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The surf culture is reflected in film. Bruce Brown's classic movie The Endless Summer glorified surfing in a round-the-world search for the perfect wave. John Milius's homage to the Malibu of his youth in Big Wednesday remains a poignant metaphor for the similarities between the changing surf and life. Beach movies such as the Gidget series and Beach Party films like Beach Blanket Bingo are less reverential depictions of the culture.

Fictional surfers in film

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  • Sean Penn as stoned surfer Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Jeff Spicoli is the stereotypical teenage surfer of the eighties, complete with surf talk and imaginary tubes, ridden beneath overhanging ivy. The ambitious, conscientious, hard-working Brad Hamilton provides a foil for Jeff Spicoli, who believes in “operating from the heart” and that “what you need will come to you.” By contrasting Jeff Spicoli's carefree approach to life with Brad Hamilton's disciplined work ethic, the film exposes the dialectic in western culture.[1]

Hope a use can be found for some of that. Anarchangel (talk) 20:08, 27 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ Culture Jock University of Chicago Magazine, December '05, Volume 98, Issue 2.

Surfing scenes in film

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I would like to suggest the addition of a new section pertaining to surfing scenes in film that do not fit into neatly into the main categories of this articles (motion pictures with surfing scenes but lacking a central focus or story line constructed around surfing.