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The gentle hippie community who thank God for 'a place to stand' are living their own unreal dream. The rancher they encounter and his Mexican wife are hard-pushed to make ends meet. Even LSD turns sour when the trip is a bad one. Death comes to seem the only freedom. When they arrive at a diner in a small town, they are insulted by the local rednecks as weirdo degenerates. They are arrested on some minor pretext by the local sheriff and ... Written by alfiehitchie It's here! EASY RIDER ...the biggest hit in the cinema today! (British Quad) See more » Genres: 26 June 1969 (Sweden) See more » Also Known As: Mono (Western Electric Sound System) Color: Did You Know? Trivia Tom Mankiewicz was in New Orleans at the same time working on a TV music special. "I ran into Dennis and Peter by accident. Nobody had any idea that Easy Rider (1969) would become some kind of classic. But, my God, if I had the money, I wouldn't have given it to them. They were loaded all day long".

See more » Goofs The commune is set in New Mexico, but the VW bus has California license plates, and the ocean can be seen in the background. See more » Quotes Sheriff : Whatcha think we oughta do with them? Cat Man : I don't never know. But I don't think they'll make the parish line. See more » Connections (Philadelphia, PA) – See all my reviews Not many films have documented an era of American culture the way it must have really been. THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES captured the reality of the post-war 1940's. TAXI DRIVER is a masterpiece of social distortion and paranoia exemplary of the 1970's. No film other than EASY RIDER captures the late 1960's as seen by the American counter-culture. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper's story of two men who go in search of America and 'freedom' is a bona fide sign of the times. I may not have been around at the time, but it is great to see a film portraying the long-haired, hippie attitude towards an America in turmoil in the form of a biker flick, circa 1969.

EASY RIDER is an exploration of vast and desolate parts of the country. Of course, the stop at Mardi Gras is a necessity, but what Fonda and director Hopper are trying to tell us is that there was no 'freedom' as they saw it. The sprawling journey shows filmgoers the multiple frictions and shattered idealism of a generation in the midst of cultural change. Sex, drugs, and music were exploding socially and 1960's ideology may have come to an end in 1969, literally and figuratively speaking - much like it shockingly does in this film. Peter Fonda plays cool "Captain America", otherwise known as Wyatt, while Hopper is a paranoid prophet of the hippies as "Billy the Kid". The stunning DVD version of the film notes the importance of Laszlo Kovacs, the director of photography. Much of the film consists of Kovacs' simple shooting of the riders as they travel spiraling highways and bigoted backroads. It is some beautiful footage and essential to the trip. A major deal is made, much grass is smoked, and the film takes off from there.

Their ultimate goal is never clearly defined, but Fonda's final comment to Hopper may sum it up for viewers. Did they find what America was supposed to be about? I guess not according to Fonda. There is a surreal experience at a commune the Kid and Wyatt stop at. These scenes are out of a Fellini film. One significant shot paints the commune with a 360 degree pan across the faces of the live-in hippies. The expressions on the faces all seem different, some grinning, others just zoned out. Kovac's amazing camera work (especially on the road with the bikes) along with a virtual who's who in rock music of the late 60's makes for a sometimes visceral filmgoing experience. The immortal 'Born to be Wild' blares over the opening title sequence and everyone from Hendrix to The Byrds are heard throughout. EASY RIDER also contains one of Jack Nicholson's 2 or 3 most memorable performances, even to this day. As drunken lawyer "George Hanson", he creates an amazingly funny and perfect counterpoint to Hopper and Fonda. He realizes what the general public can think of the "long-hairs" and puts himself in danger just by traveling with them.

A bizarre notion of alien presence in the U.S. government is part of a hilarious conversation Nicholson and Hopper have over Whiskey and smoke. His scenes on Fonda's chopper with the golden football helmet are absolute, cinematic classics. Credit must be given to Fonda, Hopper, Nicholson, Kovacs, and Terry Southern for giving a new face to movie-making. They captured the era in a raw, jump cutting fashion. Maybe the hippies were not entirely right by trying to live off the land, or smoking dope all the time, but they may have been onto something. RATING: ***1/2 140 of 168 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Easy Rider film locations (1969) Easy Rider film locations Visit: Arizona Monument Valley can be reached on Route 163, 24 miles north from the town of Kayenta, Route 160. There’s a visitor centre (admission charge; tel: 435.727.3353). A 14-mile loop snakes through the valley, but not all roads are open to the public.

