Quentin Tarantino and critic Kim Morgan talk about the iconic Peter Fonda/Dennis Hopper film in a series of links as part of a marathon of classic 60s films.
Whether you like him or not, it's worth listening to the WTF with Marc Maron interview with Peter, it's illuminating, interesting, and had a couple of stories I'd never heard before
He did it for 'SKY MOVIES' for a few months or so in 2009, but he isn't always as entertaining as he is in this introduction. Sometimes he just goes off and starts rambling about other movies when he's supposed to be introducing a particular one. ruclips.net/video/mJiCIX7ZmkE/видео.html
He's a big film buff, and a great self-publicist. He certainly ISN'T one of the best 20 directors in history, as some of the bias and ignorant and merely fashionable seem to reckon.
I was a junior in college when this movie came out & I saw it with no advance information. I had recently started transitioning from alcohol swilling straight jock-type to counter-culture pot smoker (thanks to attending the Woodstock festival) but still had one foot in each world. After the movie, I walked out into the night where it had begun to rain and can still recall the emotion of the moment when I realized that our world had become "us against them" and I knew without any doubt that I wanted no part of the "establishment" world. Over the next 10 years I relived the moment a thousand times playing an 8-track of the soundtrack to Easy Rider at home and in my car. To this day I am thankful to Woodstock and Easy Rider for pointing me in the right direction in life. With the exception of a few necessary compromises, I never conformed to any of the establishment norms or boundaries and yet I became financially independent and remain as free in mind, spirit and actions as I was that rainy night 54 years ago.
Tarantino is right it’s what makes the movie about anything. And what clarifies it is that after Jack Nicholson says the things about freedom he is the one who is killed first as if by being self aware made him more free than anyone else and therefore feared by society at the times. Great film
The ending is kind of even suggested when they are a the House of Blue Lights and Fonda’s character passes by a wall that reads “The Paths of Glory lead but to the Grave”. The ending is fundamental to the story.
I have read that (Jack) Nicholson had a tough time working with the late John Belushi (from "SNL") for "Goin' South" (from 1978); Christopher Lloyd (from the "Taxi" sitcom) also starred in that film. In 1978, Belushi also starred in a film about college; a favorite cult classic, "Animal House." (film director: John Landis)
@@dalegriffin6768 Yes, it was great and Hopper did choose some of the songs but my point is the 60's generation, Boomers, were not all part of the counterculture. Most Boomers were as straight as their parents and they were clueless about the music in Easy Rider when the movie came out.
I was 13 years old when I went to the theatre to watch Easy Rider in 1970. I didn’t know the ending. I of course was conditioned to expect the “good guys” to ride off into the sunset. Only time I ever left the theatre crying. Still a vivid memory after all these years.
I saw the movie in it's first year of release. I was not aware of the ending. I have many many many friends who also really identified with that movie. Living the free lifestyle was fatalistic. We have all gotten old and gotten educated and worked in the system. We kinda died with Captain America but still live today.
I'm a boomer 2 (1959) and didn't see the movie until I was in my 40's. I was 8 yo when it came out. My generation was spoiled - draft was ended by the time my class of 77 turned 18 and pot was acceptable - think Dazed and Confused. Too many jumped on that YUPPIE bandwagon and I was one of them in the 80's more intent on climbing the corporate ladder into the 90's. I've since snapped back by the time of the 21st century. Hope others have.
Early on in the film Hopper has a flat tire on his bike and they push it to a farm where the farmer allows them to use his barn to fix it and invites both to supper. Here is a farmer with his wife and a tribe of kids and at the table and Fonda - via body language and expression - realizes this is what he wants. "We blew it Billy". Certainly did. Anyway that is pretty much what I got from the movie.
and then once they're in the commune, Captain America has an itching to stay and settle-in with them, especially the woman he sits with. It's Hopper who insists they continue on
Years ago when Dennis was still alive there was a lengthy TV documentary celebrating the film. I found it interesting that both stars never mentioned either the bikes or the soundtrack, which is I think far and away the greater part that so many took away from the film. True there is plenty of high brow analysis to delve into and lines to quote but that does put aside aspects that meant much to so many. Huge numbers of Harley riders or chop owners got started by this film and the LP was in soooo many record shelves, look at how "The Weight" has become a revered anthem on the back of this film. (btw, if I had to be stuck in a lift with someone, Quentin would make a great candidate..)
