The Endless Summer
- Mike Hynson
- Robert August
- Miki Dora
The Endless Summer is one of the first and most influential surf films and thus created his own film category, which has been preserved and further developed since its release in 1966 until today.
Content
The film follows the two surfers, Mike Hynson and Robert August, on a surf trip around the world. From her California home from traveling during the California winter on beaches in Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti and Hawaii in search of new surf spots and thereby lead locals into the sport a. Surfer Miki Dora as Phil Edwards and Butch Van Dalen Arts also appear in this film. The surf - rock soundtrack of the film comes from "The Sandals ", a surf - rock band of the Sixties. The motif "Theme to the Endless Summer ", by Gaston Georis and John Blakeley became a well-known sounds of the surf movie genre.
Title
When Bruce was planning the route of the film crew, the employee of a travel agency made the remark, with the loss of the flight from Los Angeles to Cape Town and back only fifty dollars more than a trip around the world. Then Bruce had the idea to follow the summer around the globe.
Continuations
1994 produced Bruce The Endless Summer II, surfers Pat O'Connell in the and Robert " Wingnut " Weaver follow the footsteps of Hynson and August. It shows the growth and development of the surf scene since the first film, which showed only the classic longboard surfing. O'Connell surfing on a shortboard, which had meanwhile been developed. Moreover, the scenes were filmed with windsurfers and bodyboards. The film shows how far surfing has spread, and shows surf scenes from France, South Africa, Costa Rica, Bali, Java, and Alaska.
2003 brought out Dana Brown, Bruce's son, Step Into Liquid, which is regarded as the third sequel. It follows the development of surfing over the last ten to fifteen years of shortboard surfing to tow - in surfing.
Reception
The film inspired many surfers to go surfing abroad. He is regarded as the cause of " surf - and - travel " culture that aims to surf away from the masses beaches to ride the perfect wave and he made the sport to a wider audience.
The film, which differs in pace, humor and emotion of the factual documentation of the 50s and early 60s, was style icon for more Surfer films like Momentum, ( These Are ) Better Days, and Thicker Than Water,
Awards
2002 The Endless Summer by the U.S. Library of Congress as " culturally, historically, or aesthetically outstanding" was added to the National Film Registry.
Criticism
" Bruce Brown wrote with The Endless Summer movie history. He not only laid the foundation stone for a completely new and unique style of the sports documentary, it even sparked an incredible wave of enthusiasm for the sport of surfing and mediated more than any other the lifestyle of the 60s: freedom and adventure, tons of fun and a summer that will never end. "