You can see more of the park on a guided tour, from the parking lot at the visitor center. Visit: New Orleans Mardi Gras Easy Rider filming location: Wyatt throws away his Rolex at the start of the journey: Ballarat, California This surprise low-budget smash of the Sixties, revolutionising the studios and launching not only dozens of variable quality imitations but the career of Jack Nicholson , was shot in sequence, apart from the New Orleans Mardi Gras scene, which was actually first in the can. Always know where you’re heading. OK, not entirely in sequence. The opening scene, of Billy ( Dennis Hopper ) and Wyatt ( Peter Fonda ) buying their coke wholesale in ‘Mexico’, was filmed at ‘La Contenta’, now the Red Arrow Emporium, 1302 Paseo Del Pueblo Norte in El Prado, just north of Taos, not in ‘Mexico’ but in New Mexico . The cross-country journey proper, which follows much of the famed old Route 66 , begins in LA .

The profitable drugs sell-on (a cameo from legendary record producer, now convicted murderer, Phil Spector) was shot at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) , but from there on the movie was filmed on the hoof across the American southwest. The key scene of Wyatt tossing his Rolex to the ground was staged in Ballarat, east of Route 178, between Trona and Stovepipe Wells on the western edge of Death Valley. As you can see, there’s little left of this ghost town, apart from crumbling ruins, though there is now a little store where you can pick up the basics. Route 66 has log since been superseded by modern highways but it can roughly be followed in dribs and drabs. Behind the credits, Billy and Wyatt ride south on Park Moabi Road, from Park Moabi itself over the railtracks to what is now I-40, south of Needles on the California / Arizona border. Just to the east on I-40, they cross the Colorado River into Arizona at Topock, and its three bridges (the old Trails Arch Bridge is the one crossed in the opposite direction by the Joad family in John Ford ’s 1940 film of The Grapes Of Wrath ).

And on to the motel, where the owner hurriedly turns on the ‘No vacancies’ sign once he realises his potential customers are bikers. This was the Pine Breeze Motel at Bellemont, about 12 miles west of Flagstaff , Arizona . The stretch of Route 66, on which it stood, is now a disused section of East Bellemont Road, running alongside I-40. Ironically, the site is now a biker mecca. There’s a Harley-Davidson dealership, and the Route 66 Roadhouse Bar and Grill, 11840 West Route 66, displays the film’s original ‘No vacancies’ sign over the bar. The abandoned gas station and the motel itself can still be seen crumbling away on the bar’s grounds about a mile to the east. From here, it’s a few miles east to Flagstaff , and a north turn onto US Route 89 for a few miles. Loop Road runs east toward Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument, which is where the pair pick up the hitchhiking stranger ( Luke Askew ).

Continue on to find Wupatki National Monument , Cococino, where they camp for the night in the ruins of the Wupatki Pueblo. A little further north, the Sacred Mountain gas station, where the stranger they picked up insists they don’t pay for gas, has closed – but the building is still there, on the west side of US Route 89 at 150 Road, about 20 miles north of Flagstaff. Easy Rider location: biking across Arizona, Billy and Wyatt pass by the Mittens: The Mittens, Monument Valley, Arizona Still carrying their passenger, Billy and Wyatt ride northeast through the pink, red and grey strata of the spectacular Painted Desert and onto that great screen favourite, Monument Valley , made famous by John Ford in films such as Stagecoach and The Searchers . There’s a bit of a cheat when they eventually drop off the hitcher with his family at the hippie commune, where they’re given acid, for “the right place, with the right people”. Although there was a commune in these parts, its privacy was fiercely guarded and the scene was recreated in Malibu, back in California .

