Interview With Simon Rhee On The Inspiration Behind Best Of The Best!
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- čas přidán 1. 04. 2024
- In this interview with martial arts legend Simon Rhee, we discuss what inspired the film Best of the Best starring both he and his brother Phillip Rhee. Best of the Best has gone down as one of the "greatest sports dramas of all-time" from ESPN and for good reason!
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The Best of the Best 2 is one of the most underrated martial arts movies of the golden era. It's just tremendously cool with the surprisingly vicious fight scenes, the Rocky 4-style workout montages, great cast, despicable villains, and awesome soundtrack. What are the rules? THERE ARE NO RULES!!!
Yeah people really drag Best Of The Best 2 but I still think it’s one of the most Badass Martial Arts Movies of the 90’s. Philip Rhee was MASTERFUL in it.
@@TheRealest127 Agree 💯with everything you said there. I've never understood why some people knock it. It's a different genre of movie than the first one but that doesn't make it bad, it's just different. Philip Rhee was at his absolute peak and his technique is a beautiful thing to watch.
I really like no 2, that and no retreat no surrender 3, both of these are under rated
@@wadoryujujutsukempo6289 I totally agree brother! No Retreat, No Surrender 3 is great. That final fight sequence is hardcore!
This movie teared me up when I saw it years ago. It's still hard to not get emotional to Dae Han's speech to Tommy. Such a great film.
The best of the best among martial arts movies. When I was a kid, I watched first Bloodsport and Kickboxer, Jackie Chan movies, I was interested, but not involved. After the best of the best movie, I started to search for a gym and eventually began my martial arts lifetime journey. Now I'm 44, K-1 kickboxing coach. And I still love this movie. I had the privilege to meet Philip Rhee in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1996, that's really inspirational.
I love the Rhee family, they have done so much for martial arts/Taekwondo and positively influenced so many people!!! I have watched their movies over and over!!! Best of The Best is the Rocky of Taekwondo. Amazing fight scenes and team spirit.
1 & 2 are absolute classics, love both
all 4 are classics, 3 is probably the best one...
That training montage in 2 was dope, just like Wayne Newton
@@ryublade8184 Best of the Best 3 is awesome. Rhee was at his peak and the fight scenes are suitably brutal. Having Gina Gershon in there was nice bonus too.
@@ryublade8184 I will have to give 3 a rewatch, didn't like 4 at all. Rhee is great in them all, I wish he had more films to his name
This is THE marital art tearjerker. I still tear up every time I watch it, since back in '89.
Best of the best movie is really best of the best martial arts movies out there, along with many Bruce Lee movies and Van Damme's Bloodsport. I grew up watching that movie on TV, and every time it would show up on TV, I was throwing everything away, my toys, video games, books, whatever, turn on my TV, steal the remote from my older brother while he was not paying attention to what I was doing, and just sit there and watch this movie from start to finish. And even if they show it on TV at night, when I had to take a nap, cause I had to go to school next day, I still was sitting there and watching it, close to my TV with low sound, just so that I can only hear it, while everyone else were sleeping. It was very great movie and it still is.
Best of The Best …makes you proud to be a TKD BLACKBELT ..God Bless Simon and Philip
Best of the Best was one of my all time favorite movies. Still is. Philip Rhee as at my black belt test when I was 17 and I remember being so star struck and excited that I froze. It was such a cool experience to see Philip Rhee watch me almost fail my black belt test lol. It was great
Philip Rhee was brilliant as Tommy Lee, the medal scene at the end was my favourite scene in the whole movie
Love Best of the Best. Till this day my buddy and I when we see each other will yell "Pop out Tommy". Great interview. Keep up the great work!
Simon and Philip rhee outstanding martial artist. That fight between them in best of the best was epic. It made the karate kid look like playgroup.
Best of the Best and the Warrior are my top martial arts movies ever. Brilliant cast, top class choreography, well written and executed. A few years ago I bought all 4 Best of the Best movies on blu Ray and already watched it several times. Thanks for the video Viking Samurai!
One of my FAV movies EVER!! Excited to watch this. Thank you!
Yes!! It is a tearjerker scene, I cry every time I see it.
I watch the fight scenes from time to time in CZcams. Simon Rhee has the most fluent kicks on screen🔥🔥
Best of the Best, one of my favorite movies too! I think it's Best of the Best which motivated me to learn and practice: follow through round house, spinning hook kick, follow through round house combo. Follow through being keeping the leg extended rather than bending the knee after making contacted with a round house kick.
