The Endless Summer has some of the greatest art work posters ever printed in the 1960s. The film is only interesting when the scenery is depicted, minus the narration and the horrible soundtrack.
To surf all over the world strikes one as a waste of time, and it proves to be a waste of time, except for the African episodes, which show the "natives, as they are called, bored with the whole thing after a while.
The racism in this film is so blatant that it looks like the KKK may have produced it.
The South African "observations" on the Zulu are unconscionable, and this is a 1966 film, Viet Nam time, and Martin Luther King was talking about the horrors of apartheid.
Women are treated as pure sex objects,and yet the two stars never date or seem interested in girls. Enough said there.
Not good, but relevant for those who wonder where Coppola got his inspiration for surfing madness in "Apocalypse, Now," where Robert Duvall in combat in Vietnam is having certain military surfing experts try to find the "perfect wave."while drugged to the hilt. Somebody saw what was going on in The Endless Summer...sheer madness with guys who have had lobotomies.
To surf all over the world strikes one as a waste of time, and it proves to be a waste of time, except for the African episodes, which show the "natives, as they are called, bored with the whole thing after a while.
The racism in this film is so blatant that it looks like the KKK may have produced it.
The South African "observations" on the Zulu are unconscionable, and this is a 1966 film, Viet Nam time, and Martin Luther King was talking about the horrors of apartheid.
Women are treated as pure sex objects,and yet the two stars never date or seem interested in girls. Enough said there.
Not good, but relevant for those who wonder where Coppola got his inspiration for surfing madness in "Apocalypse, Now," where Robert Duvall in combat in Vietnam is having certain military surfing experts try to find the "perfect wave."while drugged to the hilt. Somebody saw what was going on in The Endless Summer...sheer madness with guys who have had lobotomies.