One hand holds the camera, the other hand covers your nuts. I grew up in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The only connection our town had to Hollywood is all the guys from Jackass...and M. Night Shyamalan would sometimes use our rolling hills to shoot a movie scene...but M. Night never let us push him in a grocery cart down a hill. To say that Jacksass was a formative show and movie for me is to say that the New Testament had some influence on the Pope. Watching it was an experience in which you felt like truly anything could happen. Now, the camera operators are telling the story of what happened behind the scenes. Jackass was taking in 2.4 million worldwide viewers a week on the air and was one of the most talked-about TV shows of all time. But behind the scenes, it was just a bunch of guys with cameras getting paid $100 a day to party with their friends. Nothing felt professional, lots of stuff was dangerous, but it started a revolution. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 1 October, 2020