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  • pr0
    rockin tha trailerpark
    • May 2001
    • 23088
    #1

    Movie: Easy Rider

    I saw this when i was younger high as fuck & thought it was great. But i watched it again today & for fuck sakes,....thats one fucked up flick. It honestly left me kind of sick to my stomach.

    The way they depicted southerners as a whole was pretty disgusting as well, shooting & beating random people because they had long hair.

    Now i wasn't around for the 60's or 70's....but living in the south almost my whole life, i can honestly say i've never seen bikers or hippies mistreated by anyone other than law enforcement, so i didn't think it was a very fair way the movie ended.

    Or am i missing the point of the movie, was it supposed to be bad karma from the initial coke deal?....someone striaghten me out, cuz this flick confused me
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    • Harmon
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      • Mar 2004
      • 20012
      #2
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        • baddog
          So Fucking Banned
          • Apr 2001
          • 107089
          #3
          The way they portrayed southerners? Remember the scene where they stopped in the coffee shop?

          Well, the film crew sent a crew to that town ahead of time and told them to just act natural. There was no written dialog for the customers in there. They just said what they felt.

          Times were different. Remember how they treated blacks? They felt the same way about long-hairs.

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            • sltr
              Confirmed User
              • Dec 2002
              • 3191
              #4
              i love the movie but also never figured out why they "blew it" according to captain america.

              i've often thought it related back to the scene around the camp fire when they were talking about freedom and that while they represent freedom with their long hair they challenge the status quo by living outside the box

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                • pr0
                  rockin tha trailerpark
                  • May 2001
                  • 23088
                  #5
                  Originally posted by sltr
                  i love the movie but also never figured out why they "blew it" according to captain america.

                  i've often thought it related back to the scene around the camp fire when they were talking about freedom and that while they represent freedom with their long hair they challenge the status quo by living outside the box
                  i think maybe they "blew it" by leaving the hippy commune?

                  & baddog that may be true...like i said, i wasn't around for the whole longhair hating craze, but i know cops still hate em, and that comes from personal experience
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                    • Redrob
                      Confirmed User
                      • Oct 2004
                      • 4791
                      #6
                      I was a long-hair in the 60s and you had to be a little cagey when you were by yourself in a strange area. You never got to fight just one redneck....they always traveled in pairs at least. You learned what to watch out for and how to make a stand.

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                        • sltr
                          Confirmed User
                          • Dec 2002
                          • 3191
                          #7
                          Originally posted by pr0
                          i think maybe they "blew it" by leaving the hippy commune?
                          true, although it always seemed to me that wasn't what they were looking for either, the movie seemed to stress how hard it was for those in the commune to just survive.

                          maybe they blewit because even after their plan of getting all the cash from the coke sale and crusing to mardi gras he still did not find freedom- i always dug all the irony of the movie, maybe the point was in the irony of having cash in the land of the free is not at all the case ??

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                            • OG LennyT
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                              • Jun 2003
                              • 14345
                              #8
                              The death of the bikers was a symbol of something... maybe death of biker freedom?
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                                • pr0
                                  rockin tha trailerpark
                                  • May 2001
                                  • 23088
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by dvd316
                                  The death of the bikers was a symbol of something... maybe death of biker freedom?
                                  yea it was definitely a movie about the lack of actual freedom in the u.s.

                                  i think jack nicholson summed it up pretty well around the camp fire

                                  it really was a complex movie, i just wish i understood more of it...i mean it has a cult following, so there must be something more to it
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                                    • sltr
                                      Confirmed User
                                      • Dec 2002
                                      • 3191
                                      #10
                                      Originally posted by dvd316
                                      The death of the bikers was a symbol of something... maybe death of biker freedom?
                                      interesting perspective. it may of even symolized that there is no such thing as freedom in the u.s. to begin with. i love the part where they were arrested for illegally parading- hahah- such irony!

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                                        • EroticySteve
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                                          • Mar 2005
                                          • 4365
                                          #11
                                          It's a phenomenal piece which I think captures a point in time in America well. I'm too young to have known that time for myself but I can see it as an accurate portrayal of outsiders and the rejection and prejudice that they face.

                                          Easy Rider is one of my favorite films.
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                                            • pr0
                                              rockin tha trailerpark
                                              • May 2001
                                              • 23088
                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by sltr
                                              interesting perspective. it may of even symolized that there is no such thing as freedom in the u.s. to begin with. i love the part where they were arrested for illegally parading- hahah- such irony!
                                              parading without a permit

                                              sorta like protesting without a permit these days ; )
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                                                • sltr
                                                  Confirmed User
                                                  • Dec 2002
                                                  • 3191
                                                  #13
                                                  Originally posted by pr0
                                                  parading without a permit

                                                  sorta like protesting without a permit these days ; )
                                                  right, that's whatit was, hehe

                                                  classic stuff right there

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                                                    • tony299
                                                      lurker
                                                      • Aug 2002
                                                      • 57021
                                                      #14
                                                      I think they smoked lots of dope writing and making it lol

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                                                        • baddog
                                                          So Fucking Banned
                                                          • Apr 2001
                                                          • 107089
                                                          #15
                                                          Originally posted by dvd316
                                                          The death of the bikers was a symbol of something... maybe death of biker freedom?

                                                          I highly doubt it. There was no government law that were oppressive to bikers back then. You did not even need a special license to ride a motorcycle.

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                                                            • neverlearn
                                                              Confirmed User
                                                              • Feb 2004
                                                              • 2085
                                                              #16
                                                              it really was a complex movie, i just wish i understood more of it...i mean it has a cult following, so there must be something more to it

                                                              thats right, I grew up on Vancouver island and you always had your pals or you had fuck all, especially when you fucked around with all the shit that can happen in life...you had to reley on others...and this movie in my opinion is a classic case of young , wild and free..... and what can happen
                                                              *had to edit the spelling of "opinion" lol
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                                                                • neverlearn
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                                                                  • Feb 2004
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                                                                    • 2HousePlague
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                                                                      • Jul 2004
                                                                      • 14572
                                                                      #18


                                                                      great fucking movie -- smacks o truth, then, today, always (sad as it makes me to say).


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