Dec 02, 2025
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Binge One Hour explained one or two of the three films.
When you think about how the second Trump administration left the culture, a few important things come to mind.For example, Stubert, Jimmy Kimmel, or CBS news, but business is not a good source of business for the South Park guys.Now, we can add two more names that are moving into the Trump economy, Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker.
On Tuesday, news broke via Puck that Paramount — and its new CEO, Trump-friendly David Ellison — are producing a fourth installment of the Rush Hour franchise, after Trump personally pushed Ellison to do another action comedy.When Trump's wish came true, Puck's man in Hollywood wrote Matthew Belloni that the president deserved executive producer credit for making it happen."Be prepared for the stupidest national media possible," he added.Belloni.
There are several obvious reasons why Trump might be scandalized when it comes to this particular franchise.First, Elnancy's family is a search that will push her to her acquisition, just like her acquisition, after all, in the end, she needs the Federal Trade Commission.Larry Elsley, David's father, even reported that he should win the CNES Fire Network anchors, as he did with CBS.arrived
Then Brett Ratner of them all.The director of all three films (as well as the last X-Men: The Last One, something), but in the midst of last year's election, Ratner quickly put himself on the trumpet by directing a documentary about the recovery of Lady Melania Trump (get ready in January!
But when I read the news about the return of the participle of the participation hour, I also believed that a stirsters of a stair.Why the brand?Why the action star?I remember I enjoy the first film as a 10-year's boy (his target audience), But I confess that I forgot it was a second job come to the world?Make all the stories of the three busy centers in 24 hours.
Now that I've come out of a world full of racial stereotypes, over-objectified women, and more gongs than I ever imagined, I've come up with a theory: The Rush Hour universe makes sense for Trump. Even though these movies span 1998-2007, their atmosphere (and perspective on men's attire) remains firmly stuck in a bygone era when cops could casually wave guns in their facessuspects to extract information, Jackie Chan saying the N-word to a black bartender was the highlight of the comedy, and Brett Ratts famous women could calm down. Trump, with his adolescent tendencies, vague sense of the law, and preschool-level notions of police work, must have felt right at home when he appeared in "Rush Hour." OMG, each of these movies has a feature in the end credits, a feature that takes me back to a time whenI had to think about things like artificial intelligence. Or the collapse of democracy. "Rush Hour" may be to Trump what 2009's "Julie & Julia" is to my gay ass: a comforting movie I can watch over and over again with no problem. I'd definitely push for a sequel if the executive branch were somehow empowered. Isn't that what being president is all about?
The film's premise is a rush: it's east-east, west-fish.Fish are everywhere.In the first installation, set in the shadow of the return of Hong Kong by the British, detective expert Loey Lee Ivertes to Alonjas (I felt when I realized that a main henchman played by a young, blond, absent, the longest,
Be a lot like trumpet, the movie is funny at times.It's Chan, Tucker, Chemistry in Tucker, Chemistry, Chemistry, don't want a man, get a man.Lee is quiet, careful, respected, respected, but bigger than his mouth, because his mouth is never closed.Humor is still the same today.In the first film, he called "Mr. Rice-A-Roni," for example, "sweet and sour chicken ass."so.
The two sequels take the concept and expand on it: in the second, Carter is now out of the water, and the two travel around Hong Kong investigating the Triads and their counterfeiting operations. In the third film in 2007, the two men were forced out of their comfort zones and traveled to France to continue fighting the Triad killers. By this point in the trilogy, the two had become best friends, with Carter now ordering mosu pork withease, while Lee enjoys a fried chicken and sweet potato pie from room service in a Paris hotel. (I told you these stereotypes were lazy.) But this is also where the movie fails. First, we lose the tension between the two that makes their relationship kind of charming. But more importantly, it's a little frustrating to see Carter and his casual sexism affect Lee. In the second movie, when Lee dominantly uses binoculars to spy on a beautifulwoman taking off her clothes feels out of character and it's clear that the audience should laugh.
Indeed, if these movies were made and marketed to teenage boys (and our teenage president), then their childish treatment of women plays an important role in that mission.In the first film, Carter sexually harasses fellow bomb squad member Tanya (Elizabeth Peña), spreading rumors that they slept together and asking her about the color of her underwear.In the second, when they visit a massage parlor, a group of Asian women in their underwear are displayed for Carter to choose from.(He picks about five of them.) In the third film, Ratner apparently decided to step in by inviting — I kid you not — Roman Polanski to appear as a French detective.At one point, Carter pretends to be a costume designer at a Moulin Rouge-type establishment to trick his way into a dressing room and give his opinion on women's breasts.Maybe Trump, who allegedly walked into beauty pageant locker rooms and personally examined the contestants, saw a part of himself on the screen.
There may be a simple answer to Trump's love of these films.As we know from his decision to host a UFC match at the White House next year, the president enjoys watching guys talk their heads off about each other.But it's hard to see the films' broad jabs at Chinese and Black American culture, their insistence that sexism is glamorous, their often childish and cross-talk jokes, and their "shoot first, ask questions, later" politics without wondering whether something big is going on.I left the films doubting that Rush Hour 4 would find new generations of fans nearly three decades later, but if Ratner makes it before the end of Trump's term, it could premiere in the new White House ballroom and the series become a different kind of cultural flashpoint. After all, if we consider Carter as an expression of Trump's identity, one of his lines from the first film is very telling: "This is not a democracy!" he tells Lee."This is the United States of James Carter. I am the president. I am the emperor. I am the king."
