Beverly Hills Cop

Hey, Do You Remember...?

Christopher Schrader

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2016

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

We've all been on a pub crawl, right? Well get ready for a Podcrawl! Instead of hopping from one bar to the next, the idea is to move from podcast to podcast in order to cover all three Beverly Hills Cop movies. It kicks off right here with the HDYR gang tackling the original. From there, Does It Have Legs? picks up the baton to talk about Beverly Hills Cop II. And then Proudly Resents brings it home with a discussion about Beverly Hills Cop III.

Topics include: the long and complicated history of this project and the different iterations that almost wound up on screen, Eddie Murphy's surprisingly understated performance, the way the sequels betray certain characters in some ways, how pitch-perfect the Detroit scenes are and why everything gets a little murkier once it moves to Beverly Hills, action scenes that are slightly lackluster even for 1984 and the key ingredient we think might be missing, some thoughts on the potential future of this franchise, and much much more!

Huge thanks to Adam from Proudly Resents for reaching out and putting this Podcrawl together!

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0:00.0	Hey, do you remember Beverly Hills cop?
0:07.0	Hello and welcome to Hey, do you remember Hey Do You Remember, show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose tinted glasses to see how it holds up.
0:31.8	I'm Chris.
0:32.5	I'm Donna.
0:33.4	And I'm Carlos.
0:34.1	And today we're revisiting Beverly Hills Cop.
0:53.3	Thank you. And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting Beverly Hills Cop. There's a slight disagreement over who gets to take credit for coming up with the premise of Beverly Hills cop.
0:59.0	Legendary super producer Don Simpson claimed that it all started with his idea about a cop from East Los Angeles who gets transferred to Beverly Hills.
1:06.6	But if you ask Michael Eisner, who was the head of Paramount Pictures at the time, the project's
1:10.8	origins date all the way back to 1975.
1:13.9	That's when he was pulled over for speeding on an L.A. freeway and became convinced that
1:18.1	the officer's condescending and belligerent tone had something to do with the beat-up old
1:22.5	station wagon he was driving.
1:24.4	The notion that even the cops in California were that materialistic is apparently
1:28.5	what led to his steadfast commitment to a movie centered around a Beverly Hills policeman.
1:33.7	The conflicting origin stories are indicative of the types of disagreements and indecision
1:37.7	that plagued the film's pre-production. Despite the straightforward concept, no one seemed to be
1:42.6	on the same page when it came to what type of movie they were making.
1:45.9	Literally, numerous scripts were commissioned, some dating as far back as the late 70s.
1:50.8	And so as various writers, directors, and stars worked on different iterations over the years,
1:55.2	the particulars of the story and the ratio of comedy to action was constantly in flux.
2:00.0	By 1983, Simpson and his producing partner,
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