Posted on 05/21/2011 11:29:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Lars von Trier, who was banned from Cannes for praising Hitler, was not the only one making unsavoury comments at the film festival.
Peter Fonda, the star of Easy Rider, suggested to Mandrake that he was encouraging his grandchildren to shoot President Barack Obama.
“I’m training my grandchildren to use long-range rifles,” said the actor, 71. “For what purpose? Well, I’m not going to say the words 'Barack Obama’, but …”
He added, enigmatically: “It’s more of a thought process than an actuality, but we are heading for a major conflict between the haves and the have nots. I came here many years ago with a biker movie and we stopped a war. Now, it’s about starting the world.
“I prefer to not to use the words, 'let’s stop something’. I prefer to say, 'let’s start something, let’s start the world’.
“There’s no room any more for a cissy and, like I said, don’t forget that I’ve got grandsons who I’ve trained with long-distance rifles. We have to run like mofos to change this world.”
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Who’s Pete been talking to? Charlie Manson?
“We stopped a war”
What a joke!! Raise your hand if you ever watched “Easy Rider” again after you stopped smoking the weed. It was almost unwatchable. LOL!
“I odn’t know about that. Hopped was blasted out of his mind during the making of the movie, and his original cut was hours and hours long and had to be radically pruned.”
That describes filmmaking in the 70’s.
Hopper was a genius and one of the few openly Conservative legends in both the art and film world.
Typical Leftie. Call for ‘’revolution’’ just as long as their not the ones doing it. Notice he didn’t say he would take up arms but his grandkids should.
Add “and Cambodians” to the end of that and you’ve got it.
Add “and Cambodians” to the end of that and you’ve got it.
I think you're right. That was the message I took away from that statement.
blueunicorn6 -=> Who’s Pete been talking to? Charlie Manson?
If you mean me, it’s “Peet”.
Charlie Manson rode a bicycle around this area picking up cans at the roadside for the deposits. Five cents. At least he looked like Mansom and the squirrels in the catalpa trees SAID it was Manson.
Should I not believe the squirrels? You? the invisib1e hand?
I don’t believe Dan Rather for sure, but SOOoooo unsure about y’all and the squirrels.
Peet.
P.S. The Chipmunks *can* be trusted, but they don’t speak. Except Alvin.
Oh...so he’s always been stupid.
Thanks for clearing that up.
:)
Small wonder Henry was disappointed with them.
Yup.
IMO, Hopper stole that show.
Name one other ‘big hit movie’ Peter’s ever been in.
[and his 10 second cameos in “Wild Hogs” and “Ghost Rider” don’t count]
““I prefer to say, ‘let’s start something, let’s start the world’.”
More flashbacks.
The pan head he road in ER was a kick start so he’s probably thinking along some kind of convoluted lines of that as an analogy.
Well, I’ve seen it lots of times but never ‘smoked the weed’ so I don’t have that “before/after” perspective.
It was good biker flick, as far as it goes but all I got from it was a bassackwards morality tale.
Two guys don’t wanna work real jobs so they sell dope.
They make their “big, last sale”, throw away their watches to release them from their remaining artificial constraints of ‘the slavery of responsibility’.
Then they spend an hour riding around stoned and stupid, “looking for America”, p*ss off some locals and ride around some more.
Because he was stupid and stoned too, Jack Nicholson gets his head bashed in.
[shoulda kept that football helmet on when he slept]
The “epiphany moment” comes as they finally wind up totally freaking out on acid in a NOLA cemetery with a couple whores and Fonda sobbing hysterically for his mommy.
[WTF?]
“Capt. America” has one brief, shining flash of lucidity wherein he tells “Billy The Kid” that “we blew it, man.”.
Then they get blown away by the aforementioned p*ssed off locals.
The end.
When they announced the Viet Nam war was “over”, I don’t recall my grandmother yelling “Praise Easy Rider! My sons are coming home!”.
We were talking about the movie the other night, and a friend told me that Fonda's whore in the movie was Toni Basil... who many years later had the one hit wonder song "Mickey". I checked it out and it is true.
So I'm giving myself some points for "useless trivia", and BONUS points for getting that crappy song stuck in your head. LOL!
I have heard Toni brag about that two-bit part.
Why, I don’t know.
She’s already got “Mickey” to live down...LOL
Has-never-been speaks!
Me too. I read it that way.
Jack Nicholson stole that show!
But, I loved Hopper, too!
It’s funny how Fonda’s and Hopper’s careers went in such separate ways.
One word...talent.
It’s so good to see you! ;o)
Just what I said. My post was not threatening an assassination. Simply stating a fact. There are millions of people in this country who can defend themselves. Read my tag-line. “Don’t Tread on Me.”
Jack stole it for the brief time he was in it but other than that Hopper owned it.
His dope-inspired camp fire paranoid pontification about life on other planets alone was worth watching the rest of the movie.
When Hopper passed, I grieved.
Fonda?
I barely even knew he was still alive.
A bit of odd trivia:
Easy Rider was not Petey’s first foray into the biker-sploitation drive-in genre.
Anybody here recall “The Wild Angels”?
[with Bruce Dern and Nancy Sinatra]
Or “The Trip”
[with Bruce Dern and Dennis Hopper]
Then there were “Race With The Devil” [pretty scary flick] but one in which I didn’t care if he got killed and “Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry”, in which I only cared that the to-die-for ‘68 Charger got “killed”.
Yup.
One hit wonder and “Wyatt” was his cinematic zenith.
He’s gonna beat that dead horse to a bloody pulp.
In Wild Hogs, he pops up at the end as the guy who really runs the clubbers and the ER in-joke was “Hey guys...lose the watches.”
In Ghost Rider, upon seeing GR’s bike [which was an exact copy of the Captain America bike with a flame paint job] he says “Hey. Nice bike.”
[I have ignored the egregious, wonderfully awful sequel to “West World”, aka “Future World”.]
Yeah.
Acting.
[good to see you too, Dixie darlin’!]
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