Today in my film class I did a presentation on Easy Rider how it changed Hollywood and how it defined what the 1960s was all about. It was ground breaking for an independent film. I wore a Captain America shirt to represent and pay tribute to Peter Fonda's character. I joked to my professor I don't have money to buy a motorcycle helmet, and USA jacket. Great review and I agree with you.
The hitch-hiker Freek called it , where they Dropped the Acid , was where they Belong . And their Trip happened , in a Grave Yard . Right where they ended up .
@@Ultraway13these comments are always pedantic. We all know that. You’re not a cerebral stud. The point is david lynch was his reference point he was familiar with beforehand to connect the aesthetic. That said i didn’t get a david lynch vibe.
I remember viewing this film when it debuted. It "spoke" three things to me: "the beauty of the American Southwest, good sounds and tight-looking choppers.
U needed to have lived through the Vietnam war and the protests and extremism that was happening all around. The flag was something to be honored and respected at the time for the patriotism and the way it was rebelled against. I grew up with a poster on my wall of easy rider and got to travel into the south. America back then was writh with clicks of culture. Communes with others trying to live there lives apart from the city mainstream life. Let your freak flag fly.it was a new and exciting time for those trying to break out out the social constraints of the 50s industrialists who ran the war in Vietnam. People needed to see just what was going on outside there front door.
In 1969 I watched easy rider and hells angel 69. I was ten years old. It had such an impact on my life that as soon as we could we started building our muscle bikes into choppers. Today I am 59 and have built a patina chopper muscle bike, which I call hells angel 69. And am also currently building a easy rider Captain America muscle bike tribute. I will have a video soon, mostly pictures of the build because I am not set up to video to much other than with my phone.
In 1975 I was 15 years old in a hospital bed recovering from a motorcycle crash,,,this move came on the tv and BAM! It had never crossed my mind you could travel on a motorcycle. Now 45 years later almost two million (motorcycle) miles later, 7 country's and today I crossed the same bridge from California east into Arizona (with steppenwolf) blasting in my helmet....(same bridge in the very start of the movie) I like your review for a young person to understand what was going on in the late 1960s very cool.... I think I read that the film budget was 400 thousand " I think".....my thoughts were they make a big drug deal so they can leave the rat race and find the real America ...now that they have the money. Billy takes off his wrist watch and tossed it into the desert because time does not matter, today it would be equivalent to tossing you cell phone into the desert and riding off. Anyway good review
my local dispensary always plays this film and 2001 in their main lobby - I've literally been watching this film out of order and in small segments for the past year now lol
in terms of the conflict between freedom verses conformity, little has changed in 50 years. society has become even more mechanized and we are still at war. and capitalism now rules the entire world. "we blew it"... and by the way, the intolerance & hippie paranoia was very real.
I’m surprised you didn’t talk about the sound track. It is one of the first if not the very first movie to use popular music in a movie. Great review but left out one of the most cool reasons to watch this movie the sound track. After this movie from then on movies use popular music. Easy Rider needs to be remembered for this. Cheers 🍻
Well I looked it up and it’s more about using rock n roll for the first and not popular music. Casablanca is said to use popular music but rock n roll in Easy Rider gets the win.
When seeing them riding the roads to the tune of Steppenwolf, exercising their 'freedom', i always think of the workers who built those roads and those bikes. Did they toil much? Would there be some freedom for them too?
I'd like to point out, re: American flag imagery, that is is against the flag code to use the U.S. flag on clothing and objects. Wyatt is showing his alienation, his search for "America" by his use of flag imagery. Fonda has stated in interviews that he was continually stopped and questioned by police angered by the flag on his jacket and motorcycle. And then, a little over a year later when the film became a huge hit, Fonda saw many police officers using similar flag imagery.
That's another film that gets pretty close to the terrifying aspect of tripping in unfamiliar surroundings. The carpet scene in particular. Still, no film will ever recapture the joy of reading F&LiLV for the first time..
Great review as always to a great movie. Have you seen Easy Riders and Raging Bulls? It's a documentary on that period in Hollywood, saw it years ago and really liked it.
Those guys in the restaurant are not actors. They they got told to be themselves aand they did. Thats how they would 've acted in real life if those three guys walked in.
