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Big Wednesday (Deluxe Anniversary Edition)
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Artikel-Nr:
9781644283646
Veröffentl:
2023
Erscheinungsdatum:
21.09.2023
Seiten:
272
Autor:
Denny Aaberg
Format:
215x139x0 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Dennis Aaberg is a good-natured surfer-writer-musician from Pacific Palisades, California, best known as cowriter of Warner Brothers's 1978 surfing film Big Wednesday.John Milius is a screenwriter, director, and producer of motion pictures. He cowrote and directed the 1978 film Big Wednesday, and was a writer for the first two Dirty Harry films, received an Academy Award nomination as screenwriter of Apocalypse Now, and wrote and directed The Wind and the Lion, Conan the Barbarian, and Red Dawn. He lives in Los Angeles.
Deluxe Hardcover edition, featuring a photo insert, surfing map of Southern California, eight pages of the original script to the film Big Wednedsday, essays by Roger McGrath, Tatsuo Takei, Don James, and Peter Townend, as well as John Milius' original pitch letter to Lynn Nesbit, a surf term glossary, and new afterwordBased on true events and legendary surfers of the 1960s, the Big Wednesday novel follows three Malibu surfers as the joys of youth and their carefree lifestyles are challenged by societal expectations, the looming war in Vietnam, and the inevitable passage of time. The three friends, Matt, Jack, and Leroy, go theirseparate ways, but are brought back together for one final challenge‿the giant waves that hit Malibu andthe California coast, spring 1973.