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’!]
Jack stole it for a brief time, but he won an Oscar for his performance. That’s the movie that made him a *star*.
Hopper had more talent in his little finger than Fonda ever hoped to have.
As far as Fonda’s choices of movies he made...well, they are what they are. Trash.
And, that’s how I will always remember him
You’re a sweetie. ;o)