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Title: Easy Rider (1969)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Peter Fonda | ... | Wyatt | |
| Dennis Hopper | ... | Billy | |
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Antonio Mendoza | ... | Jesus |
| Phil Spector | ... | Connection | |
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Mac Mashourian | ... | Bodyguard |
| Warren Finnerty | ... | Rancher | |
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Tita Colorado | ... | Rancher's Wife |
| Luke Askew | ... | Stranger on Highway | |
| Luana Anders | ... | Lisa | |
| Sabrina Scharf | ... | Sarah | |
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Sandy Brown Wyeth | ... | Joanne (as Sandy Wyeth) |
| Robert Walker Jr. | ... | Jack (as Robert Walker) | |
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Robert Ball | ... | Mime #1 |
| Carmen Phillips | ... | Mime #2 | |
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Ellie Wood Walker | ... | Mime #3 (as Ellie Walker) |
Netting a hefty profit from their latest drug deal, hippies Wyatt and Billy decide to outfit themselves with among other things motorbikes - Wyatt complete in what they call his Captain America gear and similar motif on the bike - and chucking any structure in their lives beyond the want to get there for the event, cycle from their home base of Los Angeles to New Orleans for Mardi Gras in just over a week. They don't plan to spend their proceeds on this trip - they saving that for a more carefree life in Florida after the fact - they sleeping in the great outdoors along the way. While Wyatt is more easy going, believing in the karmic nature and practicality of helping others when they can and in turn asking for help when they need it, Billy is a little more suspicious of the people they encounter, especially in hiding their wad of cash that is stuffed into the gas tank of Wyatt's bike, that money their future. They will find that not all counter-culturalists have the exact same ... Written by Huggo
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I love road movies. My favorites include "Thelma & Louise" and "Vanishing Point", but "Easy Rider" is in a class all by itself. A movie with Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson in it is hard to disappoint. That scene with Nicholson talking UFO's at the camp fire represents the great actor at his pinnacle. Anyone who has seen that scene surely wouldn't be able to resist inhaling!
The movie started out in an optimistic mood, with Fonda and Hopper setting out to discover America. The audience is naturally drawn into all the excitement. After all, everything that the duo was going through seemed so cool and so within reach too. I try to watch every road scene carefully everytime I play this movie back on my VCR, to try to remember a few spots to see if I could find them in person next time I'm out there in the Southwest. The soundtrack is of course fantastic. What makes it even greater is how well the songs fit the film. After seeing this movie, it's somehow hard to picture Monument Valley without hearing the song "The Weight" in my head.
The Nicholson take on aliens at the camp fire was the high point of the trip. Then things began to turn sour. Very sour. May be that's why I've watched the first half of the movie so much more often than the second half. And I bet I'm not alone. May be that sums up the whole movie pretty well. People are attracted to it because it represents their dream, and we can't bear to watch our dream die.