In Jean de Florette , a great French film of the 1980s, Gerard Depardieu inherits a farm in rural France but fails in his dream to grow flowers there because jealous neighbours have blocked the secret spring on which it relies for water. He dies of frustration.

In Trading Places , a great American comedy of the same era, Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy plant false information, then hurl themselves into the trading pit. Murphy is a trading novice but makes a fortune in frozen concentrated orange juice futures and lives happily ever after.