Directed by Hopper? That explains a lot. I always thought Peter Fonda directed this. As someone who followed the Grateful Dead for a summer when I was 18, I have to agree about road trips having a transformative quality. Especially psychedelic road trips. ; ) I once ended up in New Orleans on New Years eve (another cross-country road trip when I was in college) with two of my besties, a sheet of acid, and the great music that is the French quarter. I also discovered that you really *can't* get drunk when tripping on 9 hits of LSD! Alas, those days are gone, and I can't find any LSD anymore. I have to say, my emotional & psychological health was never better than when I was dosing a couple times a month. Really clears out the cobwebs.
What some people don't realise about the film, is the hidden messages, entwined in the movie. They just don't get it and are not only blind but oblivious to the purpose of the story.
Back in the '90s my friends and I were completely loathing with no fear whatsoever and it just was a crazy way of life at the time. Looking back I don't know how in the hell it went on for so long like it did. And no one ever had a bad trip. And I would call that sure luck.. Creating classic moments as the days went on. If I could go back I'm sure I would have changed a few things but I don't know how else it would have been if that were to happen. I think the only time anybody ever had a bad trip was when the damn rent was due. 🤭 A lot of good times traveling and going to clubs all over the state of Florida and different music festivals. What else are teenagers going to do during that time?
deepfocuslens- Speaking of Road Trip movies, can you review *Hard Core Logo* ? It's a Great *Canadian Punk Rock Road-Trip Movie* by Bruce McDonald. It has an Acid-Trip scene too.
Very curious about your stance on a number of older works, but I'll limit my mentions this time to five: Metropolis (Fritz Lang), Los Olvidados (Luis Bunuel), The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman), Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Jones), The Secret of NIMH (Don Bluth).
Setting the quota of laughs aside, I'd agree with you. Life of Brian was superior in the filmmaking involved. The writing was tighter and more layered; they clearly had a bigger budget for shooting and utilized it well to convey scope; the Pythons themselves put in better performances with meatier characters and Michael Palin (especially as Pontius Pilate) got a special chance to shine as an all-time comedy great.
Hello Again! How are you? Glad you liked Easy Rider! If you liked that watch Midnight Cowboy(Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman), The Graduate(Dustin Hoffman), Zabriskie Point, directed by Michelange Zabriskie Point, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, 1984 by Michael Radford and of course The Doors by Oliver Stone. Tell me your thoughts.(btw I’m still waiting reply back on that coffee 😉).
Man lsd is different for everyone. I actually think they got the trip down well especially for the times. Thought it pulled the movie together. Don’t know why they do it with them chicks
just watched it last night for the first time, on acid. i thought it was just a terrible movie but you’ve made it sound so much smarter. I guess i’m the dumb one lol
@0:50: But Dennis Hopper was in both the original "True Grit" as well as "Easy Rider", which both happened to come out the same year: so, if anything, he was a shrewdly narcissistic and cynical moneymaker who knew how to appeal to whoever was watching him.
I just watched this movie last night, and I have to be honest, I didn't really get it lol But thank you for the video review!! there's also a 1 hour making of documentary that I watched as well just to try to understand it better 🤘🤣🖤
@@rickfrost4265 Yes I believe it was on my DVD as a special feature. I'm sure you could just search it on RUclips and something similar will pop up as far as interviews, etc 🤘 It was just crazy because it went over Dennis Hopper directing it and him not really getting along with certain cast members.
I like Dennis & Jacks characters but I always thought that Peter Fondas character was a bit of an a##hole. The whole “I never wanted to be anyone else” line, plus the condescending way he spoke to Jacks character around the fire.
I've watched a bunch of your reviews and i find them really insightful and beautifully explained. I have one very minor quip though - you use infer when you mean imply. I know thats picking at straws but just so you know.
You have a Rigid and strict conception of firms, You know nothing about firm making, famous critic reviewer, Roger Elbert, added it too his Great Movies list, he said The Movie develops its strong point, which is the role of the self - proclaimed rebel in a conformist society
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.
You’re too young to understand this movie, and you’re a girl so that doesn’t help. Wait until you’re a little more mature before to do these reviews. I’m no insulting you, just giving you a friendly tip. 😉
This movie is something to the largest generation in our history. You can dislike it. But life back the was far different. And being a young hippie I can say they were everywhere. Back then lots of places would refuse to give you a job with Long hair. Except chicks of course. My brother refused a haircut and was out of a job. Yes very different time. So long Peter Fonda, you, Dennis , gone but the memories live on.
