Coming To America The film “Coming to America” gives an added invigorating take about Africans in America and their wealth Perception back in their homeland of Africa. Any movie in which the actor Eddie Murphy is acting in comes with extreme comical central plots, I have yet to view a movie where Murphy plays a serious more non-factual role. This movie is not like every other typical movie we’ve watched during the course of this class, the movie is more of a hilarious depiction of Africans and shows a much more positive side to the culture instead of the usual blacks catering to whites portrayal of old America. Eddie Murphy plays the role of “Prince Akeem, who comes from a wealthy African family and comes to America in hopes of finding a wife …show more content…
The director did a magnificent job in aligning the central plot accordingly with the films central topic. The struggles of the Prince being able to be himself while receiving the approval of his family is one of the factors that give a twist to the plot, because it shows a sense of control in the black community amongst black themselves, however it is a much different approach than control from whites to blacks. The concealment of Prince Akeem’s healthy status gives of the impression that blacks are not trying to be exclusive with their personal financial status as one would assume that an individual with money would flaunt their wealth. Director John Landis message to viewers was apparent during the first couple of scenes of the movie, the message of American immigration in the US was displayed in a comical sense to get viewers to relate better. Landis varies abruptly with historians of immigration who eliminate African Americans from deliberation on the grounds that slaves were not true immigrants. Throughout his directing, he narrates the hindrances that immigrants have had to overcome. There were plenty of scenes from the movie that I took great delight in watching, but just as there were memorable scenes there were also scenes that I didn’t agree with entirely and or consider to be relevant to the