My dad passed away July this year at 68. This was the movie we'd always watch. His favorite movie of all time. I got his 66 harley sportster he got at age 17 in 1969. I ride it proudly daily in honor of him. Even though i still can't get through this whole movie without tearing up. Rip dad (david) I'll miss you forever
Mate - sorry to hear of your loss, life can be so sad. No doubt he's enjoying watching you on that 66 Sportster from above. Warm regards from Aust - David
@Sara Bella Sara, it's in the (Very) New Testament book of Harley, verse 66 (as in Route 66)! ;-) You are right on all counts and I wish you a Happy New Year from Sydney, David
I started riding with my father on his 1938 EL Knucklehead in 1950 when I was 5 yrs old, i went to the dealer with him & rode home on his new 1955 FL Panhead and remember people looking at us Like we were animals ,when I returned from Vietnam after serving my 2nd & final combat extension my pops couldn't stop hugging me,less than a week after id got home my pops asked me to ride with him to the Harley dealer one last time on the back of his bike ,he bought a new 1970 FLH Shovelhead and we drove off ,at our 1st stop to get a drink he tried giving me his brand new Shovelhead as a welcome home gift ,I refused knowing it would be his 1st bike with electric start & he could barely kick the Panhead over anymore ,he ended up giving me the Panhead instead,we spent the entire summer of 1971 touring the mid west with my mother & my new wife with plans of touring the southern states the following summer ,we never did make that run ,he became ill & spent the last 5 years of his life in pain ,I never want to forget the time my family has spent touring America on Harley Davidsons, when my father passed away I inherited his 38 Knucklehead and 70 Shovelhead ,both are sitting in my heated barn along with the 55 Panhead that is my most cherished possession on earth ,I've collected an Ironhead Sporty ,an Evo Fat boy that is my wife's bike, an Evo Road King ,another Evo Softail bagger ,a Buell Lightning stroker & a little 1 lunger Buell Blast that is also my wife's bike ,now were both in the same physical condition as my father where I can't kick the ole Panhead & the Knuckle beats my back to death ,I can't kick the Ironhead & it's time for the bikes to move on . Our great grandson turns 15 next month & my wife is giving him her 500cc Buell for his birthday ,I already gave the sporty to our 22 yr old grandson but he don't have a heated garage & leaves it at our place ,I worked hard keeping all the bikes in original factory condition as well as keeping all of my father's bikes still titled in his name so they have " A" titles ,1 owner factory spec bikes have a massive value ,when I pass my son's will try to keep the bikes A titles as long as they can before they are forced with selling them due to retitling costing 80% of their value ,or they can store the bikes and keep our family's legacy with Harley Davidson going ,the best memories of my life involve riding motorcycles ,time sure does fly ,seems like just a few summers ago my pops was giving me his Panhead ,and now I'm 72 and giving the bikes to grandchildren & great grandchildren ,I sure do hope I live long enough to see all my kids & grandkids take 1 last ride with the wife & me .
Love the message and the story, life is short. Sometimes you have to make the memories not just enjoy them, like your father to you, and you to your grandchildren. All the best
@@FlavioSerradorVersiani Yup! The getaway car running into the train at the end was obviously an homage to Easy Rider! I’ve got one for you that is an absolute classic from that era that few people know about. “Scarecrow” with Gene Hackman and a very young Al Pacino! One of the greatest “buddy films” ever made and no one knows about it. Do yourself a favor and track it down 👍
@@ianbartle456 Absolutely 👍 You can argue THAT was the masterpiece that kicked off the entire era. How bout 5 easy pieces and Scarecrow. Both legendary
They aren’t scared of you, they’re scared of what you represent. It’s one thing to talk about freedom. It’s another to live it. People don’t like being reminded that they aren’t free.
Exactement ça....j ai vécu relativement libre toute mon existence bikers depuis ma naissance il a 70. ans...HD depuis 30. mes couleurs sur mon blouson...libré u muerté ..et ça le sera jusqu'à la fin...
A friend of mine used to have the iconic poster of Fonda and Hopper riding across the bridge. He was killed in a car crash one night in 1981. His name was Scott Howard Wilson Morgan, he was 18, and his friend Simon Harthman was also killed aged 21. I was 17 at the time and it was the first time it occurred to me that people our age could die. I'll never forget the shock when I heard about it, I had to lean forward as it felt like a punch in the stomach. The funeral was just awful, but he was given a bikers sendoff. He loved British bikes like Triumphs and BSA's and his sister Liz, also deceased now, said he wanted a Bonneville. RIP Scott, Simon and Liz.
Euan .That sucks man.Way back in 61 i had a scooter and a young guy i knew well was a great mechanic and rode a Triumph 21. He had my scooter for a tune up and dropped it round my house while i was out. 3 to 4 days later i popped round his house to thank him ( no mobile phones back then ) .His brother answered thi house door and simply looked at me and struggled to speak .Isaid i come to thank him for sorting my bike out.He still could not speak to me and invited me in .Well it was my turn to not speak as he was laid out in his coffin in the front room .Turns out he was on his Triumph 2 days before and someone threw something at him and he crashed his bike and died.They never caught them .i think he was about 17.Life can sometimes suck.
@@mikesalvadore9295 In 2013, at the age of 72, I left central CA on my Honda ST 1100 on a mission to 'bag' the 13 states I had never previously been in....ALL east of the MS River...first real stop...Key West, Florida. Six weeks later (and a $4,000 motel bill) I had done just that. Now, here I am, looking at 83...and still riding. Seriously thinking about when the weather starts warming up a bit, riding down to Roswell, NM, and checking out the UFO museum....again! However, there is a slight issue...my wife, who is three years my senior, wants to tag along with me. If this doth come to pass, then we'll probably end up employing the Lamborghinni. BHE
I'm a Vietnam vet and this movie so identifies how horribly intolerant and hateful our Nation is, and continues to be! Whatever happened to free thought and free expression? The ignorance in our Country is rather depressing. Best of luck to all of us!
Man I was 14 when this hit the theaters, Harley nut since 9 and begged my old man for 2 weeks to take me to see it,he gave in and I did the best I could do to live it. RIP Peter and Dennis.. Thinking I should watch it again tomorrow!
The ending of this film left me utterly berereft like no other film ever has . It was like a punch in the stomach . A brilliant piece of film making in my opinion .
When this movie played in theaters across the country, there were literally audiences that left in tears, and others that stood loudly cheering and applauding. Best logline ever for a film: "The ride across the country that changed America."
Michael ledford comments were amazing . The history of the motorcycles in his family , the father , the son riding together as a child . Than father, mother , daughterlaw, and son on Harleys seeing America. Your son , grandson , great grandson keeping a legacy alive . They need to make a movie about your life . From a veteran .
In Paul Simon's deeply profound song 'America', he sings: '"Kathy, I'm lost", I said - though I knew she was sleeping. I'm empty and aching and I don't know why.' Poignant words also that many would have heard related to the struggle of those in the counter-culture who were just trying to do things differently and find a way to build a better world. Many were deeply signed up to this and really thought it was possible. For some it was possible for a season - and no doubt they'd look back on it as a truly beautiful time - so full of hope and possibility. For many others, ideals that promised so much fell flat and left people deeply disappointed. Iconic songwriters from the 60s like Lennon and Townshend captured this feeling well writing the words 'The dream is over' and song 'Won't Get Fooled Again'. The same sort of alienation and deep loss of ideals is brilliantly captured in both if the films 'Midnight Cowboy', and 'Easy Rider'. All hit really hard, but particularly if you were a believer in the sort of personal freedom championed as a background.