I'm not the greatest fan of most of Tarantino's films but damn, his knowledge of film history is just encyclopaedic! Of Australian cinema too, if you ever get a chance to hear him talk about it at length (as in the doco "Ozploitation" which impressed the heck outta me) or of world cinema history generally, probably.
1969 was the year that movies were changing from the old guard of Hollywood to the new movement and making films independently from the studio system, and Easy Rider clearly reflected that, as did Midnight Cowboy, released just a couple months apart and was given an X rating. The times were definately changing and paved the way for even grittier films in the 1970s.
Don't forget the then-controversial "the Wild Bunch", which pushed the envelope in screen violence and interpreted by some as an allegory of America's involvement in Vietnam.
To understand this movie is to dissect its story structure...i.e. what genre is it and what is the desire line. It’s a combo of the buddy-buddy and on the road picture which means several things: two characters who bond with each other with no sex (otherwise it is a love story) while traversing a physical distance where they encounter a series of opponents. The desire line is to find utopia or in this case, the American dream. This is illustrated by the beginning where they score from selling coke or heroin making the big cash, meeting the Mexican family on the farm on which Captain America says, “you have a nice spread here,” respecting the the Mexicans’ utopia, thru the hippie commune which represents the hippie utopia, onward thru other sequences till the end. The road journey becomes darker as they travel from LAX to New Orleans encountering more of a distopian universe. After the drug trip, Captain America comes to a self-revelation: “we blew it. There is no ...(utopia).” This is cemented by their killing....the final cap on the story which converges the theme. Tarentino is 90% correct when he says the ending is the story.... for if they kept on living and cycled to other communities, the theme would have never been resolved.
Until a few months ago I had only heard of easyrider. I had no idea of anything that actually happened within the movie. The ending caught me off guard but it was definitely fitting
The music 🎶 was a major factor in the success and mood of this film. Contrary to Quentin, I was 16 when I saw it in Lebanon in 69. It was a very powerful piece of cinema and style with its dark quick ending and some great music (most significant parts by Steppenwolf) a fantastic rock band of the time
If I could interview Quentin, we would spend a great time talking about movies. In addition, Tarantino, apart from being a great screenwriter, has a good ear to choose the soundtracks for his films, to be honest I don't know any other director who has that ability, so that's why Tarantino's movies are so good. I remember he said in an interview Rosemary's baby is the greatest movie ever made, I'm a cinema-lover and i wonder, is it a good film to watch?
Please watch it. It's an incredible film! Btw...I think other director who chooses good music for his movies is guy Ritchie. The songs always match so so so good with the scenes..Rock n rolla for example
I hate to break it to you , but the one who chooses the music for the movies Quinturn Tarantino makes , is Mary Ramos , i’m sure Quinten has final say , but she is his music supervisor on those movies
If you think about it, their deaths might be Karma for being drug dealers. It’s not like they cared about other people. They were just selfish ***holes.
There is a context here that many fail to appreciate. To fully grasp the extent to which Peter Fonda’s character had transcended the practical norms of our society is to juxtapose his movie, “Easy Rider” with that of his father’s (Henry Fonda) movie, “The Grapes of Wrath”. These movies were produced only a mere three decades apart! Yet the visceral discontinuity is difficult to fathom. But I think they act as bookends to an American era that was radically changed by the effects of a world war and then global economic dominance
Made in 1969, the movie shows that a number of people--a small number of people--recognized at that early date that 'the 60s' as we understood them to be at that time, was already dead. Captain America might be looking for freedom, but his sojourn into the heart of America looking for something better, was fueled by drug money...when he says 'we blew it' he was talking about the entire counterculture....Jim Morrison, in an interview of about the same time, said, ruefully, 'The Love Street days are over." Dylan wanted nothing more to do with the movie when he realized "You are projecting death...our deaths."
