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Post by pimpinainteasy on Sept 22, 2018 2:34:49 GMT
that is some playlist man. i havent heard 75% of the songs on it. MAYONAISE by the pumpkins is a great song though.
have you watched HOPPER's OUT OF THE BLUE? i think its one of his best films as an actor-director. maybe even better than EASY RIDER. there arent any good prints of it though. i havent watched THE LAST MOVIE, btw.
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 22, 2018 2:46:12 GMT
Sometimes deemed just a notch or two above a biker film, it's an excellent look at the counterculture and the South. I find myself thinking this line more and more.
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 22, 2018 3:04:30 GMT
Sometimes deemed just a notch or two above a biker film, it's an excellent look at the counterculture and the South. I find myself the king this line more and more. Do you ride a motorcycle, bravomailer? I never did. When I saw this opening scene in the theater back in 1969, I sure thought I'd get a motorcycle and ride across the country. However, I've only ridden motorcycles in parking lots! |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 22, 2018 3:32:19 GMT
Always impressed with your essays and this is one of THE best !
Hope that you are saving copies of them all !
Fascinating write up.. thanks !
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 22, 2018 3:55:05 GMT
About 4 years after Easy Rider's release, I happened across Dennis Hopper at the Albuquerque airport. I was ascending an escalator as he was coming down. I recognized him and he realized it. A look of profound unease if not paranoia came across his face. He was wearing a cowboy hat.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 22, 2018 3:55:10 GMT
I have not seen all that many Hopper movies because he tends to be in movies I don't care to see. I've only see Easy Rider once and that was age and ages ago. Mostly I remember the music ! I do remember him in Giant (rather stiff and awkward - but that may have been the role and not him !)and in Rebel without a Cause in his earlier days and some of the TV westerns he did caught my eye. .jpg)  I really enjoyed his role and performance in Waterworld (which I found to be not as bad as usually depicted). He was way over the top but seemed to be really getting a kick out of being that character ! 
Glad that an actor "most likely to die young of a drug overdose" didn't  |
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Post by teleadm on Sept 22, 2018 14:09:54 GMT
I've seen Easy Rider, and I've tried to like it, but couldn't, but I can understand that it hitted old conventions and oddly enough was backed by one of the big movie companies (Columbia Pictures) so they must have seen the value in it.
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Post by teleadm on Sept 22, 2018 14:46:20 GMT
I've seen Easy Rider, and I've tried to like it, but couldn't, but I can understand that it hitted old conventions and oddly enough was backed by one of the big movie companies (Columbia Pictures) so they must have seen the value in it. As much as any film I can think of, 'Easy Rider' seems to highlight the frisson caused when independent guerrilla filmmaking is backed with deluxe studio marketing.
'Easy Rider' was the third highest-grossing film of 1969, with worldwide gross $60 million, including $41.7 million domestically in the US. Along with 'Bonnie and Clyde' and 'The Graduate', 'Easy Rider' helped kick-start the New Hollywood era during the late 1960s and 1970s. The major studios realized that money could be made from low-budget films made by avant-garde directors. Heavily influenced by the French New Wave, the films of the so-called "post-classical Hollywood" came to represent a counterculture generation increasingly disillusioned with its government as well as the government's effects on the world at large, and the Establishment in general.'
- 'Easy Rider' at Wikipedia
My initial thought when watching it was actuaally, why didn't they ask Roger Corman, since he was the master showman in selling, though Columbia Pictures world wide distribution net must have sounded attractive, and they were the ones who did The Wild One with Brando |
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