character study
![On Jody Hill's Unlikable Protagonists & Deadpan Humor](https://www.filminquiry.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/The-Foot-Fist-Way-Feature.jpg)
In January 2006 at the Sundance Film Festival, the world was introduced to Jody Hill and Danny McBride by way of The Foot Fist Way. Billed as a comedy, the movie starred McBride as a down-on-his-luck Taekwondo instructor from North Carolina. The film quickly establishes itself to the viewer as a grossly sophomoric bit of business, with plenty of crass dinner table conversations and shallow behavior throughout.
![THE HOLLERIN' CONTEST AT SPIVEY'S CORNER: Kooky & Heart-Warming](https://www.filminquiry.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/THE-HOLLERIN-CONTEST-AT-SPIVEYS-CORNER-Kooky-Heart-Warming.jpg)
*Editorial Note: This documentary short won the Best Documentary prize at the first Drunken Film Fest, organised by Film Inquiry’s Jax Griffin. The documentary selections were hand picked by Arlin Golden, another contributor to the site* Every American community is home to countless strange pastimes and traditions, but many of these events don’t fully adapt to modern American life.