The town of Taber, Alberta has just introduced a new series of Footloose-like bylaws, and now a group of citizens is calling on Kevin Bacon to help.
The bylaws make it illegal for teens under 16 to be out at night, penalize swearing in public, allow authorities to break up gatherings of three persons or more, and even ban noise "which disturbs or annoys a person, including any loud outcry, clamour, shouting, movement, music or activity."
Now Jordan Bloemen, Matthew Gresiuk and Scott Winder have launched "Save Us Bacon," a tongue-in-cheek Kickstarter, Twitter and YouTube campaign asking Footloose star Kevin Bacon to lead a "raucous dance party/protest" against what they call "an embarrassing, archaic, vaguely worded law by an out-of-touch town council."
In the film, Kevin Bacon plays a Chicago teen who moves to a small town where dancing and rock music have been banned, and he leads the charge to overturn the law.
"A small town in Alberta, Canada recently passed the law from the 1984 movie Footloose, banning music in public, public gatherings, swearing, and instituting various curfews," says Bloeman in the YouTube video, which you can watch below.
"We think that's super silly, mostly because it's 2015, and Taber, Alberta is a real place — not the setting of a 1980s themed dance-rock coming-of-age story. Also, we're pretty sure the law goes against the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. But we're not lawyers and we're certainly not going to Google it."
According to Winder, Bacon's rate for an appearance is $100,000 U.S.
"If we hit our goal, we’ll have the funds necessary to reach out to Kevin Bacon and have his people even entertain the idea of having him show up. Can we guarantee he’ll attend? Legally no, but maybe Kenny Loggins is available," jokes Bloeman.
"And if we don’t reach our goal, we still slung a little mud at a law that, regardless of good intentions, is an archaic, clumsily written contradiction of Canadian Rights and Freedoms."
So are they serious? "Well no, this is satire," says Bloeman. "But we will do this if the money shows up."
According to the group's YouTube page, the Kickstarter link is not live because the campaign has not yet been approved by the crowdfunding website.
by Jennifer Van Evra via Electronic RSS
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