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Laugh away your sense of isolation with the ridiculousness of "Jackass: The Movie"!

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Laugh away your sense of isolation with the ridiculousness of "Jackass: The Movie"!

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Jackass: The Movie is born! !



When the TV series "Jackass" was broadcast, it quickly became a huge hit. The second episode broke the record for the highest Sunday ratings, attracting 2.4 million viewers. However, while it seemed like everything was going smoothly, there were many complaints among the Jackass crew.


The number of young people imitating the ridiculous stunts performed on Jackass was endless, and viewers were injured and hospitalized one after another. Perhaps as a result of this, MTV's checks became stricter day by day, and the number of jokes that could not be aired increased.


Steve-O in particular complained that his material was constantly rejected (which is understandable if you know his style of comedy), that he was not paid very much, and that the first season of the series was not released on video because of issues with Brad Pitt's image rights (this was later cleared and released).


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"Well, let's do it on a larger scale, with proper legal controls, and with movie theaters that give proper ratings!"


Thus was born "Jackass: The Movie." It was a super-liberating masterpiece, full of megatons of stupidity, taking the already liberating Jackass series and giving it a nitro boost by exploding all the frustration that had built up in it from the TV series in the most ridiculous way imaginable.


The film also included footage of the Jackass crew going wild in Japan, but this scene caused problems (again) over portrait rights, and the film was released in Japan in 2004, two years after its release in the U.S. Moreover, the Japanese scenes were cut from this version.



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By the way, the line in Sofia Coppola's film Lost in Translation (2003), in which a woman follows her cameraman husband to Tokyo only to be left alone, is based on a real-life experience of Sofia Coppola, who was married to Spike Jonze at the time.


Spike Jones left Sofia Coppola at the hotel and went running around Shibuya Center Street with the Jackass crew in costumes, and laughed out loud at Steve-O inhaling a lot of wasabi through his nose. It's no wonder they got divorced.



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