Point Break - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Point Break or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Point Break

[albert]

Teresa Palmer did most of her own stunts, despite this being her first acting job after she gave birth to her son Bohdi.

[victoria]

According to the FBI posters, the character Chowder was born in Norway. The actor, Tobias Santelmann, is Norwegian, but born in Berlin.

[wallace]

Luke Bracey won the role of Johnny Utah after an extensive audition process, and he got the part due to the fact that he seemed "real" and unaffected, according to Kosove. An added bonus was the fact that Bracey has been surfing and playing rugby since childhood.

[ella]

Ericson Core previously directed the film The Invincible. The Invincible has a music score by Mark Isham. Isham wrote the music score to the original Point Break.

[leo]

This iteration of Johnny Utah sees the character as more of a wounded bird with demons to overcome, a slightly more damaged and broken man than the character seen in the 1991 film.

[ronnie]

One location of the film is the tallest uninterrupted waterfall in the world, Angel Falls, located in Venezuela. Actor Edgar Ramirez, who plays Bodhi in the film, was born in Venezuela.

[cassandra]

Edgar Ramirez (Bodhi) starred in Zero Dark Thirty, which was directed by Kathryn Bigelow, who directed the original Point Break.

[sophie]

In terms of tone and the overall approach to Point Break, Kosove wanted to go back to what he feels action films used to be, with higher stakes, "real action, real consequences and people getting hurt".

[jessica]

Chris Taylor, a business executive at Largo Entertainment, the production company that made the original Point Break, acquired the rights to remake the film after the business folded. He later partnered with Alcon Entertainment to develop the remake script over a 3-year period with writer Kurt Wimmer and director Ericson Core.

[jim]

The extreme snowboarding scenes were inspired in part by 1991 Windows and DOS game SkiFree, in which a yeti inevitably appears and devours the player-controlled skier after descending the mountain past a certain point. Director Ericson Core interprets the yeti as a representation of dharma, the Buddhist concept of cosmic law and order. Although no yeti is depicted in the movie, there is still a sense of danger and impending death on the slopes, the natural consequences of extreme sports which Bodhi and Utah seek to defy.