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Help Me with Easy Rider
Posted on 2/1/23 at 8:47 pm
Posted on 2/1/23 at 8:47 pm
It seemed like a lot happened, but nothing really happened. The bad guys were the good guys (hippies) and Louisiana trash were the bad guys. It felt like a movie that had no real intent or storyline.
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Posted on 2/1/23 at 9:04 pm to liz18lsu
Just two stoners riding around on choppers.
That’s all I got.
That’s all I got.
Posted on 2/1/23 at 9:48 pm to Simplemaaan
Literally all I got from that movie.
Posted on 2/1/23 at 10:13 pm to A Menace to Sobriety
It’s like Deliverance for hippies. Minus the butt secs.
Posted on 2/2/23 at 7:42 am to liz18lsu
An American society supposedly based on freedom is actually fearful and openly antagonistic to actual freedom
that’s the theme of the movie
that’s the theme of the movie
Posted on 2/2/23 at 9:14 am to liz18lsu
It's a piece of crap of a movie but it had young people in it and everyone was high back then so = box office gold!
Jack Nicholson's cameo was fun.
Dennis Hopper would burn out, then reboot his career and marry a Baton Rouge girl.
Jack Nicholson's cameo was fun.
Dennis Hopper would burn out, then reboot his career and marry a Baton Rouge girl.
Posted on 2/2/23 at 10:35 am to SingleMalt1973
Good post.
Posted on 2/2/23 at 10:40 am to liz18lsu
It was meant to be an indictment of working class America by a hippie generation who blamed the troubles of the sixties and the Vietnam War on them.
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Literally the author’s own words
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As Terry Southern, an author of Easy Rider, explained in incredibly tortured logic, “In my mind, the ending was to be an indictment of blue-collar America, the people I thought were responsible for the Vietnam War.”
Excerpt From Stayin' Alive Jefferson R. Cowie
Literally the author’s own words
This post was edited on 2/2/23 at 12:02 pm
Posted on 2/2/23 at 10:57 am to liz18lsu
I just remember Toni Basil (Hey Mickey) was one of the hookers.
Posted on 2/2/23 at 11:06 am to cgrand
I thought the ending was a message of crime not paying.
SPOILER!
SPOILER!
SPOILER!
SPOILER!
SPOILER!
No matter how nice a criminal you are, how cool you are, and how much fun you had along the way, you'll get yours in the end.
At least this was true in Dixie!
SPOILER!
SPOILER!
SPOILER!
SPOILER!
SPOILER!
No matter how nice a criminal you are, how cool you are, and how much fun you had along the way, you'll get yours in the end.
At least this was true in Dixie!
Posted on 2/2/23 at 11:10 am to davich
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I just remember Toni Basil (Hey Mickey) was one of the hookers.
Nudes, with massive bush, available through the googlemachine.
Posted on 2/2/23 at 11:19 am to liz18lsu
It's probably the most overrated film of all time. Leftist Boomers love it, though.
Posted on 2/2/23 at 2:16 pm to davich
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I just remember Toni Basil (Hey Mickey) was one of the hookers.
The late Karen Black was the other. In fact, Toni Basil is the only one of the foursome who is still alive.
All during the cemetery scene, you can hear a piledriver in the background. Before the hookers and the bikers enter the cemetery, you see a snippet of the pile drivers operating near the cemetery walls. They were driving piles for the elevated I-10 in the neutral ground of Claiborne Avenue during filming.
Posted on 2/2/23 at 2:25 pm to liz18lsu
I would like to look at my watch, take it off and toss it before setting off on my Captain America chopper at some point before I die.
Posted on 2/2/23 at 2:40 pm to BuckyCheese
Daddy likey
Posted on 2/2/23 at 3:24 pm to bad93ex
quote:Just make sure it's like in the movie: Rolexes in the close-ups, Timexes in the long shots
I would like to look at my watch, take it off and toss it before setting off on my Captain America chopper at some point before I die
Them hippies may have defied our decadent capitalist culture, but they wasn't stupid
Posted on 2/2/23 at 3:27 pm to HodsonTiger13
quote:It wasn't a cameo. Nicholson was a failed bit-part actor who was trying to survive in the business as a writer, co-writing the Monkees' movie Head (Hopper appears briefly, and Fonda visited the set).
Jack Nicholson's cameo was fun
When Rip Torn left the ER project PF & DH remembered Nicholson and gave him the flashy supporting role.
Posted on 2/2/23 at 3:34 pm to DaleGribble
quote:I saw it when I was a teenager in the '80s, and thought so then.
It's probably the most overrated film of all time
It's an insult to Terry Southern, the Dallas-raised satirist who was responsible for the comedy in the Dr Strangelove script
Nicholson and the soundtrack are the two good things.
TRIVIA: Robbie Robertson of the Band was supposed to write the score, but delayed it so long that Hopper/Fonda put together a rough cut with various rock songs on the soundtrack. RR saw this and said, "OK, I'll get right on writing the score", but they said FU and just used the rock songs.
The two main characters are allegedly based on Byrds Roger McGuinn (PF) & David Crosby (DH clearly seems to spoofing him)
Posted on 2/2/23 at 3:37 pm to Kafka
Jack was middle America that wanted to bust out of the matrix but would be killed for thinking that.
Posted on 2/2/23 at 3:40 pm to Honest Tune
Correct me if I'm wrong, it's been 25+ years since I've seen that movie. But didn't Nicholson kind of get himself killed in that movie by flirting with some really underage girls in a diner?
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