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Easy Rider’s philosophy and drug induced style is worth a watch

10/5/2011

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“Easy Rider” (1969) is a movie directed by the late Dennis Hopper. It stars Peter Fonda (Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, 3:10 to Yuma) and Dennis Hopper himself (Blue Velvet, Speed). Jack Nicholson (the shining, the departed) also makes an appearance as a fellow jail cellmate!

Here, the movie starts at the tail end of a lucrative drug deal. Wyatt (Fonda) and Billy (Hopper) next venture out onto the open road headed for Mardi Gras, then... to who knows where. Theirs is a life of “Freedom” and they, a breed amongst the multitude of others; some portrayed in this flick as being able to live and be at peace with the bikers, while others are stacked against em. Yes, their adventure leads them to meet all sorts of people, though those people are generally extreme if not almost stereotypical in personality. Beyond being philosophical, the journey is also drug laden and is almost as much a drug trip as it is a commentary on a breed of people amongst the backdrop of an (arguably) evolving society.

The acting is good with Fonda’s reflective Wyatt, played with subtle inner turmoil, stealing the show. Only to be eclipsed (at least for a while) by a quirky and crude Nicholson.
The movies transition sequences have a drug induced style. So too has (and more obviously so) the Marti Gras section of the movie. Coupled with the ladder case is a fusion of sex and religious symbolism – a show that holds less shock today than it likely had at the time of this movie’s release.

To be sure, the movie speaks more to those times then it can translate to today on a relevant and important level; with the exception of its potential as a springboard for discussion on the topic of “what is freedom?”

(**Spoiler alert for both “Easy Rider” and “Vanishing Point” (1971) **)

While its conclusion doesn’t pack the same resonating impact as does a similarly fiery finally as seen in vanishing point...

(**Spoiler alert over**)

... It’s still a good watch at 7/10 on scale.

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6/6/2012 05:48:45 pm

It was a great movie and the way it was shot was also exciting. All the actors performed really well.

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7/11/2012 07:50:03 am

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Hentai
7/12/2012 04:40:35 am

Hey Hentai,

The layout is the generic blog layout for weebly users. all you see here is working with weebly tools (p.s. nice name. lol)

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