@@ianbartle456 Oh PLEASE. The average boomer's idea of "building a better world" in the '60s involved protesting and rioting a lot, ingesting lots of narcotics, and screwing everybody from the opposite gender they saw and were halfway attracted to. Ultimately they were just a bunch of selfish hedonists, a lot of whom went on to become the corrupt corporate fatcats of the '80s, transforming into the very type of perspon they claimed to hate. It's no coincidence that the crime, divorce and drug usage rates skyrocketed and America's been on a downward spiral since. And today the ones who are still alive are supporters of censorship, global tyranny and greedier than ever.
I was 14 when I first saw this at the Drive-In less than a 1/4 mile from my Mom & Dad's house. I was with a cousin in his fluorescent green VW with big tires & Crager Mags. It was the first time I ever smoked a joint. The rest is History.
well, how strange you should say that.... saw it in London, and had to just run and run, from Piccadilly Circus to Baker Street.... the thread of desolation woven through the daisychain illusions of the era WAS devastating... the endings of: Easy Rider 1969, Vanishing Point 2 years later, Electra Glide in Blue 2 years after that.... but here we are still Leanne, and for me, at 75, the best time of my life! JIJI Xx
I saw it with a dozen teenage biker pals when it first hit the theaters we had no idea. We had seen other biker movies. I stood up and screamed at the screen in anger pain and shock. I liked those guys.
@@jiji1946 I am 76. Saw it with a dozen teenage biker buddies. Stood up and screamed at ending. I shock in anger. I shock my fist. That was a punch to the gut.
@@1911Earthling 'Teenage Biker Buddies' sounds like a movie title itself. glad you survived the two-wheeled lifestyle and the 60's (70's, 80's, 90's, and etc and etc). like you, coming up to 77 myself.... kinda surprising. and STILL having the best time of my life. p.s. nice channel name! （⌒▽⌒）
The movie with the chick that dresses up and the other chick, sneaks up on a guy when he's asleep, turns him into a two-pump chump then brains him with a stiletto heel has about the same level of wtf.
I'm not sure that's a correct metaphor. The Swinging 60s predominantly referred to the London scene. The American cinema tradition of abrupt bad endings was more part of the general disillusionment of late 60s counter culture, as a response to the Vietnam War, political realities, and social inequality. You could even hear it in the pop and rock songs of the time: they all went from major to minor towards the end of the decade.
@@M1tjakaramazov I'd agree. The "Swinging" Sixties was primarily a London name as it referenced the out-there clothes attitudes (and music of course) that was the bursting out of the youth of England that had had to endure childhoods under the crippling austerity of the post-war years. It was mainly a late 1965 to 1966 label. I think America recovered more quickly in many ways socially after the war (though of course they too lost a lot of young men to it). By the middle of the decade especially 1966-67 it became clear that youth were not just choosing to wear what they wanted how they wanted but were on a spiritual search for meaning beyond chasing material gain. In significantly large numbers they followed the Beatles to India and places like Morocco and Bali in search of enlightenment yet many fell under the deceitful spell of consciousness-opening drugs and were lost. By 1968 those who had become more politically engaged were shocked and disappointed at he pushback against the more enlightened policies espoused by the Kennedys and MLK and reacted with This was less of a Swinging London ear and more of what came to be called the counter culture. It lingered on into the early 70s in England and Australia (where I'm from) but many commentators say that after it's greatest 'cultural moment' at the Woodstock Festival in the late summer of 1969, it died at Altamont Speedway. Some tried hard to keep it going but he loss of many important musical figures in a few short months created a parallel moment to the loss of many 1950s icons in 1958/9 period a decade earlier. It seems a new decade so often requires a new perspective.
@ianbartle456 Yeah I forgot about the Altamont speedway incident. I suspect the more intelligent fraction of the hippie movement soon began to realise things weren't gonna change as much as they thought anyway, and this disillusionment seeped into the art, including cinema. Many already described Jimi Hendrix's Stars And Stripes rendition at Woodstock as a bitter sweet foreshadowing moment.
1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964 had just about nothing to do with the "Swinging Sixties" 1971 was a lot more like 1968 then 1961 was. There's more coherence in the decade 1965-75 then there is 1960-1970.
@@elpulpo800 I'd tend to agree with that. John Lennon called the end early by singing 'The Dream is Over' but it was as much a reference to his personal dream/delusion as it was everyone else's. Here in AUST the 60s certainly did linger in well into the 70s. Australia kept the dream alive - a dream for personal affluence and freedom - and it was largely possible here. That is, until hit by the major economic headwinds of the OPEC crisis - and then the major cultural shift that was punk. The music matters a lot to me and I'd say 1965-75 wasn't just coherent, it was transcendent.
J'ai vu "Easy Rider" à sa sortie. Le symbole des 2 Amériques m'avait marqué, surtout quand on voit le type ferrer son cheval et l'autre changer la roue de sa moto. Avec "More" et "Les chemins de Katmandou", ces 3 films, et leurs bandes son, ont marqué ma jeunesse... et même ma vie !
I was 18 when this movie was in the local North Carolina theater in the 1960's . They had a chopper in front of the theater! It was a big deal. Had many bikes until the late 1980's I got tired of people tailgating me and the roads became too crowded with cars! Today it's too dangerous. Cell phones kill biker's, stupid car drivers kill bikers! To ride a bike in the 60's and 70's was a dream! Now I ride a dirt bike in the wood's trees don't move rocks don't move ride safe!
I was riding down old route 66 on my 1967 Norton Atlas when this movie came out. Heading to California from Ohio.. Back when I had hair, and my wife pregnant with my first daughter on the back. Never forget, hell of a trip. Peace
I rode my new '69 Norton Commando S from Flint, Michigan to Pasadena, Cal Sept. 1969. I saw this movie a month later at the theater in Hollywood where it premiered. I ended up staying in Cal for many years. Great depiction of the times for me and many others.
@@Yowzoe --- I agree 100% --- just look at the violent MAGA traitors who stormed the Capitol --- they would love to make a movie today where they get to shoot an entire squad of brown-skinned people from a pickup truck!
i just got back from Vietnam in aug '69 and that's about the same time easy rider was released.. at age 22 we were impressed with the life style, bikes & the anti-establishment. now, here i am 50 yrs later.. still ride Harleys, retired now and been married for 46 yrs.. this movie did influence me in my younger yrs, but i never gave up the love of Harley Davidson's!
the ending, despite a few dark moments earlier, came as a shocker. the inal shots as the camera pans up, looking down on the burning 'cycle, had so much resonance with the sort of scenes were were constantly seeing at that time of the Viet Nam war.
I saw this film "down the flicks" in Bishops Stortford on January the 10th 1970. The ticket was 7/- in the circle. I was 15 years old bunking off from boarding school. It has stayed with me throughout my life as has the music. I still ride my bike, and love the wind and tarmac rushing inches beneath my boots, with an engine between my legs.
I love this ending, because over the course of about 3 minutes, it rams symbolism down your throat. The entire movie can be said to be an embodiment of a vision of the American Dream. Billy flips off the guys in the truck, and then they kill him for a cheap laugh. Wyatt comes back and lays his American flag jacket over the dying Billy. It's a way of saying the American Dream is dying, killed for a cheap thrill. Then you have Wyatt getting shot and his bike being destroyed, in which is the money and the freedom it represents. It's destroyed, totaled. The free are destroyed by those who want immediate pleasure, be it a laugh or some other "pleasure", e.g., a sense of security or a pariah-ization of them goddamn hippies. It's a rejection of the ethos of the nation and its people in favor of immediate gratification.
