285- Money Makers

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.8 • 27.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

For a long time, anti-counterfeiting laws made it illegal to show US currency in movies. Now you can show real money, but fake money is often preferred. Creating fake money that looks real enough for film is a tough design challenge.

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0:00.0	This is 99% invisible.
0:01.7	I'm Roman Mars.
0:02.9	There's a scene in the buddy-cott movie Rush Hour 2, starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker,
0:11.0	that takes place in a Las Vegas casino.
0:13.2	What's that letting you out?
0:15.2	In the scene, Jackie Chan's character is in the unenviable predicament of having a small
0:19.9	bomb stuffed inside his mouth by a villain.
0:23.6	I hate it when that happens.
0:24.9	Bomb man is dead.
0:27.6	Jackie Chan's mouth is taped shut.
0:29.5	His hands are tied.
0:30.5	He shoved onto the floor of the casino about to explode.
0:36.0	Fortunately at the last minute, Jackie Chan's partner, played by Chris Tucker, removes the
0:39.8	tape from Chan's mouth and chants spits the bomb onto a new bi-relectable where it goes
0:44.8	on.
0:45.8	So in that scene where the relettable explodes, money flies everywhere.
1:01.6	Best producer Elizabeth Nakano.
1:03.5	And to create the scene and a bunch of others in the movie, filmmakers needed a lot of money.
1:09.9	Fake money.
1:10.9	We had produced a billion dollars of $100 bills, which is quite a bit of money.
1:16.5	It's 14 pallet loads of $100 bills solid four foot by four foot cubes.
1:22.8	That's Greg Vilsen Jr.
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