Chapter | Forty-One
(Extreme) Sports Movie
FIGURE 41.1 A skater does a trick while being filmed. (Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, ©deanmillar, Image# 4077913)
WHAT IS IT?
A movie of a sporting event. Extreme sports involve some danger or risk.
Sports movies are big business, attracting huge viewing figures. Most video sharing sites have large sections with extreme sports movies – skating, freerunning, biking or other high-risk sports. But they almost never capture the thrill of the action, instead making do with a distant spectators-eye glimpse of what happened, or a first-person white-knuckle ride where you can’t make out too clearly what ...
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