I'd have to agree with your thesis --- to me, the violent ending was a symbol of America's loss of innocence that happened in the 60's --- the JFK and MLK assassinations, losing in Vietnam --- we were no longer a "shining city on a hill" but a country ravaged by violence and hate --- the American flag jacket draped over a bloody and dying Billy was a very powerful symbolic message of this
the movie was nothing but Peter Fonda pretending he was doing something profound but in the end he was just giving the movie industry the finger the movie is pure shit
@@kenwittlief255 --- sounds like Commie Trump --- pretending like he's doing something meaninful but in the end he's just telling America to go fuck itself so he can fleece us to fatten his bank account
@@lukebuchwald9252 I got news for you. Since before WW1 we lost that "shining city on a hill" mystique. Thinking we lost it in the 60's just represents Naivety. Need some proof ck out The Unseen Hand by A. Ralph Epperson
These guys were FINALLY free...from judgements, to live off the grid, to truly "do your own thing in your own time" It is sad AND liberating. Wyatt & Billy couldn't go back...they were busy blazing there own trails!! I envy these guys!
And yet a totally transcendent revelation of the transitority significance of the little things in life and the magnitude of the ordinary moments we all share. BOOM.
Such a iconic movie 🍿🎥 I remember seeing it when I was 12 because my mom's boyfriend was a biker and he had the movie so I watched it and it blew me away! Dennis Hopper is a legend but Peter Fonda Was equally as great
My Dad was a world war 2 veteran from southern Indiana and my older siblings were hippies . They got along fine. Dad let them be themselves . As long as they treated people well and didn't act like bums , Dad was happy to have healthy and happy kids. I was born in 73 and was a long haired metal head in the 80s and Dad was cool with me doing what I wanted to do. He taught me to be myself and carry my own weight . How you dressed and wore your hair was up to the individual.
@typo pit he fought in the Pacific theatre , no Germans. My brothers were hippies but they had jobs and weren't concerned about the government. They weren't protesters. Just nature loving , guitar playing hippies.
For the geographically inclined, the final scene was shot two and a half miles north of Krotz Springs, LA on Highway 105. The closing shot looks south towards Krotz Springs.
+DrChicago That's literally the first thing I was thinking as it was ending. Geographically obsessed, especially nowadays with google maps and street view and all that. Thanks!
Thank you for this. Literally on aerial 3D and Street View looking at this now and spot on. This has been my favorite movie of all time, and I always thought this scene was near Morganza, but that is actually about 25 miles away.
One of the greatest movies to capture a time and let you feel like you experienced part of that generation. Caught up working and paying bills and I now want to just get on a motorcycle and ride across country and enjoy life
THat is EXACTLY how small towns and traffic was in 69'. Hot Cars everywhere, no insurance, no cell phones, no computers, Cigs were 30 cents a pack, any flavor. A skein or 10 pack of copenhagen was $3.00 DOLLARS !!!. Gas was 35 cents a gallon for Fully Leaded 105 Octane Pure Fuel. No helmet laws, Just American Freedom the way it was meant to be. Later that year we landed on the moon, anything was possible at that time. I wish I had a TIME MACHINE to take me back to 1969 to Live Forever. Amen RH DSD
i thought so too until i saw how liberal Fonda was, just like his old man. At least he can,t vote now , not sure if it matters they cheat at the polls so bad anyway. Hope hopper wasn,t that liberal..
they aint riding off together... fonda tried seeing hop before he died but was denied access. then he flew in and went to his funeral but hops family told him to leave.
The ending of this film blew my mind away...I'd never seen anything like it when I saw it back in college. But realized life is sometimes not a happy ending.
I just watched this for the first time and my jaw was on the floor for literally the entire credits. Wasn't expecting such a violent shocking ending, and that final shot of the bike on fire was suddenly explained after being briefly shown earlier
Saw movie with about fifteen of us local buddies in 1969 who road and partied together. I stood up and screamed at the screen in rage as Captain Americana was blown away. It was a shock. I can’t explain how much I liked those characters.
@@colleen4ever nice thought. But I don’t think so. It was brutal hate gut punch death the writers wanted us to feel. Wandering in the wilderness of America to a pre ordained destination to be murdered. A hateful ugly murder. A Jesus story with no resurrection.
I remember going to see this newly released movie, in the theater. I was 16, and did not know a THING about it - only that it was a "Must-See". I was STUNNED at the ending: "We better go back...." - and the audience reaction: Half the audience CHEERED. Just as today in 2013, our nation was extremely POLARIZED at that time. And yes - the majority in the South were "Still Fighting The Civil War". My first extensive road trip down there the following year, confirmed that in Spades.
The thing about this scene that stands out to me is the horror and shock in Wyatt's voice as he sees his friend on the ground, mortally injured. After spending most of the movie cool and distant we get to see the unfiltered humanity and compassion of our hero -- a little too late as it turns out. Contrast to the ease with which two random yokels in an old Chevy pickup ("See the USA in your Chevrolet" indeed) commit double murder on two innocent strangers, on a public road, in broad daylight. Apparently, answering an unprovoked threat with a middle finger was a capital crime in Louisiana in 1968. To quote fellow psychedelic misfit Brian Wilson, Wyatt and Billy just weren't made for those times.
Rednecks really did things like that back then. Any male with long hair was to be aggressively hectored, if not physically attacked. But ten years later, they were the only people who had long hair. I remind myself of that when I interact with their spiritual descendants, who have learned how to behave in more socially acceptable ways.
Man...i was 5 years old .... My uncle rode a WLA in WW2...never made it back...cried when I watched the ending at 5. My father was proud because he understood why! A profound monent!
Eu assisti este filme em 1980 quando tinha 16 anos. Cheguei em casa a noite e liguei a tv , o filme estava no início e assisti sem maior interesse. A música foi me envolvendo e me identifiquei com a liberdade que o filme inpirava, nunca imaginei que terminasse daquela forma. a música final é perfeita. Um aviso para os que buscam a liberdade fora do sistema.
I met Dennis Hopper when both of our children were in the same class and we talked about NM before he died.Also I took a cinema appreciation class in LA and we debated and discussed if the movie was garbage or genius ,most of us thought it was genius .
I think I briefly met your uncle at the 30 year Anniversary of Easy Rider at a theater in New Orleans in 1999. Peter Fonda was there promoting the anniversary of the film, and he introduced your uncle to the audience and the role he had.
Both actors gone, too. Hopper was a serious photographer as well. Me and a buddy shared a joint with Hopper right after his photo exhibition opening at the old Corcoran Gallery in DC, where we worked and took art classes. Even that was a long time ago.
The soundtrack album was one of the first albums I ever bought. I remember one afternoon I put on the second side and lay down for a nap. At the end of the side, I had a dream that matched the movie almost frame-for-frame. When I finally saw the movie, I was like, "I've seen this before!" But it was just a memory of my dream.
Nor is it the same today. Look at San Francisco now and tell me if the prevailing mentality there makes any sense. The kindness of the left in the 60s has turned into lunacy and intolerance today.
I remember as a young man of 10 years old, all my friends fathers had these choppers with OUTRAGEOUS long Front wheel forks. Everyone had them for a few years all because of this movie. They should have kept all the bikes from the film and made a fortune. Just like Steve Mcqueen should have kept that green mustang from the movie Bullitt. I understood that the production company after the bullitt movie , just sold the mustang movie cars to a car lot and called it good. Some lucky guy bought one of the mustans and steve mcqueen spent alot of years trying to get the guy to sell the car to him. God I want to go back to the Late Sixties and LIVE THERE FOREVER.
The shooter in the pickup truck is David C. Billodeau . Died at age 67 in 2001 He was around 35 years old in this movie. He probably went around for years saying "You know I was in the Easy Rider Movie". I often wonder how big that boil on his neck get over the years. LOL
Michael Ledford Yours is such a Loving and moving story of what not only people can do but Families as well.Thank you for sharing your memories and wonderful stories with everyone. They are enjoyed and greatly appreciated. May you be able to ride for a few more years to add to them and share in them as well.
