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I finally saw Easy Rider, after years of hearing about it. I was surprised that it went from California to New Orleans. Kind of a reverse manifest destiny going on, the backwash of things they called freedom and progress, which turned out to be violent prejudice and dead-end wandering that eventually had to turn around anyway. And also saying there was some sense that this "trinity" of guys were actually more Christian than their uptight oppressors who killed them one by one. They withstood jail time, beatings, and scorn without once striking back. All you want them to do is strike back, kill the hicks, but they don't.
Mostly the movie just made me really angry, but I thought Peter Fonda looked good. The three or four people who have told me I reminded them of him, that is an immense compliment, although I think it was the shaggy hair and the quiet willingness to do anything illegal that made the connection for them.
The ending of that movie was totally tacked on. It made no sense. So maybe the "Easy Rider" is in fact all of us, having to sit through that movie and then easily get up and kind of just mosey out of the viewing place.
Mostly the movie just made me really angry, but I thought Peter Fonda looked good. The three or four people who have told me I reminded them of him, that is an immense compliment, although I think it was the shaggy hair and the quiet willingness to do anything illegal that made the connection for them.
The ending of that movie was totally tacked on. It made no sense. So maybe the "Easy Rider" is in fact all of us, having to sit through that movie and then easily get up and kind of just mosey out of the viewing place.