"Rush Hour" (Rush Hour) is a comedy action film co-starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker in 1998. After that, the sequel to the series "Rush Hour 2" (Rush Hour 2) and " "Rush Hour 3" (Rush Hour 3), and will usher in the fourth "Rush Hour 4" (Rush Hour 4) in 2020; this series is not only Jackie Chan’s first step as a leading actor in a foreign film in the true sense of the word It is also a kind of exchange and integration between Chinese and Western cultures.
This article will count all the hidden easter eggs in the "Rush Hour" trilogy, if any omissions are welcome to add.
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1. Carter, played by Chris Tucker, has a line: "Which one of y'all hit me?" (Which one of y'all hit me?), a tribute to Akira Kurosawa in 1954 In the classic movie "Seven Samurai" (七人の號) , there is a scene in which a drunk warrior was beaten and said the same lines.
2. When Carter shot Chris Penn’s cameo Clive’s car and stopped it, he performed an iconic dance similar to that of Michael Jackson. In fact, in these three "Rush Hour", Carter has imitated Michael Jackson several times, such as singing his classic song "Don't Stop'Til You Get Enough" in "Rush Hour 2 " .
3. There is a scene in the film where Inspector Lee (Lee) played by Jackie Chan is taken by Carter to the Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. In fact, in 2013, Jackie Chan held a handprint ceremony here, becoming the second after Wu Yusen. A Chinese star who left handprints in the square .
4. At the Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Carter asked Lee to visit John Wayne 's footsteps. Jackie Chan previously played in the action comedy "Shanghai Noon" co-starred with Owen Wilson The role of John Wayne clearly imitated John Wayne.
"Rush Hour 2"
5. In a program, Chris Tucker once mentioned that when he was filming a movie in Hong Kong, many locals in Hong Kong mistakenly recognized him as NBA star Kobe Bryant (Kobe Bryant) , so in " In Rush Hour 2, you can see a scene in which a Hong Kong grandmother said to him: "Go away, Kobe." (Move aside, Kobe.)
6. At the end of "Rush Hour 2", a man at the airport was holding a sign that read "Freitag", referring to James M. Freitag, the producer of the film .
7. Jackie Chan’s favorite number is 32. There is a scene in the movie. When Li spit out the grenade in his mouth, the bomb fell to the 32nd position on the market and exploded.
8. In "Rush Hour 3", Carter ordered a Gefilte fish on the plane, and also in the end of "Rush Hour 2", Carter also ordered a Gefilte fish, but because I couldn't say the pronunciation of his English name many times, which resulted in not appearing in the feature film in the end.
"Rush Hour 3"
9. When Lee and Carter got into the car of George (Yvan Attal)'s guest taxi driver for the first time, George told Carter that they weren't European opponents even in basketball. Here The allusion is that in the 2006 Basketball World Cup, the American Dream Team lost to the Greek team by 6 points .
10. In the fighting section on the tower, Kenji, played by Hiroyuki Sanada, uses a Chinese sword , while Lee uses a Japanese samurai sword .
11. In the scene of the Chinese martial arts dojo, a portrait is hung in the center of the dojo. The person in the portrait is Huo Yuanjia, a famous patriotic martial artist in the late Qing Dynasty.
12. While Carter was sitting next to Genevieve (Noémie Lenoir) played by Noémie Lenoir in the casino, the sentence pattern Carter used when introducing himself was obviously imitating a famous fictional character , The mantra of James Bond , code-named "007" .
13. The movie Carter watched in a restaurant was the French subtitled version of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom .
14. Carter said in the locker room that his name is "Bubbles". In fact, "Bubbles" is also the name of Michael Jackson's pet orangutan. This is obviously another difference between Chris Tucker and Michael Jackson in the movie. Associated.
15. When Carter threatened Reynard, played by Max von Sydow, he talked about the library and the bridge with rats as a tribute to Stephen King (Stephen King). )’S two novels "The Shawshank Redemption" (The Shawshank Redemption) and "The Green Mile" (The Green Mile) , both of which were eventually adapted by Frank Darabont For the movie of the same name.
Concluding remarks
The "Rush Hour" trilogy is not only a new stage of cultural exchanges between China and the West, but also an important step for Jackie Chan to smoothly integrate into Hollywood and become the signature of Chinese celebrities since the 20th century. Although the quality of the film is gradually declining, it depends on Jackie Chan. "Rush Hour" has its own shining points and bright spots in the field of dual male action comedy; "Rush Hour 4" in 2020 will not only face changes in the world political landscape , And the box office appeal of the two male protagonists is declining day by day; how the film will revive this series, inject fresh blood, and where the final direction of this series will go, let us wait and see.
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