jackassworld

In all, I believe we spent two weeks in India—approximately 90 seconds of which actually made it into the formal theatrical release of jackass number two. I’m no Line Producer, but those are what you could call some very, very expensive seconds. Let’s say for budgetary shits and giggles that the whole India trip for cast and crew and everything else involved, cost a nice round sum of $250,000.00. (For the record, I do not have any idea what this near fiasco cost, but once you start tallying up flights, hotels, elephant foot boy, and a Hindi second unit, well, it must be somewhere up around the cost of a nice house in Eufaula, Alabama.) Divide that number by 90 and it comes to … $2,778.00 per troy second of cinematic gold. Holy cow! But a lot of the stuff we shot did slide off into the added value sectors on the unrated and rated editions of jackass number two, not to mention the subsequent 2.5 afterbirth a year later. So somewhere in there the dollars and cents do make a little more sense. Anyway, here’s one of our more misfired moments when Wee Man tried out a Third World tanning bed. I know the Indian market for overseas computer tech support is a booming industry at present, but it would appear their practical hands-on labor is still a force not to be reckoned with—perhaps even avoided at all cost.

(photo by Sean Cliver; Mumbai, India; 2006)