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RIP: Bruce Brown, 1937-2017: Iconic California surf filmmaker passes away (The Endless Summer)
Drew Kampion Surfline December 11, 2017
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Bruce Brown, longtime surf filmmaker and director of the seminal “Endless Summer” just passed at 80 years old.
Drew Kampion wrote the following for our Surfing A-Z entry on Brown:
Prior to 1964, the media saw surfers as rebellious thugs, and Hollywood made them out to be a bunch of idiots. Filmmaker Bruce Brown single-handedly changed that with The Endless Summer. It portrayed the wave as a kind of Holy Grail and surfers as knights on a quest. In one stroke, he replaced Hollywood's buffoonery with the popular mythology that endures today.
