Iconic. RIP Mr. Brown.
Posted on 12/11/2017 8:08:25 AM PST by EveningStar
Bruce Brown, longtime surf filmmaker and director of the seminal “Endless Summer” just passed at 80 years old.
Drew Kampion wrote the following for our Surfing A-Z entry on Brown:
Prior to 1964, the media saw surfers as rebellious thugs, and Hollywood made them out to be a bunch of idiots. Filmmaker Bruce Brown single-handedly changed that with The Endless Summer. It portrayed the wave as a kind of Holy Grail and surfers as knights on a quest. In one stroke, he replaced Hollywood's buffoonery with the popular mythology that endures today.
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Even if you aren’t into surfing, Endless Summer is a great film. RIP.
Iconic. RIP Mr. Brown.
The Warren Miller of Surfing.
A great film.
as was “On Any Sunday”.
Say what you will about The Endless Summer and like films but remember; it all started with Gidget.
It was summer 1967 was 16, a so so surfer from the Pacific NW. Mom, Dad and I were on vacation in San Fran.
One night I snookered them into going to the movies to see some film called “The Endless Summer”. They laughed so hard and loved every minute.
Thanks, Bruce, for the great family memory.
Enjoyed his film. RIP.
I was just starting surfing when “Endless Summer” came out. I loved that movie. RIP Bruce Brown.
I still have that poster in my bedroom. RIP to a surfing legend.
Both great films. Have the On Any Sunday DVD and watch it every now and then. May have to pull it out and watch it again. Thanks for the memories Mr Bruce Brown!
“Should’ve been here yesterday!”
Great quote from the movie.
First date with my husband was to see “The Endless Summer” at the Kip Bay theatre in NYC. I can’t even count how many times we’ve seen that film.
I now have sons, in their 40’s, who surf all year long, one in SoCal and the other in MA.
One of the best ever.
When you watch, you get to see and hear about America before the radical left started its tear down.
Drugs hadn’t made their way onto campus, SDS was unheard of.
His jokes are clean,funny, and it shows how amazing American culture was.
Good clean fun at its best. A slice of America at its finest.
I was fortunate to see it before it was syndicated. He would narrate it personally in auditoriums.
RIP
My first date with my wife was to a surfing movie. Could easily have been a Bruce Brown flick. It very likely was.
I loved it. She was unimpressed but something clicked - we went out the next 4 nights in a row and we were married less than a year later.
So I’m sending a Thank You Note to Bruce Brown. We will miss you. Even my wife.
I could never stand on a surfboard for long. But I could make a motorcycle fly. I remember what an impression On Any Sunday made on me as a 20-year old racer. It is still the iconic film on motorcycling almost 50 years later.
Endless Summer is the best surf film of all time and one of the most movies ever. RIP.
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