Easy Rider

the movie was pretty good although i think it was overrated. i mean it was supposed to capture the 60's counterculture but all i saw were 2 bikers doing random ass things

 

It did show them repairing the bike one time.

I thought it captured the 60's real well.

I mean there was the music, the communes, the Man. I think it's a great movie.

 

ugh... please check the forum before you start a new topic, there are dozens of threads about this movie, reply in one of those!

 

If I remember it correctly, I believe he saids "Who sent you" - then Dennis Hopper senses the weird vibe and stumbles away. I always thought the scene showed our inherent flaws, like our tendancy to seperate into groups and then exclude. Even with all the free thinking thats going on it was facinating to see most the women in the commune doing "women's work" (cooking, ect).

I think it raises the question: "Will we ever live up to our ideals, or will we just continue to lie to ourselves?"

I love the movie. It always makes me think about freedom - and how unatainable it can be...

 

Well there is just so many great things you can say about this film. Jack's character is nothing short of brilliant.

Dennis Hopper goes off on Jack in the jail cell and Jack's response is to yawn in his face. "The Man is In the Window" song they make up while all these young girls are pawing over them while some redneck deputy stares at them through a cafe window.

The ending always brings to mind Neil Young's "Southern Man".

I always found Dennis Hopper's character a little bit dispicable myself. He is way too self absorbed and the film portrays this acutely, juxtaposed against a a melancholy Fonda character I couldn't figure out why these two would ever be together. It wasn't just that they were opposites, but they didn't have much in common other than some drug money and bikes. Fonda was bummed after Jack's death and all Dennis could think of was getting some Mardi Gras pussy.

Having done a few acid trips myself. I would say the graveyard scene was genius for what it was as much as was as was not. It was not some psychedelic light show with Laugh-In girls dancing on tombstones.

Instead it tried to portray the emotional content variances one might go through on a trip. I could see it in their faces, the eyes, the lines, the expressions, the verbal expressions, body positioning, interactions with inatimate objects, and I think real people though the real people acted like the trippers didn't exsist. It was no where near perfect, but I give it high marks compared to what I have ever seen

I like the feeling this movie gives me. I think once you get over seeing the final scene after seeing it a couple times, you try to relish the freedom these characters had as Jack's character so aptly observed and you just want to be that if only for a little while.