Interesting observation about Easy Rider seeming old in the 80s. I'd never thought of that - but it's so true. The 80s fashions - swept away the 60s/70s - it was something entirely new - the shapes and palette were vastly different. It was all very - neat. But starting in the early-mid 90s - that went away - and with grunge especially - fashion reverted back i part to 60s/70s. At this point, one of my favorite baseball movies Bull Durham - I have trouble watching that NOW because those 80s fashions were so specific to that era.
Easy Rider today is still relevant. Freedom. One's lifestyle that does not intrude upon another is still an offence to the point of violence. Hate the ending but it's important. It's a commentary that forces the viewer to think. Probably the most important part of the film - tying it together with the dark reality in the USA. Never goes out of fashion, because it isn't a "fashion". It is being: Freedom. Authenticity. Escapism. Searching. Freedom.
As a young boy living in NYC I used to spend summer with my father in Florida. I had never seen racism before I went there. At that time (mid 1950's) there was still segregation in the south. Being from NYC growing up around black people I was shocked and disgusted by what I saw even though I was only 6 or 7 years old. Fast forward 10 years to 1968. As a teenager I took a trip to North Carolina from New York and I was truly horrified by the place. The Viet Nam war and civil rights movement were raging. And the New York plates on our car with surfboards on top marked us as "Yankees". And those southerners seriously hated yankees. I thought I was going to end up like Captain America and Hopper buried in a swamp somewhere. Such was the mood of the times.
Quentin listed Dawn of the dead for his movie credits, when he was trying to get acting jobs. He said he was one of the adult bikers. It's pretty funny if casting directors didn't realize that he would have been 12 at the time.
I've had them shotguns leveled at me going thru rural Texas in the early 70s. Easy Rider a beautiful snapshot of the late 60's that has moral preachments about freedom and judging others
And now we are the younger generation who are now the older and here in the new millennium. The youth are crying out for a Art historical, counter cultural movie. Easy Rider was a Hit !!
I've had friends specifically rent the video in the day, thinking this film is all about what I'm all about. I rarely stayed to watch, to their shagrim, explaining that the first half of Easy Rider was about one of the best I ever saw... the music was AWsome!! But after Jack got clubbed to death, it displayed every bummer of the 60s... got hard to watch - the bad LSD trip, the grease-balls, no long hairs at the motel, trying to keep ahead of tragedy, hippies headin to the country... But I can't think of a movie before it that had a musical score of various artists throughout... a first...
Nice intellectual and professional review..but missed the soul. I cut a senior class to see the movie at an afternoon performance in the Bronx New York. The actors and screenplay we’re current and natural, but what gave the movie it’s almost 60 year emotional wallop, is the integration of songs by The Band, the Byrds, Steppenwolf, and others. The songs were not a soundtrack they were as integral as the dialogue between Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. They framed the scenes and painted the sets of American life back then. Reminds me now 50+ years later of a brilliant production of a counter culture “Showboat”.
Stilted and difficult presentation of a genre' that is actually very easy to describe.... surprised Quentin had such difficulty. Me thinks he was more interested in the gal interviewing him than the actual subject matter ?
Hi! Thanks so much for posting these! Do you by any chance have Tarantino's intro for 'Model Shop' from this series? I've been looking for it everywhere but no luck. I would be super grateful if you happened to have it and would please post? Thanks!
@@seth210 Yeah, I didn't mean they had any problem with Easy Rider, it is an accurate portrayal of the random bikers that are not part of a biker gang. But I bet if those Hell's angles saw werewolves on wheels, which came out in 1971. they would know what I meant. They used real bikers from a bike gang, with no acting experience, and many parts of the movie are them just doing whatever they wanted, almost like a reality show. Not that I prefer that, I am not and never have been involved with biker gangs, and never owned a large motorcycle.
min 0:28 Did he just say the "soup du jour"? "We blew it, Billy"... Karma's a beeeeeeeotch! Easy Rider deserves a better pre-quel (not the 2012 one)... How Cap'n and Billy the Kid got into coke smuggling in the late sixties :)
The greatest ending of any movie. The Vietnam war, napalm, agent orange, violence, intolerance, despair all caught in one shot. The United States, land of the free and home of the brave.
