Not nerve. In 1969, white still ruled, and you could portray that on film. Now, everybody hates everybody. But hey, Jesus warned us it would be this way..
@@Zodroo_Tint planned or not, Hollywood has been mocking and pushing and enforcing negative stereotypes of whyt rural ppl for decades. Sasha Baron Cohen, another j00 ish zioni$t Hollywood film maker has made his entire career out of doing this.
In the summer of 1973, I saw Easy Rider and decided to go hitchhiking across America. I was 16. In the summer of '73 you could get away with hitching cross country without worrying about getting killed like nowadays. I got picked up by some good old boys. One of them had hair down over his ears, and we pulled into a diner just like the one in this movie. I had hair over my ears also. We're not talking long hair, but it was long enough to get your ass kicked in 1973 in a seedy little diner like the one in this movie. As we walked through the door, one guy in a Peterbilt cap let out a hoot and a holler... I didn't know what they were yelling about; I just sat down and waited to give the waitress my order. We waited for about a half an hour maybe, maybe just 20 minutes, and we got the message and left. The scene in this movie is extremely realistic.
There were just as many serial killers/kidnappers in the 70s. They just didn't have as much media coverage, so the general public wasn't as aware of them as we are today. If anything, I bet there are probably LESS killers/kidnappers per capita today because of advances in criminal investigation technology.
I can’t rule out the possibility the locals in this were nasty and close-minded in real life as they were in this. After all it is the rural south back then. I remember reading somewhere the man playing the sheriff said Easy Rider was trash and didn’t want to see the movie.
The director was probably like "just be yourself," and dammit this is one of the greatest scenes in one of the greatest movies. Easy Rider was a great portrayal of America and still is.
I watched this movie in 1969. I was a 17 year old US Army soldier visiting Washington DC. 5 years later, I met Peter Fonda when he was filming Race with the Devil. He gave all the drivers & extras, envelopes full of brand new $100. bills. We went out in all directions and bought every yellow rose in San Antonio. We brought them all back to the hotel where the actors were staying and put them all over the place! There were hundreds & hundreds of yellow roses. Peter was sweet on actress Loretta Swit and she said she loved yellow roses. She was very amazed. That was a great adventure.
@@ultrameticulous1976: at the Willie Nelson Fourth of July Picnic outside Gonzales. I took my girlfriend & her girlfriend there and set up camp 2 days ahead of the concert. I set up on top of a hill near the concert. We could see everything. We stayed there for days partying. The crowds were very large. There were LOTS of drugs & even More alcohol. I found someone selling light sticks. I was stoned playing around with it. I cut one open and found that it glowed green on everything you put it on. So, I had a great idea. I cut a bunch open and put the liquid all over my clothes & cowboy hat. I was completely glowing bright green!!!! I started walking through the crowd. People were blowing thier minds watching me. It was a blast. But sadly, the drugs were messing people up. There were not enough medical care there. They were overwhelmed. I ended up taking care and watching over a handful of ODs at our campsite. Non of them died, the next morning they all woke up ok. They All thanked us, then they all started partying again. It was a real wild concert that lasted for days. I'm glad I got there early and I'm glad I took a lot of supplies & camping gear. This concert & a Grateful Dead concert in Austin at Manor Downs in the early 80s were the 2 wildest concerts I ever went too.
@@texaswunderkindNo son inofensivos. No para "sus mujeres". En los pueblos de Estados Unidos, en España, en los Alpes, en Siberia, en Groenlandia o en las selvas de Myanmar si un forastero mira a las mujeres de la tribu puede salir con un hueso roto. O varios. Es la naturaleza humana.
@@santiagoblasgilabert2877 Yes I have first experience of this when I went to Acapulco back in 1981. I was in a disco club and asked a local girl to dance and immediately I was approached by her male friends in a very threatening way.
Jack Straw Yes he is. He’s a rancher in that area and says he is still asked about the movie all the time. They weren’t supposed to show the patch. It was accidentally revealed in the shot.
There might be, but maybe you have to arrive there and appear exotic and alluring to them, like these fellows do, in order to really bring the nymphomania out.
What a lot of people don't realize is that Dennis Hopper the budget was so small that every time they went to a town, they just asked for people to be in their movie. So everybody in this scene is actually just some local towns people. Pretty cute girls for 1968 I must say😊
@@SFVGIRL I thought Dennis Hopper directed the movie there's even the DVD extras that have the movie with his narration of what he did on certain scenes
For 1968? There's been beautiful girls ever since Eve was created. I'd even say they were cuter in 1968 than they are now because they were more natural.
@@ChildOfThe1970s Yea, I say this as an overweight uggo, people looked better in the 60's and 70's. Everyone got fat when we quit smoking. Sure we live longer but we have to use piano crates as coffins now. I would start smoking again if I could afford it.
After watching this movie back in 69 at age16, I started in on my off road BSA Bantam 175cc I hacksawed the front forks and extended them with waterpipe and painted the tank stars and stripes, what a great time it was, these days if I extended my forks the first cop that see me would pull me over and defect me, how boring the RMS has made motorcycling.