And there’s also a leap of a few hundred miles east sneaked in here to New Mexico . The spring where Billy and Wyatt go skinny dipping with two girls is Manby Hot Springs, in the Rio Grande gorge, a couple of miles southwest of Arroyo Hondo, north of Taos. There’s room for five or six people in the naturally heated pools and clothing, as they say, is optional. About 60 miles to the south is the town where Billy and Wyatt cheerfully tag along on their bikes behind a marching band. The parade was filmed in Las Vegas – not the glitzy casino city of Nevada but the tiny frontier town in New Mexico , on US Route 85 about 50 miles east of Santa Fe. Thrown into jail for the heinous crime of “parading without a permit”, the pair meet up with dissipated lawyer George Hanson (star-to-be Nicholson ). The exterior of the old jail can indeed be seen in Las Vegas, at 157 Bridge Street (it’s now art gallery Tito’s), and it’s on Bridge Street that George toasts old DH Lawrence with the first Jim Beam of the day. Exiling himself from the UK, writer DH Lawrence did settle in New Mexico .

The writer’s last resting place is Taos, and it’s here that the interior of the jail was filmed, in what is now another gallery – Bryans Gallery, 121 Kit Carson Road. Donning his gold football helmet, Hanson joins the pair’s journey to Mardi Gras. Even the crazily fearless Hopper had second thoughts about filming a hippie epic in late Sixties Lone Star state. So Texas seems to have just gone missing, and it’s straight on to Louisiana , with a burst of Hendrix If 6 was 9, and the Long-Allen Bridge, carrying Brashear Avenue (the old LA 182) over the Atchafalaya River from Berwick to Morgan City. They pass the old post office (now looking a little more run down than it did sporting the Stars and Stripes in the film) on the north side of East Main Street, Garden City, opposite Oak Street; and ride down West Main Street, Franklin, between Commercial and Jackson Streets. First stop in Louisiana is the town of Morganza, by the Mississippi, about 30 miles northwest of state capital Baton Rouge.

The town seems to have missed out on a major tourism opportunity here, as the scary redneck café, which stood on the east side of Gayden Road just south of Campbell Street, has been torn down. You can still see the entrance steps, which now lead to an empty plot of land. Sure enough, they don’t fare too well around here, and press on without the unfortunate Hanson. From here, it’s just a short hop, past the clutch of plantation houses familiar from so many other movies, to New Orleans , Mardi Gras , and time to drop those acid tabs in – where else? – a cemetery. The cemetery, the city’s oldest, is St Louis Cemetery No.1, 1300 Saint Louis Street at Basin Street, west of the French Quarter. All that’s left is the journey home. About 30 miles west of Baton Rouge, on the Atchafalaya River, stands Krotz Springs. It’s maybe a little too close to Morganza for comfort, and it’s on North Levee Road (US Route 105), just north of town, that the film ends with a brace of shotgun blasts. See also ...

Easy Rider (1969) Official Trailer | Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper Movie - YouTube Easy Rider (1969) Official Trailer | Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper Movie Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Nov 7, 2014 For all kinds of film goodness subscribe to ViralFilm: Easy Rider Two counterculture bikers travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans in search of America. Easy Rider is a 1969 American road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper. It tells the story of two bikers (played by Fonda and Hopper) who travel through the American Southwest and South. The success of Easy Rider helped spark the New Hollywood phase of filmmaking during the early 1970s. The film was added to the Library of Congress National Registry in 1998.

A landmark counterculture film,[2] and a "touchstone for a generation" that "captured the national imagination",[3] Easy Rider explores the societal landscape, issues, and tensions in the United States during the 1960s, such as the rise and fall of the hippie movement, drug use, and communal lifestyle. In Easy Rider, real drugs were used in scenes showing the use of marijuana and other substances. ___ If you love film, You'll like this! Welcome to the home of Viral Film! The YouTube channel that posts all about films! With the latest trailers, clips, facts and original content. You're sure to find something here that you'll be able to sink your teeth into! Here's our upload schedule: Monday - Facts You Didn't Know Wednesday - Movies in 5 Seconds Friday - What's in the Cinema Category Easy Rider Movie Review & Film Summary (1969) | Roger Ebert Tweet Nobody went to see "Easy Rider" (1969) only once. It became one of the rallying-points of the late '60s, a road picture and a buddy picture, celebrating sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, and the freedom of the open road.

