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.
0:01.8	I'm Roman Mars.
0:06.0	There's a scene in the buddy cop movie Rush Hour 2
0:08.7	starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker
0:11.0	that takes place in a Las Vegas casino.
0:14.0	In the scene, Jackie Chan's character is in the unenviable predicament of having a small bomb stuffed
0:21.0	inside his mouth by a villain.
0:23.6	I hate it when that happens.
0:24.8	Oh man, it's baby good.
0:27.7	Jackie Chan's mouth is taped shut.
0:29.4	His hands are tied.
0:30.5	He shoved onto the floor of the casino about to explode.
0:33.0	Fortunately at the last minute Jackie Chan's partner, played by Chris Tucker, removes the tape from Chan's mouth and Chan spitz the bomb onto a nearby roulette table where it goes on. How the hell you didn't tell me you had a bomb in your mouth?
0:52.8	I did. No you didn't. I said, mmm. What the hell is mmm?
0:56.7	So in that scene where the roulette table explodes, money flies everywhere.
1:01.3	Best producer Elizabeth Nachano. And to create the scene and a everywhere. money. We had produced a billion dollars of $100 bills, which is quite a bit of money.
1:16.5	It's 14 palette loads of $100 bills solid forefoot by four foot cubes. That's Greg Wilson Jr.
1:24.0	He's the CEO of ISS Props, the company that provided all the fake money for the movie.
1:28.0	And he says while they were filming Rush Hour 2,
1:31.0	something strange happened.
1:34.0	A couple of men showed up to Billson's office.
1:36.4	Well, when they showed up, they were saying that they were from Secret Service
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