Pidgin, or Hawai‘i Creole English, features prominently in Hollywood films about Hawai‘i but what function does it serve? The 1987 film North Shore about an Arizonan who wins a wave pool surf contest and comes to O‘ahu to tame the famous breaks of the North Shore and to win the heart of a kind wahine is an interesting, and problematic, example.
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