Niotice in the movie..Fonda and Hopper just left the lawyer after he was killed..did not notify anyone not his family or the police. just rode away, BIG plot hole
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In a sad coincidence, this was recorded from a screening on the night of August 16th 2019, which is the day Peter Fonda passed away.
Peter Fonda passed away? Shit i didn't even know. Easily in my top 10 movies EVER.
Whether you like him or not, it's worth listening to the WTF with Marc Maron interview with Peter, it's illuminating, interesting, and had a couple of stories I'd never heard before
Wow...
He couldn't stand hearing this blowhard talk about it.
😕
I wish there was a channel where Quentin introduces every film and sets it up for the audience like this
YES!!!!!
I think he is actually going to do something like that after his retirement may be through writing or documenting
He is really great at film commentary.
He did it for 'SKY MOVIES' for a few months or so in 2009, but he isn't always as entertaining as he is in this introduction. Sometimes he just goes off and starts rambling about other movies when he's supposed to be introducing a particular one.
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He's a big film buff, and a great self-publicist. He certainly ISN'T one of the best 20 directors in history, as some of the bias and ignorant and merely fashionable seem to reckon.
I was a junior in college when this movie came out & I saw it with no advance information. I had recently started transitioning from alcohol swilling straight jock-type to counter-culture pot smoker (thanks to attending the Woodstock festival) but still had one foot in each world. After the movie, I walked out into the night where it had begun to rain and can still recall the emotion of the moment when I realized that our world had become "us against them" and I knew without any doubt that I wanted no part of the "establishment" world. Over the next 10 years I relived the moment a thousand times playing an 8-track of the soundtrack to Easy Rider at home and in my car. To this day I am thankful to Woodstock and Easy Rider for pointing me in the right direction in life. With the exception of a few necessary compromises, I never conformed to any of the establishment norms or boundaries and yet I became financially independent and remain as free in mind, spirit and actions as I was that rainy night 54 years ago.
Tarantino is right it’s what makes the movie about anything. And what clarifies it is that after Jack Nicholson says the things about freedom he is the one who is killed first as if by being self aware made him more free than anyone else and therefore feared by society at the times. Great film
Well they were drug dealers.Bad tidings follow people who do bad things.These two guys got murdered.
The ending is kind of even suggested when they are a the House of Blue Lights and Fonda’s character passes by a wall that reads “The Paths of Glory lead but to the Grave”. The ending is fundamental to the story.
Thanks for the spoiler, A hole.
I have read that (Jack) Nicholson had a tough time working with the late John Belushi (from "SNL") for "Goin' South" (from 1978); Christopher Lloyd (from the "Taxi" sitcom) also starred in that film. In 1978, Belushi also starred in a film about college; a favorite cult classic, "Animal House." (film director: John Landis)
@@thefinaledge3554 Jesus dies at the end of the Bible In case you haven’t finished that yet either.
The cinematography of Easy Rider was so ahead of its time, especially for a low budget film,just a brilliant film,it's in my Top 10
Easy Rider was astonishing at its time; it changed you. It was completely different than anything done before, appealing to the 60s generation.
It appealed to the counterculture, which was a very small part of the generation.
I have spoken to a lot of bikers, and all of them were big fans of this movie.
@@geneobrien8907the soundtrack was great,I think Dennis Hopper had alot to do with picking the songs,it fit the film so well
@@dalegriffin6768 Yes, it was great and Hopper did choose some of the songs but my point is the 60's generation, Boomers, were not all part of the counterculture. Most Boomers were as straight as their parents and they were clueless about the music in Easy Rider when the movie came out.
I can listen this man talking movies for days without getting bored.
his frenetic enthusiasm for films are at a maximum level here; more Caffeine (and Cowbell)..
Me too
I was 13 years old when I went to the theatre to watch Easy Rider in 1970. I didn’t know the ending. I of course was conditioned to expect the “good guys” to ride off into the sunset. Only time I ever left the theatre crying. Still a vivid memory after all these years.
His enthusiasm is contagious!
