{"id":2425,"date":"2013-12-11T20:20:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T03:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skiblog.powder7.com\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2016-05-11T11:25:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T17:25:10","slug":"powder7-vs-the-greatest-ski-movies-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.powder7.com\/ski-blog\/powder7-vs-the-greatest-ski-movies-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Powder7 vs. The Greatest Ski Movies of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s already mid-December, Powder7 friends, and Christmas is barreling down on us. Hard to believe I only have two weeks left to finish writing my Christmas cards, wherein I explain to my friends and family exactly how they&#8217;ve each disappointed me in the past year and, thus, will not be getting any presents. It&#8217;s a beautiful tradition.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one example, just to give you a feel for my system: Powder7&#8217;s own Jordan and Amy were up at Beaver Creek last week for Wednesday&#8217;s powder day&#8211;and, in doing so, made a powerful new enemy. Skiing calf-deep snow in early December without me is all it takes sometimes to earn a scathing anti-Christmas card. I&#8217;m quite fickle. Anyway, here&#8217;s some footage of them having a grand time on the mountain (fun exercise: try to identify the exact second they became dead to me):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Beaver Creek Colorado Early Season Ski Powder Day Dec 4 2013\" width=\"1020\" height=\"765\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H63Q-XtT97k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Speaking of people skiing on film, I&#8217;ve been watching an almost incomprehensible number of ski movies lately. Or, at least, I&#8217;ve been trying to. It&#8217;s hard to concentrate on the TV when you live above a bowling alley and below another, louder bowling alley. I have the worst real estate agent.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I don&#8217;t like to talk about myself, but I freely admit that I&#8217;m a bit of a cinephile. Wait, &#8220;cinephiles&#8221; are people who dress up like Sherlock Holmes and act out famous Victorian murder mysteries, right? I only ask because the cinephile blog I write has been getting some very negative feedback. Anyway, my point is this: I&#8217;m the kind of person whose opinions should be taken seriously.<\/p>\n<p>So, what follows is an indisputable list of the five greatest ski movies of all time, presented here, for future historians to reference:<\/p>\n<p>(5) <strong>&#8220;Deep and Light&#8221; (1949)<\/strong> &#8212; Why? Because it&#8217;s the first Warren Miller film and invented the ski movie genre. Oh, and it came out in 1949. That means there&#8217;s leather boots, wooden skis, and a curious amount of taunting of Germans. Probably. I don&#8217;t really remember. Even the title card is a classic: <em>&#8220;Warren Miller, Author of &#8216;Are My Skis on Straight? Nice Try George&#8217; Presents Skiing &#8216;Deep and Light,&#8217; a 1 and 1\/2 Hour Personally Narrated Color Motion Picture Featuring the French Technique, the Blind Skier, Chin-Deep Powder, Thrilling Jumps, Comedy.&#8221;<\/em> It&#8217;s like something from a 19th century snake oil brochure.<\/p>\n<p>(4) <strong>&#8220;The Spy Who Loved Me&#8221; (1977)<\/strong> &#8212; Is it a ski movie? No. Does it feature James Bond skiing away from machine gun-carrying anonymous evil-doers, launching off an enormous cliff, and floating to safety beneath a Union Jack-themed parachute? You bet it does. Five stars.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Spy Who Loved Me - Austria Ski Chase\" width=\"1020\" height=\"765\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RaEU_A405zA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(3) <strong>&#8220;Swift, Silent, Deep&#8221; (2008)<\/strong> &#8212; A documentary about a rebellious bunch of pioneering powder hounds who call themselves the Jackson Hole Air Force, it achieves the rare feat of being both interesting and exhilarating. By pure coincidence, &#8220;Swift, Silent, Deep&#8221; is also the title of my Powder7 fan fiction anthology series&#8211;which you can buy at a bookstore near you, if I happen to be there and have any extra copies in my van.<\/p>\n<p>(2) <strong>&#8220;The Blizzard of AAAhs&#8221; (1988)<\/strong> &#8212; First of all, that&#8217;s a terrific pun. Look for it to top my list of all-time greatest puns in next week&#8217;s even more unbearable blog post. Second, this movie from Greg Stump Productions featured a be-mohawked Glen Plake showing suburban teens everywhere what &#8220;extreme skiing&#8221; looked like. It looked like this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blizzard of Aaah&#039;s Coloir Sequence - Greg Stump\" width=\"1020\" height=\"765\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/07mJC0CZESk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(1) <strong>&#8220;The Adventures of SkiBo&#8221; (date unknown)<\/strong> &#8212; What&#8217;s that? You haven&#8217;t heard of this? Of course you haven&#8217;t. That&#8217;s how you know it&#8217;s good. The story is simple: two mysterious, unlikeable characters attempt to climb the backside of Vermont&#8217;s Mt. Mansfield and ski down the famed Teardrop trail. This has it all: shaky POV camera work, mumbled dialogue, and slow-motion crashes set to songs used illegally without attribution. Sadly, this masterpiece was removed from the internet after one of its stars went to business school and decided he didn&#8217;t want this Youtube video to be the top Google result for his name. But at what cost to our culture? Incalculable.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all I have for you this week, Powder7 fans. Sorry it got weird. I just get a little too excited this time of year. The mountains of Colorado are rapidly approaching mid-winter form, Powder7 Headquarters is buzzing with activity, and, in a couple of weeks, people are obligated to give me presents. What am I asking for this year? Same as always: a perfect clone of myself. Why? Oh, don&#8217;t worry about that. You&#8217;ll see why. Everyone will see why. 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