[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Easy Rider (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 2/23/2013 10:32:49 PM EDT
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just started on TCM
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| I like the part where Fonda and Hopper are at the diner,and they start to get eyed up by the locals.When the two are getting on their bikes to leave,Hopper is shouting,THE MAN IS AT THE WINDOW,THE MAN IS AT THE WINDOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.While the locals inside stare out of the windows at them. |
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GTFO loser, I was here first 
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Quoted: Overrated B movie. Only by later standards. You have to realize that when this movie was made, it was the very FIRST of it's type. Dennis Hopper actually invented the buddy road movie. With hippies. And, the movie made a LOT of money for Dennis Hopper, as well. Shortly after this movie was made, all the other movie studios tried to make something similar, to cash in on Dennis Hopper's innovation. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Overrated B movie. Only by later standards. You have to realize that when this movie was made, it was the very FIRST of it's type. Dennis Hopper actually invented the buddy road movie. With hippies. And, the movie made a LOT of money for Dennis Hopper, as well. Shortly after this movie was made, all the other movie studios tried to make something similar, to cash in on Dennis Hopper's innovation. I'm not saying it isn't a good movie. However, it is a B movie, and it's way over hyped. "Buddy" pictures, and "road" pictures existed before Easy Rider. Hopper was trying to make some statement about America, and freedom, and oppression or something. Two bikers fund their trip to Mardi Gras by smuggling drugs. They find the good and bad of America on the way. That's about it. Ironically, they are part of the bad of America. They aren't good guys. Drug smuggling bikers. That's all Captain America and Billy really were. They weren't looking for America. They weren't making a statement about freedom, or oppression. They were just drug smuggling bikers out for a good time. |
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its interesting to see the amount of "long hair hippy" hate was it really like that? The country was divided. People who hated "hippies" were the mirror image (in terms of the divide - no moral equivalence implied) of people who despised servicemen. The film chose to portray one side, for obvious reasons. |
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Saw it when it first came out. Yes, I am old. There were several hard core bikers in the audience. When the ending came, and Fonda was shot, they all jumped as one. Nobody expected the ending. Also, that was the first movie to use music like it did. Speaking as a proud descendant of the "locals"...we loved the ending 
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Overrated B movie. Only by later standards. You have to realize that when this movie was made, it was the very FIRST of it's type. Dennis Hopper actually invented the buddy road movie. With hippies. And, the movie made a LOT of money for Dennis Hopper, as well. Shortly after this movie was made, all the other movie studios tried to make something similar, to cash in on Dennis Hopper's innovation. I'm not saying it isn't a good movie. However, it is a B movie, and it's way over hyped. "Buddy" pictures, and "road" pictures existed before Easy Rider. Hopper was trying to make some statement about America, and freedom, and oppression or something. Two bikers fund their trip to Mardi Gras by smuggling drugs. They find the good and bad of America on the way. That's about it. Ironically, they are part of the bad of America. They aren't good guys. Drug smuggling bikers. That's all Captain America and Billy really were. They weren't looking for America. They weren't making a statement about freedom, or oppression. They were just drug smuggling bikers out for a good time. Who got killed by a couple of good old boys just because they didn't like their lifestyle |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Overrated B movie. Only by later standards. You have to realize that when this movie was made, it was the very FIRST of it's type. Dennis Hopper actually invented the buddy road movie. With hippies. And, the movie made a LOT of money for Dennis Hopper, as well. Shortly after this movie was made, all the other movie studios tried to make something similar, to cash in on Dennis Hopper's innovation. I'm not saying it isn't a good movie. However, it is a B movie, and it's way over hyped. "Buddy" pictures, and "road" pictures existed before Easy Rider. Hopper was trying to make some statement about America, and freedom, and oppression or something. Two bikers fund their trip to Mardi Gras by smuggling drugs. They find the good and bad of America on the way. That's about it. Ironically, they are part of the bad of America. They aren't good guys. Drug smuggling bikers. That's all Captain America and Billy really were. They weren't looking for America. They weren't making a statement about freedom, or oppression. They were just drug smuggling bikers out for a good time. I don't know about you, but the red IS America... Man |
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I like the part where Fonda and Hopper are at the diner,and they start to get eyed up by the locals.When the two are getting on their bikes to leave,Hopper is shouting,THE MAN IS AT THE WINDOW,THE MAN IS AT THE WINDOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.While the locals inside stare out of the windows at them. They'll never make the parish line. LC |
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I like the part where Fonda and Hopper are at the diner,and they start to get eyed up by the locals.When the two are getting on their bikes to leave,Hopper is shouting,THE MAN IS AT THE WINDOW,THE MAN IS AT THE WINDOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.While the locals inside stare out of the windows at them. They'll never make the parish line. LC Look at that yankee flag they got on that motocickle.... |
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its interesting to see the amount of "long hair hippy" hate was it really like that? it still is some places Indeed. Very much so. Some of the posters in this thread remind me of this guy http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsF/5910-6009.jpg "Never get out of the boat!" |
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You had to be there.
I don't care for it, at all. I don't get what people see in it. AB If you weren't involved in something during this time period you were missing out. I asked this question on a local board regarding who Never watched EZ rider? Same mixed bag of replies. Then again during this time frame, we cut/ stretched and raked our mc frames, fabricated parts to go with your ride etc. None of this Bolt on acc catalog shit. |
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You had to be there.
I don't care for it, at all. I don't get what people see in it. AB If you weren't involved in something during this time period you were missing out. I asked this question on a local board regarding who Never watched EZ rider? Same mixed bag of replies. Then again during this time frame, we cut/ stretched and raked our mc frames, fabricated parts to go with your ride etc. None of this Bolt on acc catalog shit. There should be a law that if you want a chopper, you have to build it yourself. Off the shelf "custom" bikes disgust me.
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its interesting to see the amount of "long hair hippy" hate was it really like that? it still is some places Indeed. Very much so. Some of the posters in this thread remind me of this guy http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsF/5910-6009.jpg "Never get out of the boat!" That's the one |
