Dangerous surf

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Movie
German title Dangerous surf
Original title Point break
Country of production USA , Japan
original language English
Publishing year 1991
length 122 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Kathryn Bigelow
script W. Peter Iliff
production Peter Abrams ,
Robert L. Levy
music Mark Isham
camera Donald Peterman
cut Howard E. Smith
occupation

Dangerous Surf (original title: Point Break ) is an action film by director Kathryn Bigelow from 1991. To get ahead in the investigation into a series of bank robberies, the young FBI agent Johnny Utah ( Keanu Reeves ) is smuggled into the local surfing scene. There he succumbs to the fascination of the leader of the surfers, Bodhi ( Patrick Swayze ), and when the suspicion that Bodhi and his group are the wanted bank robbers is confirmed, he gets into a conflict of conscience.

action

Bodhi is the head of a group of surfers who finance their wild life from surfing and skydiving with bank robberies. Over the past three years, they have had around 30 robberies carried out quickly, but never injured anyone. They always disappeared from the crime scene within 90 seconds. The gang calls themselves the ex-presidents during their raids , as they disguise themselves with the masks of former US presidents.

The authorities are at a loss and have no useful information on the identity of the bank robbers. However, the FBI agent Angelo Pappas, who is responsible for bank robberies, suspects, based on some evidence, that the perpetrators come from the surfing scene. He instructs the newcomer from his department, FBI agent John Utah, to mingle with the sworn group of surfers as an undercover agent and to track down the perpetrators.

Utah approaches surfer Tyler, who is supposed to teach him how to surf. She is Bodhi's former girlfriend. Through her, Utah gets to know the group around Bodhi and wins their trust. Initially, Utah suspects another group of surfers who are believed to be Nazis and have a long list of criminal records. However, it turns out that he was wrong.

He is now beginning to identify more and more with the lifestyle of Bodhi's group, to indulge in the adrenaline rush and to forget the constraints of everyday life. Utah and Tyler become a couple, but he withholds his assignment and claims to be a lawyer.

Meanwhile, Utah suspects the group around Bodhi. When he and his colleague Pappas surprised the masked gangsters in a bank robbery, Bodhi, masked as Ronald Reagan , flees . Utah chases him, but he falls and injures his knee. He threatens Bodhi with his weapon but fails to shoot him, so Bodhi escapes.

Bodhi and the group pick up Utah for skydiving the next day. Bodhi explains to him that Tyler is being held hostage in a secret location by her colleague Rosie. Utah has to take part in the last raid of the season, otherwise Tyler will be killed. In contrast to the others, Utah has to storm into the bank unmasked and keep the people present in check. This time, however, the robbery takes longer than the usual 90 seconds because, contrary to their basic rules, they not only rob the tills, but also the safe. A bank customer who reveals himself to be a police officer to a security guard finally picks up a pistol and kills one of the bank robbers before he is shot by Bodhi. Bodhi knocks out Utah and escapes with the rest of the gang.

They want to flee to Mexico in a private plane . Utah and Pappas intercept them at the airport, and a shootout breaks out, in which Pappas and a robber are shot. Bodhi forces Utah to fly with him and the wounded Roach in the plane. Bodhi and Roach jump out of the plane with the only two parachutes, Utah rushes in free fall with the weapon Bodhi put down. He manages to grip Bodhi. At the last second he pulls the parachute because Bodhi doesn't; both hit hard on Mexican soil. Roach, who hit the ground not far, has meanwhile bled to death. Rosie arrives with the hostage Tyler and releases them on instructions from Bodhi. Utah, impaired by his injured knee and without a weapon because he had to drop it to open the umbrella, can only watch Bodhi escape.

Several months later, on the beach at Bells Beach in Australia , Bodhi watched the huge waves piling up by an approaching hurricane . All other surfers have already left the beach due to the storm. After a long search, Utah was able to track down Bodhi around the globe, as he had told him that one day he wanted to surf a super wave of a large storm that only takes place every 50 years. Instead of handing Bodhi over to the approaching police officers, Utah grants him his last ride on one of the now gigantic waves - which suggests Bodhi's certain death. When Bodhi rides the wave, Utah tosses his FBI badge in the sand and walks away.

synchronization

The German synchronization was created under the direction of Michael Richter on behalf of Legard Synchron, Berlin.

