by Snow Bum, Admin
24. October 2009 00:08
Continuing our roll-out of Snow Bum cinema history, we leave the 1970’s era of mulleted-minstrel alpinists and come to the 1980’s with its brave new world of anti-social, reckless, and still-mulleted snow bums. The film, of course, is none other than 1984’s Hot Dog: The Movie.
The story of the film involves a young Idaho farm boy-slash-skiing-wunderkind traveling to California to compete in the FIA International Skiing Competition. Naturally, he finds a rival in the form of a snobby European and a beau in the form of an outgoing teenage hitchhiker.
That being said- the plot has very little to do with what the movie is actually about. To catch our drift, check out the amazingly 80’s trailer (and don’t feel self-conscious about rocking out to the equally amazing 80’s synthesizer music.)
Like the Ski Bum poster this trailer contains too much awesome to address in a single post- so once more, we’ll just break out a few:
1. Why is it in the list of verbs that only half seem to actually coincide with what's happening on screen? When he says, "jumping" it's a guy sort of dancing/walking on the spot. Two of the clips during the "daredevil stunts" segment are a guy spitting out a piece carrot and some other dude cracking a peanut. What gives?
2. Why is everyone beating on each other in the downhill? What kind of race is this?
3. Finally the Shannon Tweed thing. It's awesome for many reasons- the fact that they have to spell out the Playboy thing, the crescendo ripple of angelic synthesizer when she appears on the screen, and their odd decision to introduce her as "The Ultimate Challenge." Really? Is she really?
Some Snow Bum readers might be dissappointed at the relatively tame outfits in the trailer. It is from the 80's after all- where are the clashing florescent purples and yellows? Or the spandex? Well don't worry- we're coming to that in our next installment of Snow Bum cinema history.
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