turning piont for hollywood (Easy Rider (DVD))

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Product:	Easy Rider (DVD)
Date:	01/03/01 (90 review reads)
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Advantages: great film

Disadvantages: none

Easy Rider is the original road movie, there were others before it, but in terms of the expression of the restless questing of a gneration it has no equal. The later part of the 60's was a time of social unrest and upheavel across the western world. It was a time when, for a brief while, young children believed that the world was changing and stood together to try and reshape that world.
The generation of the 50's challenged their parent's authority, the generation of the 60's challenged the authority and necessity of the State. Society was experimenting with new ways of living. Personal expression and development was the order of the day, sexual experimentation, with the arrival of the pill, almost mandatory. The desire to 'know thyself@, lead almost inevitably to experimentation with drugs, particulary LSD and Coke. It is the sale of Coke which provides the characters in Easy Rider with the money to 'go see America', and their odyssey begins.
Easy Rider was made on a minuscule budget ($60,000) as a youth orientated independent film by Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, who are the two main characters in the movie. It was also the movie which shot Jack Nicholson to stardom. The film could be described as a buddy road movie using chopper motorcycles with a rock music accompaniment.
The film has of course dated, but its importance lies in the shock and suprise that its success caused in hollywood.
My best sequence is the Mardi Gras and the Trip, along with 2 prostitutes they enter a cemetery where they split the LSD which results in a sacrament of confusion and disillusion.
Definately one to see.

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