In 1991, filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow dared to ask one of cinema’s most crucial questions: What’s better than guys being dudes? The sprawling, manifold answer was thoroughly mapped out in “Point Break,” a tale of surfing, crime capers, and concealed identities.
Perhaps most of all, Bigelow’s film unravels the surprising ways that an otherwise genuine human connection can disarm and delude us, presented in the central bond between undercover FBI agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves in the role that would forever brand him as a “himbo”) and at-large bank robber Bodhi (Patrick Swayze).
Granted with a sizable hunch on behalf of the bureau, Utah…The post Some Clever Editing Helped Pull Off Point Break’s No Parachute Scene appeared first on /Film.
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