Big Wednesday: four decades between surfing and myth making
- Written by Alfio Leotta, Senior Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington
Contemporary surfing culture and iconography have been deeply influenced by the legacy of Big Wednesday.from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-SA
Over the last 40 years, John Milius’ surf cult movie, Big Wednesday (1978), has made a mark on global popular culture. It inspired the names of things as disparate as the weekly New Zealand lotto draw, an...
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