Posted on 08/27/2011 9:19:25 PM PDT by Blind Eye Jones
Take it up with the Pope, he said it, not me. :)
They’re in the same genre, but they’re nothing else alike. EASY RIDER was overtly about the meaning of America at the time—’trying to find America’ and all—while DM/CL was just an action/comedy with a ‘with-it’ ending.
Most comedies are anti-establishment, but it’s usually very comfortable, and doesn’t carry much bite. EASY RIDER was very up-front in terms of the scenes with the anti-hippie types and Nicholson’s lawyer character.
I recently got the Criterion set about BBS films and have been enjoying the movies and the extras—EASY RIDER, KING OF MARVIN GARDENS (I like parts of it, but this one is just dull to me on the whole), FIVE EASY PIECES, DRIVE HE SAID (a real find), LAST PICTURE SHOW (a flatout great movie).
Seeing how you have a question but are too lazy to simply copy and paste the quote into a search engine, you must not work at all.
It will have to wait as he has predeceased me.
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