I saw the movie in it's first year of release. I was not aware of the ending. I have many many many friends who also really identified with that movie. Living the free lifestyle was fatalistic. We have all gotten old and gotten educated and worked in the system. We kinda died with Captain America but still live today.
I'm a boomer 2 (1959) and didn't see the movie until I was in my 40's. I was 8 yo when it came out. My generation was spoiled - draft was ended by the time my class of 77 turned 18 and pot was acceptable - think Dazed and Confused. Too many jumped on that YUPPIE bandwagon and I was one of them in the 80's more intent on climbing the corporate ladder into the 90's. I've since snapped back by the time of the 21st century. Hope others have.
the most freedom anyone can have is when theyre on their own property.
Early on in the film Hopper has a flat tire on his bike and they push it to a farm where the farmer allows them to use his barn to fix it and invites both to supper. Here is a farmer with his wife and a tribe of kids and at the table and Fonda - via body language and expression - realizes this is what he wants. "We blew it Billy". Certainly did. Anyway that is pretty much what I got from the movie.
Peter Fonda had the flat tire.
@@patricias5122 Yes.
He also says to the farmer: this is a beautiful farm, you must be very happy
and then once they're in the commune, Captain America has an itching to stay and settle-in with them, especially the woman he sits with. It's Hopper who insists they continue on
Years ago when Dennis was still alive there was a lengthy TV documentary celebrating the film. I found it interesting that both stars never mentioned either the bikes or the soundtrack, which is I think far and away the greater part that so many took away from the film. True there is plenty of high brow analysis to delve into and lines to quote but that does put aside aspects that meant much to so many. Huge numbers of Harley riders or chop owners got started by this film and the LP was in soooo many record shelves, look at how "The Weight" has become a revered anthem on the back of this film.
(btw, if I had to be stuck in a lift with someone, Quentin would make a great candidate..)
I'm not the greatest fan of most of Tarantino's films but damn, his knowledge of film history is just encyclopaedic! Of Australian cinema too, if you ever get a chance to hear him talk about it at length (as in the doco "Ozploitation" which impressed the heck outta me) or of world cinema history generally, probably.
As a film mad Aussie I remember watching this when it was on TV and waa blown away by his knowledge.
Even pronounces Melbourne correctly.
1969 was the year that movies were changing from the old guard of Hollywood to the new movement and making films independently from the studio system, and Easy Rider clearly reflected that, as did Midnight Cowboy, released just a couple months apart and was given an X rating. The times were definately changing and paved the way for even grittier films in the 1970s.
Yeah, Bonnie & Clyde (1967) was the first movie to come up with this new Hollywood style, and Corman's movies were also vanguard
Don't forget the then-controversial "the Wild Bunch", which pushed the envelope in screen violence and interpreted by some as an allegory of America's involvement in Vietnam.
The man is a national treasure...Encyclopedic knowledge of ALL the aspects of film making
amazing how Quentin can talk about Easy Rider when he was only 6 when the movie came out. Smart guy who was probably a MGM kid.
Now what is a mgm kid?
@@megagangster321 LA unified had a program from the 60's until late 70s called MGM or Mentally Gifted Minors.
Amazing how the pope can talk about the bible written thousands of years before he was born. Lol your comment is dumb.
That's called being a huge movie nerd, lol, this is what made Tarantino Tarantino
That's the beauty of home video. Quentin could discover a 1969 movie in the 1990s on VHS or laserdisc.
The Start of My Biker Lifestyle......Upon seeing this movie..........MiniBikes, Dirt Bikes, Triumph, Harley.. Loved the Genre an Life....Freedom..
To understand this movie is to dissect its story structure...i.e. what genre is it and what is the desire line. It’s a combo of the buddy-buddy and on the road picture which means several things: two characters who bond with each other with no sex (otherwise it is a love story) while traversing a physical distance where they encounter a series of opponents. The desire line is to find utopia or in this case, the American dream. This is illustrated by the beginning where they score from selling coke or heroin making the big cash, meeting the Mexican family on the farm on which Captain America says, “you have a nice spread here,” respecting the the Mexicans’ utopia, thru the hippie commune which represents the hippie utopia, onward thru other sequences till the end. The road journey becomes darker as they travel from LAX to New Orleans encountering more of a distopian universe. After the drug trip, Captain America comes to a self-revelation: “we blew it. There is no ...(utopia).” This is cemented by their killing....the final cap on the story which converges the theme. Tarentino is 90% correct when he says the ending is the story.... for if they kept on living and cycled to other communities, the theme would have never been resolved.
