![]() ![]() You either love this movie or you don't, and I'm most definitely in the former camp. The supporting cast is interesting and includes a great role for the fantastically underrated Luke Askew as the "Stranger on Highway", and cameos from the stars buddies Luana Anders ('Dementia 13') and Sabrina Scharf (Nicholson's love interest in 'Hells Angels On Wheels'), as well Karen Black and Toni Basil's New Orleans hookers, Phil Spector's coke snorting bit part, and a fleeting glimpse of a young Grizzly Adams. Fonda had recently made 'The Wild Angels', Hopper the less remembered 'The Glory Stompers', and Jack Nicholson 'Hells Angels On Wheels', but 'Easy Rider' reinvented the biker movie, and things were never quite the same in Hollywood for the rest of the Seventies. This is the definitive counterculture blockbuster. Combined with breathtaking visuals, a well chosen rock soundtrack and some classic, stoned, improvised dialogue this is still an impressive movie all these years later. ![]() ![]() Fonda and Hopper play two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South, carrying the proceeds from a cocaine deal. I find it fascinating that Hopper and Fonda took Roger Corman material and gave it an arthouse approach influenced by Godard and the French New Wave. Easy Rider is a 1969 American independent 3 4 road drama film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda, and directed by Hopper. 'Easy Rider' is much more than a 60s relic - it's still a great movie even today. With Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Antonio Mendoza, Phil Spector. ![]()
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