Talk:Surf film

Deleted from Surf culture:

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.

• Blue Crush, starring Kate Bosworth
• Blue Hawaii
• Blue Juice, Sean Pertwee, Ewan McGregor, Catherine Zeta-Jones
• A Brokedown Melody, Jack Johnson
• The Endless Summer, Bruce Brown
• The Endless Summer II, Bruce Brown
• Five Summer Stories, Greg MacGillivray and Jim Freeman
• Gidget
• Hawaiian Holiday, Bud Browne
• Johnny Tsunami, Disney feature film with surfing/snowboarding
• In God's Hands (1998) is the story of big wave riders that go all over the globe searching to ride bigger and bigger waves.
• Liquid Time (2002) is an avant-garde surf film that focuses solely on the fluid forms of tubing waves.
• Lords of Dogtown
• Morning of the Earth
• Newcastle Dan Castle Film about Surf Culture in the Australian Town of Newcastle
• North Shore
• Orange County
• Point Break
• Puberty Blues 1981 Australian surfie film.
• Riding Giants
• September Sessions
• Step Into Liquid, directed by Dana Brown
• Surf Crazy, Bruce Brown
• Surfwise (2007)
• Surf's Up is a computer-animated mockumentary, which investigates the premise that surfing was actually invented by penguins, taking viewers behind the scenes of the "Penguin World Surfing Championship".
• Tan Lines a predominantly gay-themed surfing drama.
• Thicker Than Water, Jack Johnson

Fictional surfers in film

• 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.

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

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Surfing scenes in film

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.

• A Hole in the Head (1959), directed by Frank Capra Carolyn Jones cast as the female surfer character Shirl (love interest of character Tony Manetta played by Frank Sinatra) features a very nice, albeit brief, night time surfing scene along a Florida beach. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNu4qOpZl5I Bee Cliff River Slob (talk) 20:29, 11 August 2012 (UTC)