1969: DENNIS HOPPER talks about EASY RIDER | Line Up | Classic Interviews | BBC Archive

Поделиться
HTML-код
  • Опубликовано: 3 фев 2025

Комментарии • 68

  • @digamojones
    @digamojones Год назад +23

    This is the best ‘pure’ Hopper interview I have seen.

  • @annapeterson2602
    @annapeterson2602 8 месяцев назад +16

    Definitely one of the greatest artists of the 21st century. And an incredibly kind human. I used to work for him and he treated me like an honored guest, always.

    • @SenorMoose
      @SenorMoose 5 месяцев назад +3

      He was physically abusive to every one of his wives -- not sure how kind he was -- but he was incredibly talented.

    • @TobinHolz
      @TobinHolz 5 месяцев назад

      @@SenorMoose People are complicated and they grew up with different backgrounds and personal issues. no person is perfect.
      In the divorce proceedings between Dennis Hopper and Victoria Duffy-Hopper, several specific allegations were made. Victoria Duffy-Hopper accused Dennis Hopper of abuse, claiming that she was a victim of his abusive behavior. She alleged that Hopper "berated, belittled, threatened, and intimidated" her into signing a prenuptial agreement and that he threatened to "publicly destroy her" if she did not comply. Additionally, she claimed that Hopper and his adult children engaged in a campaign to force her out of the family home and to change his estate plan against his wishes. On the other hand, Hopper's assistant, Emily Davis, accused Victoria Duffy-Hopper of being a "threat to Dennis' life," claiming that she was trying to kill him and spreading false accusations about Hopper being abusive and financially unsupportive. These allegations were part of a highly contentious and public divorce battle that included disputes over child custody and financial support.

    • @IBOGW
      @IBOGW 27 дней назад

      20th Century

  • @phillipecook3227
    @phillipecook3227 Год назад +21

    Interviewer is Philip Jenkinson. Along with Tony Bilbow they were the BBC's resident cinema gurus before Barry Norman.

    • @tharpdown
      @tharpdown 6 месяцев назад +1

      Great interviewer. Genuinely interesting and well thought out questions all around

  • @RSimoes10
    @RSimoes10 Год назад +12

    Fantastic.

  • @artful_dodger59
    @artful_dodger59 Год назад +7

    This was great to see. Easy Rider was an absolutely perfect period piece for that time. It's very cool to hear Dennis explain it so eloquently. Although it's one of my favorite movies, (I don't think we will ever have movies that depend on character and acting like this ever again) I can only watch it when I'm psychologically prepared, it is so disturbing in a few ways. The ending especially. Thank you for putting this in my feed today, Google

  • @ClassicRockRemastered-p1i
    @ClassicRockRemastered-p1i 4 месяца назад +2

    Wonderful historic interview. Dennis does not address the specifics of the film clearly enough for my liking but I can tell he's very sincere and expressing the emotions that went into the film's creation.

  • @jasonedwards6870
    @jasonedwards6870 Год назад +58

    What are they going to say about him? What? Are they going to say he was a kind man? He was a wise man? He had plans? He had wisdom?

  • @xiscozapatero1914
    @xiscozapatero1914 Год назад +15

    Hopper is an absolute legend. Of cinema, and life. 💚✌🏻

  • @1954telecaster
    @1954telecaster 9 месяцев назад +10

    Dennis really was the character he played in Apocalypse Now

  • @azinegg
    @azinegg Год назад +8

    Always liked Dennis hopper” ❤

  • @TobinHolz
    @TobinHolz 5 месяцев назад

    Thank you so much for preserving this moment BBC

  • @MatteBlack2024
    @MatteBlack2024 Год назад +10

    This is good. Though I don’t believe American news media have ever given “all” the information, I appreciate his righteous indignation at American hypocrisy throughout the clip.

  • @larrymclarnon-pd8xf
    @larrymclarnon-pd8xf 5 месяцев назад +1

    Dennis nails it here.😊

  • @jasonayres
    @jasonayres Год назад +10

    Can't say exactly why, but I just had this passing thought.
    "Dennis Hopper as Indiana Jones.."

    • @phillipecook3227
      @phillipecook3227 Год назад +1

      Remember he's changed in 54 years : )

    • @bid84
      @bid84 Год назад +2

      He’s dead, don’t think he would do it

    • @Guminyourhair
      @Guminyourhair Год назад +1

      @@bid84 couldn't be any worse than what we actually got...

  • @Johnconno
    @Johnconno Год назад +5

    'They smoke the jazz cabbage the whole time.'

