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  • OG LennyT
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    • Jun 2003
    • 14345
    #1

    'Easy Rider' question.. bikers, film gurus inside...

    I got the classic film, Easy Rider, on DVD. After watching it several times, I am still wondering about all the religious symbolism throughout the movie.

    Culminating in one of the final scenes, Wyatt and Billy bang some New Orleans whores in a graveyard. WTF was up with this scene? I don't get it.

    Someone explain por favor.
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    • escorpio
      doesn't fuck around.
      • Oct 2002
      • 23485
      #2
      Damn hippies were too cheap to get a room.
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        • DBS.US
          Geo Cities
          • Aug 2003
          • 11842
          #3
          Originally posted by escorpio
          Damn hippies were too cheap to get a room.
          True

          Also the writers and director was high when they filmed it.
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            • aico
              Moo Moo Cow
              • Mar 2004
              • 14748
              #4
              Originally posted by DBS.US
              True

              Also the writers and director was high when they filmed it.
              which were the actors as well

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                • spacedog
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                  • Nov 2001
                  • 14149
                  #5
                  It is a montage to invoke the sense that their high was of biblical proportions.

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                    • Dirty F
                      Too lazy to set a custom title
                      • Jul 2001
                      • 59204
                      #6
                      Originally posted by OG LennyT
                      I got the classic film, Easy Rider, on DVD. After watching it several times, I am still wondering about all the religious symbolism throughout the movie.

                      Culminating in one of the final scenes, Wyatt and Billy bang some New Orleans whores in a graveyard. WTF was up with this scene? I don't get it.

                      Someone explain por favor.
                      You couldnt figure out they were tripping??

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                        • baddog
                          So Fucking Banned
                          • Apr 2001
                          • 107089
                          #7
                          They were on acid.

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                            • Martin
                              "Assassins"
                              • Dec 2001
                              • 17274
                              #8
                              Love that movie.. I agree with spacedog too.

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                                • OG LennyT
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                                  • Jun 2003
                                  • 14345
                                  #9
                                  Obviously they were tripping on different drugs throughout the movie, but this doesn't address my original question.

                                  What was with the religious symbolism throughout the movie, particularly the graveyard scene?
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                                    • OG LennyT
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                                      • Jun 2003
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                                      #10
                                      nobody knows?
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                                        • halfpint
                                          GFY's Halfpint
                                          • Jun 2007
                                          • 15223
                                          #11
                                          Ride Hard, Die Free or something like that

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                                            • baddog
                                              So Fucking Banned
                                              • Apr 2001
                                              • 107089
                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by OG LennyT
                                              nobody knows?
                                              This sounds about right:

                                              We really get an impression of the perceived ?bad trip? and the mechanical pounding of the nearby piledriver and constant religious imagery remind us that there is no true ?escape? from the moral restrictions and cruel realities of the world. The odd incongruity of sex and drugs in a cemetery (echoing the earlier churchlike whorehouse with ?Kyrie Eleison?) and the strange religious/kitsch, sacred/profane combination that is New Orleans overtakes and overwhelms us.

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                                                • CarlosTheGaucho
                                                  Confirmed User
                                                  • Oct 2005
                                                  • 9569
                                                  #13
                                                  Yeah, it was the acid part of the movie.

                                                  It's been rumoured that the rednecks featured in the movie are no actors but what they did is that they really went into local bars etc. and watched "people" getting disturbed with their orthodox easy rider image.

                                                  Many of the guys in the movie are non actors. Dennis Hopper surely made a great job as a director and main character, Jack Nicholson's presence is unforgettable too.
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                                                    • Walrus
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                                                      • May 2005
                                                      • 2150
                                                      #14
                                                      Originally posted by OG LennyT
                                                      What was with the religious symbolism throughout the movie, particularly the graveyard scene?
                                                      I've seen "Easy Rider" a few times.. years ago. In real life Peter Fonda's mother committed suicide when he was a boy. In the famous cemetery scene here he is asking why his mother left him he is referring to her. It was very real.

                                                      Also, the lyric "I know what it's like to be dead" in The Beatles song "She Said, She Said" was something Fonda said to John Lennon during an acid trip. I guess Fonda nearly accidentally killed himself with a self-inflicted gun shot blast as a kid.
                                                      Last edited by Walrus; 02-25-2008, 05:39 PM.

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                                                        • RevengeBucks_Monica
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                                                          • Sep 2007
                                                          • 775
                                                          #15
                                                          I assumed it was because they were all high on acid and they are in New Orleans where there happen to be some pretty bloody amazing cemetaries, aren't there? Who wouldn't head there to trip out on LSD? I sure would have.

                                                          LSD and religion kind of go hand in hand, it makes you very introspective, and it seems that for awhile they are having a bad sort of trip. I don't think it really goes much deeper than that.
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                                                            • Dungeon Master
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                                                              • Jan 2008
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                                                              #16
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                                                                • CaptainHowdy
                                                                  Too lazy to set a custom title
                                                                  • Dec 2004
                                                                  • 94100
                                                                  #17
                                                                  Sounds like some sort of hippie crucifixtion ??

                                                                  Iam more of a Zabriskie Point kinda guy anyways...

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                                                                    • campimp
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                                                                      • Jan 2007
                                                                      • 1340
                                                                      #18
                                                                      intentionally designed to confuse the viewer, which it obviously did since you are posting about it

                                                                      i love that fucking movie, one of the best...

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                                                                        • DigitalDruid
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                                                                          • Oct 2007
                                                                          • 647
                                                                          #19
                                                                          Its to symbolize they are young but can die at ant time. Would make sense to me.

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