Today in my film class I did a presentation on Easy Rider how it changed Hollywood and how it defined what the 1960s was all about. It was ground breaking for an independent film. I wore a Captain America shirt to represent and pay tribute to Peter Fonda's character. I joked to my professor I don't have money to buy a motorcycle helmet, and USA jacket. Great review and I agree with you.
The acid trip scene felt like something from a David Lynch movie.
The hitch-hiker Freek called it , where they Dropped the Acid , was where they Belong . And their Trip happened , in a Grave Yard . Right where they ended up .
Easy Rider was waaay before Lynch made a movie. How can something feel like a thing that didn't even exist?
@@Ultraway13 true.
@@Ultraway13these comments are always pedantic. We all know that. You’re not a cerebral stud. The point is david lynch was his reference point he was familiar with beforehand to connect the aesthetic. That said i didn’t get a david lynch vibe.
@@bbeaup shallow and pedantic?
I remember viewing this film when it debuted. It "spoke" three things to me: "the beauty of the American Southwest, good sounds and tight-looking choppers.
I hope someday you make a review on J. Schlesinger's classic Midnight Cowboy. Love your channel!
U needed to have lived through the Vietnam war and the protests and extremism that was happening all around. The flag was something to be honored and respected at the time for the patriotism and the way it was rebelled against. I grew up with a poster on my wall of easy rider and got to travel into the south. America back then was writh with clicks of culture. Communes with others trying to live there lives apart from the city mainstream life. Let your freak flag fly.it was a new and exciting time for those trying to break out out the social constraints of the 50s industrialists who ran the war in Vietnam. People needed to see just what was going on outside there front door.
In 1969 I watched easy rider and hells angel 69. I was ten years old. It had such an impact on my life that as soon as we could we started building our muscle bikes into choppers. Today I am 59 and have built a patina chopper muscle bike, which I call hells angel 69. And am also currently building a easy rider Captain America muscle bike tribute. I will have a video soon, mostly pictures of the build because I am not set up to video to much other than with my phone.
In 1975 I was 15 years old in a hospital bed recovering from a motorcycle crash,,,this move came on the tv and BAM! It had never crossed my mind you could travel on a motorcycle. Now 45 years later almost two million (motorcycle) miles later, 7 country's and today I crossed the same bridge from California east into Arizona (with steppenwolf) blasting in my helmet....(same bridge in the very start of the movie)
I like your review for a young person to understand what was going on in the late 1960s very cool....
I think I read that the film budget was 400 thousand " I think".....my thoughts were they make a big drug deal so they can leave the rat race and find the real America ...now that they have the money. Billy takes off his wrist watch and tossed it into the desert because time does not matter, today it would be equivalent to tossing you cell phone into the desert and riding off. Anyway good review
What did you think of Brad Pitt's acid laugh "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"?
Genius
I love easy rider. It is the best critique of the seventh art about the established society
This movie really introduced us to Jack Nicholson, nick nick nick, Indians.
my local dispensary always plays this film and 2001 in their main lobby - I've literally been watching this film out of order and in small segments for the past year now lol
I like Easy Rider. Part of why I enjoy the movie is the long road trip across the country. Great therapy. Great review.
She’s got it and articulates it perfectly!
Jack Nicholson part is small but he's still pulls it off. No matter what he does he always entertaining to watch.
in terms of the conflict between freedom verses conformity, little has changed in 50 years. society has become even more mechanized and we are still at war. and capitalism now rules the entire world. "we blew it"... and by the way, the intolerance & hippie paranoia was very real.
I’m surprised you didn’t talk about the sound track. It is one of the first if not the very first movie to use popular music in a movie. Great review but left out one of the most cool reasons to watch this movie the sound track. After this movie from then on movies use popular music. Easy Rider needs to be remembered for this. Cheers 🍻
Well I looked it up and it’s more about using rock n roll for the first and not popular music. Casablanca is said to use popular music but rock n roll in Easy Rider gets the win.
Maggie, for one so young you are remarkably knowledgeable and perceptive.. nice review
When seeing them riding the roads to the tune of Steppenwolf, exercising their 'freedom', i always think of the workers who built those roads and those bikes. Did they toil much? Would there be some freedom for them too?
One of my favorite movies. Never forget that gy scene.
gy scene? when?
Just watched for the first time yesterday and Im definitely gonna have a bias toward it now because it made me find this channel and I’m lovin it !
