Thursday, June 14, 2007
The Endless Summer
An ode to Surfing shot in the sixties. Even if you've never caught a wave in your life the scenery alone is worth the viewing time. And as far as I'm aware not a Beach Boy in sight. Bruce Brown is serious about his surfing and he seems to have taken getting the perfect shot as seriously as his surfers took catching the perfect wave. Some years ago I managed to rent the follow-up Endless Summer II and was fascinated sufficiently to pick up the three-pack that includes a 2000 revisiting of the series so I could see his first movie. No word on how much this round the world tour cost but even today some of the places they visited are almost inaccessible. The big water in Hawaii is enough to make you lose continence.
Three observations:
These surfer dudes may spend most of the movie in nothing but surf trunks--modest surf trunks mind you; but they travel in black suits and ties!
Despite travels to remote tropical locations no where in the movie is there in view a naked breast, penis, or even a bulging crotch and no profanity.
If these guys still live today they'll be in their early seventies.
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