Easy Rider... Like this film or hate it but either way it doesn't matter because it's a classic. I think Jack Nicholson made the right decision to be in Easy Rider because it's a very good film and won awards. 👌
I’m sorry you grew up in that miserable, close-minded place! My first wife was from Emmet nearby. A blind date from a coworker of mine from nearby Barksdale AFB 80 miles away. She and her family thought I was a Yankee and I grew up in Austin, Texas. That’s how backwoods they were!
Small towns never change. Back in 2003 or so my friends and I went camping on the north shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota, close to the Canadian border. Split Rock Lighthouse (highly recommended) was our main campsite, though we also went up to Grand Portage, and took the ferry to Isle Royale NP. On the way home we decided to take a leisurely drive on state highways instead of rushing home on the Interstate. In small-town Minnesota we stopped for dinner at a small-town cafe. We weren't hippies or anything unusual, though one friend was a Korean-American. You'd think lizard people from the planet Pluto entered on hovercraft or something. The whole place stopped and looked at us. As we were served, the waitress kept interrogating us about where we were from. Maynard? Maybe Clara City? Nope. As she served other customers, we could see her relaying the intel to them, and receiving instructions for more questions. Maybe we bought one of those new houses going up outside of Prinsburg? Nope. Out-of-state contractors for the highway? Wrong again. They were standoffish, but not rude. We definitely were the talk of the town that day.
I saw this movie in the late 90s. Came from Ireland in 2003 with a cali girl and broke up soon after so went hitching. I ended up hitchhiking around America . It was the best fun and freest time I've ever known. Methheads were great for lifts and run away wives and truck drivers as well as old krusty deadheads and rainbow hippies. Sure was an eye opener for a farm boy from Ireland. The Women . Omg.
I find myself going back to all these old movies with Nicholson, Brando and Stanley Kubrick films because I'm so sick of modern cinema, the same old soulless crap every time.....these older films seem better than ever
I think it was more for the character of George. He's kinda presented as a functional alcoholic, so a receding hairline would make good sense from a character development standpoint. The receding hairline would signal that he has misgivings as a person, which is something D. H. Lawrence would often do in his writings.
Of course the locals don’t confront them face to face. A lot of passive aggressiveness. Just like the red hat in white letters supporters that have been around the past 6-7 years.
@@jondstewart especially in the south. Southerners are the worst about judging people from afar and being passive aggressive to people that are different.
One of many classic scenes from a classic movie. Another scene, really just a shot from the opening scene, Fonda looks at his watch a moment before they ride off, takes off his watch, looks at it again, and throws it on the ground. Born to be Wild.
First time noticing in this clip! and i've watched this film over decades, countless times! and even went to LSU--grew up going to the football games throughout the 80s. Go Tigers!
Yeah their delivery has a weird vibe to it, like it's a documentary instead of an acted out piece of written and rehearsed fiction. If it's acting, some of it is incredible acting.
In 2017, all those girls would be on their phones. IF they had glanced up at the guys that walked in, they would have just kinda grumbled a bit, maybe made some snide remark about how old and ugly they looked....and then they'd go back to their phones where they'd be browsing guys' online profiles and saying equally dismissive and rude things about their physical appearance.
Today, if they pulled up in exotic supercars the bitches would ask THEM out, then try to marry, sneak in a baby or two, then divorce them and try to get as much $$$ as possible. That's the American Woman modus operandi. Avoid them like the plague that they are.
domeskeetz you hit the nail right on the head. I guess when it's hard to get laid you start hating women and make up scenarios where they are all mean cunts. Problems I've never known fortunately.
I watched this movie at the Oakland Army base movie house on 3/15/70, the night before deploying to Vietnam. I smelled something funny and said "what's that funny smell". The guy next to me laughed and asked, "you don't know what that is?". Marijuana hadn't made it yet to the neighborhood where I grew up on the South side of Houston. It was a real eye opener to me then that somebody had the nerve to light up on the base.
The director told the local men in the diner that the 3 main characters were actually murderers and rapists (not just hippies) to bring out an extra level of hostility in their acting
he looked younger...heh but even at 32 he was young as shit compared to recently....like in The Departed or As Good As It Gets, or even A Few Good Men.
Back then if a black guy walked into the cafe with a white girl he'd probably end up lynched or in jail. It was legalized nationwide in 1967 but time stops in small towns.
@@MarklovesAngelsdon’t know about that. I moved to Colorado from Ireland in the late 70s. In the bars and clubs as soon as the ladies heard my accent they were all over me. People are attracted and intrigued by someone different.
Scenes that evoke emotions and debates is the mark of great acting and art in film this is a Top 100 greatest films of all time you do not see many films reach this level
"I still say I don't think they'll make the Paris line." Hindsight is 20/20... Have one of them keep watch for 4 hours with a rifle, then swap out with one other guy... Better yet, just haul ass all night till you get past the Paris line.