If I could interview Quentin, I'd spend hours and hours talking about movies. I must admit that I find fantastic to be listening to him talks.
Easy Rider is one of the greatest films ever made.
Anyone under 50 thinks you're crazy.
@Fateh Aaryan I did. It didn't live up to the hype.
@Critique Everything I'm Mexican. Have you ever seen "The Grapes of Wrath ?" After you do, you'll realize how stupid you sound.
Correction: The greatest movie
Until a few months ago I had only heard of easyrider. I had no idea of anything that actually happened within the movie. The ending caught me off guard but it was definitely fitting
The music 🎶 was a major factor in the success and mood of this film. Contrary to Quentin, I was 16 when I saw it in Lebanon in 69. It was a very powerful piece of cinema and style with its dark quick ending and some great music (most significant parts by Steppenwolf) a fantastic rock band of the time
Iam still listening to the music today
If I could interview Quentin, we would spend a great time talking about movies. In addition, Tarantino, apart from being a great screenwriter, has a good ear to choose the soundtracks for his films, to be honest I don't know any other director who has that ability, so that's why Tarantino's movies are so good. I remember he said in an interview Rosemary's baby is the greatest movie ever made, I'm a cinema-lover and i wonder, is it a good film to watch?
For my money it's the greatest film ever made
Rosemary's baby is really good..Roman Polanski directed this one beautifully..Mia Farrow's incredible
Please watch it. It's an incredible film! Btw...I think other director who chooses good music for his movies is guy Ritchie. The songs always match so so so good with the scenes..Rock n rolla for example
I hate to break it to you , but the one who chooses the music for the movies Quinturn Tarantino makes , is Mary Ramos , i’m sure Quinten has final say , but she is his music supervisor on those movies
One of the best horror movies ever made...
He doesnt bother saying hello. That's my men
I like how the girl keeps trying to interject, and Quentin is like, about to burst while waiting for her to finish, so he can keep talking.
We were all were very quiet as we strolled out of the theatre in '69 after watching the show. Fifty years later I stood up & cheered.
Easy Rider my most favorite movie all the time
just saw Easy Rider for the first time and i was SHOOK at the ending
If you think about it, their deaths might be Karma for being drug dealers. It’s not like they cared about other people. They were just selfish ***holes.
Thanks Quentin for keeping the Spirit of Art alive❤🔥Burning still
QT gets inspired to hit the nall on the head...."The ending is what makes Easy Rider have a story."
There is a context here that many fail to appreciate. To fully grasp the extent to which Peter Fonda’s character had transcended the practical norms of our society is to juxtapose his movie, “Easy Rider” with that of his father’s (Henry Fonda) movie, “The Grapes of Wrath”. These movies were produced only a mere three decades apart! Yet the visceral discontinuity is difficult to fathom. But I think they act as bookends to an American era that was radically changed by the effects of a world war and then global economic dominance
Made in 1969, the movie shows that a number of people--a small number of people--recognized at that early date that 'the 60s' as we understood them to be at that time, was already dead. Captain America might be looking for freedom, but his sojourn into the heart of America looking for something better, was fueled by drug money...when he says 'we blew it' he was talking about the entire counterculture....Jim Morrison, in an interview of about the same time, said, ruefully, 'The Love Street days are over." Dylan wanted nothing more to do with the movie when he realized "You are projecting death...our deaths."
Best movie soundtrack ever !!!
Do your own thing in your own time.
Tarantino - articulate , intelligent and easy to see why he makes amazing and creative films
I love Tarantino as filmmaker, I love him even more as a commentator
I love Quentin enthusiasm
I love that movie. And the music is wonderful.
This was for the time was the iconic counter culture film of that era
The ending was a stunner for that time
His movie commentaries are the best! 👌
Hopper and W have somethings in common. Both won awards at Cannes.