  • @micktaylorisgod
    @micktaylorisgod Год назад +4

    Makes a lot of sense if you ask me.

  • @tonym994
    @tonym994 13 дней назад

    the man who eventually made 'COLORS', a good film set in the inner city, about 15 yrs. later. rest his soul. from 'EASY RIDER' and the vast country side, to the urban jungle.

  • @Broomehall
    @Broomehall Год назад +7

    Dennis was often seen as wayward or difficult by certain members of the Hollywood establishment, and he may well have been those things from time to time, but there was also an honesty and deep understanding of the untruths within the Governmental system that few main stream Americans were willing to acknowledge, you could dislike Hopper but you couldn't ignore what he had to say.

  • @BuckRolly1
    @BuckRolly1 Год назад +5

    It's Sancho Panza in Don Quixote, Dennis, not 'Poncho Sanchez' 😂😂😂 3:31

  • @xelphinx
    @xelphinx 7 месяцев назад +1

    "RIGHT ON!" Huey ☮️ Johndavid NM 7.6.24

  • @petergivenbless900
    @petergivenbless900 Год назад +8

    Half a century later; nothing much has changed, just everything got louder (the future is just the past with the volume turned up!).

  • @peterm1826
    @peterm1826 6 месяцев назад

    The information is still there same today.

  • @TheSnowdogsShorts
    @TheSnowdogsShorts Год назад +15

    When I watched the film, the marijuana smoking was not something that I saw as a big deal. It is just something they did.
    Maybe it shows more how we see it these days.
    For the sake of transparency: I do not use marijuana myself, but I fully support legalisation.

    • @gary7vn
      @gary7vn Год назад +1

      Try it. You'll like it. Safest substance on the planet.

    • @TheSnowdogsShorts
      @TheSnowdogsShorts Год назад

      @@gary7vn I have tried it. I am one of a very small minority of people who get no positive benefits from it. I just get extremely paranoid while using it.
      I have several medical conditions that in most people are often helped by using marijuana. It frustrates me that I get no benefit from it.

    • @johngore7744
      @johngore7744 Месяц назад +1

      It’s been legal here in Quebec since 2017. It’s fine.

  • @aisle_of_view
    @aisle_of_view 5 месяцев назад +4

    Johnny Depp copped this look for years.

    • @scorpnov13
      @scorpnov13 29 дней назад

      Depps got the hole in same place in his hat while being interviewed on Letterman

  • @inkey2
    @inkey2 8 месяцев назад +4

    Really proud of Dennis holding his cool with this idiot interviewer because Dennis Hopper could be quite explosive when attacked. Who'd have ever guessed that in many U S States today (at least 2 dozen) there are actually state sanctioned retail pot stores. There is a store 3 blocks from me here in the Boston suburbs. No big deal at all. The state sure loves the taxes from it.

  • @JMoruzzi
    @JMoruzzi Год назад +3

    Focus going in and out, close-ups of hands - I think the camera operator must have been smoking some of Hopper's stash!

  • @MysteryZenSide2
    @MysteryZenSide2 7 месяцев назад +1

    02:13 mk. ...exactly

  • @k_DAN
    @k_DAN Год назад +1

    Hopper " nobody's getting the right information ". Wow, he was already totally on to that in '69.

  • @swampape201
    @swampape201 8 месяцев назад +1

    his vision for a world to be clothed, transported, fed thanks to technology...its taking us far too long

  • @k_DAN
    @k_DAN Год назад +6

    Meanwhile, Hopper had smoked a lot of grass and dropped some acid before this interview.

    • @AladdinSaneNYC
      @AladdinSaneNYC Год назад +2

      How do you know? You his dealer?

    • @37GT
      @37GT 5 месяцев назад

      He’s the pusher.

  • @samsquanch1996
    @samsquanch1996 Год назад

    He looks hungover as hell, probably was lol.

  • @tonym994
    @tonym994 13 дней назад

    he should've corrected this guy as soon as he linked reefer w/ addiction. this is not a film about addiction, to any degree. ironically, George truly "needs" a shot of booze to start his day. hasn't had breakfast, probably. great way to ruin your stomach, liver, etc. but pot (and Dennis should've pointed out that you couldn't get hooked on weed if you smoked it nite & day, 24/7). I honestly forget if they're cashing in, is w/ Coke or Junk, at the outset, where Phil Spector has a sample snort. so, ironically, the only addicted person depicted in the film, is George. he can't just ride cross- country w/ out access to booze. those 2, could go the whole movie w/ no reefer, w/ NO withdrawal symptoms. they'd miss it, though. but 'habitual' and 'addictive' are not the same thing. and tobacco is abused thru out the film, which most certainly IS addictive, physically.

