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Easy Rider
1969 -
USA -
94 min. -
Feature, Color
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Director:
Dennis Hopper
Cast:
Peter Fonda,
Dennis Hopper,
Jack Nicholson,
Robert Walker,
Karen Black,
Phil Spector.
More Information:
All Movie Guide
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Sinopsis
(All Movie Guide)
Tossing wristwatches away, two bikers hit the road
to find America in
Dennis Hopper's
anti-establishment classic. After a major cocaine sale to an L.A. connection (Phil
Spector), free-wheeling potheads Billy (Hopper) and Wyatt aka Captain
America (Peter
Fonda, who also produced) motor eastward to party at Mardi Gras before
"retiring" to Florida with the riches concealed in Wyatt's stars-and-stripes
gas tank. As they ride through the Southwest, they take a hitchhiker (Luke
Askew) to a struggling hippie commune before they get thrown in a
small-town jail for "parading without a permit." Their cellmate, drunken ACLU
lawyer George Hanson (Jack
Nicholson, replacing
Rip Torn),
does them a "groovy" favor by getting them out of jail and then decides to
join them. Babbling about Venusians, George discovers the joys of smoking
grass, but an encounter with Southern rednecks soon proves how right he is
about the danger posed by Billy's and Wyatt's unfettered life in a country
that has lost its ideals. With the straight world closing in, Wyatt and Billy
try to revel in New Orleans with some LSD and hookers (Karen
Black and
Toni Basil), but the acid trip is shot through with morbidity. Once they
reach Florida, Billy raves about attaining the American dream; Wyatt, however,
knows the truth: "We blew it." Produced and directed by two Hollywood
iconoclasts with under a half-million non-studio dollars,
Easy Rider
shook up the languishing movie industry when it grossed over $19 million in
1969; it captured the spirit of the times as it woke Hollywood up to the power
of young audiences and socially relevant movies, along with such other
landmarks of the late 1960s as
Bonnie and Clyde,
The Graduate,
and 2001. Shot
on location by
Laszlo
Kovacs, Easy
Rider eschewed old-fashioned Hollywood polish for documentary-style
immediacy, and it enhanced its casual feel with improvised dialogue and
realistically "stoned" acting. With a soundtrack of contemporary rock songs by
Jimi Hendrix,
The Band, and
Steppenwolf
to complete the atmosphere,
Easy Rider
was hailed for capturing the increasingly violent Vietnam-era split between
the counterculture and the repressive Establishment. Experiencing the "shock
of recognition," youth audiences embraced
Easy Rider's
vision of both the attractions and the limits of dropping out, proving that
audience's box office power and turning Nicholson into a movie star. The
momentarily-hip Academy nominated Nicholson for the Best Supporting Actor
Oscar, and Fonda, Hopper and
Terry Southern
for their screenplay. Though none of its imitators would match its impact,
Easy Rider
remains one of the seminal works of late '60s Hollywood both for its
trailblazing legacy and its sharply perceptive portrait of its chaotic times.
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