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Bending Colours, the second trailer

Y’know Jordy Smith has a peachy new profile film coming out soon, right? It’s a Red Bull Media House deal, directed by Kai Neville, and is going to be very good. We’ve already seen the first trailer, but the second one is even more revelatory. You can watch it down below. But first, here’s Red Bull’s breakdown of some numbers that clocked up during production.

Eight: Beautiful hi-def footage sure can take up a lot of space. Somewhere in the world, the final master tracks from Bending Colours are taking up eight terabytes worth of hard drive.

Five: Countries visited during the filming of Bending Colours – South Africa, Reunion Island, Indonesia, Hawaii, Mexico and the Maldives.

Thirty: Some surfboards were hurt in the making of this movie – 30 to be precise.

Two: Surprisingly, for a film that pushes the envelope as much as it does, there were only two injuries during the making of Bending Colours – a cracked rib and a tweaked ankle.

Three: The St Pierre sessions with Julian Wilson and Jordy on Reunion Island required three cameras to capture all the action – Two RED cameras and one Phantom.

$20k: Cinematographer Rick Rifici will rue the day he over-packed on his flight from Australia to Africa – the excess baggage charge was $20,000.

24 comments so far...
1.

They should have included more surf at the beginning.. the cultural art introduction is so tried and cliche. Its getting OLD!

The villager guy being photographed in the video is merely a prop. How MANY of these dumb Drifter films will continue to be made. How does the villager relate to a filmer with 20,000 dollars in camera equipment and a surfer with 30 boards. One of those cameras or boards could probably clothe and feed him for a year. Using these indigenous people to make money is questionable. Does the villager even know the filmer or is he told to walk around? Or does Jordy even know who this guy is?

Oh, I guess it “shouldn’t matter”…he just fits the “look” of indigenous.

At this point, the average viewer does not care about culture. If we want culture, we would want to be actually educated on a village or region. Not shown some village snapshots.

In other words, just get to Jordy surfing. He rips.

2.

Doesnt the number of countries add up to 6? Heres some other stats Red Bull missed;

87 – number of daily loved up text messages between Jordy and his missus when they were apart.

7 – hours was the longest conversation they had on the phone.

12 – number of slaps jordy received for not making his missus the star of the movie

1 – times jordy had to show his missus his bank statement so she’d back off and get nude.

3.

It’s a fucking trailer man.

4.

“Reunion Island off the coast of France” you trippin balls Stab. Its off the south-east coast of Africa – off the coast of Madagascar..pretty far from France haha..it is region of France however.

5.

he might not do alley oops, but he has cool tattoos.

1.

They should have included more surf at the beginning.. the cultural art introduction is so tried and cliche. Its getting OLD!

The villager guy being photographed in the video is merely a prop. How MANY of these dumb Drifter films will continue to be made. How does the villager relate to a filmer with 20,000 dollars in camera equipment and a surfer with 30 boards. One of those cameras or boards could probably clothe and feed him for a year. Using these indigenous people to make money is questionable. Does the villager even know the filmer or is he told to walk around? Or does Jordy even know who this guy is?

Oh, I guess it “shouldn’t matter”…he just fits the “look” of indigenous.

At this point, the average viewer does not care about culture. If we want culture, we would want to be actually educated on a village or region. Not shown some village snapshots.

In other words, just get to Jordy surfing. He rips.

    2.

    It’s a fucking trailer man.

      3.

      20k to film bums?
      Mike, you’re a kook.

      4.

      You’re from the trailer man.

5.

true

6.

“Reunion Island off the coast of France” you trippin balls Stab. Its off the south-east coast of Africa – off the coast of Madagascar..pretty far from France haha..it is region of France however.

7.

Wow… did you guys just say “Reunion Island off the coast of France”? I start getting worried that the guys at STAB can’t tell the difference between their mouths and their assholes.

8.

Doesnt the number of countries add up to 6? Heres some other stats Red Bull missed;

87 – number of daily loved up text messages between Jordy and his missus when they were apart.

7 – hours was the longest conversation they had on the phone.

12 – number of slaps jordy received for not making his missus the star of the movie

1 – times jordy had to show his missus his bank statement so she’d back off and get nude.

9.

what happened to the video? thats fukd!

10.

where’s the video you wankers?!?

11.

shortest trailer ever.

    12.

    you spelt worst wrong.

13.

Oh, uh, we’re back!

15.

kai neville music is fucking gay as tits with my mums jizz

16.

chippa wilson cant do full rote alley oops, just watch every movie he has been in

    17.

    he might not do alley oops, but he has cool tattoos.

18.

Worst name for a Profile Film…..evr.

agree with Troof……seen enough of poor black and brown people being used as props to make rich white kids look cool.

19.

Jordy can do layback snaps. Andy could do them as well.
But, hear me out….There’s a number of surfers that can’t do a layback snap. It looks like a lazy snap.

The layback snap should not be done lazily… it shows when its done lazy and really detracts from one’s style. Its similar to the superman air which is shunned in certain circles. It looks incredibly wrong if done poorly. Its like why the f@ck are you “laying back” mid wave…. kook. But again, this has nothing to do with Jordy … he knows what the f$ck he’s doing.

20.

I’m so sick of slow mo cameras.

21.

looks sick to me …

22.

yep, agreed with samcam. Slow mo is fucking shit. ya wana see the speed power and style not a surfboard rotate for 20 mins. Bending colours looks pretty sick but farrk, get back to the old stuff!

23.

should be called bending cocks

24.

No, not Bending Cocks. It should be called Bending Over. Joprdy won his heat in Cruz just now but man so ugly how he Bends Over all the time. BTW, no pun intended…I cant comment on his persuasion…

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