Book Vs Movie "Blue Crush"

<p> </p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Book Vs Movie</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Blue Crush</em></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>The Susan Orlean Article Vs the Kate Bosworth 2002 Film</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><img src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/60822/Blue_Crush_movie_poster.jpg" alt="" width="190" height="266" /></strong></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Margos are ready to hit the beach with this episode devoted to surfing in Hawaii. In 1998</span> <a href= "http://www.susanorlean.com/author/"><strong>Susan Orlean</strong></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">penned</span> <a href= "https://www.outsideonline.com/1926561/lifes-swell"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Life’s Swell</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">in</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Outside</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">magazine talked about a group of Maui girls who loved to surf and dealt with poverty and sexism to enjoy their passion. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That’s pretty much the whole story and in the early 2000s, dozens of magazine articles were turned into movies which is what happened here. The 14-page article somehow became a 104-minute film which we find--perplexing, to say the least! </span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Blue Crush</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is directed by actor/directed</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stockwell_(actor)"><strong>John Stockwell</strong></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and stars</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Bosworth"><strong>Kate Bosworth</strong></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">as a young woman raising her younger sister in a parentless home and pursuing her dream of being a professional surfer. She has two best friends and dates an NFL player while overcoming her fear of injuring herself again. (We see her accident</span> <span style= "