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Easy Rider (Special Edition) Manufacturer: Sony Pictures List price: $14.94 102 new, used & collectible available from $3.11. |
| Two young men on a motorcycle trip to New Orleans encounter hippies, drugs, rednecks and prostitutes along the way. |
| This box-office hit from 1969 is an important pioneer of the American independent cinema movement, and a generational touchstone to boot. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper play hippie motorcyclists crossing the Southwest and encountering a crazy quilt of good and bad people. Jack Nicholson turns up in a significant role as an attorney who joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem with freedom as Fonda's and Hopper's characters embody it. Hopper directed, essentially bringing the no-frills filmmaking methods of legendary, drive-in movie producer Roger Corman (The Little Shop of Horrors) to a serious feature for the mainstream. The film can't help but look a bit dated now (a psychedelic sequence toward the end particularly doesn't hold up well), but it retains its original power, sense of daring, and epochal impact. --Tom Keogh |
Easy Rider (Special Edition)
Customer Reviews / Easy Rider (Special Edition)
| First I will say the condition of the item was like new. As for the movie, I watched it in 1969 in the theater, it seems to have more meaning now that I can reflect back 40 years. Would love to see the deleted scenes |
| Dennis Hopper's recent passing was the final straw in a decades-old interest in seeing this film. I wasn't sure what to expect, but I was blown away by this film. We all know the story - a couple of hippie bikers ride out on a west-to-east cross-country tour to retire in Florida after a lucrative drug deal. Along the way, they run into about every permutation of hippie life in the 1960s - commune livers, idealist back-to-earthers, heavy druggers, free-lovers and the like. And they also run into a not-so-nice slice of "regular" America as well. Racists, hippy-haters, long-hair loathers, corrupt cops, prostitutes and swamp dwellers round out what passes for normal in the movie's vision of America.
What amazed me about the film is that it worked as an insightful allegory of the path of the hippy movement - while the hippy movement was in full swing. The film was shot in early 1968 - before the assassinations of MLK and Bobby, the Chicago riots and the election of Richard Nixon had soured the counterculture. So it was wild to see the film suggest the fatuity of the movement, its self-contradictions (back to Nature + smoke/drink/pill-pop your brains out) and its eventual rejection by society at large. Great performances by the stars. Peter Fonda was the suave and mellow side of the youth culture. Decked in a leather jacket emblazoned with an American flag, he was the naïve intellectual, trying everything and finding everything to be interesting and acceptable. Dennis Hopper was the movement's unthinking, manic side - just looking for the next high, the next lay, the next thrill. Jack Nicholson was the film's tragic, realistic voice. With one world in the straight world and one in the wild world of Fonda and Hopper, he was able to see dangers that the other two were oblivious to. The 35th anniversary edition is one of the very few movies whose "making of" segments were worth watching. Using interviews with Fonda, Hopper and others, it tells the story of the disarray of filming the movie and the struggle to get it on screen. Hopper's original cut came in at a mind-bending 3-1/2 hours long. Luckily, wiser hands wrested editorial control from him and gave us the masterpiece we have now. "Easy Rider" - a great film, a fine period piece and an extraordinary commentary on a lost generation of seekers and dreamers. |
| I knew of this movie since I was A Kid and I Am A Motorcycle Fan but I found this movie Not to be as great as I thought It would be, because Its Not very realistic (As an up-date actually I Am being foolish to say this movie Is Not realistic actually this movie Is ahead of Its time, I do Not know what to call them Some call them rednecks but then Jeff Foxworthy make Them to be a back woods Country Folks as Myself, Some call them pharisees but what ever they are called they are murderers looking for an excuse to murder and We know what happened when one was elected president with the help of false Prophets If You Google 911 Blueprint for truth) even though Oklahoma has Its fair share of lying slime politicians but still yet I have never heard of Anyone getting shot for having long hair but that could be because I Am The Meek and I Know what Meek means and I shoot back, but this movie Is entertaining. I see Hollywood Is on here trying to get People to buy expensive Blu Ray and yes I have a Playstation 3 and seen how they make a picture look burly to trick You Into buying something more expensive. Hollywood are thieves they do everything to keep high resolution recording equipment out of the hands of Artist as Me, I mean come on Hollywood do Not have talent any more then they try to sell the movies on Blu Ray LOL. When Hollywood says High Definition what they mean Is HD for digital standards because Analog and CRT already was high resolution especially S-VHS and film Is even higher resolution. I bought this movie on VHS used and I Am very pleased with It. |
| Saw this in the theatre in 1969.
The girl I saw it with later broke my heart! But I still love the film! A truly original and revolutionary film! One of the best ever! |
| I saw this movie when it first came out, It meant a lot to me as I am from that era,Now that I,m older I appriciate the talents of Peter Fonda.Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson,They represented freedom that we were struggling to find then, Seeing it again now I really enjoyed it,It brought back memories of my youth and rekindled nice memories of back when in my life, I had to keep the memory of Dennis Hooper alive in my soul and spirit,May he rest in peace, He was one of the great ones in my opinion, I also like the Rolling Stones magazine article on Dennis Hooper by Vennesa Grigoriadis, A true free spirit!. |
Easy Rider (Special Edition)
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