Tell Us What You’d Say On Three Billboards & Win A Trip To Missouri

Contributor: PEDESTRIAN.TV

If you haven’t already seen the powerful and darkly comic Oscar winner Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, may we kindly suggest you stop what you’re doing rn and get on that?

The film, written and directed by Martin McDonagh (In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths) follows Mildred Hayes, played by Frances McDormand, as she mounts three visually arresting blood-red billboards on a rarely used road to Ebbing, Missouri. The powerful billboards, directed at the Chief of Police, Chief William Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), cry:

RAPED WHILE DYING

AND STILL NO ARRESTS

HOW COME, CHIEF WILLOUGHBY?

Hayes is attempting to keep public attention on the cold case of her daughter’s murder, in the hopes it will spark a fire up the arse of the inactive police department. And it’s a clever move that sets the disconcertingly funny film into motion, as Hayes chases justice for her daughter in any and every way she can. She’s a fuckin’ fierce, formidable character, if you’ll excuse the profanity, but if you’re a person who’s uncomfortable with swears, this one might not be the movie for you.

It certainly is the movie for you if you’re into powerful-as-hell female protagonists, black comedy and navy coveralls / you want to watch something that addresses discomfiting subjects including homophobia, racism in the American police force, and sexual violence without lumping characters into ‘good’ and ‘bad’ categories. They’re all flawed as fuck, but they’re all human, and that’s what makes them interesting.

To celebrate the home entertainment release of the film which saw McDormand claim her second Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar, and Sam Rockwell beat out his co-star Harrelson to Best Actor in a Supporting Role, we’ve been cooking up something a little spesh with our m8s at 20th Century Fox.

If you can come up with the most OG and creative idea to splash across three billboards, we’ll send you and a friend on over to Missouri the place (actually to Kansas City, a similar place, in Missouri, NOT Kansas) for a five-night stay at swanky hotel, InterContinental Kansas City at the Plaza.

Yes, perhaps you too were not aware of this ~fun fact~: Ebbing, Missouri does not actually exist in real life – the film was actually shot in Sylva, North Carolina, a small town at the foot of the Great Smoky Mountains. So we’re sending you to a Missouri town that’s sorta like the fictional Ebbing, k? Get on board.

NB: please don’t send through anything hateful. We’re totally here for topical, clever, pop culture references – I would go so far as to say we thrive on that content – but anything abusive, offensive or downright defamatory is not on. What we are looking for is some Mildred-level no-holds-barred attitude ‘n wit: reckon it wouldn’t be a bad shout to make Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri your movie night re-watch to get yo’self some inspo.

Okay, let’s do this. For your chance to hop on plane to America’s midwest, simply answer this question in 25 words or less plz: What would you say on three billboards, and why?

WIN A TRIP FOR TWO TO EBBING MISSOURI!

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