Posted on 07/12/2019 12:05:43 PM PDT by Red Badger
“Nicholson had told Jaglom about shooting the scene at the campfire when George gets high and talks about aliens.”
From what I’ve heard, that scene was totally unscripted and the stuff they were smoking was real. Feels like it.
Well, leftism may have won, but a lot of what they were preaching in the 60s is totally VERBOTEN now. Picking up a couple of girls hitchhiking, getting them loaded on drink and drugs, and then passing them around free love style?
No way that flies in the #MeToo era!
It was an okay movie-but it seemed cluttered with too many messages so that there wasn’t really a clear one-Electra Glide in Blue is my favorite movie of that genre/type...
‘Oh wow, man, that’s heavy!’”
Never figured out why those guys killed Nicholson’s character.............
Groovy!..................
Great article, thanks! I saw “Easy Rider” along with “On a Clear Day You Can see Forever,” as a double feature(!!??) at the drive thru.
I thought “Easy Rider” was great.
I saw it when it came out. It was okay but slow paced and had production values not much better than a student film.
About the same quality as the ridiculous Billy Jack of the same era. Fake counter culture exercises.
The characters in the movie didn’t blow it. They got killed. The makers of the movie and the counter-culture they represented did blow it, though. They got old.
You blew it, both you and your sister Hanoi Jane.
I was 15 when that movie came out. I saw it for the first time about five years ago. I thought it was unbelievably lame.
I flew a UH-1 loaded with flares into the same firebase four nights in a row and for four nights straight they showed Sleazy Rider.
The last scene was run backwards and forwards at least twenty times per showing. Joke was the freaks liked it because it showed how evil rednecks are.
Rednecks liked it because it had a happy ending.
There was a considerable conservative influence in the industry up through the 1970s: John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Ginger Rogers, Ayn Rand, and Morris Ryskind come to mind. About the time of Easy Rider, the Left went from a factor into dominance and after 2005 or so, as censorial as Stalin or Goebbels.
When it comes to the mass media, we need to never feed the beast. Pray that Trump and his allies will rein in the tyrants in social media.
Fonda means that full blown communism was not achieved.
Yet.
I think he’s just impatient.
As you point out, the seeds were sown back then and are now bearing fruit.
They have half the population believing their own exhalations are a dangerous pollutant, that men can be women and that foreigners should be allowed to take our country from us.
Easy Rider and the Woodstock festival were both the high water mark and the beginning of the end of the 1960's pop counterculture. Jack Kerouac on the road with a great musical soundtrack but with bad endings. The premise of Easy Rider should be condemned, yet the music and cinematography of 1960's America is to be cherished.
I liked it to. Bring back Dennis Hopper. Take Fonda instead.
Trying to make sense out of Easy Rider’s plot line is pretty much a pointless exercise.
Starring
Peter Boyle
Dennis Patrick
Audrey Caire
Susan Sarandon
K Callan
Patrick McDermott
Hilarious!
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