Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

In the film Bad Grandpa the old man is represented in a negative light but it also represents younger people in a negative light as they respond to the grandpa in a bad way rather than trying to help. Also it shows that they all have certain expectations of how old people should be. He is played by Johnny Knoxville and they go round to unsuspecting members of the public and do outrageous things. This shows old people in a negative light because he is representing the as very frail and needy as they can not do anything for them selves. I the film the grandpa takes his grand child across america he relays a lot on his grandson and can't really do anything for his self. He also blames a lot of the stuff he does on the fact that he is old and he uses it as an excuse. People actually believe him and forgive him because he's old this shows that people see old people as clumsy and bit of a nuisance but because they are old they accept it rather than being angry. The director would represented old people like this because people have a certain image of how people should be and this films ruins that image which would shock the viewers and also entertain them as its funny. In one scene the grandpa goes to the strip club, originally the people there treated him as if he was lost and they where being very nice and caring. This shows that people think that old people get confused easily and they would never think that they would go to a strip club. The grandpa then begins to join in and strip and soon people begin to try and avoid him and ignore him. Bad grandpa shows that people believe old people to be old frail and useless but really there not. The film show a stereotypical grandpa doing not so stereotypical things and this shows them in a negative light.