Rick Dalton calls Tex, "Hey Dennis Hopper!" in OUATIH
I like how she says hello and it just cuts to talking about the movie.
1953 - "The Wild One" (Marlon) Brando as a tough biker, in a gang. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper was a free spirited duo; with no gang affiliation.
Whats your point?
Interesting observation about Easy Rider seeming old in the 80s. I'd never thought of that - but it's so true. The 80s fashions - swept away the 60s/70s - it was something entirely new - the shapes and palette were vastly different. It was all very - neat.
But starting in the early-mid 90s - that went away - and with grunge especially - fashion reverted back i part to 60s/70s.
At this point, one of my favorite baseball movies Bull Durham - I have trouble watching that NOW because those 80s fashions were so specific to that era.
I find him so super interesting
Easy Rider today is still relevant. Freedom. One's lifestyle that does not intrude upon another is still an offence to the point of violence. Hate the ending but it's important. It's a commentary that forces the viewer to think. Probably the most important part of the film - tying it together with the dark reality in the USA. Never goes out of fashion, because it isn't a "fashion". It is being: Freedom. Authenticity. Escapism. Searching. Freedom.
As a young boy living in NYC I used to spend summer with my father in Florida. I had never seen racism before I went there. At that time (mid 1950's) there was still segregation in the south. Being from NYC growing up around black people I was shocked and disgusted by what I saw even though I was only 6 or 7 years old. Fast forward 10 years to 1968. As a teenager I took a trip to North Carolina from New York and I was truly horrified by the place. The Viet Nam war and civil rights movement were raging. And the New York plates on our car with surfboards on top marked us as "Yankees". And those southerners seriously hated yankees. I thought I was going to end up like Captain America and Hopper buried in a swamp somewhere. Such was the mood of the times.
now it turns out their concern was valid...
Quentin listed Dawn of the dead for his movie credits, when he was trying to get acting jobs. He said he was one of the adult bikers. It's pretty funny if casting directors didn't realize that he would have been 12 at the time.
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I think this was the movie Dust till Dawn not Dawn of the dead.
Might have been a misprint.
I've had them shotguns leveled at me going thru rural Texas in the early 70s. Easy Rider a beautiful snapshot of the late 60's that has moral preachments about freedom and judging others
And now we are the younger generation who are now the older and here in the new millennium. The youth are crying out for a Art historical, counter cultural movie. Easy Rider was a Hit !!
I've had friends specifically rent the video in the day, thinking this film is all about what I'm all about. I rarely stayed to watch, to their shagrim, explaining that the first half of Easy Rider was about one of the best I ever saw... the music was AWsome!! But after Jack got clubbed to death, it displayed every bummer of the 60s... got hard to watch - the bad LSD trip, the grease-balls, no long hairs at the motel, trying to keep ahead of tragedy, hippies headin to the country... But I can't think of a movie before it that had a musical score of various artists throughout... a first...
EASY RIDER FOR EVER WILL RULE..!!!! FROM MEXICO AND FOR ME LONG LIVE TO EASY RIDER LIFE STYLE!!!! FOR ME .....JUST FREEDOM
This film changed my life and how i look at life throw your watch into the sand
Tarantinos movies is the most entertainment that we ever will see!!!!!!
'Hello, Quentin.'
'WELL, EASY RIDER...'
Tarantino reminds me of Seth Brundle (The Fly) when he's on a high.
A couple of lovely hippie chicks told me about this movie. They told me about the bikes, the music and the scenery -- that was the hook.
The scenery, part of the soundtrack and the choppers. Nicholson rendered the best performance.
If they ever make a movie about the life of politician, Hubert H. Humphrey, Quentin Tarantino should play the lead.
What is this series? Where and when did it air? And where can I get more of it?
Nice intellectual and professional review..but missed the soul. I cut a senior class to see the movie at an afternoon performance in the Bronx New York. The actors and screenplay we’re current and natural, but what gave the movie it’s almost 60 year emotional wallop, is the integration of songs by The Band, the Byrds, Steppenwolf, and others. The songs were not a soundtrack they were as integral as the dialogue between Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. They framed the scenes and painted the sets of American life back then. Reminds me now 50+ years later of a brilliant production of a counter culture “Showboat”.
