POINT BREAK CAST BOY IN SURF SHOP TV
Yet, I will never deny the inner girly-tomboy inspiration acquired from the Gidget character, especially Sally Field’s TV version. My first bit of interest in surfing came in the form of a Flipside Magazine (hi Al, miss you) borrowed from some high-school surf punks as well as paddling out being my only other option besides waiting for hours on the beach gossiping with my girlfriends while our boyfriends surfed (yuck!). With that and the beach blanket bingo era to follow, by 1962 it’s been estimated a whopping 100,000 took to the waves. The result is surprisingly effective.You know, before Gidget came out in the late ’50s, there were supposedly only 5,000 surfers in the world. The plot of "Point Blank," summarized, invites parody (rookie agent goes undercover as surfer to catch bank robbers). There's a footchase through the streets, yards, alleys and living rooms of Santa Monica two skydiving sequences with virtuoso photography, powerful chemistry between the good and evil characters, and an ominous, brooding score by Mark Isham that underlines the mood.
POINT BREAK CAST BOY IN SURF SHOP MOVIE
That adds an intriguing element to their characters, and makes the final confrontation in this movie as meaningful as it can be, given the admittedly preposterous nature of the material.īigelow and her crew are also gifted filmmakers. They aren't men of action, but men of thought who choose action as a way of expressing their beliefs. She is interested in the ways her characters live dangerously for philosophical reasons. Once Johnny Utah realizes, for example, that Bodhi knows he's an FBI agent - should he really go skydiving with him, and let Bodhi pack the chute? Such questions are fruitless, because the movie has Utah trapped in Bodhi's spell, in which everything - free-falling, surfing, robbing banks - is part of catching the wave of life, looking for that endless ride.īigelow is an interesting director for this material. "Point Break" is not the kind of movie where we should spend a lot of time analyzing the motives of the characters. And then the plot grows truly ingenious, all the way down to its Zen ending on a lonely, storm-swept beach in Australia. Johnny Utah does become friendly with them, and even falls in love with Bodhi's ex-girlfriend ( Lori Petty), while trying to fit together the case. From clues developed by Pappas, it appears that he and his gang rob banks to support their surfing, and then move on when the seasons change. She made " Blue Steel," with Jamie Lee Curtis as a rookie cop, and now here is Keanu Reeves in essentially the same role - a kid determined to prove himself, up against the twisted intelligence of a megalomaniac.īodhi, played by Patrick Swayze, is part mystic, part criminal, and over-all surfer. The movie was directed by Kathryn Bigelow, a stylist who specializes in professionals who do violence. The plot description I have just supplied could work just as easily for "The Naked Gun 3 1/2" as for "Point Break," which takes it deadly seriously, even after adding several other preposterous developments like a guy who gets so mad, he jumps out of a plane without a parachute, free-falls until he can tackle a guy who has one, and then holds a gun to his head. This is some California movie, all right. So he convinces Utah to go undercover as a surfer and try to break the case. Johnny Utah is given a partner named Pappas ( Gary Busey), who thinks the robbers may be surfers, because one has a tan line, and a strand of hair found at the crime was polluted with the same contaminants found at a popular surfing beach.
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