I think they did a great job capturing that."įoley's a hard-nosed Detroit cop who finds himself "vacationing" in Beverly Hills to avenge his childhood friend Mikey's (James Russo) murder. They're not comic figures, and the police, although we make fun of them, they aren't ridiculous. "The action part of the action-comedy thing is important because for that kind of genre to work, it seems to me anyway, there has to be some level of reality to it," Petrie Jr. was the progenitor of buddy-cop films, but BHC turned the genre on its head, making Axel Foley a lone wolf instead of partnering him up with another cop (which would predominate in the sequels). "'Oh wait, it's $4,000.' It seemed like a cop from a blue-collar area would be so struck with amusement about Beverly Hills and all the pretentiousness, that some great fish-out-of-water comedy could be mined from that." "I saw Beverly Hills Cop more as a comedy just because I had been a starving writer living and working in Beverly Hills, so I had the experience of walking down the street thinking, 'Oh, maybe I'll stop in here and get a tie,'" Daniel Petrie Jr. When it came out, Beverly Hills Cop was a particularly unusual blend of buddy comedy, fish-out-of-water comedy, and straight cop action.
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about how the movie shaped Hollywood and comedy for years to come.
In honor of Beverly Hills Cop's anniversary, we talked to actors Judge Reinhold and Bronson Pinchot and writer Daniel Petrie Jr. Its subsequent sequels weren't as well-received or as good, but without BHC, we arguably wouldn't have hybrid-comedies like Crocodile Dundee, Bad Boys, Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, and 22 Jump Street. The movie grossed over $316 million worldwide (that's $723 million adjusted for inflation), topped the 1984 box office, received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay, won a People's Choice award for Favorite Motion Picture, landed on AFI's 100 Funniest American Movies of All Time list, and had the distinction of being the highest-grossing R-rated film for 19 years and the highest-grossing comedy for almost 25 years ( The Matrix Reloaded and The Hangover, respectively, shattered those records). It's still fresh, original, hilarious, and shocking-maybe even more so today than in 1984. to mainline comedy into the film, and of course Murphy added his own ribald improvisations.
They also hired the soon-to-be Oscar-nominated screenwriter Daniel Petrie Jr. And it was all because of Beverly Hills Cop.īeverly Hills Cop was originally conceived as an action-drama for Sylvester Stallone, but when he backed out, Paramount and director Martin Brest took a risk and cast the wise-cracking Murphy as Axel Foley.
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It's almost unbelievable that 30 years ago today, Eddie Murphy went from being a famous-ish TV and movie actor to being a bona fide movie star.
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