It did a lot of repeat business while the sweet smell of pot drifted through theaters. Seeing the movie years later is like opening a time capsule. It provides little shocks of recognition, as when you realize they aren't playing "Don't Bogart That Joint" for laughs. Advertisement Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper play Captain America and Billy, journeying cross-country on their motorcycles, using a drug deal in Los Angeles to finance a trip to Mardi Gras. The drug is cocaine (sold to a dealer played by rock producer Phil Spector ), but their drug of choice is marijuana. Billy gets the giggles around the campfire at night. Captain America, who could handle it better, is cool, quiet, remote, a Christ figure who flies the American flag on his gas tank, his helmet and the back of his leather jacket. (It would be a year later, after the release of "Joe," that flag decals were co-opted by the right.) The making of the movie became a Hollywood legend. Fonda and Hopper took their screenplay (co-written with Terry Southern ) to the traditional home of motorcycle movies, American-International Pictures. But Sam Arkoff turned them down, and they finally found funding at Columbia.

The budget was so limited, there was no money for an original score, so Hopper, the director, slapped on a scratch track of rock 'n' roll standards for the first studio screening. The executives loved the sound and insisted the songs be left in, and "Easy Rider" begat countless later movies that were scored with oldies. Motorcycle movies were not fashionable in 1969, although " Hell's Angels on Wheels " made an attempt in 1967 to break free of the booze-and-violence cliches. Directed by Richard Rush (" The Stunt Man "), it was a largely overlooked precursor to "Easy Rider," sharing the same cinematographer, Laszlo Kovacs , and even the same little-known actor in a colorful supporting role: Jack Nicholson , who played a gas station attendant named Poet. "Hell's Angels on Wheels" is a great-looking movie, but it took "Easy Rider" to link two symbols of rebellion -- motorcycles and the hippie counterculture -- and catch the spirit of the time. Advertisement "Easy Rider" was playing in theaters at about the time Woodstock Nation was gathering in upstate New York.

It plays today more as a period piece than as living cinema, but it captures so surely the tone and look of that moment in time. There's heavy symbolism as Fonda throws away his wristwatch before setting off on the journey, and the establishing scenes, as Captain America and Billy stash their loot in a gas tank and set off down the backroads of the Southwest, are slowly paced -- heavy on scenery, light on dialogue, pregnant with symbolism and foreboding. One of their bikes needs work, and they borrow tools at a ranch, leading to a labored visual juxtaposition of wheel-changing and horse-shoeing. Then they have dinner with the weathered rancher and his Mexican-American brood, and Fonda delivers the first of many quasi-profound lines he will dole out during the movie: "It's not every man who can live off the land, you know. You can be proud." (The rancher, who might understandably have replied, "Who the hell asked you?" nods gratefully.) A hitchhiker leads them to a hippie commune that may have seemed inspiring in 1969, but today looks banal.

A "performance troupe" sings "Does Your Hair Hang Low?" on a makeshift stage, while stoned would-be hippie farmers wander across the parched earth, scattering seed. "Uh, get any rain here?" Billy asks. "Thank you for a place to make a stand," Captain America says. The group leader gives the Captain and Billy a tab of acid and the solemn advice, "When you get to the right place, with the right people -- quarter this." Advertisement If "Easy Rider" had continued in the vein of its opening scenes, it's a good question whether anyone would remember it today. The film comes alive with the electrifying entry of the Jack Nicholson character, a lawyer named George Hanson whom they meet in a jail cell. (They have been jailed for "parading without a permit" after wheeling their bikes into a small-town parade.) Historic moments in the cinema are not always this easy to identify: Nicholson had been in movies for years, but his jailhouse dialogue in "Easy Rider" instantly made him a star. "You boys don't look like you're from this part of the country," he says.

He's an alcoholic lawyer on good terms with the cops; he arranges their release, supplies the name of a topnotch whorehouse in New Orleans, and says that he's started out for Mardi Gras many times without getting past the state line. That sets up the film's most famous shot: George on the back of Billy's motorcycle, wearing a football helmet. Nicholson's work in "Easy Rider" created a sensation. Audiences loved his sardonic, irreverent personality and were primed for his next film, " Five Easy Pieces " (1970), with its immortal chicken salad sandwich dialogue. Then and now, "Easy Rider" comes alive while the Nicholson character is in the movie. That night around the campfire, he samples grass for the first time ("Lord have mercy, is that what that is?") and then explains his theory that extraterrestrials walk among us. He uses a confiding tone, sharing outrageous information as if he's conferring a favor; it would become his trademark.

