POINT BREAK MOVIE MOVIE
SAD NEWS to every fan of this movie Patrick Swayze has just passed avay i just want to wish all the best to his fans and widow Lisa Niemi McGinley.See all comments about this movie and its vehicles Author Peter Iliff starring Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey, Lori Petty, and John C.
She’s a dream subject for film academics concerned with gender and genre, and it’s no surprise that Point Break and her other works have a strong presence in the current canons of scholarship.ĭirected by Kathryn Bigelow screenplay by W. Images more than dialogue drive her films, and the visuals are often cold and sharp. (On a side note, it’s interesting that Kathryn Bigelow and James Cameron, who are a former married couple, are both filmmakers who have built careers out of approaching action stories as serious dramatic works.) What’s more, her style challenges sexist assumptions that women only make talky or visually ornate films.
She is one of the most famous, if not the most famous, American female director, yet she has built a career around exploring masculinity and the action genre. Kathryn Bigelow is an interesting director. The film uses the two main male characters to embody the dualities of responsibility and desire, and controlling order and creative disorder that thematically govern so many crime and action films. Utah is the lawman that has been disciplined to deny himself, but as the film progresses, Utah becomes more and more like Bodhi. Bodhi is the man that follows his impulses and defies the system. I think it’s more that Utah wants to be Bodhi. While there are certainly moments when you expect Keanu to shout at Swayze, “You’re breaking my heart,” I wouldn’t say that latent sexual desire fuels their connection. I think it would be easy to call the film’s treatment of masculinity homoerotic, but I think that description (or that description alone) is too reductive for this film. In spite of Johnny Utah’s standard romance with a surfer girl (Lori Petty), Bodhi and Utah’s relationship is the heart of the film.
POINT BREAK MOVIE SKIN
McGinley), he even takes the skin off his chicken. At the start of the film, Utah’s the all-American FBI rookie, a former college football star, a do-gooder, a go-getter. But in a way, the performance works brilliantly, as it captures the plastic action figure character of the surreally-named Johnny Utah. I think pretty much anyone will come away from Point Break admiring Swayze’s Bodhi, but what are we to make of Keanu Reeve’s performance, which hovers somewhere between terrible and great? The wooden delivery of his lines in this film rivals his stiffness as Jonathan Harker a year later in Coppola’s Dracula (1992). This is one of the key Swayze performances, close to but not rivaling Swayze’s Jedi bouncer Dalton in Road House. Swayze’s measured yet intense performance grounds the laughable character. We are here to show those guys that are inching their way on the freeways in their metal coffins that the human spirit is still alive.” Bodhi is a surfer dude sage, an idealistic warrior on a spiritual journey of sorts. Bank robbing is a way to not only make money during the off-season for his quest, but, in his words, it’s also “about us against the system. Swayze’s Bodhi is searching for the ultimate rush. Surfing is a way to make the action genre’s reliance on excitement and adrenaline an explicit part of the dialogue and storyline. He’s out too far! He’s in too deep! Can he make it back to shore? But there’s more to the addition of the adrenaline sport than just a way to symbolize going undercover or bring in a popular sport. Now what if I said that Utah’s infiltrating a gang of surfers? Of course, surfing is a great way to visualize the themes and generate taglines. He decides to-guess what-go undercover and infiltrate the gang, but as he befriends the ringleader Bodhi (Patrick Swayze) Utah soon finds himself-you guessed it-in over his head. Hot FBI rookie Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) wants to make a name for himself by bringing down the infamous bank robbing gang, the Dead Presidents (each member wears the mask of a former president). At first the movie seems like it will play out like any number of crime thrillers. Peter Iliff seem to have recognized that this is the stuff that 80s action movies are made of, and sought to explore these themes and forms through their amplification. The film is packed with corny emotional peaks, ridiculous turning points, and overwrought male bonding, but director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter W. At first, it’s difficult to tell whether Point Break is a serious crime thriller diminished by moments of stupidity, or a stupid actioner elevated through serious treatment of the material.
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