Off to bed. Gonna watch Trading Places, it’ll be weird knowing how the scam actually works at the end, and that this movie was why they changed insider trading laws on the US stock market.
I think The Twilight Zone movie also led to a change in California State Child Labour laws, which would mean that John Landis caused more law changes than any other film director (I think).
How the scam at the end of Trading Places actually works, [SPOILERS AHOY] the Duke Bros are Commodities Brokers, Louis is a Commodities trader (like Nigel Farage was before he became a career politician to stop Elites running the country)
They specialise in the futures market, coffee, pork bellies, gold and FCOJ: Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice. And this is the important one
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