MEDIA MEDITATION #3: JACKASS OF ALL TRADES

 

Johnny Knoxville up to his old shenanigans again, assuming the role of an old man with a prosthetic leg. Image courtesy of Ugo.com

The release of the new Jackass movie has left us all buzzing, but I cannot help but wonder, is this the last we see of the Jackass crew? Although we do enjoy their annual antics of shopping cart debauchery and fecal matter mayhem, some of the Jackass crew did not seem too entirely thrilled with the events that took place in the movie. Which has left me wondering if they will attempt yet another sequel in the future...

Image courtesy of ugo.com

Scenes like the "prison break" seemed a little intense and the apprehension in most of the stars particiapating can be  clearly seen.


Check out this trailer for the movie, and decide if you would enjoy the experience of seeing human feces in 3D!




In a recent interview with collider.com, an interviewer asked co-stars Bam Margera and Jonny Knoxville what they thought of the new film. Here is some of the dialogue that took place:

Johnny, you went through some torturous stuff yourself in this film. What keeps you motivated to continue doing these things?

JOHNNY KNOXVILLE: I know that I almost bought it on that, but it’s fun. It’s me and my friends, doing something we created together and have been doing for 10 years. The cast and crew have all been together for all that time. You do something and it may be scary, but when you watch the footage afterwards, everyone’s laughing.


BAM MARGERA: The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new Jackass movie, I know that I’m going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don’t know when it’s going to happen, but you can’t contemplate how you’re going to fall and what’s going to happen. It’s easier to just get up there and do it.

Who comes up with most of the ideas for the stunts and how do you guys select which ones you’ll do? Do you have meetings about the ideas?

MARGERA: Sometimes it’s a mixture of everybody. If they come up with an idea, they submit it to Paramount, then we have a stack of ideas, and people look at them and figure out what they would like to do. If it’s involving a bull, it’ll be Knoxville because it definitely won’t be me. Most of the ideas are two pages long and really descriptive, and then there will be one that is one sentence that says, “Shit shoe: find a shoe, and then shit in it.”


KNOXVILLE: The cast and crew all come up with ideas. Sometimes they’re just crude pictures drawn on a napkin, and sometimes we’ll get together and pitch ideas. Bam likes to fax hilarious pictures, that’s how he submits most of his ideas, and they’re really funny.


MARGERA: It’s just easier to draw what I want to happen, rather than explain it.


KNOXVILLE: So, the ideas all come to the office and we compile them, and then we send them to Paramount, just to go through all the legal stuff. Paramount leaves us alone, so we vet the ideas and decide what to shoot or not. 
 


 To see more of the interview with the fabled pranksters, click here.

Ultimately, i would say that this movie rang true to everything we know about the old Jackass crew. Its ballsy, disgusting, and at some points, down-right hilarious, but hey... that's what life is all about, a few friends messing around with some really expensive 3D video equipment and A LOT of time on their hands. To see more scenes from the movie, visit the Jackass Website and select clips.




The jackass crew, close friends with the famed band Weezer, featured in a new song relased for the premire of Jackass 3D.