pr0

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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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.

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

pr0

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

Redrob

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.

sltr

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 ??

OG LennyT

The death of the bikers was a symbol of something... maybe death of biker freedom?

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pr0

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

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!

EroticySteve

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

parading without a permit

sorta like protesting without a permit these days ; )

sltr

right, that's whatit was, hehe

classic stuff right there

tony286

I think they smoked lots of dope writing and making it lol

baddog

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.

neverlearn

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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2HousePlague

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


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