I don't think I have ever been so surprised by the ending of a movie as I was by Easy Rider. Watching it again, it still pisses me off. The bulk of the movie = 6 stars. The LSD scene = 8 stars. Jack Nicholson's scenes were an 8. The ending = 10 stars. I hate that they got killed, but the sheer shock of seeing it happen = 10 stars. I have this in my DVD collection. Thanks to Dennis and Peter and that fantastic soundtrack. Nyick nyick nyink nyick, Indians.
ledzeppelin711 Yes, I did see it (on UA-cam) several years back. I was pretty high myself when I saw it, but from what I remember I liked it OK. (My favorite part was seeing Peter Fonda's full frontal nudity.) I liked the part in the laundomat when he's watching the clothes go around and says, "wow!" I remember Bruce Dern as well, and I think crazy ol' Rip Torn was in it too. I liked Easy Rider much better, though.Another great film with Jack is "Five Easy Pieces." Karen Black stars in that one as well. I just love her to death. Also partly written by Jack was a movie starring Susan Strasberg, Jack, and Dean Stockwell. Forget the name, but it was also about the hippie drug scene. I liked that one better than The Trip (Dean is a big favorite of mine!). I'll give it another try when sober! Thanks for your reply.
ledzeppelin711 Hello again. I had to edit my reply to your post because I said Susan Sarandon, and not the correct actress, Susan Strasberg. Also, I found out the name of that one. It's called "Psych-Out," from 1968 [the year I was born, coincidentally :D ] Give it a whirl some time. Peace!
anthony spedale Hey, Anthony. Thanks for your reply. I wish I could have seen Easy Rider at its debut, but I was only one year old, so I doubt that I would have remembered any of it anyway (tee hee hee). Yeah, for me it's one of the great, sadly realistic looks at that time and place, and Hopper and Fonda knew what they were talking about. Were you at Woodstock? I think I would have grooved along to that experience. The pot probably isn't as good now as it was back then. Sadly, I have lost my 'connection' by now, but that's a story for another time! Peace Out.
Ditto...shocking, needless, brutal killing but that's life, ain't it. Dylan's singing is perfect too. I first saw this as a teen at my local Cali Drive-in.
I was 16 when I first saw this film on a moped with all my mates I’m 60 now rode a chopped shovel for 30 years just taken it off the road to rebuild it rideing a chopped revtec now missing the shovel though keep on riding from England 🏴
My parents took me to see this at a drive-in when I was two months old. The next day I sat on the floor with momma on the side of a stage while my father jammed with Mississippi Fred McDowell. A lot of images and sounds being absorbed by my infant self.
That film showed me (in highschool) that America was (and is still) a very sick society that seems incapable of facing it's demons, and instead turns to violence, outside the country, and also within society itself at home. There have been a number of opportunities for America to heal, but it has failed, over and over to do so. 1969 was a lot like it is right now in 2024. Except it's become worse. Rather than face up to our social problems and do something constructive, there's a grow chorus of Americans who are considering scrapping the Constitution itself in order to avoid facing the fact that we, collectively, have brought these days of self demolition on ourselves. I've been aware of this possibility ever since I watched Easy Rider as a young man. Are we ever going to truly live out what the Constitution says? That's the issue.
Hippies of the 60's and 70's were the true free spirit peace loving and accepting kind. I don't think humans will ever reach that level of enlightenment again. Not in my lifetime.
The hippies got disillusioned and burned out once they realized they were all full of shit. Human nature need redemption, not a bunch of phony slogans and symbolism.
Easy Rider 2: Easy Revenge a biker gang hears about Wyatt and Billy's death that happened several years ago so they decide to track down the 2 men responsible but if they can't find the 2 men cuz they're already dead the biker gang decides to go after the relatives people who're related and/or friends of the 2 men who drove the pickup truck
George Hanson: You know, this used to be a helluva good country. I can't understand what's gone wrong with it. Billy: Man, everybody got chicken, that's what happened. Hey, we can't even get into like, a second-rate hotel, I mean, a second-rate motel, you dig? They think we're gonna cut their throat or somethin'. They're scared, man. George Hanson: They're not scared of you. They're scared of what you represent to 'em. Billy: Hey, man. All we represent to them, man, is somebody who needs a haircut. George Hanson: Oh, no. What you represent to them is freedom. Billy: What the hell is wrong with freedom? That's what it's all about. George Hanson: Oh, yeah, that's right. That's what's it's all about, all right. But talkin' about it and bein' it, that's two different things. I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free, 'cause then they're gonna get real busy killin' and maimin' to prove to you that they are. Oh, yeah, they're gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em. Billy: Well, it don't make 'em runnin' scared. George Hanson: No, it makes 'em dangerous
In a school book I found a pic from the movie, it was a music book and they talked about the soundtrack. I was amazed by the landscapes and the bikes. I took the vhs that was out with a comunist newspaper, there was this collectiin called "americana", with amercan cult classics, very strange story gotta say. First time I watched the movie I was seven, I didn't get a lot of the content, and in the ecxact moment of the final shot someone hit a dog right down on the street. It's been very, very odd. Well, I was a bit scared by the trip part, but the dialogues and off course che george hanson part were amazing, and influenced me a lot. For an italian kid living in a little town, was very suggestive, I can say it changed my life in many ways
Fortunate to meet Peter Fonda some years back and treasure his autograph on the paperbook of his film dirty Mary crazy Larry. Rog. Pacific sunset records.
Today Peter Fonda passed away. Easy Rider was the first ever adult film I ever watched when I was 16 in 1970. I watched it again last night for the second time. There are so many new things I saw in the film. When Jack Nicholson talks about aliens is the first thing. This seems to be a prediction as what he said is now believed to be true. Secondly, in the commune, where there was a chap, possibly the leader of the commune does these weird and mysterious movements. At 16, I thought this was simply strange motions and that there was something wrong with him. I now know that the "strange movements " were the self defence movemensts of Tai Chi. May Peter have a long memory. With this film he will.
Didn't stop them from trying, when i was younger i was like "oh, looks like there'll never be a sequel, damn" but now i'm older i've come to realise looking back it was all the more better it ended like this.
The movie, and especially the ending woke a lot of people up to the fact that there was more than "2 America's." This movie was barely/lucky enough to be made, yet the message we could have missed was so profound. I was 10 when it came out and didn't see it until I was about 15, I was able to understand it at 15... at 10 I would've thought it a cool Biker Movie.
I watched this a few months ago prior to seeing the movie, because I have this awful habit of spoiling things for myself. For me to see the end coming and still feel the emotional impact is a testament to how good this film is. It's become my new favorite movie.
When you want to be free and your way of being and without disturbing anyone, there will always be someone who does not like the way you live and feel life.
I saw this movie when I was stationed in Fallon Nevada back in 69. You know those 2 guys hated each other for the rest of their lives after this movie was made. Very Very Sad.
A couple of years after this movie came out, I was hitch-hiking across the country,on my savings,and in Texarcanaa TX I stopped at a little cafe, to fuel up, and 4 dudes,just like the guys in the pick up truck,started giving me a hard time about my Yankee hat,I paid,got up and left then the 4 came out,pulled knives out and said they were going to kill them a Yankee,I run for my life and outrun them so back in those days there were real people in the deep South just like the movie portrays.
that's when my Colt 45 comes out to see if they REALLY want to continue the conversation ! Never go ANYWHERE without your piece! Be a little prepared for god's sake. Somebody loves you somewhere ! ! !
Richard Kuklinski ran into that very thing while down south. 3 or 4 yahoos decided to give him a hard time. Things ended for the yahoos that night. Don't blame Richie one bit...
yeh, almost the same thing happened to me...the same day I saw the movie!! "Cept I live in Canada, and one guy really wanted to kill me!!!...I was 15 yrs. old....damned rednecks!!
