Film Easyrider

[Hummer]

Just purchased Easyrider 30 year anniversary DVD, was made in 1969, so 1999 is 30 years and 2019 is 50 years, a classic

 

[Carl Landrover]

Jack Nicholson's lines made me laugh.

 

[One Thousand Words]

I always need to get naked on acid because of this movie.

 

[Belisarius]

Though I think it tries a little too hard (especially from a modern perspective), it has aged very well, IMO.

 

[Grinders Kiefers]

No, thanks. I've got some store-bought here of my own.

 

[Hummer]

I also have many store bought films that are not this one. Before starting this thread, I used the search and the film was referred too several times, but no detail, one post put it in the Top 10
Was after opinions, like Peter Fonda`s bike just sold for 1.3 million, which I have.

 

[ForEverAfter]

Was after opinions, like Peter Fonda`s bike just sold for 1.3 million, which I have.

I'll assume this is grammatically correct and you're saying you have opinions (not that you bought a 1.3 million dollar bike).

Note: trivia is not an opinion.

If you do indeed have opinions, what are they? What do you think about Easy Rider? Your original post was pretty much: "I bought this on DVD. It was produced in so-and-so year. That makes it so-and-so years old. It's a classic." Well: why is it a classic? What do you love about it? What do you have to say? Why did you make the thread? How do you tell a worm's anus from its mouth?

 

[spacejunk]

It was one of the first Hollywood films depicting the counter-culture.
Easy Rider is an amazing piece of cinema. It's a pretty fascinating depiction of the social and political tensions in the US (and elsewhere) in the 1960s.
A classic road movie/buddy movie/drug movie, but with plenty of unconventional twists, turns and experimental camera work.
Apparently the LSD scenes were 'real' in the sense that the actors were stumbling around Mardi Gras tripping, and they were also smoking real joints by the campfire. Not sure how common that is - but it was a pretty bold move in those days.

Also, it has a Holy Modal Rounders song in the score:

 

[ForEverAfter]

It's a pretty fascinating depiction of the social and political tensions in the US (and elsewhere) in the 1960s.

It has little to say, politically or socially, and it's extremely biased/unbalanced. At times, it borders on propaganda.

Easy Rider is an amazing piece of cinema... A classic road movie/buddy movie/drug movie, but with plenty of unconventional twists, turns and experimental camera work.

Doesn't really function as a coherent movie, regardless of how you classify it, in my opinion. And you could argue that was the point, because it was about drugs and the incoherency reflects the nature of psychedelics. Truth is: they made it up while getting high, which makes it unusual and refreshingly different from many of the rigid formulaic films produced at the time. But, that doesn't mean it has any merit by today's standards.

Apparently the LSD scenes were 'real' in the sense that the actors were stumbling around Mardi Gras tripping, and they were also smoking real joints by the campfire. Not sure how common that is - but it was a pretty bold move in those days.

Having been involved with numerous short films over the years, I don't think - practically speaking - that's a good technique. Getting actors drunk when their characters are drunk, also, is inadvisable. Bold, sure. But does it actually add anything to the film?