If he hadn't given me the equipment, we might not have had the photos today. Frames are sped up and slowed down, jump cuts that pull up the dialogue. It is a triathlon just to see it. Two additional screenings had to be added after the first sold out in two days and left a block-long line of people outside. Eight hundred people come to the party for the film, with hundreds more turned away.
People beg at the gatehouse and use names of well-known people to get past guards.
They pick the board I'll bring home to my son, a Tony Hawk birdhouse board, and the pen, a sharpie. It's all about style. I've stopped him on his way out to get a drink at the outdoor bar shaped like an igloo to ask him about the movie. I was amazed at how well the movie told the story of the evolution of skateboarding. It wasn't like, after all this time these guys have gotten jaded.