Rush Hour (film series)

The Rush Hour film series is a series of American martial artsactioncomedy films starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, directed by Brett Ratner, and distributed by New Line Cinema. The main plot centers on a pair of police detectives a Hong Kong Police Force inspector and an American LAPD detective portrayed by Chan and Tucker who go on a series of misadventures often involving corrupt crime figures. All three films achieved commercial success and incorporate elements of martial arts, and the buddy cop subgenre.

Rush Hourwas released on August 3, 2001. The film grossed 347,325,802 worldwide, making it the most successful film in the Rush Hour series. In an interview, director Brett Ratner admitted that the first part of the karaoke scene with Chris Tucker was not supposed to be filmed. Tucker refused to act like Michael Jackson with the cameras running. During takes, he went up as entertainment for everyone. Secretly, Ratner told the cameramen to film it but to not let Tucker notice them. On an episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Tucker said that while he was filming this movie in Hong Kong, many locals mistook him for NBA star Kobe Bryant. In the film, while Tuckers character is running up the stairs, the old woman shouts, Move out of the way, Kobe to him. However, in the DVD audio commentary, Ratner states that main writer Jeff Nathanson came up with that line shortly before the filming of that scene. The mural on the wall of the Heaven on Earth Massage Parlor was copied from one in Scarface, which Harris Yulin and Ratner appeared in. The scene where Jackie Chan and Tucker are running down the street naked in Hong Kong was an actual take production could not block the street off for the shoot. The scene where Chan and Tucker run in the streets was inspired by a scene in The Accidental Spy 2001 which Chan made before this movie. Ratner saw the film and decided to include a similar scene in Rush Hour2001.The girlpicking scene came from the Bruce Lee film Enter the Dragon 1973, which Chan appeared in. During the boat party that Ricky Tan holds, the song Tian Mi Mi can be heard playing in the background. The same song was used in Year of the Dragon 1985, a film which also costarred John Lone. Seasickness helped Roselyn Sanchez feign a lack of enthusiasm for Tuckers advances in the yacht sequence. When Tucker is saying that Asians always panic and points out Godzilla films as a reference, he shouts Hayaku Hayaku This is Japanese, and it means Quickly Quickly The

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