Production Year: 1969 - Action/Adventure - Director: Dennis Hopper - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring:Phil Spector, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Robert Walker, Luke Askew, Sabrina Scharf, Warren Finnerty more
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Easy Rider [1969]
This box-office hit from 1969 is an important pioneer of the American independent cinema
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movement, and a generational touchstone to boot. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper play hippie motorcyclists crossing the Southwest and encountering a crazy quilt of good and bad people. Jack Nicholson turns up in a significant role as an attorney who joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem with freedom as Fonda's and Hopper's characters embody it. Hopper directed, essentially bringing the no-frills filmmaking methods of legendary, drive-in movie producer Roger Corman (The Little Shop of Horrors) to a serious feature for the mainstream. The film can't help but look a bit dated now (a psychedelic sequence toward the end particularly doesn't hold up well) but it retains its original power, sense of daring and epochal impact. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
Easy Rider [1969]
This box-office hit from 1969 is an important pioneer of the American independent cinema
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movement, and a generational touchstone to boot. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper play hippie motorcyclists crossing the Southwest and encountering a crazy quilt of good and bad people. Jack Nicholson turns up in a significant role as an attorney who joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem with freedom as Fonda's and Hopper's characters embody it. Hopper directed, essentially bringing the no-frills filmmaking methods of legendary, drive-in movie producer Roger Corman (The Little Shop of Horrors) to a serious feature for the mainstream. The film can't help but look a bit dated now (a psychedelic sequence toward the end particularly doesn't hold up well) but it retains its original power, sense of daring and epochal impact. -- Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
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Advantages: One of the greatest all round movies produced Disadvantages: Elements of the story get slightly lost
...remarks in film history. Easy Rider is one of the most complex and unlikely film hits of all time; it takes the role of an event rather than a film, it is in fact a moment in history perfectly captured. It is a relic, a symbol of the 1960’s attitudes and a benchmark for the Hollywood new wave. After the new wave got it’s legs in 1967 with The Graduate and Bonnie and Clyde, Easy Rider was the defining picture that got the ball well and truly rolling. ... ...At the time of Easy Rider Hollywood was buried under crippling debts; something which it looked like could pull down the entire infrastructure of the system. Hollywood had become hopelessly out of touch still employing the old guard, John Ford Westerns were still circulating and high cost musical flops were financially crippling studios. It got to a stage where they simply couldn’t afford a flop, but this gave rise to independent filmmakers being ...
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Advantages: A cult classic that's strong today as it was over 35 years ago Disadvantages: Sometimes you have the "have I missed something?" feeling with the plot
This film was made just as the 60's were imploding on itself and was filmed in the same year as the assassinations of Kennedy and Luther King and the build up to the Vietnam war, so the subject was controversial. Many have called this the ultimate road movie but I feel it is more a reflection of a man trying to escape from something or himself but yet he doesn't know where to start looking, so what better place that the seat of a Harley?
The film ... ...(Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper) conducting a drug deal in the wastelands of an operating airport.
Once the deal is done and they have the cash you get the first glimpse of the 'horses' that are going to take the two of them across the land. It is a metaphorical western which is why the bikes are the steeds and why the two main actors are name after famous western outlaws, Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid.
Wyatt is seen stuffing rolled up dollar ...
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Advantages: seminal road movie. Disadvantages: not really sure...
Easy Rider. Whoa. It took me twenty-five years to see it, but I finally did it. And it’s exactly like I thought it would be. Man, I really feel for those counterculture hippies now. I really wanna grab a bike and find… whatever the hell it is they’re trying to find…
I think that perhaps I didn’t get it. Maybe it’s a generational thing, but as far as I could figure, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper (who also directs,) ... ...Phil Spector, and then ride about a bit, have a trip with some prostitutes and then… the end.
That’ll be it. I’m just too young to appreciate the undertones of just how dangerous this movie is, man. It’s making a statement about dropping out: Don’t do it in the South. Like Deliverance, this does for Louisiana tourism what goths with shotguns do for the ‘Stay In School’ campaign. I think it’s saying ...
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Advantages: A cult film with cult status, superb performance by all of the cast, good soundtrack Disadvantages: Plot? Well I guess it is a road movie
Easy Rider - the 1969 classic is the latest entry to my (rather small) video collection. After seeing Easy Rider a few days ago I can now see what all the fuss was about…
Two motorcyclists set off on a coast-to-coast road trip in hope of discovering and experiencing the real America. Along the way they pick up hitchhikers, smoke a joint here and there, get pissed every now and then and even visit a hippie commune.
The two "hippie" motorcyclists ... ...The other famous star of Easy Rider is Jack Nicholson whose magnificent performance won him worldwide attention. Remember, Easy Rider was the film that made Jack Nicholson.
Easy Rider is a significant film that reflected the feelings and attitudes of the youth of the 60's, that is why Easy Rider was such a cult film. Easy Rider represented the hippie culture of the 60's, it was made in the heart of the hippie era and even its director/actor Dennis ...
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Advantages: Too many to say! Disadvantages: Not for prudes.
...a film that was cutting edge in its time and whose quality still shines through then find it and watch it.
I’ve got the video, will almost certainly buy the remastered DVD, and have watched it many times. Easy Rider is a landmark in the history of cinema. ...
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A landmark in film history, EASY RIDER blew the studio doors open for more young directors than any film before or since, helping to create the wide-open climate that would lead to the production of many outstanding films in the 1970s. As its director, Dennis Hopper is usually given the lion's share of credit for the film's success, but the revelations of time suggest that the contributions of the late Terry Southern and, to some degree, Jack Nicholson have endowed the film with much of its residual power. Starring Peter Fonda as Wyatt (alias Captain America) and Hopper as Billy, it traces the hippie duo's adventures as they mount their seriously chopped hogs on a journey to find the real America en route to Mardi Gras. In Arizona, they visit a commune whose members seem to be having a tough time, and in a small Texas town they're jailed for joining a parade. But they're quickly sprung by an ACLU lawyer, the quirky, hard-drinking George Hanson (Jack Nicholson), who accepts their offer to join them on the trip to New Orleans, eager to visit the best whorehouse in the South. Although parts of the film now seem dated and some of the language seems quaint, the tensions and hostilities of the period are accurately reflected, Laszlo Kovacs's photography is superb, and Nicholson is exceptional in his breakthrough role.
Technical information
Special Features: Featurette, Filmographies, Directors Commentary
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 Wide Screen, 16:9 Wide Screen
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Mono
Dubbing Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 English Dolby Digital Mono French German Italian Spanish
Professional reviews
Review: "...There's nothing safe about Hopper's directorial debut....A pointedly bad trip..." (Entertainment Weekly, pp.56-7, 05/08/1994)
"...Marvelous outdoor photography..." -- 3 1/2 out of 4 stars..." (USA Today, p.4D, 24/11/1995)
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