Advertisement George is killed shortly afterward, by rednecks who have seen them in a roadside cafe and decide they look "like refugees from a gorilla love-in." The impact of his death seems shortchanged in the movie, which hurries on to New Orleans. Captain America and Billy find the legendary whorehouse and drop acid in the cemetery with two hookers (including Karen Black in one of her earliest film roles). It's a bad trip, but maybe they chose the wrong place with the wrong people. The last act of the movie is preordained. There have been ominous omens along the way (and even a brief flash-forward to Captain America's flaming death). Rednecks in a pickup truck use a shotgun to blast both men from their bikes. The camera climbs high into the sky on a crane, pulling back to show us the inevitable fate, I guess, of anyone who dares to be different. Advertisement The symbolic deaths of heroes became common in movies after " Bonnie and Clyde " (1967), and Pauline Kael noted in her "Easy Rider" review that "the movie's sentimental paranoia obviously rang true to a large, young audience's vision.

In the late '60s, it was cool to feel that you couldn't win, that everything was rigged and hopeless." One of the reasons that America inspires so many road pictures is that we have so many roads. One of the reasons we have so many buddy pictures is that Hollywood doesn't understand female characters (there are so many hookers in the movies because, as characters, they share the convenience of their real-life counterparts: They're easy to find and easy to get rid of.) The motorcycle picture was a special kind of road/buddy movie that first came into view with Marlon Brando in "The Wild One" (1954), flourished in the late 1960s, and more or less disappeared a few years later. The movie grew out of pictures like "The Wild Angels" (1966, also starring Fonda), but it also expressed a notion that the counterculture believed in at the time: You could leave the city and return to more natural roots. A sweet idea, but one that did not coexist easily with drugs.

In scenes like the one where Hopper and Fonda teach Nicholson how to inhale, there's a quietly approving air, as if life is a treatable disease, and pot is the cure. Advertisement But Billy is paranoid, probably because of all the grass he smokes, and in later scenes, they're oblivious to the dangers they invite with their strange appearance. (There's a scene where they excite teenage girls in a restaurant with their aura of sexual danger, and local Good Old Boys feel threatened and plot revenge.) Many deep thoughts were written in 1969 about Fonda's dialogue in a scene the night before his death. Hopper is ecstatic because they've made it to their destination with their drug money intact. "We blew it," Fonda tells him. "We blew it, man." Heavy. But doesn't the movie play differently today from the way its makers intended? Cocaine in 1969 carried different connotations from those of today, and it is possible to see that Captain America and Billy died not only for our sins, but also for their own. This essay is based on my 1994 re-review of the film, revised for inclusion in the Great Movies series.

My original review is online at rogerebert.com, where there are also reviews of the similarly themed films "Hell's Angels on Wheels" and "The Wild Angels." Advertisement Watch Easy Rider (1969) HD Online Free A man went looking for America and couldn’t find it anywhere... 1969 1 h 35 min Click an icon to see more Overview Easy Rider is a classic film from the 1960s. A road movie that embodies the feeling of being a hippie as two friends head cross-country to Mardi Gras. A controversial period film by Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda with some classic music from a generation of wanderers. Metadata Easy Rider Easy Rider Written by: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern Starring: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson By Mitchell Hillman, Jr. Easy Rider is a cinematic roadshow born from the cultural and political strife of middle America in the late 1960s and a direct descendent of earlier rebellious journeys like Jack Kerouacs On The Road. Like that Beat Generation novel, although the language and styles are dated, the theme and meaning behind the film is timeless.

