It defines the power struggle between the Young Prince, the Golden Child and The Big Man!
Surf contest shorts don’t usually get the crowd hollerin’. A wipeout here, tube-ride there, maybe some kind of brazen Filipe Toledo air, and all cut to a generic guitar track. Enough to wet the tongue, not enough to emancipate real emotion.
Want to see something that radiates?
This thirty-second promo by the director and surfer Luke Farquhar, for Fox Sports, is perfect in its ability to define the power struggle between the Young Prince (whose fans adore his caterwauling over judging decisions that don’t swing his way), The Golden Child (who only enjoys revealing himself on his own terms) and The Big Man (the Adonis-Christ figure.)
The script, also written by the director, is painfully delivered by…uh… me, channelling, I hoped, Jacques Brel but sounding more like a dumb Australian murdering la langue d’amour.
Watch!
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Tu parles très bien, DR. Je vais à l’école de français tous le jours ici à Montreal et je pense que ta prononciation est tellement meilleur que mien. Bon travail. – MJ
Ahhh, Jaques Brel! https://www.youtube.com/wat…
And, a superior cover by the amazing Scott Walker! https://www.youtube.com/wat…
And the best song, French song, ever to play over credits. https://www.youtube.com/wat…
I lived in Paris for a time, was beyond thrilled when I was finally able to order a coffee in French without the barista angrily switching to English halfway through the transaction. I believe you’d probably be able to go even further, perhaps ordering a sandwich without difficulty.
Got to love the Parisians for constantly living up to the cliche of being moody bastards.
Oh the things I can order! Multiples of everything!
Needed a black screen with a white fin (surf fin) at the end.
…oh touché to you!
WHHOOOSSSHHH!!
The sound effects came from my kid, a native-ish French speaker. Daddy looses his crappy accent on the script, kid who actually speaks French does the sound effects. Irony! Or maybe ageism!
I was hoping Charlie was the Big Man and he was going to turn the Prince also known as Gabriel Mangina into a Golden Child by pissing on him in a dunnie block shower. I am the fucking Prince, you cunts.
Mangina, brilliant!
Yeah, I’ll pay Mangina too…
I clicked play before reading the article, my mind started to wander.
Where did they find this distinguished french dude… touché.
I ate a toasted bagel, half spread with vegemite, half spread with French raspberry jam, as I read and watched this.
Good combo?
yeah but i didnt combine them im not a barbarian
So you didn’t go for a bit of red then move onto the brown then back to the red again?
nah powered my way through the brown then smashed the red to bits
thats the way wincy!!