Point Break feat. Eli Olsberg
Added 2022-03-12 20:49:32 +0000 UTCLos Angeles-based comedian and podcaster Eli Olsberg joins us to ride some big waves and talk Kathryn Bigelow's 1991 action masterpiece 'Point Break', starring Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves. It's a film that delivers on the action genre's promise of bracing, visceral set pieces while also subverting its tropes with a uniquely sensitive focus on male intimacy.
We discuss why the casting of Keanu and Swayze is fundamental to the film's greater thematic conceits, the compelling anticapitalist ethos of Bodhi's surfers-turned-bank robbers, and why relcamation efforts of the film as a canonical "camp" classic miss the point.
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Read April Wolfe's piece 'Revisiting Hours: ‘Point Break’ Is the Greatest Female-Gaze Action Movie Ever' at Rolling Stone
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Our theme song is "Mirror" by Chris Fish
