Hard Knox

MOVIE DETAILS

Rating: 5.6 out of 10
Director: Peter Bloomfield
Writer: Peter Bloomfield
Star Cast: Kim Penn, Thomas Calabro, Natalie Mendoza
Genres: Comedy/Action
Release Date: June 16, 2001

Hard Knox

Getting rid of the corpse of a beloved one is a distressing event, and if you look for a helping hand, Johnny Knoxville is the right person to talk to. “Attitude is everything and having a kid in the room makes a difference too!” he explains.

Knoxville also made the observation that will follow upon bad dadding an observation made whilst he was filming his latest comedic shenanigan, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, which is a feature length film that has the 42-year-old Knoxville wear prosthetics and reprise a character Zisman, last seen on the final episode of the 2001 Jackass TV show.

Jackass star quote talking about comedies that also include The Ringer, Dukes of Hazzard, Lords of Downtown, A Dirty Shame and Men In Black 2 says, “You do get away with a lot more as an old man.”

“They adore you like being an old man, so no chance girls will slap you and guys will not beat you up, most of the time.”

“I am no longer able to pull pranks as myself in public; therefore, the mask is very useful although it takes around 5 hours for me to get all the silicone cast onto my body and face.”

At some point in the film, Knoxville’s aged character who dons the prosthetics made from silicone seeks assistance with regards to his wife’s ‘covered’ dead body and the way it plays out in front of the innocent bystanders made sure that they broke the federal law in that when the shot was taken.

“We wanted to get people to help excavate a hole for Irving to bury his wife’s body in their backyard,” Knoxville says. “To start with, sometimes I would invite people and say that there has been a mix up in the funeral directors and that I am going to bury the lady in the garden.

“But all people got apprehensive straight away and did not help me, and so I understood that we have to change the mood.”

Knoxville took the opposite of the concept: “Prior to the shooting, I said I will make Billy, the grandson of Irving, remain in the room.” It worked well. “With Billy coloring and casually, cheerfully sitting there, I had four recruits all help me with the body of the woman.”

“Two people poured some kerosene, and buried a body they assumed was dead. Then two assisted me in Charlotte by helping to place her in the car’s trunk,” he says.

The last two figure in the film which is somewhat Borat or duet, as ordinary folks are fooled into being part of an almost purely reactive segment of a looser plot.

Here, the authors of the film, which also included Knoxville’s forever Jackass friend Spike Jonze, take on narration taken from the 1973 drama Paper Moon where a man meets a girl who’s mother is missing and he takes her on a cross country trip to find her.

However, it is to be noted that unlike the raunchy acts that have become the trademark of the Jackass television show and the current four movies or even those that decorate Cohen’s films including Butler, some of the most funny practical jokes in Bad Grandpa are executed even when depression is dripping from them.

“In this film, we attempted to do dissimilar things in the way of practical jokes. The scene where the husband was buried prompted me”, states Knoxville and also explains why he drowned the kids in a scene shot in the middle of the movie against the backdrop of a firearm wielding leather biker gang named Guardians of the Children.

“We fool around with people because it’s funny but that biker scene was too intense. Lots of danger involved,” he says.

Remarks the man in jeopardy, who plays the natural father of the child and seems rather an unpleasant sort of man. “We had him in the bar with the bikers for about 40 minutes beforehand, being a dick and getting on everybody’s radar as a bad person,” Knoxville explains. “And then we dropped the kid off with him.”

Then the actor begins to drink, acts crazy, and leaves the little boy assuming the bikers’ perspective that he was his son, without any care for his safety. Such immorality is preposterous to a biker gang by the name of Guardians of the Children.

According to Knoxville, who in this case was the actor in danger himself, the unbearable actor was going through quite a lot of pain during the production. “One never has this green light when filming that sort of scene. Oh, and then there’s a chap that says to him, “You are looking at the Angel of Death!”.

“That’s a strong line and you can’t write that sort of stuff.’ Knoxville and company had hard-cornered anger fans, who gonzo to the very end of the enemies and never left the macabre characters unpunished. “But that was pretty gruesome,” Knoxville explains.

Knoxville’s a brave man because he not only risks his own life but also his dignity, as seen when he stumbles into a Cleveland strip bar during Ladies’ Night.

“That strip club is a fucking rough place,” he states. “We knew that beforehand. There’s a sign in large letters that says if you walk into that place wearing a mask you will get shot. They have had trouble in there before.”

Knoxville’s old man takes off his clothes and shows the women some of his best ‘moves’ followed by a rather awful exhibition of prosthetic genitalia. The real, muscle-bound male strippers are not very impressed.

“I found out afterwards that the guy in green camouflage with the massive penis was a world class welter-weight boxer, who was very good.”

“He almost put me to sleep, which is probably one of the better things that would have happened had things not gone well in there.”

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