Its the parish line...there are no counties here in Louisiana. They were in Pointe Coupee Parish. The movie kind of does not make sense if they were heading to Florida and had already been in New Orleans...Morganza is back West of NOLA. If i recall, the final scene was filmed on highway 105 near Krotz Springs, which is in St. Landry Parish.
Southern belles..! Well.. I used to work in South Louisiana for about 7 years.. let me tell you, plenty beautiful girls with that accent..! And in this scene, the Blue and blond are ok, but the pretiest is the girl with green dress.. classic type in south Louisiana..!
Women were more wholesome looking back then--no tattoos, no smoking or drinking or meth; no looking down at their smart phones; always engaged in conversation.
I live in a small town and all kinds, and I do mean all kinds of people walk in and eat, because they are the locals now. lol. It's those girls that grew up and now their kids are growing up. And most are the nicest and friendliest people with most exciting stories are the ones people look at differently.
I can remember solo hitchhiking years ago. I’m 72… Yes, there were dangerous characters out there but it was commonly known not to go below the Mason-Dixon Line… I met one blond & blue eyed hitchhiker who claimed he was recently beat up and his dog was shot dead, while hitchhiking through Texas… There was a purpose for having long hair during the 1960’s and most young people felt the same way: to end the Vietnam War and to promote equality among Races, and just simple happiness. I guess things got boring. We seem to be right back in those days where people were extremely provincial. Big difference today is that for some strange reason, there are many more people who seem even more angry about peace, love and happiness…
2:18 the kid scared me the most because of the sheer confidence he had in what he was saying and the venom in his face saying it. He's probably 18, but behaves just like the old men around him. They were getting blood lust for sure.
Yeah sure, in the late 60's early 70's you might have some situations with southern locals harassing hippies passing through, but there's NO WAY the following attack / murder scene would have ever happened. Back then, a lot of the parents / locals in these towns HAD teenage boys who were growing their hair long. I know because part of my family is from the deep south; e.g. one of them was best friends w Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Allen Collins' wife.
@@KT-pu3gn By the 1970's the FBI's decade long prosecution of the KKK did it's job in deterring bigots from thinking they could get away with murder and violence. Public sentiment in the South went through a sea change as younger Southerners who grew up in the 60's and rejected their parent's bigotry, came of age. I remember it well. It was a great thing to see.
I'm guessing you're probably in your 30s or 40s, because you truly don't sound like someone who lived during that period.. I grew up in Houston in the '60s...., you could very easily get your ass severely kicked if you went into the wrong bar and your hair was long.
This was filmed in 1968 or 69; hair becoming acceptable in the south happened later, so by the mid 1970s Lynyrd Skynyrd and co had long hair and no one minded.
@@emilnarud5955 I got a first hand look at how older Southerners dealt with "long hairs" in small towns all across Southern VA, the Carolinas, GA & N. FL starting in 1970. The reality was that kids ALL OVER the South were growing their hair out in the late 60's so the older Southerners were used to seeing either their friend's kids or even their own kids looking that way.
The bar stuff you talk about is what we received in Queenstown Tasmania Australia in 81 , cos we were outsiders from the mainland . It's worldwide human behaviour.
Fact that the locals performed in this scene and played stereotypes of themselves took nerve.
They were too stupid to know the laugh was on them.
Not nerve. In 1969, white still ruled, and you could portray that on film. Now, everybody hates everybody. But hey, Jesus warned us it would be this way..
@@brianramirez4953 Watch behind the scenes first before you form an opinion!
@@Zodroo_Tint planned or not, Hollywood has been mocking and pushing and enforcing negative stereotypes of whyt rural ppl for decades. Sasha Baron Cohen, another j00 ish zioni$t Hollywood film maker has made his entire career out of doing this.
The young lady in the blue dress is Rose LeBlanc. She was in my First Semester English class at Univ. Louisiana - Lafayette, 1969.
@Merle Dixon Asshat, her name is in the screen credits. I remember her well.
@Merle Dixon fella, all these characters are played by locals from Pointe Coupee parish
Daaaamn
Are you serious 😃?
She is a legend
That blonde
Am i understand right??
very cool
In the summer of 1973, I saw Easy Rider and decided to go hitchhiking across America. I was 16. In the summer of '73 you could get away with hitching cross country without worrying about getting killed like nowadays. I got picked up by some good old boys. One of them had hair down over his ears, and we pulled into a diner just like the one in this movie. I had hair over my ears also. We're not talking long hair, but it was long enough to get your ass kicked in 1973 in a seedy little diner like the one in this movie. As we walked through the door, one guy in a Peterbilt cap let out a hoot and a holler...
I didn't know what they were yelling about; I just sat down and waited to give the waitress my order. We waited for about a half an hour maybe, maybe just 20 minutes, and we got the message and left. The scene in this movie is extremely realistic.
There was people being killed by killers who would pick up hitchhikers in those days. Don't be naive
@@oldmansportsog2514 I'm talking about most people, asshole. Go fuck yourself with an empty Schlitz can.
There were just as many serial killers/kidnappers in the 70s. They just didn't have as much media coverage, so the general public wasn't as aware of them as we are today.
