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)
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’!]