In the longest foot chase scene, when Utah chases Bodhi from the gas station, still wearing his Ronald Reagan mask, that's not Swayze. It allowed operator James Muro to chase the actors while running full speed.Ģ1. She and her crew used a "Pogo Cam" which was essentially a handheld 35mm camera equipped with a gyro-stabilizer like a Steadicam. On the Strange Days DVD commentary track, Bigelow reveals how she shot the frantic foot chase scenes of Point Break. The show determined that the two men could not enter a free fall for 90 seconds, could not have held a conversation thanks to wind noise, but Johnny could have caught up to Bodhi if the latter jumped first and the second streamlined his body as they do in the movie.Ģ0. MythBusters tested out the accuracy of the sky diving scene that shows Utah jumping out of a place without a parachute and catching Bodhi in mid-air. Betsy Lynn George, known to every teenage boy in 1990 as the hot chick in Billy Idol's " Cradle of Love" music video, appears quickly in Point Break as a girl at Bodhi's party.ġ9. Reeves and Swayze had been in a movie together before, 1986's Youngblood.ġ8. A restaurant called "Patrick's Roadhouse" is mentioned in the movie, a potential fun reference to Swayze and his '80s action fave Road House. Reeves plays a former quarterback for the Ohio State Buckeyes in Point Break and he has the same back story in one of his later movies: The Replacements.ġ6. The beach where Johnny proves himself to Bodhi and his crew during a pickup football game is the same spot where Daniel and Ali kick the soccer ball around in The Karate Kid.ġ5. We could put our bedroom upstairs, and get all this space. There's got to be seven or eight feet up there.Īnd eighty years of dust. You take all your emotions! All your pain, all your love, all your passion, all your rage! Just push it all the way down into the pit of your stomach! And then let it explode, like a reactor! Pow! I don't know *how* you focus! You just focus! It's all up here now! You want to move something, you got to move it with your mind! You got to focus, you hear what I'm sayin'? You think you're wearing those clothes? You think you're crouched on that floor? Bullshit! You ain't got a body no more, son! The problem with you is that you still think you're real. You can't push it with your finger! You're dead! It's all in your mind. What the hell are you doing? You're trying to push that with your finger.
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