Movie like this is cool because you get to see there’s a lot intelligent sensitivity people in this world , some awesome comments here , thank you for uploading, this one of the finest movies ever made for sure , thank you
I grew up on the back of my dad's BSA going to the races in Laconia NH and all over. Saw this movie with a babysitter when I was 8. Went to bed and cried my eyes out.
I was eleven, when this film came out, saw it at the theatre, I cried when this happened...with my parents..then when I was 13, my dad bought me my first bike ( Yamaha 125 ).
@@danielgolus4600 I don't know, your age, but back then, they really didn't care. I went to a x rated film, when I was 16, with a friend ( hold over movie Midnight Cowboy )
I’m posting from ‘Australia’…..proves ‘Easy Rider’ had and still has a deep impact on a global audience after 60 years. It proves the positive impact that ‘motorcycles’ culture and fashion has on the ‘working class man’. For me……..Easy Rider depicts a great irony’…….”they went looking for America and could’nt find it anywhere” ! But, they were still able to ‘freely’ go look for it in the first place. Some places in the world people wake up every day to, starvation, imprisonment, persecution by some ‘Ugly little Authoritarian or Dictator !
This is the only movie I ever rented. Wished I'd known about the ending. I got it to try and cheer up my friend who had found his brothers body after he shot himself in the head. Was a good movie up until the end, then it made us sick. Still hurts 17 years later.
My dad passed away July this year at 68. This was the movie we'd always watch. His favorite movie of all time. I got his 66 harley sportster he got at age 17 in 1969. I ride it proudly daily in honor of him. Even though i still can't get through this whole movie without tearing up. Rip dad (david) I'll miss you forever
Mate - sorry to hear of your loss, life can be so sad. No doubt he's enjoying watching you on that 66 Sportster from above. Warm regards from Aust - David
Condolences
@Sara Bella Sara, it's in the (Very) New Testament book of Harley, verse 66 (as in Route 66)! ;-)
You are right on all counts and I wish you a Happy New Year from Sydney, David
i feel u bro... this is the movie my dad loves the most too... hope i would have some more years with him.... rip
It takes time.....🤧
I started riding with my father on his 1938 EL Knucklehead in 1950 when I was 5 yrs old, i went to the dealer with him & rode home on his new 1955 FL Panhead and remember people looking at us Like we were animals ,when I returned from Vietnam after serving my 2nd & final combat extension my pops couldn't stop hugging me,less than a week after id got home my pops asked me to ride with him to the Harley dealer one last time on the back of his bike ,he bought a new 1970 FLH Shovelhead and we drove off ,at our 1st stop to get a drink he tried giving me his brand new Shovelhead as a welcome home gift ,I refused knowing it would be his 1st bike with electric start & he could barely kick the Panhead over anymore ,he ended up giving me the Panhead instead,we spent the entire summer of 1971 touring the mid west with my mother & my new wife with plans of touring the southern states the following summer ,we never did make that run ,he became ill & spent the last 5 years of his life in pain ,I never want to forget the time my family has spent touring America on Harley Davidsons, when my father passed away I inherited his 38 Knucklehead and 70 Shovelhead ,both are sitting in my heated barn along with the 55 Panhead that is my most cherished possession on earth ,I've collected an Ironhead Sporty ,an Evo Fat boy that is my wife's bike, an Evo Road King ,another Evo Softail bagger ,a Buell Lightning stroker & a little 1 lunger Buell Blast that is also my wife's bike ,now were both in the same physical condition as my father where I can't kick the ole Panhead & the Knuckle beats my back to death ,I can't kick the Ironhead & it's time for the bikes to move on .
Our great grandson turns 15 next month & my wife is giving him her 500cc Buell for his birthday ,I already gave the sporty to our 22 yr old grandson but he don't have a heated garage & leaves it at our place ,I worked hard keeping all the bikes in original factory condition as well as keeping all of my father's bikes still titled in his name so they have " A" titles ,1 owner factory spec bikes have a massive value ,when I pass my son's will try to keep the bikes A titles as long as they can before they are forced with selling them due to retitling costing 80% of their value ,or they can store the bikes and keep our family's legacy with Harley Davidson going ,the best memories of my life involve riding motorcycles ,time sure does fly ,seems like just a few summers ago my pops was giving me his Panhead ,and now I'm 72 and giving the bikes to grandchildren & great grandchildren ,I sure do hope I live long enough to see all my kids & grandkids take 1 last ride with the wife & me .
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.Go for it!
Love the message and the story, life is short. Sometimes you have to make the memories not just enjoy them, like your father to you, and you to your grandchildren. All the best
I never cared for Harleys...till I read that.
Omg menosmal que no hablo ingles
I wish you and your family the best!
Saw the movie as a 14 year old. Still on the road on two wheels as a 60 year old. Times flyes having fun outhere!
ElectraWillem me too brother 60 yr,s old and still riding
your my hero man
damn, it s my dream, keep on rockin'in the free world you Free bird :)
Me to...got my first bike at 15....60 and still riding...gonna ride till I die.. never gonna stop...
may you ride safe, brother. in our souls, we are riding with you
Loved that era of film making. They weren’t afraid to show the heartbreak of real life and end a movie tragically.
Cue John Barry's heartbreaking harmonica music for the ending of Midnight Cowboy.
if you really like that era , i recomend you ''vanishing poit 1971'' '' and dirty mary crazy larry ''1973 , same 60/70 s energy
@@FlavioSerradorVersiani
Yup! The getaway car running into the train at the end was obviously an homage to Easy Rider!
I’ve got one for you that is an absolute classic from that era that few people know about.
“Scarecrow” with Gene Hackman and a very young Al Pacino!
One of the greatest “buddy films” ever made and no one knows about it. Do yourself a favor and track it down 👍
@@ianbartle456
Absolutely 👍
You can argue THAT was the masterpiece that kicked off the entire era.
How bout 5 easy pieces and Scarecrow. Both legendary
@@danielevans9379 i never heard about this one , i will check , but as road movie the eternal number 1 is vanishing point
They aren’t scared of you, they’re scared of what you represent.
It’s one thing to talk about freedom. It’s another to live it. People don’t like being reminded that they aren’t free.
Exactement ça....j ai vécu relativement libre toute mon existence bikers depuis ma naissance il a 70. ans...HD depuis 30. mes couleurs sur mon blouson...libré u muerté ..et ça le sera jusqu'à la fin...
The left wants the gov in every aspect of their lives, especially when it comes to hand outs.
A friend of mine used to have the iconic poster of Fonda and Hopper riding across the bridge.
He was killed in a car crash one night in 1981.
His name was Scott Howard Wilson Morgan, he was 18, and his friend Simon Harthman was also killed aged 21.
I was 17 at the time and it was the first time it occurred to me that people our age could die.
I'll never forget the shock when I heard about it, I had to lean forward as it felt like a punch in the stomach.
The funeral was just awful, but he was given a bikers sendoff.
He loved British bikes like Triumphs and BSA's and his sister Liz, also deceased now, said he wanted a Bonneville.
RIP Scott, Simon and Liz.
Euan .That sucks man.Way back in 61 i had a scooter and a young guy i knew well was a great mechanic and rode a Triumph 21. He had my scooter for a tune up and dropped it
round my house while i was out. 3 to 4 days later i popped round his house to thank him ( no mobile phones back then ) .His brother answered thi house door and simply looked at me and struggled to speak .Isaid i come to thank him for sorting my bike out.He still could not speak to me and invited me in .Well it was my turn to not speak as he was laid out in his coffin in the front room .Turns out he was on his Triumph 2 days before and someone threw something at him and he crashed his bike and died.They never caught them .i think he was about 17.Life can sometimes suck.
@@John-ob7dh Thank you for writing, and best wishes to you.
I had that poster too when I was 19..