To quote the movie Freedom, "Thats what its all about." But it is also about the conflicts that occur when seeking true freedom and enlightenment. As a young Jack Nicholson says "Yeah, freedom. Thats what its all about, but its difficult to be free when youre bought and sold in the marketplace." Made on a shoestring budget and featuring a cast of relative unknowns, Easy Rider chronicles the motorcycle journey of Captain America (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper) from Los Angeles to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Along the way, the characters meet a hippie heading home to his commune, spend time in prison and befriend George (Jack Nicholson), a drunk lawyer who joins the journey. They meet ridicule and potential violence in a small diner in Louisiana, enjoy the otherworldliness of Mardi Gras, and encounter a final violent episode on a quiet country road just as their journey is really beginning. The amusing thing about watching Easy Rider is that you get to peek into a time capsule and snicker at the fashion, language, and filming techniques of the time.

The scary thing about watching Easy Rider today is, unfortunately, many issues of hate and distrust of individuals discussed in the film are still alive and well nearly 30 years later. Although the language sounds dated, both Fonda and Hopper create characters that are relevant today. Fonda plays the role of the philosophical conscience of the groupslow to speak and always insightful, while Hopper portrays the ugly Americanloud, arrogant, aggressivea stoned loner who wants things his way and no other. When the duo encounter Nicholson, who is recovering in jail after another heavy night of drinking, Fonda and Hopper are introduced to a tiny segment of the establishment, and they realize that they may actually have something in common with the people they thought they hated. After a scene in a small diner in Northern Louisiana, where the three travelers are ignored by the servers and verbally harassed by the local sheriff and a bunch of backwoods locals, it is Nicholson who puts the incident into perspective. "Theyre not scared of you," says Nicholson. "Theyre scared of what you representfreedom." The movie climaxes with the Captain and Billys arrival in New Orleans.

They experience Mardi Gras in the streets, eat their "Last Supper" and then have a hallucinogenic experience with two prostitutes in a New Orleans cemeterya final prediction of their violent and untimely demise. Easy Rider stands up pretty well for what it isa travelogue of the American highway at an extremely turbulent time in our countrys history. The movies soundtrack, which features the likes of the Byrds, Jimi Hendrix and Steppenwolf, further enhances the story by entwining relevant music with the film footage. From Steppenwolfs "The Pusher" behind the opening drug deal scene with Phil Spectre, to "Born to Be Wild" starting as they hit the road and opening credits roll, to Roger McGuinns version of Dylans "Thats Alright Ma (Im Only Dying)" playing before the film's violent end, the music is used to help tell the story as much as the dialogue and cinematography do. The most important part of the movie hinges on the careful character development of primarily Fonda and Hoppers, but also Nicholsons lawyer.

While Captain America and Billy are both representations of hippies they are polar opposites in their manners and behavior. Captain America is the hippie ideal, coolly looking toward enlightenment and its freedom; Billy is the hippie worst case scenario, searching only for a good time of drugs, booze and women. Of course, you could substitute "American" for "hippie" in that statement and it wouldnt change a thing. Nicholson is the pivotal point between the two offering them a perspective between theirs, one that understands their desires and dreams, but knows the hard facts of the real world. This film could be examined on many levels. Whether the characters symbolize three different faces of America, the three parts of the subconscious (id, ego and super-ego) or if this is a religious analogy filled with martyrs and Christian analogies; it is clear that they are all tragic heroes. All three are shattered men, when together they are complete, but once that balance is lost, so too is the journey. Easy Rider on iTunes by starry58 This is truly a classic movie that everyone should see. They don't make movies like this anymore and its a shame.

"If Six Turns Out To Be Nine!" by "Grimmbo" .."He Was A Friend Of Mine!".."Captain America" & His Sidekick for a Different Generation!-Neither Beatnicks nor Hippies; Dennis Hopper's & Peter Fonda's Characters in this Moving Elegy to Life & Loss "On The Road"; Are more akin to "Free Spirits"; Man!-But; As we all know by now; "Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothin' Left To Lose!"-And when they hook up with Jack Nicholson's character; The Film really takes off!-{Note: "Easy Rider" may contain the only Cinematic Version of the now (Infamous) Phil Spector; Playing a Character scarily close to his Real Self!}-Also; One of the Best Rock Soundtracks; Hands Down!-Dig This Again!...by Grimmbo. Surprisingly not a classic by Edwin Duenas Huge movie fan, and for years watching this movie has eluded me. Finally got a chance to sit and watch this intensley promoted piece of movie history. Walked away thinking... This is it? A waste of time, and grossly exaggerated. I was so dissapointed.

