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re: Help Me with Easy Rider
Posted on 1/28/24 at 12:04 am to Big Scrub TX
Posted on 1/28/24 at 12:04 am to Big Scrub TX
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Was the ending supposed to still be in Louisiana or in Florida?
Still in Louisiana. Not many levee/landscape situations like the one at the end in Florida. Was filmed near Krotz Springs.
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Posted on 1/28/24 at 1:19 am to davich
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Toni Basil (Hey Mickey)
Racey's 'Kitty', the original version is better.
Easy Rider isn't entertainment, it's purely art.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 8:21 am to liz18lsu
Slice of life in America during a specific time period. 
Posted on 1/28/24 at 9:21 am to liz18lsu
That mid-60s to mid-70s period of filmmaking always pulls me in two opposite directions. On one hand, I'm quite attracted to non-linear storylines and the emphasis on character-study. On the other hand, these same characters so often presented in these films are pretty damned whiney, inward-looking, and insufferable. I wind up truly hating the main characters, and ultimately the movies, despite being initially drawn to the filmmaker's 'approach.'
Posted on 1/28/24 at 11:56 am to BRich
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Still in Louisiana. Not many levee/landscape situations like the one at the end in Florida. Was filmed near Krotz Springs.
The scene was shot along the levee between Krotz Springs and Melville. One of the good ole boys that killed them was a good ole Billodeau baw from Krotz Springs.
ETA: took this off of Wiki:
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The restaurant scenes with Fonda, Hopper, and Nicholson were shot in Morganza, Louisiana.[17] The men and girls in that scene were all Morganza locals.[17] In order to inspire more vitriolic commentary from the local men, Hopper told them the characters of Billy, Wyatt, and George had raped and killed a girl outside of town.[7] The scene in which Billy and Wyatt were shot was filmed on Louisiana Highway 105 North, just outside Krotz Springs, and the two men in the pickup truck—Johnny David and D.C. Billodeau—were Krotz Springs locals.
This post was edited on 1/28/24 at 12:22 pm
Posted on 1/28/24 at 12:40 pm to liz18lsu
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It seemed like a lot happened, but nothing really happened.
It’s a road picture. There was a general quest, to get to NO for Mardi Gras, but the story was the trip to get there. (The trip they took when there was anticlimactic,
lol)
quote:
The bad guys were the good guys (hippies) and Louisiana trash were the bad guys.
I’m curious how you would label the two main characters as “bad guys”? Obviously, the folks who beat another man to death and the folks who gunned down two motorcycle riders with a shot gun were “bad guys”.
quote:
It felt like a movie that had no real intent or storyline.
I disagree. The story line is clear as is the intent of the movie, it’s pretty much spelled out in the dialogue all throughout the film.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 12:47 pm to Telecaster
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I betcha after about 20 minutes, those ape hangers on Captain America’s sled sure got uncomfortable - much less going 1500 miles.
I've been riding for over 50 years and have never understood the attraction of Ape Hanger bars on a bike.
I was at a rally in Maggie Valley, N. C. several years ago and I watched a guy ride in on a HD with Apes into a gravel parking lot and he damn near lost it several times trying to negotiate the lot to get into a parking space. I almost pissed myself laughing at that fool who though he was so cool.
Riding with ape hangers is akin to those crotch rocket riders who have their backs go sore after a hundred miles from being humped over the bike like a monkey fricking a coconut..
Posted on 1/28/24 at 12:55 pm to alajones
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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.
They are “them” now.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 3:36 pm to liz18lsu
Crummy, boring movie.
Posted on 1/28/24 at 9:03 pm to liz18lsu
quote:It depends on how you look at it.
It seemed like a lot happened, but nothing really happened.
quote:I'll give you they made a cocaine deal - other than that, how were they bad guys?
The bad guys were the good guys (hippies)
quote:Um, yes.
Louisiana trash were the bad guys
quote:I think it had major intent but was clearly not a plot-based picture.
It felt like a movie that had no real intent or storyline.
Posted on 1/31/24 at 7:39 am to liz18lsu
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It felt like a movie that had no real intent or storyline.
It did kind of just meander from the left coast to N.O. just in time for Mardi Gras, a Jazz Funeral and a few scenes in our cemeteries-------all of which were "must haves" if shot in N.O. at the time. Surprised they didn't have a lot of gumbo eating scenes too.
I was in my late teens when that movie came out and I didn't understand the draw other than the motorcycles that were very true to that era----raked frames, long front ends, King/Queen seats, tall sissy bar, hardtails, upswept exhaust pipes and small gas tanks.
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