If anything, I bet there are probably LESS killers/kidnappers per capita today because of advances in criminal investigation technology.
Cops should have arrested you and shaved your head.
@@MongoLloyd-px7jt Blow me, weirdo.
“That is what is known as…country witticisms…” What a great line.
Trumptards today..
All those people in the diner aren't actors. They were locals.
Yep. They are all wonderful men and women. Cat man is my great uncle. The Sherif is a good family friend along with the rest.
I can’t rule out the possibility the locals in this were nasty and close-minded in real life as they were in this. After all it is the rural south back then. I remember reading somewhere the man playing the sheriff said Easy Rider was trash and didn’t want to see the movie.
But they were probably only saying lines they were told to say by the director
@@EphemeralProductions they weren't given specific lines, but they were told generally what the scene was
The director was probably like "just be yourself," and dammit this is one of the greatest scenes in one of the greatest movies. Easy Rider was a great portrayal of America and still is.
The casting for this film is so good!!!
I watched this movie in 1969. I was a 17 year old US Army soldier visiting Washington DC. 5 years later, I met Peter Fonda when he was filming Race with the Devil. He gave all the drivers & extras, envelopes full of brand new $100. bills. We went out in all directions and bought every yellow rose in San Antonio. We brought them all back to the hotel where the actors were staying and put them all over the place! There were hundreds & hundreds of yellow roses. Peter was sweet on actress Loretta Swit and she said she loved yellow roses. She was very amazed. That was a great adventure.
Nice!
That movie terrified me! 😅
That’s a memory!
That's a cool story. Also, dang, that is a big group wingman effort. Got anymore stories from the 70s?
@@ultrameticulous1976: at the Willie Nelson Fourth of July Picnic outside Gonzales. I took my girlfriend & her girlfriend there and set up camp 2 days ahead of the concert. I set up on top of a hill near the concert. We could see everything. We stayed there for days partying. The crowds were very large. There were LOTS of drugs & even More alcohol. I found someone selling light sticks. I was stoned playing around with it. I cut one open and found that it glowed green on everything you put it on. So, I had a great idea. I cut a bunch open and put the liquid all over my clothes & cowboy hat. I was completely glowing bright green!!!!
I started walking through the crowd.
People were blowing thier minds watching me. It was a blast. But sadly, the drugs were messing people up. There were not enough medical care there. They were overwhelmed. I ended up taking care and watching over a handful of ODs at our campsite.
Non of them died, the next morning they all woke up ok. They All thanked us, then they all started partying again. It was a real wild concert that lasted for days. I'm glad I got there early and I'm glad I took a lot of supplies & camping gear.
This concert & a Grateful Dead concert in Austin at Manor Downs in the early 80s were the 2 wildest concerts I ever went too.
The guy in the Cat hat still gives me the creeps. I grew up in the south in the 60s and 70s, and that kind of guy was everywhere.
Yeah I hear you, all inbreds the whole lot
Weird how they immediately get violent, but view the harmless outsiders as a threat.
@@texaswunderkindNo son inofensivos. No para "sus mujeres". En los pueblos de Estados Unidos, en España, en los Alpes, en Siberia, en Groenlandia o en las selvas de Myanmar si un forastero mira a las mujeres de la tribu puede salir con un hueso roto. O varios.
Es la naturaleza humana.
@@santiagoblasgilabert2877 Yes I have first experience of this when I went to Acapulco back in 1981. I was in a disco club and asked a local girl to dance and immediately I was approached by her male friends in a very threatening way.
They’re still around. They vote for Trump.
The deputy sheriff was the real life deputy of the parish. His patch was displayed at the beginning of the scene and he was nearly fired afterward.
Jack Straw Yes he is. He’s a rancher in that area and says he is still asked about the movie all the time.
They weren’t supposed to show the patch. It was accidentally revealed in the shot.
Why does the patch say County if it's supposed to be in Louisiana?
Jamie N It doesn’t say county, it says “Pointe Coupee”, that is the parish where this scene was filmed.
His name is Arnold Hess and he was the Sheriff in Pointe Coupee. And yes he is still alive and well. Great man.
Unfortunately dead now.
I saw a behind the scenes . The guy in the CAT hat was laughing and paling around with Fonda. Really great to watch
I like the metaphor of his match refusing to light
Explain
@@stanmonzon5788the light knew it wasn’t the right place to light lol
I like the irony of losing a millimeter off my molars every time I watch this scene.
I love this movie. Americana at its finest. I'm a Brit b1960. Saw it in first around 1976…the finest decade there ever was.
“The man is at the window” 😂
My wife and i still drop this line periodically when we see someone taking note of us in an unfavorable way. LOL
@@tendrams👍👍
How come there are no nymphos like that in my local cafe 😂
Saaame
There might be, but maybe you have to arrive there and appear exotic and alluring to them, like these fellows do, in order to really bring the nymphomania out.
FlatEarthBrother They ain't all like that man
Well do you look like Chris Evans when you walk into a cafe?
