Blue Crush
Short description
Anne Marie Chadwick lives in a beach shack on the Hawaiian island of Oahu with her roommates Eden and Lena and her younger sister Penny. The four share a life built around surfing: they work low-paying jobs at a luxury hotel to get by, and Anne Marie trains to compete at the Pipe Masters on the North Shore's Banzai Pipeline, a contest that demands she confront her own fears about the reef. Her plans are unsettled when a professional football team arrives at the hotel where the women work, and she becomes involved with Matt Tollman, the team's quarterback. The romance pulls her attention away from her preparation as the competition approaches.
John Stockwell directed from a screenplay he wrote with Lizzy Weiss; it followed Crazy/Beautiful, his 2001 feature, and was produced by Brian Grazer and Karen Kehela Sherwood. Kate Bosworth plays Anne Marie, with Matthew Davis as Matt, Michelle Rodriguez as Eden, Sanoe Lake as Lena and Mika Boorem as Penny. The film runs 104 minutes.
Financed at about 25 million dollars and released in August 2002, Blue Crush took in roughly 52 million dollars worldwide, a solid return on its budget. On IMDb it holds 5.7 out of 10 from around 34,000 votes, while on TMDB it has 6 out of 10 from 583 votes. A critics' rating of 5.9 out of 10 from 143 reviews places it close to the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Filming of the picture began on December 13, 2001.
- The rainbow that is visible behind Kate Bosworth at the end of the competition was real. Initially, they almost removed it during editing (it looked so striking and contrived), but they decided to leave it in because rainbows are quite common in Hawaii.
- At the beginning of the film, a real surfer, world champion Tom Carroll, is shown – he plays the surfer with an eye injury. According to producer Brian Grazer, he received the injury right before filming, which made three actresses involved in the film (Kate Bosworth, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sano Lake) nervous, as they were about to go into the water. The moment Carroll received the injury was filmed, and Grazer used it in the film to emphasize how dangerous it was to go into the water and ride the waves.
- During one scene where her character is undergoing training, Kate Bosworth briefly lost consciousness. Matthew Davis attempted to submerge his board vertically into the water, but it flew out of the water and hit Bosworth on the head as it fell. The actress was taken to the hospital as a precaution, where she was examined by doctors.
- Michelle Rodriguez performed all of her jet ski stunts herself, including the moment when she tows a Kate Bosworth stunt double away from the shore.
- For the competition scene, they filmed a professional male surfer dressed in a wig and bikini, and whose legs were shaved. However, during final editing, they replaced his image with Kate Bosworth using digital technology, so only the actor's legs remained in the film.
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