Point Break

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Simondo
Simondo
VIC
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VIC, 8025 posts
14 Apr 2011 10:17pm
After a Bells 50 year storm post in the SUP room;
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Stand-Up-Paddle/SUP/Victorias-first-winter-swell-is-coming/

I dug a bit deeper and found a film that has some potential... It is by Lori Petty (who played Tyler, the sexy athletic girl from Point Break)....
http://web.mac.com/homeyplease/Lori_Petty/the_Poker_House.html

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Break ......
Two months before filming, Lori Petty, Reeves, and Swayze trained with former world class professional surfer Dennis Jarvis on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.[3] Jarvis remembers, "Patrick said he'd been on a board a couple of times, Keanu definitely hadn't surfed before, and Lori had never been in the ocean in her life."[5] Shooting the surfing sequences proved to be challenging for both actors with Swayze cracking four of his ribs. For many of the surfing scenes he refused to use a stunt double as he never had one for fight scenes or car chases. He also did the skydiving scenes himself and the film's aerial jump instructor Jim Wallace found that the actor was a natural and took to it right away.[3] The actor ended up making 55 jumps for the film.[6] Swayze actually based aspects of his character after one of his stunt doubles, Darrick Doerner, a top big wave surfer.

62mac
62mac
WA
24860 posts
WA, 24860 posts
15 Apr 2011 5:33am
He would have made the drop if he was on a sup

Man those old movies are corny looking back now hmm,
thanks Simondo I enjoyed that
Daneli
Daneli
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1538 posts
QLD, 1538 posts
15 Apr 2011 11:08am
Yeah corny. But I'm going to rent it this weekend
Simondo
Simondo
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VIC, 8025 posts
15 Apr 2011 11:42am
It took a few years for it get off the ground.... youtube has a fun little 4 part series about "The making of Point Break".

Plus, it said Round 1 - movie got binned. 4-5 months of set building were torn down. Charlie Scheen was going to play Johnny Utah !!

Corny... but timely, for 50 years of Bells, and Bells Easter Pro getting under way...

20 years down the track for Point Break too. 1991 movie. RIP Bohdi. (sincerely).
Simondo
Simondo
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VIC, 8025 posts
15 Apr 2011 11:45am
Part 1. Then follow your nose for 2,3,4, if you have the time.

62mac
62mac
WA
24860 posts
WA, 24860 posts
15 Apr 2011 10:30am
Daneli said...

Yeah corny. But I'm going to rent it this weekend


Your one sick puppy Daneli hehehe pop corn ice cream you scream
Simondo
Simondo
VIC
8025 posts
VIC, 8025 posts
15 Apr 2011 6:18pm
Corny at times...

But one of the guys on "the making" (Busey I think), said it is a coming of age story about Johnny Utah.... Quite true... Even right at the end, Bohdi asks, "are you still surfing"... Johnny, "everyday".

Sure it's over the top at times.... And you might tone down a few characters in a remake today.... but it's actually a pretty good script. Just verged on over acting at a few points....

LateStarter
LateStarter
WA
589 posts
WA, 589 posts
18 Apr 2011 12:02pm
Cracking movie!

Its a good film to watch from an entertainment point of view - Any story about surfers who rob banks and sky dive is a definate winner, plus there's a neat little cameo from Anthony Keidis.

I do get a laugh when i watch it and see Johnny Utah carve it up on a shortboard, then you get a close up of Keanu Reeves paddling around on an aircraft carrier.
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