By far one of the best martial arts drama movie I've seen in the 90s.
Best of the best is an amazing martial art film, had a bit of everything, the fights were so well choreographed and the story so we'll told. Great to see Philip rhree and his brother simon, both legends. Good to see 2 of the guys from the first film come into best of the best 2, Rolf moller (Gladiator), played the bad guy well. Best 3 and 4 I like very much too, Philip Rhee is such a well roundee martial artist. Thanks for the video David. :)
This movie was so inspiring. I'm listening to the soundtrack when I work out, to this day.
As per my previous comments in your last Vlog Viking, CAST, PRECISION AND SOUNDTRACK, Keep it simple and execute it with great choreography and the ingredients will work and all come together for those fans who love this Genre. Most movies like Best of the Best, Bloodsport, Kickboxer, Enter the Dragon, no retreat no surrender, Karate Kid to name but a few, What they have in common is - No Guns, emotive characters, the audience are invested, a soundtrack that suits the movie with a start, middle and end that when done right, become classics for the Fans...Great vlog and great interview with Simon Rhee who, along with the rest of the cast made a Great Martial/Drama movie...Thank you👍👍
Best of the Best is AMAZING!!!
Sooooo good.
Such an underrated martial arts film. The ending always gets me in the feels! After this series came out we would always point out the Rhee Brothers in other films as stunts haha
By far the best martial arts movie that many have never knew existed.
We need best of the best 1 2 steelbook 4k
One of the best of the best movies ever made!!! Thank you sirs!!💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
Best Of The Best is one of my favorite martial arts movies along with The Karate Kid and Enter The Dragon. Really enjoyed seeing the art of Taekwondo be highlighted, and the contrast between how the American and Korean teams trained for the tournament.
Good inteview viking! U keep getting all these legends to chat with you. the choreography in the final battle holds up really well even today and the powerful ending is still very impactful. classic movie.
The Best Of The Best movies 1 & 2 are still in my top 10 of all time favorite martial arts movies.
Great content, thanks for this. Best of the Best was one of the ones I watched 100s of times when I was younger in the late 80s early 90s on VHS - that being said, if I'm going to be truthful, I mostly just watched the selection, the training montages, the bar fight and then fast-forwarded to the final two fights!
One of my favorite martial arts movies.
Best of the Best is awesome movie. Philip Rhee's kick's are something else 👊 Recently watched Best of the Best 1-4 on dvd. Philip should have become a bigger star, he would have been perfect for liu kang in 1995's mortal kombat 💪😎 Simon is awesome too 👊💪😎
I have watched best of the best so many times! I love Best of the best 2 as well as an action movie, but the first movie is just one of the best martial arts and sports movies every made as you mentioned. I also might not have started training taekwondo if it hadn't been for this movie. Thank you for this interview
Oh man...i have the dvd which i bought years ago, i really loved this film. The drama was gold. It is still one of my top pick martial art films in the same realm as Karate kid or Rocky as you mentioned David. Awesome, Awesome film ! I hear there is going to be another Best of the Best, i cannot wait, seriously !
The soundtrack to this film was stunning. Don’t underestimate how much the soundtrack contributed to its success.
I used to listen to best of the best song before all my little league football games salute some one will lose someone will win 💯
Another great interview Viking
Great story about the story.😊👍🇺🇲😎🥋
That ending was phenomenal. It was touching.
Love this movie, the ending gets me every time 😢🤘
This movie and part 2 needs some sort of 4K /blu ray release they were great
Incredible Martial Arts Film! Amazing message, love the Rhee brothers here, fantastic hero and even greater villain. Fantastic story, Eric Roberts just anchors the movie… The ending… what a message, much like Karate Kid. Look at todays Road House vs a film like this… martial arts is missing… that it’s a way of life and philosophy to better live your life by, not to kill ….TOMMMYYYYY NOOOOOOOOO
Awesome stories man especially the David Pa one we all gotta start somewhere right
This is my other favorite movie on par with Blood Sport. Love the interview.
My favorite
As a kid I loved Best of the Best I would act like I am Tommy fighting Da han lol😂 I love the franchise as a whole. It has a place in martial arts History and drama also.
