Motorcycle movie ping!...................
Peter Fonda was not allowed in the military because
of the military practice of last names first, first names last.
A movie that didn’t age well.
***..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.
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”.
That era was the end of the Golden Age of Hollywood. When Midnight Cowboy won Best Picture, it was over, done.
“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.
‘Oh wow, man, that’s heavy!’”
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.
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.
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.
Marxist blowhard.
Democrats are scum.
Whoa! You mean all this time I was mistaken in thinking the hippie dope fiends in Easy Rider were the bad guys who finally got what they had coming?
Heavy man!
Sorry, but it was not that good a movie. I am sure it has a cult following and it certainly was successful, but really it just isn’t all that and a bag of chips. Give me “Star Wars” or “Indy Jones and the Lost Ark” any day.
It is not worth analyzing. I mean, OK, they are changing a tire while the horse is getting s horseshoe changed. I get it.
Hippy movie. I think you need to be stoned to watch it and have it be some kind of religious experience.
Worth watching. I liked it. Had some great motorcycling shots of the wide open road, which is why I loved touring on a motorcycle. But the whole hippy drop-out anti-establishment theme hasn’t aged well.
Kudos to those whose favorite movie is Easy Rider, but it just not that good of a movie. Not even in the genre. I will go with “Vanishing Point” over “Easy Rider” any day. Even “Five Easy Pieces”.
God, what a pile of crap.
Fonda was extraordinarily fortunate to be drinking/smoking buddies with Hopper and Nicholson.
One of the luckiest men in Hollywood, ever.
Both Hopper and Nicholson were emerging GIANTS, while Fonda was a never-has-been. Without any talent whatsoever.