  •  6 месяцев назад +2

    The interviewer represents the man who’s afraid of new ideas and resorts to trying to diminish those ideas by suggesting that the artist (now famous and with money) is just like him. This type of person is still around nowadays. It is very wise not to heed them as they’re afraid of challenging or progressive ideas. The interviewer is only concerned with the surface of the film, without really paying any attention at the content and message of the film. Truly a narrow mind.

    • @ClassicRockRemastered-p1i
      @ClassicRockRemastered-p1i 4 месяца назад

      I disagree 100%. The interviewer was fantastic and sympathetic. All the questions about the straights and the establishment's reaction to Easy Rider were in the context of "Those who may not understand..." never talking down to Dennis in the slightest! I think you are totally off base and owe the fine interviewer an apology. Seriously.

  • @davidshurville3658
    @davidshurville3658 Год назад +4

    What a smart and inspirational pot smoker. Go well Dennis.

  • @TerryRyan-xs7fw
    @TerryRyan-xs7fw 7 месяцев назад

    You didnt lose your mother....i lost your mother.come on hopper fans comment the movie he said that in

  • @rogerfournier3284
    @rogerfournier3284 3 месяца назад

    Are they talking about fake news?

  • @djhoneylove5710
    @djhoneylove5710 10 месяцев назад +2

    This interviewer is obsessed with pot and the cameraman is drunk.

  • @Liofa73
    @Liofa73 Год назад +4

    Philip Jenkinson spent money to get rid of his Manchester accent. I'd suggest it would have been a better interview if he had stuck to his roots.

    • @JackSmith-kp2vs
      @JackSmith-kp2vs Год назад +1

      @Liofa73
      Of everything spoken about in the interview and you chose to make that irrelevant identity politics statement

  • @ramonathompson6932
    @ramonathompson6932 Год назад

    In my opinion, he's way out...there

  • @christinacascadilla4473
    @christinacascadilla4473 4 месяца назад

    This movie sucks. It was only a box office success because it was made for about $400,000 so it was guaranteed to make money given the ethical and artistic drift of the late 1960s. It’s a terrible movie that just looked avant-garde due to ineptitude. As far as having cultural impact, other than deluding young people that you could change the world by taking drugs, listening to rock music, and engaging in promiscuous sex, there was none. Look at it this way…if you and your friends watched this movie at age 18-the Vietnam War was going on-and “dug” the message, you all would have been 52 years old and at the hight of your earning and political power by 2003. Yet you folks still let George W. Bush be elected president and we still went to war in Iraq. Your generation changed nothing. Because change takes real effort. And you folks from the 1960s either never learned that or sold out sometime in the 1970s or 1980s. This movie starts with those two main characters engaging in a drug deal and ends with them being murdered. I always considered that as Karma. That’s the only good part of the movie. I believe the screenplay for this movie was, unfortunately, was written at the Hotel Chelsea, where I eventually lived. I’ll rank that below Sid stabbing Nancy.

    • @davidmatela9868
      @davidmatela9868 Месяц назад

      If you think Easy Rider sucks, then tell me what is a good movie

  • @aadirao9401
    @aadirao9401 Год назад +6

    Jesus Christ man move past the 'pot smoking'

    • @iadorenewyork1
      @iadorenewyork1 7 месяцев назад +1

      That's what squares were hung up on back then!

  • @Арман-и6в
    @Арман-и6в 6 месяцев назад

    Жизнь:-У тебя НА выбор есть 3 варианта!
    1) Жизнь даёт ОЧЕРЕДНОЙ урок в чёткой последовательности;
    2) Повезло-Неповезло!
    3) и ЗА ЧТО МНЕ ЭТО?
    ВЫБОР ЗА ТОБОЙ❗

  • @gary7vn
    @gary7vn Год назад +2

    Thank the gods that the insane and evil war on a plant is over in my country. Not so in the UK where the interviewer probably spent his entire career lying about it like he does in this video.

    • @xiscozapatero1914
      @xiscozapatero1914 Год назад

      He is like an advert for those DEVIL'S HARVEST propaganda posters

  • @bobshark123
    @bobshark123 3 месяца назад

    he is talking shite

  • @allancrotch2953
    @allancrotch2953 Год назад +3

    We are not getting the information !!!!!!! Take note BBC