Monday, November 18, 2013

beauty contest

Spoilers!!

  Alright so this past weekend I watch Bad Grandpa staring Johnny Knoxville and co. starting Jackson Nicoll its a story about a Grandpa(Knoxville) and his grandson(Nicoll) travailing to get Nicoll to his farther, along the way they get into some fun trouble. One of their skits that they do is having Nicoll dress up as a girl and join in a little girl beauty contest. The start of a culture jamming skit.
 During the contest no body know that he's a boy but the actors and the camera crew. At one point they are interviewing another girl and her mom about what they think so far and the mother says that she,"Thinks it is quit odd, weird, unusual that he was here with his granddaughter." what the mother shows here is that its a "women's club" and that he was not welcome to be there.  The culture jamming of this is during the talent part of the contest. Nicoll walks out on the stage in a sailors costum starting to do a dance. Until the song cuts out to Sweet Carry Pie see image.
Nicoll rips off the sailor dress to lingerie that he is wearing under it and starts to pole dance around the stage doing some very inappropriate/ adult themed dance moves. Knoxville also helps out by "making it rain" with money. Every one in the audience is just watching in pure shock not knowing what to do, until the end when Knoxville throws water on Nicoll causing Nicoll wig to fall off showing that he is a boy. The reason that I think this is culture jamming is it was showing how sexuallized theses contest can be. Yes they took it to the extreme but they brought the entire contest to a stop. I am in hope that this skit will show people that these contest have gone to fare in having little girls wear and do things at a young age that could harm them in their future life as they develop. 

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