Forty minutes shrunk to three!
Thirty years ago, or thereabouts, the surfing company Quiksilver released a kooky little fantasy surf flick called Mad Wax.
In that movie, the Australian surfer Ross Clarke-Jones, who was twenty, found a recipe for magic surf wax in a second-hand store, cooked it up, and used the wax to transport himself around the world.
The throwaway skits of Ross cooking the wax in his backyard and being transported hither and yon, stitched together footage of Ross, Tom Carroll and Gary Elkerton pursuing swells Australia and Hawaii. The band Gangajang provided a soundtrack that would become, if not iconic, recognisably Australian.
As well as providing the inspiration for the Adam Blakey-Ozzie Wright-produced film Doped Youth, Mad Wax has spawned this mini-spin-off by the soda company Red Bull.
The twist is clean enough.
Ross is fifty-one now, and looking like he hasn’t slept for one day in all of those intervening years. The magic wax is given to the teenager Caroline Marks, Nippon-Americano Kanoa Igarashi and the rutting Italian Leonardo Fioravanti. Marks provides footage from Trestles, including a fin-throw-to-reverse, Leo is in Hossegor and Kanoa is filmed around Ericeira, Portugal.
It ain’t a patch on the original, of course, but what can you accomplish in two-and-a-half minutes?
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can you imagine having that magic wax and choosing to transport to 3 foot Trestles, Hossegor and Portugal?
Cocaine is a hell of a drug!
Also, if hair had a thread count, Caroline Marks hair would be 10000 !
What a luscious main she has.
God i would love for her to give it the Greenough bowl chop one day, cause i reckon she’d look like Worzel Gummidge!
What else can you do in 2 1/2 minutes???
Look up dirty nuns on redtube=15secs, have wank=1minute, wank melancholy afterglow=15secs, cook 1minute noodles for lunch.
Each of the above is better than that fucked video.
Redbull have done a Disney and destroyed a great movie legacy.
Fucktards.
That was a fucking travesty – Ross looks like a fucking retarded smurf at the start. The others should stick to surfing and never speak again. OMfucking god that was bad and redbull should be sued for fucking up the classic that Mad wax was!!!
How good!! Least it’s not just another shitty surf movie with an analogue filter, slow mo establishment shots and indie rock overture…
I think Orson Wells would surf better than any surf movie Director, Directs.
What could you accomplish in two-and-a-half minutes?
Mad Ex-Lax: Go Mad – Send That Shit
I thought that gargoyle Clark-Jones was born 50.
True fact alert! Ross descends from a long line of Papuan headhunters. On his mother’s side I am lead to believe. This explains plenty.
Doesn’t explain why he hasn’t traded in his current head though.
You don’t expect him to hunt his own head do you?
A man from a long line of car enthusiasts would not take pride in his 1998 Barina. Do you see the connection here?
Certainly!
Borneo, not Papuan.
Ah yes, you’re right! Apologies.
This made me look into the fact that the last time several heads were severed was at Nias in 1998!!!
Do you think Leo feels the cold hand of fear grip his balls when he realises that he too will be ugly in 35 years?
He’s a wog dog yeah
beachgrit is banned from hawaii. no link to ross favorite charity.
Oh what is Ross’ favourite charity? Do I miss joke?
Is there some way we can watch Doped Youth instead?
I think you can just click the link in the article? No? Worked for me.
That was more of a rhetorical, but I appreciate your concern nonetheless.
Do you, like me, still marvel at how good Doped Youth is?
I just watched it again, and: yes.