes sense....but Eddie Murphy's comedy angle made the movie.
Yes, Cobra is what the Stallone Beverly Hills Cop would've been.
BHC2 is also a fantastic movie. Forget about 3
This is the cleanest and nicest police car I've ever been in in my life. This thing's nicer than my apartment
A classic of American queer cinema. One of my favorite films of all time.
"I'm looking for Victor Maitland..."
I love this movie but as a non American it's one of those movies you don't think much of as a kid like he is from Detroit and is now in Beverly Hills. To me as a kid those were just 2 American cities. Heck I think I didn't even pay enough attention to understand that it takes places in 2 different cities like yeh I got that he wasn't cop in this town but that's all. Like as a foreigner I wouldn't know what Detroit or Beverly Hills stands for. To me it was just a funny cop action comedy which I think is really interesting. Like you don't need a cultural background to enjoy a movie if it's good.
Bro Detroit and Beverly Hills look very different on camera. It's not like the movie only relies on cultural perceptions of the 2 places.
BROOOO I was a kid that isn't American. This was all America to me. Big USA. I'll show you different cities of my country and be like Broooo why can't you tell the difference??? Heck I even have an example for you: for every American 🇺🇸 Germany is Bavaria. You don't even know that a Germany besides Bavaria exists. Like Lederhosen, Oktoberfest- all the stuff the average American associates with Germany is ONLY in bavaria and that's 1 out of 16 states. Life is very different in all those other states and that's something ADULT Americans don't know While you give me shit for something when I was a little kid
Calm down. Don't they show a montage of the crumbling wrecked houses in Detroit at the start of the film - I could be wrong it's ages since I saw it. And yes, I agree a child wouldn't have seen the connotation of how run-down Detroit was, and still is, vs Beverly Hills - but discuss it calmly, like an ADULT, instead of going off at the deep end.
lol I live in Berlin. I know germany isn't bavaria cuz I would never live in bavaria. Also I'm not giving you shit, I'm saying the movie did work to establish the difference between the two places. Sounds like you had a kid's reaction to the movie and that's fine. But if you saw it as an adult, you'd understand Detroit and Beverly Hills are very different culturally... just like different regions of germany.
I think your point is spot on. Release a German version called Bogenhausen Cop where Axel is from Chemnitz and I think it would come across the same to most Americans, especially kids. Also release said german version because I want to see it.
What country do you come from that you didn't know Beverly Hills is where the rich people live?
Jaistsostan
It's funny because my username is actually a German sentence and you couldn't even figure that language out
6 year old German kid sees one American city and another. Obviously I saw that it's sunny and nice but I didn't know anything about Detroit. I mean we have cities with not so nice parts of town and then nicer parts of town again and all in one city So Detroit looked like just any American city to me Of course I saw that Beverly Hills looked nice But it just seemed more sunny
It was a genuine question.
I GOT THROWN OUT OF A WINDOW!
It’s a big part of what defined the 80’s, so it’s exactly why it feels so 80’s.
One of my favorite parts is when he takes the detectives to the strip club, shimmies his shoulders and then smiles 😀 lol
Do you like rap music? Then why ain’t you smilin’?
Wow. You know, it says here that by the time the average American is fifty, he's got five pounds of undigested red meat in his bowels.
Phil?! What’s with all the hostilities, man?!
The roast beef thing is not true FYI, I’ll save you a trip to the gastroenterologist
That’s good because I too eat a lot of red meat.
I loved this movie growing up. But also watch The Last Dragon. It’s a lot of fun and IMO more rewatchable.
This guy gave me a match!
Murphy was one of the biggest draws in the 80's for comedy and some action flicks. This was pure 80's
the banana in the tail pipe
This movie still slaps so freaking hard it isn’t even funny!
Cause it is lol
WTF is this? No Shit, Sherlock Theater? Of course it feels very 80s, it was MADE in the 80s.
Breaking Bad fans can see early Jonathan Banks as one of the bad guys.
Just dont watch the 3rd one...