I'm 71 now and still riding
@@mikesalvadore9295 In 2013, at the age of 72, I left central CA on my Honda ST 1100 on a mission to 'bag' the 13 states I had never previously been in....ALL east of the MS River...first real stop...Key West, Florida. Six weeks later (and a $4,000 motel bill) I had done just that. Now, here I am, looking at 83...and still riding. Seriously thinking about when the weather starts warming up a bit, riding down to Roswell, NM, and checking out the UFO museum....again!
However, there is a slight issue...my wife, who is three years my senior, wants to tag along with me. If this doth come to pass, then we'll probably end up employing the Lamborghinni.
BHE
Until you all meet again...
I'm a Vietnam vet and this movie so identifies how horribly intolerant and hateful our Nation is, and continues to be! Whatever happened to free thought and free expression? The ignorance in our Country is rather depressing. Best of luck to all of us!
It's a movie. It's all made up. Jesus man.
And it’s getting worse. Thank you for your service and sacrifice✌🏻🇺🇸
@huntertucker7806 republicans have publicly said, multiple times, they wish to eradicate groups of people, fuck off with your nonsense.
Thank you for your service, Sir. ☮️
You are so spot on ….this ending shook me up when I saw it in 1969….still does…so much narrowminded,ignorant hate…it actually seems worse then ever !
Man I was 14 when this hit the theaters, Harley nut since 9 and begged my old man for 2 weeks to take me to see it,he gave in and I did the best I could do to live it. RIP Peter and Dennis.. Thinking I should watch it again tomorrow!
No matter how often I see this film I always end up crying. It's like a punch in the gut.
1960's freedom thing and todays 2023 not much differences. Still fight and die to keep it.
Still rednecks riding around in trucks with guns calling themselves "patriots" too.
My favorite movie, the soundtrack is the best of any movie I've seen. When I saw it in 1969, it started my lifelong passion with motorcycles.
The ending of this film left me utterly berereft like no other film ever has . It was like a punch in the stomach . A brilliant piece of film making in my opinion .
Yep as a 16 yr old now 69 still can remember the brutality!
When this movie played in theaters across the country, there were literally audiences that left in tears, and others that stood loudly cheering and applauding. Best logline ever for a film: "The ride across the country that changed America."
I don't know if it changed America more than it exposed America!
Cheering for the murder? What kind of idiots were they?
My newly married husband an myself were not only in shock like the rest of the audience, but it was as still as could be, everyone left CRYING !!
We still road. We were from NY living in the central hick towns if FL. 😰😵😢😰
Why they where Drug dealers that where moving cocaine into the US for the cartel’s.
Michael ledford comments were amazing . The history of the motorcycles in his family , the father , the son riding together as a child . Than father, mother , daughterlaw, and son on Harleys seeing America.
Your son , grandson , great grandson keeping a legacy alive .
They need to make a movie about your life .
From a veteran .
"A man went looking for America.
And couldn´t find it anywhere..."
Ken Masters thank you
whos that man?
In Paul Simon's deeply profound song 'America', he sings: '"Kathy, I'm lost", I said - though I knew she was sleeping. I'm empty and aching and I don't know why.' Poignant words also that many would have heard related to the struggle of those in the counter-culture who were just trying to do things differently and find a way to build a better world. Many were deeply signed up to this and really thought it was possible. For some it was possible for a season - and no doubt they'd look back on it as a truly beautiful time - so full of hope and possibility. For many others, ideals that promised so much fell flat and left people deeply disappointed. Iconic songwriters from the 60s like Lennon and Townshend captured this feeling well writing the words 'The dream is over' and song 'Won't Get Fooled Again'.
The same sort of alienation and deep loss of ideals is brilliantly captured in both if the films 'Midnight Cowboy', and 'Easy Rider'. All hit really hard, but particularly if you were a believer in the sort of personal freedom championed as a background.
@@ianbartle456 Oh PLEASE. The average boomer's idea of "building a better world" in the '60s involved protesting and rioting a lot, ingesting lots of narcotics, and screwing everybody from the opposite gender they saw and were halfway attracted to. Ultimately they were just a bunch of selfish hedonists, a lot of whom went on to become the corrupt corporate fatcats of the '80s, transforming into the very type of perspon they claimed to hate. It's no coincidence that the crime, divorce and drug usage rates skyrocketed and America's been on a downward spiral since. And today the ones who are still alive are supporters of censorship, global tyranny and greedier than ever.
I was 14 when I first saw this at the Drive-In less than a 1/4 mile from my Mom & Dad's house. I was with a cousin in his fluorescent green VW with big tires & Crager Mags. It was the first time I ever smoked a joint. The rest is History.
The ending still leaves me breathless and devastated. The first time I saw it in 69 I ran hard afterwards. Still, it crushes me.
well, how strange you should say that.... saw it in London, and had to just run and run, from Piccadilly Circus to Baker Street.... the thread of desolation woven through the daisychain illusions of the era WAS devastating... the endings of: Easy Rider 1969, Vanishing Point 2 years later, Electra Glide in Blue 2 years after that.... but here we are still Leanne, and for me, at 75, the best time of my life! JIJI Xx
I saw it with a dozen teenage biker pals when it first hit the theaters we had no idea. We had seen other biker movies. I stood up and screamed at the screen in anger pain and shock. I liked those guys.
@@jiji1946 I am 76. Saw it with a dozen teenage biker buddies. Stood up and screamed at ending. I shock in anger. I shock my fist. That was a punch to the gut.
@@1911Earthling 'Teenage Biker Buddies' sounds like a movie title itself. glad you survived the two-wheeled lifestyle and the 60's (70's, 80's, 90's, and etc and etc). like you, coming up to 77 myself.... kinda surprising. and STILL having the best time of my life. p.s. nice channel name! （⌒▽⌒）
The movie with the chick that dresses up and the other chick, sneaks up on a guy when he's asleep, turns him into a two-pump chump then brains him with a stiletto heel has about the same level of wtf.
The shocking ending, is a real metaphor for the end of the swinging 60's.
The trip is well and truly, over.
I'm not sure that's a correct metaphor. The Swinging 60s predominantly referred to the London scene. The American cinema tradition of abrupt bad endings was more part of the general disillusionment of late 60s counter culture, as a response to the Vietnam War, political realities, and social inequality. You could even hear it in the pop and rock songs of the time: they all went from major to minor towards the end of the decade.
@@M1tjakaramazov I'd agree. The "Swinging" Sixties was primarily a London name as it referenced the out-there clothes attitudes (and music of course) that was the bursting out of the youth of England that had had to endure childhoods under the crippling austerity of the post-war years. It was mainly a late 1965 to 1966 label.
I think America recovered more quickly in many ways socially after the war (though of course they too lost a lot of young men to it). By the middle of the decade especially 1966-67 it became clear that youth were not just choosing to wear what they wanted how they wanted but were on a spiritual search for meaning beyond chasing material gain. In significantly large numbers they followed the Beatles to India and places like Morocco and Bali in search of enlightenment yet many fell under the deceitful spell of consciousness-opening drugs and were lost. By 1968 those who had become more politically engaged were shocked and disappointed at he pushback against the more enlightened policies espoused by the Kennedys and MLK and reacted with This was less of a Swinging London ear and more of what came to be called the counter culture. It lingered on into the early 70s in England and Australia (where I'm from) but many commentators say that after it's greatest 'cultural moment' at the Woodstock Festival in the late summer of 1969, it died at Altamont Speedway. Some tried hard to keep it going but he loss of many important musical figures in a few short months created a parallel moment to the loss of many 1950s icons in 1958/9 period a decade earlier. It seems a new decade so often requires a new perspective.
@ianbartle456 Yeah I forgot about the Altamont speedway incident. I suspect the more intelligent fraction of the hippie movement soon began to realise things weren't gonna change as much as they thought anyway, and this disillusionment seeped into the art, including cinema. Many already described Jimi Hendrix's Stars And Stripes rendition at Woodstock as a bitter sweet foreshadowing moment.
