Well...
When I first posted that I was a bit tongue in cheek but I seem to remember that the original film was an amazingly low budget thing spliced together by 2 guys living in their car and I think partly financed by people like Steve McQueen on a whim. I'd check it out on the net but can't be arsed and let's face it my version is cooler!
Events like the Pukekohe Classic festival and the Sound of Thunder are epics in themselves. Add in the speedway boys and all the other events and you have really got something.
Speaking of onboard cameras.... What would be cool is the same camera mounted on a range of bikes from a pukka Manx Norton to the latest and greatest.
I know some dudes in the filum / arty (black is the new black dahlink) world. I'll bet there is funding out there for an enterprising film major to make a docco..... Anyone know any other that might be interested?
The other idea would be a road movie... A video version of NZ's 10 greatest rides...
Maybe a Goodbye Pork Pie chase thing featuring 'The One' ??
You could do a great story... Plot Something like??
Affluent Auckland based high flyer manager dude (moved up from Gore in the early 70's), 2 ex wives and a host of ungrateful kids has massive heart attack at work. Income protection pays out the mortgage but he looses his job, can't get another because he has only a little good time left and gets a bit pissed off with the whole thing. None of his buddies want to know!
Driving back alone to his apartment in the city (last wife kicked him out when the money stopped) he sees a stream of bikes headed south and gets all fucked off that these layabouts aught to be workin' etc. Stops for a pie at a gas station and finds the bikers are all going to the Brass Monkey.. So he looks it up on the interwebby thing.
Some thing clicks, Fuck me! That's it! That's what he wants!
Problem is, he's got no job, no money and no bike license..
He's got 12 months to sort it out and make the trip. He has to go because it might be his last chance.
Buys a crappy old triumph T140 - quintessential kiwi biker bike (no, better than that, his ex gang member brother he has not seen for 20 years after he ran off with the town beauty queen gives him his old bike) and renovates it as best he can while learning to ride on a postie bike (gives us a chance for gear lever on the wrong side gags and shit)
Finally gets it going an heads off in a cloud of smoke with no money, no license and no hope 2 months before the rally to work / bludge his way south.
Gets adopted by the internet biker community as he his picked up pushing his bike across the desert road (outta gas) and passed from contact to contact as he makes his way south.
takes part in a few events....
Finds that there are a bunch of people out there with fuck all that will still give him what he needs without expectation he will ever be in a position to give it back (unlike his mates in the business world)
makes it down there, falls in love (obviously) with a girl that owns an old pub / farm / fish and chip shop / pottery gallery / tattoo palour (whatever) and finds he has learnt to give as well. Finds happiness in the real NZ.
Hmm! Could work!
I'd watch it!
Perhaps I'd better start on the novel first eh?
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Originally Posted by Paul in NZ
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