This is the real deal. This is a lifestyle movie, a period movie, a feel-good movie, an escapist fantasy, and a hard nosed dose of reality.
The extensive nudity was was gratuitous and exploitive when the movie was a current release, and is still gratuitous and exploitive today. Because of this responsible adults won't promote the movie to the people who would otherwise benefit most from the movie. Those are early adolescents who need to see adult role models skiing well and skiing responsibly.
That said, it would be a different movie from a different era if any part of it was changed.
This movie is about aspiration, hope, and America's place in the world. Children need to know that if you can ski well you can become the president in this great nation. And what better place to ski well than Squaw Valley, and what better era to ski well in than the early 1980s, and who better to ski well with than Rob Herby, Scott Schmidt and Shannon Tweed.
I am going to check my skis right now (September). |