🤣
"You gotta a note from your Mom?" ...."the man is at the window, the man is at the window" pure gold
Yes 😂!
The chant "The man is at the window!" still makes me LOL, all these years after I saw "Easy Rider" at the local movie theatre.
😄
What a lot of people don't realize is that Dennis Hopper the budget was so small that every time they went to a town, they just asked for people to be in their movie. So everybody in this scene is actually just some local towns people. Pretty cute girls for 1968 I must say😊
There's been cute girls in every year. Duh.
This was Bill Haywards direction.
@@SFVGIRL I thought Dennis Hopper directed the movie there's even the DVD extras that have the movie with his narration of what he did on certain scenes
For 1968? There's been beautiful girls ever since Eve was created. I'd even say they were cuter in 1968 than they are now because they were more natural.
@@ChildOfThe1970s Yea, I say this as an overweight uggo, people looked better in the 60's and 70's.
Everyone got fat when we quit smoking.
Sure we live longer but we have to use piano crates as coffins now.
I would start smoking again if I could afford it.
The man is at the window.
just checking to see if someone already quoted. Nice work.
@@tamburello9902 blobblllblobobobpootang
Rest in Peace Mr Fonda.... And as for Nicholson he is still the greatest
wots wrong with dennis hopper ?
@@uttaradit2 well, regretfully he died
Sex, drugs and Rock-n-Roll. 🎶 The Band! 🎶. U put the load right on me! :))
Peter Fonda chilling in this scene.
The blonde and the girl in brown are beautiful.
They are but the girl in the white shirt caught my eye for some reason...
Green dress brunette is by far the most beautiful
0:37. The two brunettes in brown and blue were sisters, aged 17 and 19: Elida Ann and Mary Kaye Hebert.
cousins
R.I.P. Peter Fonda....
Yeah he was a cool guy that film got me hooked on Motorcycles
I know dude Rip Peter Fonda Great 👍 actor 🎬👨🏼💼 but he was crazy 😜 god Speed Fonda and Hopper
@@TOM15555555 Fonda's best movies were this and Ulee's Gold.
Yeah..Watch Ulee's gold again if you miss him. His heart is right there.
After watching this movie back in 69 at age16, I started in on my off road BSA Bantam 175cc I hacksawed the front forks and extended them with waterpipe and painted the tank stars and stripes, what a great time it was, these days if I extended my forks the first cop that see me would pull me over and defect me, how boring the RMS has made motorcycling.
The oddest thing about this scene is the fact that the diner was serving both Pepsi and Coke
No diner in the South serves pepsi.
They also play both kinds of music: country AND western.
@@johnsmith-xv3dl cmon.... Pepsi was big in Louisiana
Easy Rider... Like this film or hate it but either way it doesn't matter because it's a classic. I think Jack Nicholson made the right decision to be in Easy Rider because it's a very good film and won awards. 👌
Damn this is a real airhead comment.
Yes...great comment!
Considering his career was going nowhere and the film was a huge success and he was nominated for an Oscar, I think it's safe to say that, lol
I think this same thing could have occured in certain small towns in upstate NY and certainly parts of Pennsylvania.
Or Wisconsin, for that matter..
It could happen now with a MAGA hat in Chicago; vengeance for Saint Juissie Smollette, martyr of the resist.
Even the south shore of Long Island and most of upstate NY
I grew up in SW Arkansas, near Hope AR, the dude in the Cat Hat, sounds just like my Grandfather back in the day.
His name is Hay Robillard. Really cool guy he had the cast over to his home. He was known to cook for them and show them around.
I’m sorry you grew up in that miserable, close-minded place! My first wife was from Emmet nearby. A blind date from a coworker of mine from nearby Barksdale AFB 80 miles away. She and her family thought I was a Yankee and I grew up in Austin, Texas. That’s how backwoods they were!
@@katherinerobillard2165 Very cool! Thanks for sharing.
@@jondstewart In South Louisiana if you live north of the 31st parallel, you are considered a Yankee.
Man is at the window 😅
all these girls are about in their seventies now :D
Mid to late 60s mybe 1 of them is 70
@@chrisruth7057 yeah true
I like old gray headed pussy.
@@chrisruth7057 no, they're in their mid-70s.
Imagine how they feel when they see their younger selfs in the movie.
Dude, I still know of a few diners that this scene could happen in today.
Where? I’d like to go.
@@sk-nu8hh If you're a conservative, try any bar in Portland, for starters. They'll really 'love' you..
@@duffbaker9554 you reap what you sow
waffle house
Now those guys would be wearing MAGA hats! 😂
Small towns never change. Back in 2003 or so my friends and I went camping on the north shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota, close to the Canadian border. Split Rock Lighthouse (highly recommended) was our main campsite, though we also went up to Grand Portage, and took the ferry to Isle Royale NP. On the way home we decided to take a leisurely drive on state highways instead of rushing home on the Interstate. In small-town Minnesota we stopped for dinner at a small-town cafe. We weren't hippies or anything unusual, though one friend was a Korean-American. You'd think lizard people from the planet Pluto entered on hovercraft or something. The whole place stopped and looked at us.