role actor speaker
Bodhi Patrick Swayze Joachim Tennstedt
FBI Agent John 'Johnny' Utah Keanu Reeves Nicolas Boell
FBI agent Angelo Pappas Gary Busey Claus Wilcke
Tyler Ann Endicott Lori Petty Melanie Pukass
FBI Agent Ben Harp John C. McGinley Claus Jurichs
Roach James LeGros Ingo Albrecht
Nathanial John Philbin Gerald Paradise
Grommet Boyesse Christopher Stefan Fredrich
Alvarez Julian Reyes Hans-Jürgen Dittberner
Babbit Daniel Beer Christian Toberentz
Bunker white Chris Pedersen Tilo Schmitz
Warchild Vincent Klyn Thomas Petruo
Clays Anthony Kiedis Tobias Master
DEA agent Deets Tom Sizemore Hans-Jürgen Wolf

Trivia

  • The original title Point Break comes from the surfing language and describes a point (or line) in the water that causes a wave to break, e.g. B. a reef or a sandbar .
  • Johnny tells Angelo that he followed Bodhi to Patrick's Road House - a reference to the movie, Road House , in which Swayze starred.
  • The name of Patrick Swayze's figure refers to Buddhism (see Bodhi and Bodhisattva ).
  • In the raids, the perpetrators wear masks of the US Presidents Ronald Reagan , Lyndon B. Johnson , Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon . Once the bank robber passed in the Nixon mask from the attacked with the words "I'm not a crook" (German: "I am not a crook"), which is a literal statement by President Nixon in connection with the Watergate scandal was . Although in this scene the actor's face could not be seen because of the mask and therefore there was no need to find a synchronization that would match the lip movements, he says in the German version "I bless you, my children" - probably because the German version Synchronous direction was of the opinion that viewers in German-speaking countries would not understand the play on words of the English original.
  • Production costs are estimated at around 24 million US dollars estimated. The film grossed around $ 83 million in cinemas around the world, including around $ 43 million in the United States.
  • The film was shot entirely in the United States ( California , Oregon , Utah and Hawaii ). The skydiving scenes took place over Lake Powell .
  • The final scene of the film takes place in Torquay (Australia) on Bells Beach. But it was shot on Indian Beach, in Ecola State Park in Oregon (USA).
  • Filming began on July 9, 1990 and ended on October 24, 1990.
  • It was released in the US on July 12, 1991, in Germany on September 19, 1991.
  • In the online role-playing game World of Warcraft there is an allusion to the film in the raid "Dragon Soul": Sky captain Swayze and the Kor'kron sky commander Ka'anu Reevs stand together on an airship, which they parachute a little later after a fight leave.

criticism

"Aesthetic action riot from Peckinpah epigonus Kathryn Bigelow, in which Patrick Swayze in particular convinces in the role of a surf guru."

- Focus: film

"Clean, mystical action film by James Terminator Cameron's ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow."

- Heyne film dictionary

"'Dangerous Surf' is an entertaining, exciting and excellently photographed popcorn film that is easy to consume even after fifteen years."

- Martin Soyka : film starts

“Unsuccessful attempt to combine the genre of the thriller with that of the beach movie. The respectable representation also suffers from the coarse development of the characters, so that only two furiously staged car chases can be added to the film's credit. "

- Lexicon of international film

“With quick leaps she rushes Keanu Reeves (' My Private Idaho ') and the almost unrecognizable Patrick Swayze ( 'Ghost' ) from climax to climax. It almost seems as if the somewhat bumpy plot is of no interest at all. Like the surf gang in the film, the Bigelow is always looking for new rushes of adrenaline. In doing so, she succeeds again in a splendidly composed opera of emotion and violence. "

- Kino.de

Awards

  • At the MTV Movie Awards 1992 , Keanu Reeves won an award in the "Most Desirable Male" category, and Patrick Swayze was also nominated in this category. The film was also nominated for the “Best Action Sequence” - for the sequence of the second parachute jump in which Utah Bodhi catches.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for dangerous surf . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2003 (PDF; test number: 66 456 DVD).
  2. ↑ [1] , German synchronization.
  3. ↑ Carroll Kilpatrick: Nixon Tells Editors, 'I'm Not a Crook' In: Washington Post , November 18, 1973. (English)
  4. ↑ Dangerous surf - gross profit. Box Office Mojo , accessed May 22, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Dangerous surf - filming locations. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Dangerous surf - start dates. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Review on Mediabiz.de , accessed on September 4, 2011.
  8. ^ Review on Filmstarts.de , accessed on September 4, 2011.
  9. ^ Dangerous surf in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on September 4, 2011. Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  10. ↑ Review on kino.de, accessed on September 4, 2011.
  11. ^ Dangerous surf 2. In: Lexicon of international films . Film service , accessed July 3, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used