This Hilarious Mockumentary Parodies Ski Movie Cliches

Image the opening footage of a ski movie: swirling mists, a skier (almost certainly a person, primarily based fully totally on this 12 months’s crop of ski movement footage) clicks into their bindings, and launches acceptable right correct proper right into a sprawling sea of… grass?

“The Kook” establishes itself from inception as a deadpan sendup of the depth and self-seriousness of ski movement footage. It has pleasurable with out fairly a bit as a wink whereas taking up the archetypal comeback and outcast tales that the enterprise loves to inform. With its phrases of knowledge emanating from the mouth of a drunken man in a San Francisco homeless encampment, fairly than a shamanic resolve, “The Kook” is a novel preserve the story you’ve seen 1,000,000 occasions.

The movie tells the story of a fictional former comp skier who has a mannequin new imaginative and prescient for metropolis snowboarding. Whereas being a parody, it asks compelling questions referring to the character of rejection and success all by way of the face of an enterprise that has no room for you. It has good nods to movement footage that impressed “The Kook,” most notably JP Auclair’s iconic “All.I.Can” half. And in addition you most likely can watch him huck a entrance flip off a mud cliff—so test it out!

This article initially appeared on Powder.com and was republished with permission.

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