As we were served, the waitress kept interrogating us about where we were from. Maynard? Maybe Clara City? Nope. As she served other customers, we could see her relaying the intel to them, and receiving instructions for more questions. Maybe we bought one of those new houses going up outside of Prinsburg? Nope. Out-of-state contractors for the highway? Wrong again. They were standoffish, but not rude. We definitely were the talk of the town that day.
Grand Marais?
My uncle just loves this movie. So many great memories watching it with his friend. Great sound track too
The man is at the window the man is at the window
The girl in blue, I'm in love with her beauty.
The one in brown makes me stiff.
They were all hot. This coming from a gay guy. Lol. Lucky dudes they were
Really? The one in blue was the ugliest one. The two next to her are way hotter.
@Les Brown Sounds like a Gino Vannelli lyric.
The one in blue is like the best-looking one.
I saw this movie in the late 90s. Came from Ireland in 2003 with a cali girl and broke up soon after so went hitching. I ended up hitchhiking around America . It was the best fun and freest time I've ever known. Methheads were great for lifts and run away wives and truck drivers as well as old krusty deadheads and rainbow hippies. Sure was an eye opener for a farm boy from Ireland. The Women . Omg.
This scene always makes me so uneasy
Uneasy Rider ? 🤨
@@earthwatcher2012 Uhaha
@@earthwatcher2012 lol
It makes me hard as a rock.
The scene that follows not long after is really harrowing. They're asleep and a bunch of rednecks attack them with baseball bats, killing George.
I find myself going back to all these old movies with Nicholson, Brando and Stanley Kubrick films because I'm so sick of modern cinema, the same old soulless crap every time.....these older films seem better than ever
Eat This badass gun mine's bigger lol
Theres alot of modern movies with meaning and heart
I agree, I'm tired of these new movies with unrealistic special effects, and computer animation.
@@BigSplenda1885 There was a much crap made then as now, the ratio is no different. Its just easier to filter out the classics in retrospect.
@@unhingefringe4735 One or two.
Jack Nicholson was half bald even in the 60s?
like your mom
Since I saw him in the 1st movie
He was like 32 when the movie came out. I know a handful of guys in their early 20s with less than that lol
I think it was more for the character of George. He's kinda presented as a functional alcoholic, so a receding hairline would make good sense from a character development standpoint.
The receding hairline would signal that he has misgivings as a person, which is something D. H. Lawrence would often do in his writings.
Born to be bald
On the 50th anniversary of Woodstock. Fitting....
Fonda is Roger McGuinn and Dennis Hopper is David Crosby.
Nailed it!!!!
i guess dickey betts 😂
"Ya wanna ride?"
"Yeah yeah"
"Ya got a note from yer mama??"
Bahahaa
I feel for em. I used to be made fun of a lot when I was younger. I know what it’s like to walk into a place and get stared at
Hippie and proud ☮️
you pretend it doesnt bother you but you just want to explode...
Of course the locals don’t confront them face to face. A lot of passive aggressiveness. Just like the red hat in white letters supporters that have been around the past 6-7 years.
@@jondstewart especially in the south. Southerners are the worst about judging people from afar and being passive aggressive to people that are different.
@@gabrielanthony1129 It seems that they have standards...
One of many classic scenes from a classic movie. Another scene, really just a shot from the opening scene, Fonda looks at his watch a moment before they ride off, takes off his watch, looks at it again, and throws it on the ground. Born to be Wild.
Love the 1968 LSU football schedule in the window.
First time noticing in this clip! and i've watched this film over decades, countless times! and even went to LSU--grew up going to the football games throughout the 80s. Go Tigers!
Here in 2024, sadly folks like those "gentlemen" in the booths still exist.
Oh man, Southern chicks are just the sexiest in the world! That accent slays me every time.
It's gone almost, those girls would talk like the kardashians these days, sad...
@@joejones9520 trust me, it's still very much alive here in GA/TN
@@oliverkalamata2753 maybe chicks 35+
I rarely hear zoomers with Southern accents unless they're black
@@joejones9520 It's around in LA, not as strong, its gone in TX where I live esp. Houston!
Well don't look too closely,because the Proud Boys...
I did a report on this movie some 40 plus years ago and I swear my teacher treated me much much better afterwards.
Great scene, but I wanna know how they panned across the booth of the girls staring at Fonda without seeing the camera? Wow! 🎥
Hey Man… I Loved That Movie…
This scene is so f’ing realistic.
A lot of experience?
Yeah their delivery has a weird vibe to it, like it's a documentary instead of an acted out piece of written and rehearsed fiction. If it's acting, some of it is incredible acting.
Doors:
Friendly strangers came to town
All the people put them down
But the women loved their ways
Come again some other day
L’america
The good old days when a trip across America was a trip to foreign lands.
