![]() Throughout the odyssey, a reflective Captain America seems to appreciate and respect everything and everyone he encounters, whereas Billy stumbles about in a pot-induced fog while rhapsodizing about the hedonistic bacchanal that awaits in New Orleans. On the way, they meet an alcoholic ACLU lawyer named George Hansen (Jack Nicholson, at the time a virtual unknown). Filmed in 1968, it took a year to edit 80 hours of often-freewheeling guerrilla footage down to a marketable 95-minute offering.įonda and Hopper, the film’s producer/director team, found Columbia Pictures’ bean counters reluctant to dole out adequate funds for the endeavor. So tight became the allotted budget that the idea of an original music score was scrapped in lieu of using rock singles on the soundtrack. “Easy Rider” , whose script began as “The Loners” , is all about freedom-what it means and what it costs. Billy (right), Captain America (left) and George Hansen set out on the open road together in “Easy Rider”. Flush with cash from a Los Angeles cocaine deal (which features a cameo appearance by record producer Phil Spector, who hands over the money), the two modern-day cowboys roar east on flashy motorcycles, bound for Mardi Gras and, eventually, a cushy retirement life in Florida. “ Easy Rider” was the ultimate epochal, and ultimately doomed, buddy picture, a movie replete with drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, sex and violence as elements of the seductive allure of freedom in life that the open road can offer.Īs Captain America (a well-groomed, leather-clad Peter Fonda) and Billy (a slovenly, fringe-jacketed Dennis Hopper), the pair journey across America in an attempt to abandon mainstream life for one sans responsibility. Lookin’ for adventure and whatever comes our way -Steppenwolf ![]() Get your motor runnin’, head out on the highway
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