Posted on 07/12/2019 12:05:43 PM PDT by Red Badger
Motorcycle movie ping!...................
Peter Fonda was not allowed in the military because
of the military practice of last names first, first names last.
Then I guess Dick Eaton wouldn’t be allowed in either.................
A movie that didn’t age well.
“Peter Fonda was not allowed in the military because
of the military practice of last names first, first names last.”
LOL!!!
Proof this one-trick-A-hole still lives in the past.
Such a loser.
***..only to be shot to death by good old boys on the road. ***
Just out of the military, I bought a truck, installing a gun rack when a pot head school mate said to me... “I don’t like people with gun racks in their truck! The guys in EASY RIDER were shot by a man with a gun rack!”
I just laughed it off and realized pot and LSD does affect your mind!
go look at the window and tell me we haven’t blown it.”
If he looks out the window and thinks what he sees is the ascendance of conservatism, then he’s wrong. If by ‘blow it’ he means the left’s victory in the sixties led to something he now regrets, then yeah, you blew it. But I doubt that’s what he means.
I saw it a few weeks back, and it was still entertaining, and from a historical perspective was correct for the times..............and I’m a motorcyclist..............
Several of the movies from that era and genre had the same type ending as Easy Rider:
Electra Glide in Blue, Vanishing Point, Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry (also a Fonda movie), Joe, and a few others................
The final scene was part of Hollywood’s agenda to create division between normal Americans (portrayed as evil rednecks) and abnormal Americans (portrayed as normal).
It was all about forcing the counterculture on us.
Normal American rednecks built our country, but they want people to hate our country. So normal Americans are portrayed as deranged and the anti-redneck bigotry is created.
“actress Toni Basil”
Yep, that’s the same Toni Basil of “Hey Mickey” fame. She was an actress back then, and even recorded a minor hit record in the 60s (”Breakaway”). Her biggest influence though hardly anyone knows about, but it was as a dancer and choreographer. She was part of a group of dancers in L.A. who pioneered what later became known as “breakdancing”.
I'd have said: I've never heard of anyone being shot with a gun rack.............
I never went to see it. Not something that interested me. I guess I've seen a few minutes of it here and there when flipping through the channels. The characters are lowlifes whom I would rather not know in real life. Ugh.
Well said!
That era was the end of the Golden Age of Hollywood. When Midnight Cowboy won Best Picture, it was over, done.
Another movie where one of the main characters dies at the end..........Must have been a trend.............
So, murdering strangers on motorcycles with shotguns for no particular reason is ‘normal’?..........
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