I'd like to point out, re: American flag imagery, that is is against the flag code to use the U.S. flag on clothing and objects. Wyatt is showing his alienation, his search for "America" by his use of flag imagery. Fonda has stated in interviews that he was continually stopped and questioned by police angered by the flag on his jacket and motorcycle. And then, a little over a year later when the film became a huge hit, Fonda saw many police officers using similar flag imagery.
the acid trip in once upon a time in hollywood is also great
Is 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' on your list of older movies you could review? I would be interesting to hear your thoughts on it.
Yup. Definitely on my list. I'll get to that one hopefully sometime soon.
That's another film that gets pretty close to the terrifying aspect of tripping in unfamiliar surroundings. The carpet scene in particular. Still, no film will ever recapture the joy of reading F&LiLV for the first time..
complete failure
The flag is "overdone" because the flag IS overdone.
Two lane black top, vanishing point, easy rider, i love these movies about the road.
Meanwhile Tim Leary was in the background just passing by on his own trip 🤭🎶🎶
Great review as always to a great movie. Have you seen Easy Riders and Raging Bulls? It's a documentary on that period in Hollywood, saw it years ago and really liked it.
Jack Nicholson made this movie for me.
Thanks a lot for the review, I just watched this film and it touched me in so many ways, a new favorite!
Those guys in the restaurant are not actors. They they got told to be themselves aand they did. Thats how they would 've acted in real life if those three guys walked in.
Directed by Hopper? That explains a lot. I always thought Peter Fonda directed this.
As someone who followed the Grateful Dead for a summer when I was 18, I have to agree about road trips having a transformative quality. Especially psychedelic road trips. ; ) I once ended up in New Orleans on New Years eve (another cross-country road trip when I was in college) with two of my besties, a sheet of acid, and the great music that is the French quarter. I also discovered that you really *can't* get drunk when tripping on 9 hits of LSD!
Alas, those days are gone, and I can't find any LSD anymore. I have to say, my emotional & psychological health was never better than when I was dosing a couple times a month. Really clears out the cobwebs.
What some people don't realise about the film, is the hidden messages, entwined in the movie. They just don't get it and are not only blind but oblivious to the purpose of the story.
Back in the '90s my friends and I were completely loathing with no fear whatsoever and it just was a crazy way of life at the time. Looking back I don't know how in the hell it went on for so long like it did. And no one ever had a bad trip. And I would call that sure luck..
Creating classic moments as the days went on. If I could go back I'm sure I would have changed a few things but I don't know how else it would have been if that were to happen. I think the only time anybody ever had a bad trip was when the damn rent was due. 🤭
A lot of good times traveling and going to clubs all over the state of Florida and different music festivals. What else are teenagers going to do during that time?
I am 62 and I’m riding motorcycle because of easy Rider !!
Have you watched his second film, The Last Movie?
Great movie
Have you reviewed Bladerunner 2049 yet? I would love to hear your take on it.
deepfocuslens- Speaking of Road Trip movies, can you review *Hard Core Logo* ? It's a Great *Canadian Punk Rock Road-Trip Movie* by Bruce McDonald. It has an Acid-Trip scene too.
Very curious about your stance on a number of older works, but I'll limit my mentions this time to five:
Metropolis (Fritz Lang), Los Olvidados (Luis Bunuel), The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman), Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Jones), The Secret of NIMH (Don Bluth).
Not that you asked, but I think Life of Brian is superior to the Holy Grail.
Setting the quota of laughs aside, I'd agree with you. Life of Brian was superior in the filmmaking involved. The writing was tighter and more layered; they clearly had a bigger budget for shooting and utilized it well to convey scope; the Pythons themselves put in better performances with meatier characters and Michael Palin (especially as Pontius Pilate) got a special chance to shine as an all-time comedy great.
I never put it together but he does take his watch off and toss it before they head out on the road.
I love your voice, great review, the cementary scene with the peel amazing blow mind cuts.
Hopper & Fonda are playing Crosby & McGuinn.
Excellent review. You clearly understand the film a lot more than me! I thought it was good but not one of my personal favourites.
It was the height of the Vietnam war...the counter culture wore the flag as a protest statement
Hello Again! How are you? Glad you liked Easy Rider! If you liked that watch Midnight Cowboy(Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman), The Graduate(Dustin Hoffman), Zabriskie Point, directed by Michelange Zabriskie Point, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, 1984 by Michael Radford and of course The Doors by Oliver Stone. Tell me your thoughts.(btw I’m still waiting reply back on that coffee 😉).