1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964 had just about nothing to do with the "Swinging Sixties" 1971 was a lot more like 1968 then 1961 was. There's more coherence in the decade 1965-75 then there is 1960-1970.
@@elpulpo800 I'd tend to agree with that. John Lennon called the end early by singing 'The Dream is Over' but it was as much a reference to his personal dream/delusion as it was everyone else's. Here in AUST the 60s certainly did linger in well into the 70s. Australia kept the dream alive - a dream for personal affluence and freedom - and it was largely possible here. That is, until hit by the major economic headwinds of the OPEC crisis - and then the major cultural shift that was punk. The music matters a lot to me and I'd say 1965-75 wasn't just coherent, it was transcendent.
J'ai vu "Easy Rider" à sa sortie.
Le symbole des 2 Amériques m'avait marqué, surtout quand on voit le type ferrer son cheval et l'autre changer la roue de sa moto.
Avec "More" et "Les chemins de Katmandou", ces 3 films, et leurs bandes son, ont marqué ma jeunesse... et même ma vie !
I was 18 when this movie was in the local North Carolina theater in the 1960's . They had a chopper in front of the theater! It was a big deal. Had many bikes until the late 1980's I got tired of people tailgating me and the roads became too crowded with cars! Today it's too dangerous. Cell phones kill biker's, stupid car drivers kill bikers! To ride a bike in the 60's and 70's was a dream! Now I ride a dirt bike in the wood's trees don't move rocks don't move ride safe!
I was riding down old route 66 on my 1967 Norton Atlas when this movie came out. Heading to California from Ohio.. Back when I had hair, and my wife pregnant with my first daughter on the back. Never forget, hell of a trip. Peace
I rode my new '69 Norton Commando S from Flint, Michigan to Pasadena, Cal Sept. 1969. I saw this movie a month later at the theater in Hollywood where it premiered. I ended up staying in Cal for many years. Great depiction of the times for me and many others.
Harley should honour him with an commemorative bike!!! Without Fonda and Hopper, Harley won't be same today...Ride free forever!!!
Sven Klaas , Thinking the same thing myself , when he died . Makes sense from a marketing perspective.
No they shouldn’t because I’d go broke buying one 😂
Well said! There should be a couple of special models with the name of each one of them.
wouldn't work. Most Hog riders are more like the two Trump yokels in the truck
@@Yowzoe --- I agree 100% --- just look at the violent MAGA traitors who stormed the Capitol --- they would love to make a movie today where they get to shoot an entire squad of brown-skinned people from a pickup truck!
This can happen to anyone anytime anywhere. That includes today. The most dangerous animal on earth. Human
Your right on
"You know I've seen a lot of people walking 'round with tombstones in their eyes"
Republicans, not humans.
@@Jeremiah7-ox2nj You should be arrested for possession of illegal thoughts...
@@Jeremiah7-ox2nj basketball people commit more crime than anyone else in america, but sure, its republicans lol
What a haunting ending. Made me come back to this scene after 20 years.
They used a couple of ‘good ol’ local boys’ for that final scene, they were not actors.
@@jogmas12yeesh, scary
Haunting? The ending is ridiculous. Random guy shoots the main character and for some reason his bike goes flying and blows up. How moronic.
lesson of movie,maybe not sell drugs
公開当時、高校予備校に通っていたが一部のバイク好き仲間と観に行ったが見たことのないフロントフォークが突き出したキャプテンアメリカ号とバイクの虜になってしまいました。ラストシーンあっけなく終わったしまったのには虚しさを憶えました。
almost half a century has passed, but path of Easy Riders is still rough and full of danger...
God speed to all easy riders.🙏
i just got back from Vietnam in aug '69 and that's about the same time easy rider was released.. at age 22 we were impressed with the life style, bikes & the anti-establishment. now, here i am 50 yrs later.. still ride Harleys, retired now and been married for 46 yrs.. this movie did influence me in my younger yrs, but i never gave up the love of Harley Davidson's!
the ending, despite a few dark moments earlier, came as a shocker. the inal shots as the camera pans up, looking down on the burning 'cycle, had so much resonance with the sort of scenes were were constantly seeing at that time of the Viet Nam war.
That death scene was the same vision Wyatt got while experiencing that premonition of their deaths, after he read that plaque inside the brothel.
Its not that shocking when you watch donald Trump get 75m votes. America sucks.
I saw this film "down the flicks" in Bishops Stortford on January the 10th 1970. The ticket was 7/- in the circle. I was 15 years old bunking off from boarding school. It has stayed with me throughout my life as has the music. I still ride my bike, and love the wind and tarmac rushing inches beneath my boots, with an engine between my legs.
I love this ending, because over the course of about 3 minutes, it rams symbolism down your throat. The entire movie can be said to be an embodiment of a vision of the American Dream. Billy flips off the guys in the truck, and then they kill him for a cheap laugh. Wyatt comes back and lays his American flag jacket over the dying Billy. It's a way of saying the American Dream is dying, killed for a cheap thrill. Then you have Wyatt getting shot and his bike being destroyed, in which is the money and the freedom it represents. It's destroyed, totaled. The free are destroyed by those who want immediate pleasure, be it a laugh or some other "pleasure", e.g., a sense of security or a pariah-ization of them goddamn hippies. It's a rejection of the ethos of the nation and its people in favor of immediate gratification.
I'd have to agree with your thesis --- to me, the violent ending was a symbol of America's loss of innocence that happened in the 60's --- the JFK and MLK assassinations, losing in Vietnam --- we were no longer a "shining city on a hill" but a country ravaged by violence and hate --- the American flag jacket draped over a bloody and dying Billy was a very powerful symbolic message of this
the movie was nothing but Peter Fonda pretending he was doing something profound
but in the end he was just giving the movie industry the finger
the movie is pure shit
@@kenwittlief255 aka "doing king shit"
@@kenwittlief255 --- sounds like Commie Trump --- pretending like he's doing something meaninful but in the end he's just telling America to go fuck itself so he can fleece us to fatten his bank account
@@lukebuchwald9252 I got news for you. Since before WW1 we lost that "shining city on a hill" mystique. Thinking we lost it in the 60's just represents Naivety. Need some proof ck out The Unseen Hand by A. Ralph Epperson
"Everything that we ever dreamed of is in that teardrop gas tank"
Tank explodes.
if you die, dreams die too
That's what happens when you hide your heroin money in your gas tank. Steppenwolf's prophecy came true.
@CASPER 12345 Lmao you're just the evil townspeople in this movie
bruh
@CASPER 12345 Okay, you just made yourself look incredibly silly. Um, thanks, I guess. 😂
These guys were FINALLY free...from judgements, to live off the grid, to truly "do your own thing in your own time" It is sad AND liberating. Wyatt & Billy couldn't go back...they were busy blazing there own trails!! I envy these guys!
the most depressing ending of a movie
fletchefletcher surely, you jest!
Marley and me was pretty bad
And yet a totally transcendent revelation of the transitority significance of the little things in life and the magnitude of the ordinary moments we all share. BOOM.
watch "the mist"
I think the ending of "Joe" could be more depressing"
Such a iconic movie 🍿🎥 I remember seeing it when I was 12 because my mom's boyfriend was a biker and he had the movie so I watched it and it blew me away! Dennis Hopper is a legend but Peter Fonda Was equally as great
My Dad was a world war 2 veteran from southern Indiana and my older siblings were hippies . They got along fine. Dad let them be themselves . As long as they treated people well and didn't act like bums , Dad was happy to have healthy and happy kids. I was born in 73 and was a long haired metal head in the 80s and Dad was cool with me doing what I wanted to do. He taught me to be myself and carry my own weight . How you dressed and wore your hair was up to the individual.
