Axel and Jenny's relationship
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Daenerys-Stormborn — 11 years ago(December 13, 2014 02:46 AM)
Axel and Jenny grew up in the same neighborhood, they've been best pals for a long time. Its a common thing that best pals fall in love, since i havent seen Beverly Hills Cop 2.i don't know if they fall in love.
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wallacesawyer — 9 years ago(July 07, 2016 02:10 PM)
since i havent seen Beverly Hills Cop 2.i don't know if they fall in love.
No, they don't. She never even came back. If a fourth is made, I wouldn't mind a cameo.
Having watched part 1 last night, it occurs to me Jenny is actually kind of redundant as a character. She's neither a love interest, nor is she even really helpful to Axel or any of the others. She's just sort of tagging along. She's like a plot device and plot convenience. She
works for the villain and is given credit for finding out about Victor's drug smuggling, but in the end she was really just the damsel in distress for Axel and the others to save. She didn't really do anything. She doesn't even show up to say goodbye at the hotel.
The movie is very much about Axel's relationship with these other police officers. Jenny was probably added because it would otherwise be a sausage fest.
This probably explains why the leading lady in 2 was a villain, and the third one was a love interest.
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hnt_dnl — 11 years ago(January 10, 2015 02:17 PM)
Well, regardless of if they changed the relationship due to iinterracial taboos at the time, the film actually works better that they are just friends. It's one thing I liked about Lethal Weapon 1 over the sequels. Martin Riggs was way more badass and interesting when he was a psychotic loner without a love interest to bog him down.
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knifeparty2004 — 10 years ago(March 26, 2016 10:04 PM)
Its pathetic how in this day and age, lifelong male friends can't hug eachother without being called gay. Fwiw, in response to the OP. The film was better for it. Also, am pretty sure interracial relationships were still fairly taboo to the mainstream in the early 80's at least in movies.
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Bigsax — 9 years ago(December 23, 2016 01:09 PM)
The OP is 100% on point with his theory. The people responsible for this movie knew that it would make their target audience "uncomfortable" to see a black man with a white woman.
I know some baby boomers who are disgusted when they see black males with white women. They go nuts.
My employer, a white man born in 1955 has made the comment, "the only place you see blacks with white women is Six Flags, and the chicks are always fat and gross."
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