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Title: Easy Rider by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern ISBN: 0-451-06045-8 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: January, 2000 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $1.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (100 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Dediticated to a Generation of Dreamers...
Comment: This review refers to the Widescreen VHS edition....
"Easy Rider" is more than just a great film. It's an experience! Dennis Hopper who directed and co-wrote(with Peter Fonda and Terry Southern)preserved for us on film this time in history that has had a lasting cultural effect. His unique style of directing lets the viewer not just watch but experience the story from the free wheeling begining, to the drug trips(don't worry, you won't have any flashbacks), to the devastating end.
The story takes place in the late 60's, during a time of radical cultural changes. Fonda and Hopper are motorcyclists, "long hairs", who having just scored big in the sale of drugs,are searching to be free from the everyday hang-ups of life. They are headed from Los Angeles to New Orleans, trying to make it to Mardi-Gras.Along the way they are met with the varied attitudes and life styles of those they encounter. Some just accept them for who they are, others openly show their hostility at what is different and unknown.They are also joined by (in his breakthrough performance) the inimitable Jack Nicholson, who made me smile from the first frame he was in, all the way through. Jack plays an alchoholic lawyer who's looking for a little change in his life and joins the boys on their road trip.
So "trip" down memory lane, or experience this important film for the first time, to one of the greatest soundtracks put to film. The music includes Steppenwolf, The Birds, The Band, and The Jimmi Hendrix Experience.
The film was nominated for Best Screenplay(1969), Fonda, Hopper and Nicholson show us way back then why they were all destined to become the stars they are today. Also look for Karen Black as a New Orleans prostitute. It was brillantly filmed and this widescreen edition brings every inch of scenery to you. It's a film well worth viewing and owning.
"They only wanted to be free..." Laurie
Rating: 3
Summary: Counterculture Touchstone
Comment: Easy Rider is a counterculture touchstone. It also was a trailblazer in the independent film market. There had other hippie movies before, but they were mostly bad films about drug use. Easy Rider tells the story of two hippies, played by Dennis Hopper & Peter Fonda, who motorcycle across the country from California to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They had just made a big drug score and are using that money for the trip. Along the way, they stay at a commune in the desert, get caught up in a dispute in a small town and of course take alot of drugs. There is a scene in a New Orleans graveyard that visualizes an acid trip. Jack Nicholson shows up as a drunk who is constantly being jailed. He rides along with Mr. Hopper & Mr. Fonda and meets an untimely death. The role garnered Mr. Nicholson an Oscar nomination and catapulted him to stardom. The film is visually pretty and well shot and they make great use of rock songs as no other movie had beforehand. The film was also a commentary by hippies about hippies. It is supposed to show that hippies are just peace loving people who embody the freedom America is supposed to give people. They are unfairly persecuted by small-minded people who judge them by the length of their hair. At the time, this was all groundbreaking stuff. The problem is that the film hasn't aged well in the 30 years since it's release. It is still cemented back in 1969 and now is just a relic from that time. The film's power should be more judged for the doors it opened up for other maverick film makers like Martin Scorcese, Peter Bogdanovich and other later ones like Quentin Tarantino and Spike Lee. Before Easy Rider, you had to play within the system. After it became a huge success, you could go underground and get daring pictures released.
Rating: 5
Summary: Two for the road
Comment: Revolutionary in its time but appearing somewhat dated now, "Easy Rider" was the ultimate road trip: two bikers on a cross-country ride from the west coast to Mardi Gras in New Orleans after scoring big in a drug deal. Produced and directed by, and starring Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda, and almost stolen by a then-unknown named Jack Nicholson playing a hippie lawyer, "Easy Rider" follows its two heroes across some of the most stunning scenery in the Southwest as they head towards Louisiana in search of "freedom", whatever that means. "Easy Rider" not only brings us two (or three, counting Nicholson) of society's dropouts, we also meet a community of hippies, some narrow-minded small-town lawmen, and some rednecks in Louisiana who seem to have a more-than-passing relationship to Neanderthals. We wonder if the film's perhaps unwitting message is that the search for meaningless "freedom" results in meaningless and wanton death and destruction. More than any film of its time, "Easy Rider" caught the mood of the late 1960s in America and the fear of the "establishment" for society's rebels. It may be of its own time, but its timeless rejection of mindless conformity echoes down to us.
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