I love this film!!!!! 💪🏻💪🏻👍🏼👍🏼
It’s funny you brought this up because I was just talking to my son about this movie and I plan on watching it with him this weekend. I consider Movies like Bloodsport, and Kickboxer Etc to be “Martial Arts Movies”. But the ACTING in Best Of The Best was SO good (James Earl Jones, Eric Roberts and even Phillip Rhee and Simon Rhee) that I don’t call Best Of The Best a “Martial Arts Movie”. I Say that it’s a FILM about being a Martial Artist and I’m surprised that it didn’t get a few Oscar nominations that year. GREAT and Timeless Film that still hits you right in the core and both of The Rhee brothers did a phenomenal job of demonstrating the grace, power and effectiveness of Taekwondo in combat.
So good to see you living the dream bro!
I got to meet Eric Roberts (Alex) twice, who’s also Julia Roberts’ brother. A cool guy.
The excellence of the taekwondo & Hapkido and the various excellence in the ways of Korean martial arts not to mention just a real good film in just something just don't see him today is times daehan if you were young back then growing up in living with such a treat truly better days and better times keep that Spirit Alive man and keep doing what you're doing takes me back to the early days in the fighting world👊 preteen teenage years Travis had rolling that bar scene is still legendary 😆😆😆
Best of the best 2 was fantastic but it’s one of those films that is so hard to find. Philip Definitely tried to bring Seagal style fighting to the fight scenes in best of the best 2. Seagals fame was at an all time high. You can see it in Philips choice of techniques. Very seagal like.
One of the best! I even love part 2, but felt a little let down by 3 and 4. Always tried to follow Simon and Phillip after this film. Think Simon did more stunt work in Hollywood.
My friends and I quote part 1 all the time. James Earl Jones even uses his Vader voice in part 1 when he says No to Tommy at the end. Part 2 had a killer theme song which I have on my training soundtrack.
Inspirational films! Thanks to Phillip and Simon for making it!
I loved this movie! I started #Tang Soo Do partially because of this movie, #God Bless 🙏🏽 💪🏽 ☯︎ 🥋
Hi I never comment on these but felt I had to BEST OF THE BEST was one of the main reasons why I started martial arts and I even studied Tang soo do Got to a black belt…So all the katas (forms) gradings etc were VERY similar but for me BEST OF THE BEST 1 and 2 was a massive inspiration and there will never be a film made like that again… films now a-days have lost the way to make a believable film without the art of CGI and Overacting …the characters connect made everything so believable Phillip and Simon Rhee, Eric Roberts and Christopher Penn what great actors such moving films just the way they have bonded …films now a days don’t even come close to the true skill of acting which makes me sad as these sort of films are a rarity … and more than any martial artists or actors by far they would be my first pick to meet before any other celebrity… I still watch BEST OF THE BEST…ALLLL the time lol ever since I was 5 and I’m 36 … soo thank you for the memories with love from the UK ❤ Dae Han
Eric Roberts' hair was truly epic in this movie.
And by the end of the movie, we saw that he wasn’t such a bad dude after all.
I seen part 2 in the theaters
awesome
The Taekwondo was definitely on point in film, especially with Tommy Lee vs Dae Han.
interesting stuff.
You will eat, sleep, shiiitttt competition 😅😅😅
I wish i could find the track instrumental track when theyre training in part 1. Cant find it to save my life. Anyone know where to find it?
So gooood
The best of the best 2 legendary training soundtrack was created by the legendary David Michael frank who just happened to do Steven seagals: Nico, out for justice, hard to kill. Say no more. BOOM. Take a bow mr Frank and thank you so much. We owe you so much.
I would ask,why Loren avedon wasn't in the cast?he studied under Rhee
it was our korean drama movie lol
Best of the best was a great movie
Who's the other guy in the top left box?
Brian "The Beast" Robinson
HOW COME YOU NEVER DONE A SHOW ON BILLY JACK???????????
This was the same segment you posted before. We already saw this.
The interview was from the live video, a lot of people don't watch the live videos, so I like to break them up into edited segments.
Volume too low
ive seen best of the best and it was cool. havent seen other parts yet. did don the dragon wilson and tong po miquel qissi had fight on the same card u had the fight yet . or they havent fought in the ring yet.
They have not fought yet
@@VikingSamurai can u tell when will they fight
No
@@VikingSamurai is it top secret
@@VikingSamurai is this top secret
I love the Rhee family, they have done so much for martial arts/Taekwondo and positively influenced so many people!!! I have watched their movies over and over!!! Best of The Best is the Rocky of Taekwondo. Amazing fight scenes and team spirit.