Stilted and difficult presentation of a genre' that is actually very easy to describe.... surprised Quentin had such difficulty.
Me thinks he was more interested in the gal interviewing him than the actual subject matter ?
What about: “Joe”.
That was how the “60s” played out in my town.
If I could interview Tarantino, we would spend hours and hours talking about movies, and about the interviewer, she's so beautiful.
Did Quentin make her take her shoes 👞 off?
Does Kim have an opinion?
@Winston Goldstein a suuuuuper interesting one
What´s said from 7 :43 to 7:45 (´...Franco...´ - ´´...posters on the wall´) ?
Thank me at 4:09, I put my hand in the screen at buttoned up Quentin's left sleeve...
"Putney Swope" is another example of a counter-culture film that spoke to it's audience at that time.
😎Movie cost $350,000 Made $50 million.👀👍🏼
The host does not need to be there. Just let Quentin talk about movies. :)
Hi! Thanks so much for posting these! Do you by any chance have Tarantino's intro for 'Model Shop' from this series? I've been looking for it everywhere but no luck. I would be super grateful if you happened to have it and would please post? Thanks!
Unfortunately I don't, I missed the one time Model Shop was screened.
Im still sad by easy rider ending scene….im still hopeful that outlaws will win someday….
Tarantino made a good syntesis of the movie. Nice !
Was this interview shot on film? Lol
I think he means the outlaw Josey Wales not a few dollars more, I’ve seen that headshot everywhere
I wonder if a film exists that Tarantino couldn't tell you the full cast, producers and director.
I'm only half joking.
Forget Quarantino...let's see more of Kim.
Funnily enough, Werewolves on wheels was more of a real look at biker groups like the Hell's angels.
I’ve met a few Hell’s angels because my family has known them for a while and I can tell you that the old school guys love easy rider.
@@seth210 Yeah, I didn't mean they had any problem with Easy Rider, it is an accurate portrayal of the random bikers that are not part of a biker gang.
But I bet if those Hell's angles saw werewolves on wheels, which came out in 1971. they would know what I meant. They used real bikers from a bike gang, with no acting experience, and many parts of the movie are them just doing whatever they wanted, almost like a reality show.
Not that I prefer that, I am not and never have been involved with biker gangs, and never owned a large motorcycle.
I know what it did for me and my life, couldn't give a crap what anyone else thinks...I wasn't born to follow
Interesting
HILLIROUS QT EXPLAINING THIS MOVIE TO A DEER IN THE HEADLIGHTS
Quentin from Lomita. He should make a move about Lomita.
My idea of hell is getting trapped in a corner by quentin while at a party, and getting stuck talking to him right after he snorts huge line of coke!
“Kim Martin” 😁
min 0:28 Did he just say the "soup du jour"? "We blew it, Billy"... Karma's a beeeeeeeotch! Easy Rider deserves a better pre-quel (not the 2012 one)... How Cap'n and Billy the Kid got into coke smuggling in the late sixties :)
I consider Easy Rider very loosely to be a part of a trilogy with Psyche Out and The Trip…same cast, similar themes, familiar elements…
People like QT give this movie way too much credit.
You are delusional lol
Yes,. But don't forget vanishing point!???🎃
Guy didnt even say hello
when did QT turn into Martin Landau and Jay Leno's love child?🤔
The greatest ending of any movie. The Vietnam war, napalm, agent orange, violence, intolerance, despair all caught in one shot. The United States, land of the free and home of the brave.
I believe E R made 60 mil
I thought it showed a darker more cynical side of the 60s flower power.
I saw Easy Rider when it was released. I was 14. Good movie, bad ending. How about that Kim Morgan. Is she hot or what.
"Phil Spector"
BILLY JACK !!!!!!!
Serpico poster
Quentin never had time for chit-chat
It's amazing that in 12 minutes Tarantino hardly talks above the movie itself, or what makes it such a timeless classic
Niotice in the movie..Fonda and Hopper just left the lawyer after he was killed..did not notify anyone not his family or the police. just rode away, BIG plot hole