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- Amazon Sales Rank: #4166 in Movie
- Released on: 2006-04-04
- Rating: R (Restricted)
- Running time: 96 minutes
By Peter Fonda
Buy new: $9.99
Customer Rating: 
First tagged "classic" by Mrs. M. "Health Concerns"
Customer tags: adventure, peter fonda, classic
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78 of 83 people found a following examination helpful.
A Classic Late 60's Hippy/Biker Movie Worth Owning!
By highway_star
"Easy Rider" destined by Dennis Hopper, constructed by Peter Fonda and created by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern was a low bill film ($340 grand) that surprisingly became a box bureau smash. The story is about dual hippys (Fonda & Hopper) who buy choppers with income they've gotten from a drug deal. They float cranky nation streamer to Louisianna (to Mardi Gras) and on their approach assembly opposite people, visiting a kibbutz of hippys, finale adult in jail, going to a brothel, holding poison etc. The finale was unfortunate in 1969 and still is, even in these days of uninterrupted assault in a country. This 35th Anniversary Edition is matching to a unchanging dvd chronicle of "Easy Rider" with a accurate same reward element "The Making-Of Documentary "Easy Rider: Shaking The Cage" (feat. interviews with Fonda, Hopper, etc.) and an audio explanation by Dennis Hopper and prolongation notes. The bonuses for this 35th Anniversary Edition are a cd that includes 8 songs (do not upset this cd with a tangible "Easy Rider Soundtrack" as it is not). The songs are "Born To Be Wild" - Steppenwolf, "The Weight" - Smith, "Nights In White Satin" - The Moody Blues, "Wasn't Born To Follow" - The Byrds, "San Francisco Nights" - Eric Burden And The Animals, "The Pusher" - Steppenwolf, "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" - Roger McGuinn and "Get Together" - The Youngbloods. The 80 page book "Easy Rider" by Lee Hill is engaging and includes all you'll ever wish to know about a film. The bottom line is, if we already possess a unchanging dvd of "Easy Rider" I'd pass on this 35th Anniversary Edition. Of course, if we don't possess this classical film it might be value a additional income for a reward cd and book.
43 of 48 people found a following examination helpful.
"Helmut? Oh, we got a helmut..."
By cookieman108
Easy Rider is a truly landmark film in a loyal clarity of a definition of a term. Produced on a unequivocally low bill and set in a late 60's it was, in my opinion, a initial film to unequivocally constraint a utterly engaging impulse in time. While many films arrange of used a thought of a late 60's, drugs, sex, rebellion, idealism, as a means to make money, this seemed unequivocally a initial film to accurately simulate a picturesque picture of a time duration with an steadfast eye.
Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper play Wyatt, or Captain America, and Billy, dual giveaway form spirits who, after a creation utterly a bit of income by a sale of drugs, confirm to strike a highway and expostulate cranky nation to Mardi Gras. Along a way, they collect adult George Hanson, a southern lawyer, played by Jack Nicholson.
While examination this movie, we might get a clarity that it is arrange of a western, with a western landscapes and a categorical characters roving 'iron' horses. This was a goal of a filmmakers, generally a director, Dennis Hopper. One of my favorite scenes was during a beginning, right before Wyatt and Billy are about to embark on their trip, Wyatt removes his watch and throws it on a ground. This symbolized a clarity of throwing off a constraints of a aged universe and an bid to welcome loyal freedom, if there is such a thing.
Nicholson tends to take a scenes he is in, and gives a utterly smashing square about what leisure is, and because people are so fearful of it. He arrange of represented to me one who has been fed many misconceptions about a people and transformation Wyatt and Billy represent, though once in their company, finds that most of what he has been told might not be true. A arrange of particular held between a generations.
The film is dated, though that didn't detract anything for me. The usually stage we unequivocally didn't caring for was when Wyatt, Billy, Mary (Toni Basil), and Karen (Karen Black) dump poison in a Louisiana tomb and ensue to outing for an extended duration of time.
Along with smashing performances, most credit contingency go to a cinematographer, as a landscapes are beautiful, generally a far-reaching shots of a western scenery. They are truly breathtaking. And a song used was unusually good, wise any stage and assisting to emanate a correct mood via a film.
The film presented here looks excellent, in anamorphic far-reaching screen, and includes a explanation by Dennis Hopper. Also enclosed is a smashing 'Making of' featurette called Easy Rider: Shaking a Cage that unequivocally helps to illustrate all that went into creation this film. The production, during time, mostly reflected a violent times of when a film was made, and helps to give some-more season to a movie, unequivocally enhancing a altogether effect. All in all, Easy Rider is a smashing cut of alien Hollywood that prisoner a loyal hint of an unusually violent time in America.
28 of 31 people found a following examination helpful.
The Death of The '60s
By Briggs May
The Plot: Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda are dual drug dealers from L.A. who get abounding offered coke to Phil Spector(imagine that...). They applaud by attack a highway on their choppers towards Mardi Gras. Among many of a kind Americans they run into along a approach is a one and usually Jack Nicholson, an alcoholic ACLU profession who helps them out of jail. In return, they confirm to take him to New Orleans with them and get him befuddled in a routine (the funniest stage in a movie--Nicholson offers an moving digression concerning supernatural intelligence). Enduring nuisance and abuse from a farming locals, they arrive during Mardi Gras. Tony Basil(!) is one of a hookers they dump poison with in a cemetery (an unsettling unusual method usually surpassed by a consummate of "2001: A Space Odyssey"). Sounds great, doesn't it? It is. Despite a flaws and shortcomings, this is an American classical not to be missed.
Any fan of eccentric films will venerate this film (check out "Midnight Cowboy", too, if we like this one). The behaving is bungled though a book is inspired, and a cinematography and soundtrack are terrific.
This film is a mystic tinge film, and a American Dream is a plant in a spotlight. It foreshadows a paranoia and feeling that would after curt a War On Drugs and, now, a War On Terror. Ironically, a alcoholic counsel played by Jack Nicholson is a usually chairman that has a transparent and solemn thought of what is going on, and he is fast silenced by a barbarous locals. The dual categorical characters themselves have a deceptive thought of it, though are too held adult in their possess hedonism to see it clearly. Near a finish of a film, Peter Fonda grimly concludes: "We blew it." Ouch--the law hurts; we wasn't even alive in a '60s and I'm still feeling it today. Omakase Links
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