Some things never change
i said babalaboobtang
I came here just to like this
In 2017, all those girls would be on their phones. IF they had glanced up at the guys that walked in, they would have just kinda grumbled a bit, maybe made some snide remark about how old and ugly they looked....and then they'd go back to their phones where they'd be browsing guys' online profiles and saying equally dismissive and rude things about their physical appearance.
chewface sadly yes
spot on lol is that in the uk or us tho? because that dam well happens Here in the uk
Today, if they pulled up in exotic supercars the bitches would ask THEM out, then try to marry, sneak in a baby or two, then divorce them and try to get as much $$$ as possible. That's the American Woman modus operandi. Avoid them like the plague that they are.
sounds like someone who hasn't been laid in years lol
domeskeetz you hit the nail right on the head. I guess when it's hard to get laid you start hating women and make up scenarios where they are all mean cunts. Problems I've never known fortunately.
Man is at the window. The man is at the window.
I watched this movie at the Oakland Army base movie house on 3/15/70, the night before deploying to Vietnam. I smelled something funny and said "what's that funny smell". The guy next to me laughed and asked, "you don't know what that is?". Marijuana hadn't made it yet to the neighborhood where I grew up on the South side of Houston. It was a real eye opener to me then that somebody had the nerve to light up on the base.
The girls would be swiping right on them today, except maybe Fonda.
@Jack Straw best way to get the swipe right today is to look like you've committed actual crimes. Today's standards, looks beta.
100%
What does that even mean? You don’t think he’s not good looking?
@@CodPatrol Congratulations on never being exposed to social media. You don’t know how lucky you are. Continue to avoid it it could save your life.
@@martinishot Why what did I say?
Most bikers today are like the locals in this scene. Completely flipped.
The director told the local men in the diner that the 3 main characters were actually murderers and rapists (not just hippies) to bring out an extra level of hostility in their acting
When the local in the trucker hat said "I think she's cute," I couldn't help but get a Deliverance vibe.
Damn Jack was young as shit.
He was 32!
he looked younger...heh but even at 32 he was young as shit compared to recently....like in The Departed or As Good As It Gets, or even A Few Good Men.
Owen Daniels
Man, they all look young ! But then in 1969 we were all a lot younger.
no, I looked older in 1969 than I do now
Owen Daniels
How old are you?
wait... you weren't born yet ? right ?
Did I get it ?
I wrote the script for this and I'm so proud of the way it was made into a movie.
I was Jack Nicholson in this scene, so proud of my role in the film.
@@TygerTyger24
Are you really Jack Nicholson.?
@@BillyBullshitter Yeah.
@@TygerTyger24 nice
@@BillyBullshitter Thanks Billy Bullshitter.
I had a similar incident in a small place in a mountainous region when my date was of another race
Back then if a black guy walked into the cafe with a white girl he'd probably end up lynched or in jail. It was legalized nationwide in 1967 but time stops in small towns.
The brunette sitting next to the blonde is my favorite.
I actually once had lunch in this diner and it serves a marvelous quiche and tuna tartar.
I doubt that.
Its wine cellar is OUTSTANDING!
I'd have stayed for the lobster thermador but I wanted to make the parish line before sundown
2022 now the strangest thing of this scene is seeing girls flirting so actively and open!
It would be nice man!
Totally unrealistic.
@@MarklovesAngelsdon’t know about that. I moved to Colorado from Ireland in the late 70s. In the bars and clubs as soon as the ladies heard my accent they were all over me. People are attracted and intrigued by someone different.
Reminds me of the scene in Weird Science when they walk into the "Kandy Bar". The needle slides across the record and the place goes silent! 😆
Drink it!
the blonde one gahdamn
She's really cute and natural
@Jack Straw it's the south I'm sure it's legal
Jack Straw it’s fine she’s like 60 now
@@rickgrimes2056 more like 65
I would still smash.
Scenes that evoke emotions and debates is the mark of great acting and art in film this is a Top 100 greatest films of all time you do not see many films reach this level
Totally agree. One of the best pieces of cinema you can get to experience. And it was cheap as fuck
IF they stuck around they would've gotten a "New Iberia Haircut".
They wouldn't have understood a dang word you said,anyhows😂
Nowadays everyone glued to their phone this would never happen.
Much better for that.
"I still say I don't think they'll make the Paris line."
Hindsight is 20/20...
Have one of them keep watch for 4 hours with a rifle, then swap out with one other guy...
Better yet, just haul ass all night till you get past the Paris line.
Parrish
underestimated the insanity
Its the parish line...there are no counties here in Louisiana. They were in Pointe Coupee Parish. The movie kind of does not make sense if they were heading to Florida and had already been in New Orleans...Morganza is back West of NOLA. If i recall, the final scene was filmed on highway 105 near Krotz Springs, which is in St. Landry Parish.
When you realize you should probably just get takeaway...
Ha ha yep
Takeaway, you must be British
Girls just want have a ride😀 R.I.P. easy rider 🤘
It's such a "middle school cafeteria" vibe the way these locals taunt them.
My lord, the blonde...
I jizzed in my tighties when I saw her.
Right, ya feel like she should have elevated to world-wide fame just from this scene.
