Point Break and heartbreak

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Point Break and heartbreak

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Each weekend at a bar in downtown LA, actors and audience gather to re-create the 1991 action-schlock cult classic Point Break (which starred Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze). Today on Boing Boing tv, we follow the quest of one lone German/French actor to find fame and greatness through the "Point Break Live" reality-play competition.

Special thanks to Klaus Pierre for enduring such tragedy and humiliation for the sake of Boing Boing tv. You'll always be Johnny Utah to us, old pal.

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#1 posted by MarkM , February 4, 2008 7:32 AM

Wow. Just wow.

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#2 posted by jamesey

, February 4, 2008 7:49 AM

I was at that particular performance. The hipster who won the role of Johnny Utah was previously in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

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#3 posted by Anonymous , February 4, 2008 9:42 AM

OH come on!

That guy is a comedian. That was obviously on purpose!

I gotta say, that guy can act. He is like a french Baron Cohen.

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#4 posted by W. James Au

, February 4, 2008 11:23 AM

"Schlock?!" Xeni, I object: *Point Break* was directed by cult filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow, who's highly regarded for her treatments on subcultures and identity. *Point Break* has that as a strong theme (the anti-establishment surfers whose quest for utopia leads to violence vs. the establishment FBI agent tempted by their reckless freedom.) And as a genre effort, *Point* has some of the best action scenes ever made. Lookit, she's got high falutin academic books devoted to her and everything:

http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/publications/directors/kathryn_bigelow.html

This is some anti-Keanu deal. Anything he's in is automatically (and often unfairly, as in this case) mocked as dumb dude kitsch.

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#5 posted by DeWynken , February 4, 2008 12:27 PM

I'm so glad Colorado bars have banned acting in them, and within 15' of the bar entrance.

Otherwise we'd be up to our eyebrows in Klaus Pierres.

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#6 posted by Vicky , February 4, 2008 1:57 PM

What a goofey guy. What a laugh. Who needs Keanu
when you have this frenchman?

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#7 posted by mark , February 4, 2008 3:31 PM

Why doesn't he just come back next week?