Man lsd is different for everyone. I actually think they got the trip down well especially for the times. Thought it pulled the movie together. Don’t know why they do it with them chicks
Maggie the type of girl to wrap her finger around a telephone cord
She's got the best fingers on the interwebs.
I love the born to be wild scene so much! Great video again!
just watched it last night for the first time, on acid. i thought it was just a terrible movie but you’ve made it sound so much smarter. I guess i’m the dumb one lol
ever read any rollo may psychology?
Speaking of road trip movies, have you seen Vanishing Point (1971)?
Add "Two Lane Blacktop" to your road trip movies list to watch.
@0:50:
But Dennis Hopper was in both the original "True Grit" as well as "Easy Rider", which both happened to come out the same year:
so, if anything, he was a shrewdly narcissistic and cynical moneymaker who knew how to appeal to whoever was watching him.
and hopper was in both easy rider and true grit, both out in 69
My takeaway from this review "The acid trip scene was on point... I would know. wink wink"
Easy rider,midnight cowboy 1969 and charles manson all in the same year.
I love the movie and your review (from Italy)!
I just watched this movie last night, and I have to be honest, I didn't really get it lol But thank you for the video review!! there's also a 1 hour making of documentary that I watched as well just to try to understand it better 🤘🤣🖤
can-you-tell-us-where-to-find-the-1-hour-making-of-Easy-Rider-movie?
@@rickfrost4265 Yes I believe it was on my DVD as a special feature. I'm sure you could just search it on RUclips and something similar will pop up as far as interviews, etc 🤘
It was just crazy because it went over Dennis Hopper directing it and him not really getting along with certain cast members.
I like Dennis & Jacks characters but I always thought that Peter Fondas character was a bit of an a##hole. The whole “I never wanted to be anyone else” line, plus the condescending way he spoke to Jacks character around the fire.
its one of my top 10 films....probably 8 or 9
dropping acid in the house of the rising sun, where do I sign up.
That was a marvelous, insightful review
I've watched a bunch of your reviews and i find them really insightful and beautifully explained. I have one very minor quip though - you use infer when you mean imply. I know thats picking at straws but just so you know.
Wise beyond its years .. well said...
I love smoking marijuana, it makes the whole journey more tolerable...
I would have never guessed you had experience with acid. Not judging just surprised.
Good morning. Awesome film.
I loved the soundtrack.
Why did you horizontal flip your blog? Everything is mirror...read the book titles, dude!!!
Great review :)
Badass shirt!
You listened to me lol.
Thank you.
That's a very young Clint Eastwood
I see two very big Eastwood fans mate
You should watch the making of.
Midnight cowboy and badlands are far better new hollywood/counter culture films
Midnight cowboy is a classic so is badlands and natural born killers
I wonder if they actually tripped balls on LSD since they used real drugs in this film....?
Look at his eyes, you can't fake that
What happened to your legs?
You know not everyone has seen this movie yet......you could at least give us a spoiler warning. -_-
Just watched it before your review came out, like da fuq lol
improve audio please
well, exactly....way too young to review just a wonderful movie...it's quite acceptable
Midnight rider is a classsic
SOME GOB ......
You have a Rigid and strict conception of firms, You know nothing about firm making, famous critic reviewer, Roger Elbert, added it too his Great Movies list, he said The Movie develops its strong point, which is the role of the self - proclaimed rebel in a conformist society
young its great old its not so great 70 on a road trip ??
Review Birth by Jonathan Glazer!
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.
Easy Rider
Two-lane Blacktop.
which my video
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The movie was horrible!
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You’re too young to understand this movie, and you’re a girl so that doesn’t help. Wait until you’re a little more mature before to do these reviews. I’m no insulting you, just giving you a friendly tip. 😉
lol How can a grown adult be too young to understand a movie?
This movie was miserable and pointless. The ending, that was really bad.
This movie is something to the largest generation in our history. You can dislike it. But life back the was far different. And being a young hippie I can say they were everywhere. Back then lots of places would refuse to give you a job with Long hair. Except chicks of course. My brother refused a haircut and was out of a job. Yes very different time. So long Peter Fonda, you, Dennis , gone but the memories live on.