They actors have been celebrated in life for countless theatrical classics, but this one is a film I would NEVER reccomend... It's the same old, which was original then I suppose, America is evil and conservatives wanna kill peace loving, unaccountable, drug using, godless, left wing liberals... Usually plays well in Hollywood, but in this film its rather boring. Viewers Also Bought © 1969 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Customer Ratings Easy Rider | film by Hopper [1969] | Britannica.com film by Hopper [1969] Karen Black Easy Rider, American countercultural film , released in 1969, that was hailed as a youth anthem for its message of nonconformism and its reflection of social tensions in the United States in the late 1960s. It helped spark the New Hollywood of the late 1960s and early ’70s, in which a style of filmmaking based on low budgets and avant-garde directors arose that differed greatly from the traditional moviemaking of the Hollywood studios.

Peter Fonda (left) and Dennis Hopper in Easy Rider (1969), directed by … © 1969 Columbia Pictures Corporation; photograph from a private collection Hippie drug dealers Wyatt (played by Peter Fonda , who also produced) and Billy ( Dennis Hopper , who also directed) are ostensibly en route to New Orleans for Mardi Gras , but in reality they are on an odyssey in search of freedom and some meaning in life. Along the way they encounter an eclectic array of individuals, including George Hanson ( Jack Nicholson ), an establishment lawyer with a penchant for alcohol. The people they meet and the situations that follow represent the best and worst aspects of modern American life and reflect upon issues that were particularly popular with youth at that time, from the hippie and commune movement to racism, war, religious tolerance, and drug use.

(From left to right) Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, and Jack Nicholson in Easy … © Columbia Pictures Corporation Many of the scenes are crude and rambling—the film’s original cut ran nearly four hours—and Easy Rider can easily be viewed as a period piece, albeit a significant one, that reflected simplistic, though common, perceptions of the day, with everything countercultural or mainstream deemed either good or evil, respectively. The film’s bleak conclusion—in which Wyatt and Billy have a violent encounter with men in a pickup truck—is still jarring for audiences. The success of the low-budget film revolutionized filmmaking and hastened the end of the power wielded by the studio moguls in Hollywood. In addition, the film’s use of popular rock songs in place of original music was a concept later adopted by other filmmakers. Easy Rider proved a breakthrough for Nicholson, who earned an Academy Award nomination. Production notes and credits Watch Easy Rider Online | 1969 Movie | Yidio Watch Easy Rider "A man went looking for America and couldnâ€™t find it anywhere..." This classic film stars Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper as two disillusioned hippie-type individuals who embark upon a long distance motorcycle trip.

Along the way they encounter an array of memorable characters and become involved in several precarious situations. Easy Rider was a groundbreaking film that expored counterculture issues while using a great rock music soundtrack and expansive camera work. The tumultuous social climate of the late 1960s is exemplified well in this film. In this film Mr. Fonda is cast as Wyatt and Mr. Hopper plays Billy. These two characters initially make a wad of money by selling some drugs. Then they set out to attend Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Leaving from California Wyatt and Billy each ride Harley-Davidson chopper motorcycles on their trek to Mardi Gras. Wyatt's chopper is painted with a stars and stripes paint job. On the way they are jailed on minor charges and they meet up with a lawyer played by Nicholson who ends up riding along as a passenger for a while. Along the way to Mardi Gras the trio stop to meet an assortment of characters but they also experience brutality and tragedy. Much of Easy Rider is shot outdoors and the cinematography is top notch with wide sweeping shots of the motorcyclists traversing America.

In this movie issues such as drug abuse, alcoholism, prostitution and violence were examined and seen from a different perspective than that often found in mainstream motion pictures. Some of the other actors and actresses who star in "Easy Rider" are Phil Spector, Carrie Snodgress, Dan Haggerty,Karen Black and Michael Pataki. Easy Rider is almost as well-known for its soundtrack as it is for the film itself. Among the artists who perform on the soundtrack are Steppenwolf, the Electric Prunes, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Roger McGuinn, the Byrds and the Holy Modal Rounders.

Question: In which 1969 film were Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper heading for New Orleans?
Answer: Easy Rider