The camera climbs high into the sky on a crane, pulling back to show us the inevitable fate, I guess, of anyone who dares to be different. The symbolic deaths of heroes became common in movies after " Bonnie and Clyde " , and Pauline Kael noted in her "Easy Rider" review that "the movie's sentimental paranoia obviously rang true to a large, young audience's vision. In the late '60s, it was cool to feel that you couldn't win, that everything was rigged and hopeless.
One of the reasons that America inspires so many road pictures is that we have so many roads. One of the reasons we have so many buddy pictures is that Hollywood doesn't understand female characters there are so many hookers in the movies because, as characters, they share the convenience of their real-life counterparts: They're easy to find and easy to get rid of.
The movie grew out of pictures like "The Wild Angels" , also starring Fonda , but it also expressed a notion that the counterculture believed in at the time: You could leave the city and return to more natural roots. A sweet idea, but one that did not coexist easily with drugs. In scenes like the one where Hopper and Fonda teach Nicholson how to inhale, there's a quietly approving air, as if life is a treatable disease, and pot is the cure.
But Billy is paranoid, probably because of all the grass he smokes, and in later scenes, they're oblivious to the dangers they invite with their strange appearance. There's a scene where they excite teenage girls in a restaurant with their aura of sexual danger, and local Good Old Boys feel threatened and plot revenge. Many deep thoughts were written in about Fonda's dialogue in a scene the night before his death.
Hopper is ecstatic because they've made it to their destination with their drug money intact. But doesn't the movie play differently today from the way its makers intended? Cocaine in carried different connotations from those of today, and it is possible to see that Captain America and Billy died not only for our sins, but also for their own. This essay is based on my re-review of the film, revised for inclusion in the Great Movies series.
My original review is online at rogerebert. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Phil Spector as Connection. Antonio Mendoza as Jesus.
Dennis Hopper as Billy. Peter Fonda as Wyatt. Jack Nicholson as George Hanson. Reviews Great Movies A cinematic snapshot of the '60s. Roger Ebert October 24, Bodyguard Warren Finnerty Rancher Tita Colorado Rancher's Wife Luke Askew Stranger on Highway Luana Anders Lisa Sabrina Scharf Sarah Sandy Brown Wyeth Jack as Robert Walker Robert Ball Mime 1 Carmen Phillips Mime 2 Ellie Wood Walker Mime 3 as Ellie Walker Michael Pataki Mime 4 Jack Nicholson George Hanson George Fowler Jr. Guard Keith Green Sheriff Hayward Robillard Cat Man Arnold Hess Jr.
Deputy Buddy Causey Jr. Customer 1 Duffy Lafont Customer 2 Blase M. Customer 3 Paul Guedry Jr. Customer 4 Suzie Ramagos Girl 1 Elida Ann Hebert Girl 2 Rose LeBlanc Girl 3 Mary Kaye Hebert Girl 4 Cynthia Grezaffi Girl 5 Colette Purpera Wyatt seems to be a bit down, but Billy is riding high in more ways than one.
They pull up alongside Billy and make a nasty comment to which Billy gives them the finger. Unfortunately, it hits Billy in the gut and he goes flying off his bike, landing at the side of the road. The rednecks see Wyatt coming and fire a shot at him, too. In the final shot, the bike is lying at the side of the road, on fire. The meaning of that particular line is probably the most ambiguous and hotly-debated quote from Easy Rider.
However, they are not canon to the original movie. Wyatt and Billy have finished selling the dope to their L. Easy Rider was released in and is sometimes credited with being the film that changed the movie genre. Billy was shotgunned in the guts and left lying on the side of the road. Wyatt was knocked off his bike, suffered only minor bumps and scraps, and got help for Billy in time.
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