BOTTLE-blond.
She is incredible 😲
Southern belles..! Well.. I used to work in South Louisiana for about 7 years.. let me tell you, plenty beautiful girls with that accent..!
And in this scene, the Blue and blond are ok, but the pretiest is the girl with green dress.. classic type in south Louisiana..!
I go for the one in red thank you.
@@Bob31415 She looks like the Grinch.
@@BigTodd999 She is *fine* .
“The man is in the window”
My favorite movie
The scary part is the south isnt too different now. they just changed what they are afraid of.
Women were more wholesome looking back then--no tattoos, no smoking or drinking or meth; no looking down at their smart phones; always engaged in conversation.
But apparently plenty horny.
Most women smoked and drank. I don't know what small town you grew up in.
Ok, we get you"re old.
Old fart.
The gentleman wearing the tie with his glasses case in his shirt-pocket is the most educated in the booth. He graduated high school.
"The man is at the window"
"The man is at the window"
Our teachers forced us to watch this in 1973. I fell asleep.
Well,at least you woke up and made it this far! Cool,man
There are shows more suitable for you, like Lego Batman. You shouldn't overextend your mental abilities. Brain may overheat.
and woke up wet.
I live in a small town and all kinds, and I do mean all kinds of people walk in and eat, because they are the locals now. lol. It's those girls that grew up and now their kids are growing up. And most are the nicest and friendliest people with most exciting stories are the ones people look at differently.
I saw this in the theater when it came out and you could hardly see the screen for the pot smoke! Same with Yellow Submarine.
I always thought the girl in the green dress at 0:20 was gorgeous.
The girl in the white shirt caught my eye for some reason.
I can remember solo hitchhiking years ago. I’m 72…
Yes, there were dangerous characters out there but it was commonly known not to go below the Mason-Dixon Line…
I met one blond & blue eyed hitchhiker who claimed he was recently beat up and his dog was shot dead, while hitchhiking through Texas…
There was a purpose for having long hair during the 1960’s and most young people felt the same way: to end the Vietnam War and to promote equality among Races, and just simple happiness. I guess things got boring. We seem to be right back in those days where people were extremely provincial. Big difference today is that for some strange reason, there are many more people who seem even more angry about peace, love and happiness…
2:18 the kid scared me the most because of the sheer confidence he had in what he was saying and the venom in his face saying it. He's probably 18, but behaves just like the old men around him. They were getting blood lust for sure.
Like walking into a rural Welsh pub.
I love late 60s girls
And very early 70s
@@Unsung_Earth You need to make sure they haven't had a Hip Replacement
Yeah sure, in the late 60's early 70's you might have some situations with southern locals harassing hippies passing through, but there's NO WAY the following attack / murder scene would have ever happened. Back then, a lot of the parents / locals in these towns HAD teenage boys who were growing their hair long. I know because part of my family is from the deep south; e.g. one of them was best friends w Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Allen Collins' wife.
not all southern towns are the same Im sure there are worse and they are better towns out there
@@KT-pu3gn By the 1970's the FBI's decade long prosecution of the KKK did it's job in deterring bigots from thinking they could get away with murder and violence. Public sentiment in the South went through a sea change as younger Southerners who grew up in the 60's and rejected their parent's bigotry, came of age. I remember it well. It was a great thing to see.
I'm guessing you're probably in your 30s or 40s, because you truly don't sound like someone who lived during that period.. I grew up in Houston in the '60s...., you could very easily get your ass severely kicked if you went into the wrong bar and your hair was long.
This was filmed in 1968 or 69; hair becoming acceptable in the south happened later, so by the mid 1970s Lynyrd Skynyrd and co had long hair and no one minded.
@@emilnarud5955 I got a first hand look at how older Southerners dealt with "long hairs" in small towns all across Southern VA, the Carolinas, GA & N. FL starting in 1970. The reality was that kids ALL OVER the South were growing their hair out in the late 60's so the older Southerners were used to seeing either their friend's kids or even their own kids looking that way.
the man is at the window, the man is at the window, lol
"Look like a bunch of refugees from a gorilla love in"
One a dem country witticisms..
Thats gold Jerry...Gold!
Southern Belles
0:16 quentin tarantino?
loooooooll
yea.... when he was a sperm?
Jesse Pinkman lol
I'd mud wrassle all 6 🐷
Arright!
who knew hair could trigger certain people so much! unfortunately I can’t say I’m surprised by these types of folks.
That was an explosive year! Kind of glad I was just 12 and attending junior high school. * Cav *
That's what exactly will happen in Finland, if you are strangers to the local people and you step in to the bar.
Laodicea - surely, it's not as inbred and ignorant as the US south?
If the stereotype is true, then Finnish people are too socially awkward and taciturn to do any actual confrontation.
@@brianm2881 depends on how much vodka they have been drinking
@@wiseonwords generalize much racist pig?
The bar stuff you talk about is what we received in Queenstown Tasmania Australia in 81 , cos we were outsiders from the mainland . It's worldwide human behaviour.
Somethings never change .