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DOGTOWN AND Z-BOYS > "LORDS OF DOGTOWN" PRESTO AL CINEMA
Il celebre video-documentario da culto nonchè libro "DogTown and Z-Boys" ha ispirato il nuovo lungometraggio dal titolo "Lords of Dogtown" che uscirà a giugno negli States e forse in futuro (luglio) anche in Italia, distribuito da Sony Pictures. Il film è stato scritto da Stacy Peralta e i vari Tony Alva, Jay Adams sono interpretati da altri attori. Ci sono però anche riprese originali di surfate e scivolate in skate dell'epoca a cui il film fa riferimento.
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Twenty years ago, you did not drop in on Tony Alva.
(Spin Magazine printed an article in March, 1999 about DOGTOWN.)
Twenty years ago, if you found yourself standing next to the volatile, gravity-defying Alva at some crowded backyard pool in the Valley, and he was planning to take the next run--even though he'd just taken the last one--it was best to not even look at him.
Tonight, however, such ancient protocols are no longer in effect. Alva, 41. . has come to skate the new Vans Skatepark. . As a dozen or so mostly teenage skaters stand waiting to try out one of the park's two cement pools, they seem wholly oblivious to Alva...
As Alva stands, poised at the edge of the drop, rocking slightly, his left foot planted on the board, a wispy blond-haired nine-year-old, completely unaware of him, stands in the same position just a few feet away. And when the guy in the pool blows a backside grind at its far end, the nine-year-old pushes off with his right foot.
It's a moment of minor blasphemy--a nine-year-old, a kid who can barely even skate, dropping in on Alva! Alva, the leader of the Dogtown boys, the former World Champion, the godfather of urban skate-punks who transformed skateboarding from a sport of short little muscular dudes doing nose wheelies into the minor religion that it is today. Does the kid have any clue what he's doing? Any clue at all?
Twenty years ago, "Mad Dog" Alva would have fired his board at the tiny kid's head. But today, he simply claps twice, like a Little League coach, and smiles at all the shorties in line....
