EasyRider2012

 

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Introduction/Definition/etc

 

Movie from 1969 or so, with drugs, girls,

motorcycles, and hippie lifestyle

and some rednecks too...

 

Available online too, as could not find it in

a discount video store

http://www.crackle.com/c/Easy_Rider

 

 

Body

 

SPOILER

 

Not as I remembered it, more carefree

and hippie than what it turns out to be,

maybe why I blocked stuff, like the ending

 

They start out drug running to Mexico,

testing and buying cocaine stored

in battery cases, sell to a guy

in a Rolls Royce at the airport,

stash the cash in the gas tank,

all American flag like, tank

and helmet, other guy a cowboy,

no helmet...

 

Later they tag along

a town parade, end up in jail,

with a drunk guy, Jack Nicholson

plays a lawyer, drying out from a binge,

don't tell daddy, as the

police give him coffee and

aspirin, he pays them off,

not to tell Daddy...

 

He wants to go to New Orleans,

Marty Gras, tried several times, never

made it, how many days, couple days

riding, and shows a coupon/

card for a night at a brothel

/ hookers...

 

To tag along, he's asked if he's

got a helmet, Have I got one...

 

Next scene wearing an old football helmet

later hear his mom left him on the bed,

for his kids some day..

Lettered college sweater,

M, Michigan or something?

 

While drinking, he tries grass / Pot,

at the campsite, with the usual,

[ gateway ] drug, leads to harder

stuff, and starts the morning with it,

better than the alcohol he's been doing...

 

Pull into a cafe to eat and

law / sheriff in both next to girls,

law and ag guy make comments,

<should be to 60's song

"Long Haired Freaky people need not apply"

and/ or "Signs, Signs, everywhere a sign" Song... >

One guy says they won't make it

out of the Parish, so must be in

Louisiana, getting close to New Orleans...

young girls are making other comments,

and outside swooning <sp?> wanting a ride,

but law/ "man" is in the window watching...

 

 

Camping/ sleeping in the swamp at night,

after talking / joking about bull frogs,

get a beating, and Jack/lawyer gets killed,

they burn him in the sleeping bag,

take the money and card,

 

Arrive in Orleans brothel,

eating pork chops, drinking red wine,

blood of Christ type dark stuff,

statues, and paintings, high and low art,

presumably and stuff,

go up stairs, and two girls / hookers,

Fonda has to leave, the girls don't

drink while working,

but they go out to Marti Gras,

end up in a cemetery,

do the acid and weird scenes,

religion, and sex, crying and

stuff...

 

Guys driving out of town alone,

couple of red necks in a pickup truck,

tries a shot gun to scare the

cow boy who gave him the finger

instead, gets hurt, buddy (Peter Fonda)

goes back, tries to get help,

leaves jacket, goes for help,

Fonda gets blown away on next ride

around of pick up truck,

closing aerial scene, gas tank burning,

allusion to burning napalm in VietNam?

 

 

 

Conclusion

 

Summary of experience or similar

 

Not what I recall of the movie,

the drugs, and stuff, some people

say they got into bikes/ motorcycles

on that movie, but others maybe not,

I probably saw the movie but don't

remember most of it, not into drugs,

it was the culture growing up,

but I did the music instead,

some Jimi Hendrix in the movie,

going through the African American

houses with laundry on the line

outside, then cut short,

credits say 7 to 5 or something

was the song name (look it up)

 

 

 

Discussion

 

A place for feedback on the page presented

 

Social commentary?

 

Or just a Movie?

 

Western and Horses,

Hippie Camp, planting seeds,

thought they would give the money to the hippie

camp, they were being polite and went to the

canyon, free love, in the pools, wells,

streams/ rivers, skinny dipping...

 

Indian lands, one guy hitch hiked,

takes them to get gas, would not know

what it was, Fonda says of his buddy

worried about what was in the tank,

taken care of, the gas,

and fed, a troupe playing theatre for their meals,

animals, donated food, planting seeds,

but don't get much water, found some

to swim in though, so they "will be all right",

getting out of the cities...

 

Chopper bikes, long front fork,

high rake angle, little front wheels,

focus on the bikes some, now out

of style, the 60's 70's long gone

like disco...

 

 

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