@typo pit he fought in the Pacific theatre , no Germans. My brothers were hippies but they had jobs and weren't concerned about the government. They weren't protesters. Just nature loving , guitar playing hippies.
For the geographically inclined, the final scene was shot two and a half miles north of Krotz Springs, LA on Highway 105. The closing shot looks south towards Krotz Springs.
+DrChicago That's literally the first thing I was thinking as it was ending. Geographically obsessed, especially nowadays with google maps and street view and all that. Thanks!
Native Louisianan here. Outta go back down there and pay my respects.
Thankyou for the info for my road trip.
Thank you for this. Literally on aerial 3D and Street View looking at this now and spot on. This has been my favorite movie of all time, and I always thought this scene was near Morganza, but that is actually about 25 miles away.
How would you happen to know that?
Saw it(England)early 1970
When everybody left the movie theatre none of the usual chit -chat.
Just total silence.
Speechless.
I saw the movie inAthens(1970).It shook me.It still does.My lost youth.
@@alesandross Well hopefully you didn't totally loose it in Viet Nam ! !
Same thing when I saw Pulp Fiction (1994) in Switzerland, just total silence.
“Two men went in search of America..... and couldn’t find it anywhere” 🙏🏻
Actually, they've definitely found it in the end. At least Trump's side of it.
@@MicuBamba troll
@@masonjar9023 Sorry, read it better: it's 'Trump', not 'troll'.
still can't
@@orlandopockets6372 You sound like fast and furious has a too complicated plot for you xD
One of the greatest movies to capture a time and let you feel like you experienced part of that generation. Caught up working and paying bills and I now want to just get on a motorcycle and ride across country and enjoy life
THat is EXACTLY how small towns and traffic was in 69'. Hot Cars everywhere, no insurance, no cell phones, no computers, Cigs were 30 cents a pack, any flavor. A skein or 10 pack of copenhagen was $3.00 DOLLARS !!!. Gas was 35 cents a gallon for Fully Leaded 105 Octane Pure Fuel. No helmet laws, Just American Freedom the way it was meant to be. Later that year we landed on the moon, anything was possible at that time. I wish I had a TIME MACHINE to take me back to 1969 to Live Forever. Amen RH DSD
trust me when I say small town southern america is still like this 110%
If i could go back to 1969 I would find Jim Morrison and save him.
Oh yes American freedom, leaded gasoline for all! Not like the caused any harm...
@@jacobvoid9176 Nothing screams American freedom like some good old fashioned brain damage!
What about the murderous toothless simpletons?
RIP Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper too. Two cooler dudes never existed.
They’re riding into the sunset as we speak. They will be missed.
Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef
Fonda a bad actor
i thought so too until i saw how liberal Fonda was, just like his old man. At least he can,t vote now , not sure if it matters they cheat at the polls so bad anyway. Hope hopper wasn,t that liberal..
they aint riding off together... fonda tried seeing hop before he died but was denied access. then he flew in and went to his funeral but hops family told him to leave.
The ending of this film blew my mind away...I'd never seen anything like it when I saw it back in college. But realized life is sometimes not a happy ending.
Two dead drug dealer: The best end I ever saw.
@@mathematiknet expand your mind.
@@marryellenmonahan5585 He's obviously not capable.
Goddamned hippies...
@@marryellenmonahan5585 THEY WERE ON DRUGS!! THEY WOULD HAVE DIED ANYWAY.
I just watched this for the first time and my jaw was on the floor for literally the entire credits. Wasn't expecting such a violent shocking ending, and that final shot of the bike on fire was suddenly explained after being briefly shown earlier
dumbest ending ever. and i've seen star wars13
@@thatthingthatisaid65 Lol what's star wars 13?
@@whereami2477 Disney's big hit 8 years from now.
@@thatthingthatisaid65 Dumbest? How? I felt it was the perfect ending in terms of making a point.
@@thatthingthatisaid65 *saddest. I know it's upsetting.
Saw movie with about fifteen of us local buddies in 1969 who road and partied together. I stood up and screamed at the screen in rage as Captain Americana was blown away. It was a shock. I can’t explain how much I liked those characters.
Maybe he wasn;t. Note we don;t see his body. he could have jumped off the bike just in time.
@@colleen4ever nice thought. But I don’t think so. It was brutal hate gut punch death the writers wanted us to feel. Wandering in the wilderness of America to a pre ordained destination to be murdered. A hateful ugly murder. A Jesus story with no resurrection.
@@colleen4ever even Captain Americas disciples were murdered. His two companions just did not die but murdered. Brutal stuff.
@@colleen4ever
You can see the body. He is laying motionless as the camera pans out.
@@dijonvon4378 Good eye!
Saw this when it was first released.... I was 15 ....the ending still affects me to this day...
Me to
I remember going to see this newly released movie, in the theater. I was 16, and did not know a THING about it - only that it was a "Must-See". I was STUNNED at the ending: "We better go back...." - and the audience reaction: Half the audience CHEERED. Just as today in 2013, our nation was extremely POLARIZED at that time. And yes - the majority in the South were "Still Fighting The Civil War". My first extensive road trip down there the following year, confirmed that in Spades.
And so are many of urban dwellers. What is your point?
Most urban dwellers learn from a young age to mind their own fucking business and leave other people alone.
bullvalene no they don't.....wait, ok, maybe they learn it, but they sure as hell don't live it.
Of course they cheered, they hated the demonization and shizzle that those two characters represented.
I find that EXTREMELY hard to believe seeing as how the west is now....
The thing about this scene that stands out to me is the horror and shock in Wyatt's voice as he sees his friend on the ground, mortally injured. After spending most of the movie cool and distant we get to see the unfiltered humanity and compassion of our hero -- a little too late as it turns out. Contrast to the ease with which two random yokels in an old Chevy pickup ("See the USA in your Chevrolet" indeed) commit double murder on two innocent strangers, on a public road, in broad daylight. Apparently, answering an unprovoked threat with a middle finger was a capital crime in Louisiana in 1968. To quote fellow psychedelic misfit Brian Wilson, Wyatt and Billy just weren't made for those times.
Rednecks really did things like that back then. Any male with long hair was to be aggressively hectored, if not physically attacked. But ten years later, they were the only people who had long hair. I remind myself of that when I interact with their spiritual descendants, who have learned how to behave in more socially acceptable ways.
Man...i was 5 years old .... My uncle rode a WLA in WW2...never made it back...cried when I watched the ending at 5. My father was proud because he understood why! A profound monent!
Eu assisti este filme em 1980 quando tinha 16 anos. Cheguei em casa a noite e liguei a tv , o filme estava no início e assisti sem maior interesse. A música foi me envolvendo e me identifiquei com a liberdade que o filme inpirava, nunca imaginei que terminasse daquela forma. a música final é perfeita. Um aviso para os que buscam a liberdade fora do sistema.
I met Dennis Hopper when both of our children were in the same class and we talked about NM before he died.Also I took a cinema appreciation class in LA and we debated and discussed if the movie was garbage or genius ,most of us thought it was genius .
The first time I watched this, I had no idea it was going to happen. still one of my biggest film shocks.
A true classic with one of the best soundtracks of any movie.💥🚀💥
my uncle johnny david is the truck driver at the end of this movie! his five minutes of fame he told me. rip-uncle johnny.
I think I briefly met your uncle at the 30 year Anniversary of Easy Rider at a theater in New Orleans in 1999. Peter Fonda was there promoting the anniversary of the film, and he introduced your uncle to the audience and the role he had.
Both actors gone, too. Hopper was a serious photographer as well. Me and a buddy shared a joint with Hopper right after his photo exhibition opening at the old Corcoran Gallery in DC, where we worked and took art classes. Even that was a long time ago.
I felt so bad and sad at the end when i saw this movie at 13 years old.
One of the best movie sound tracks ever!
The soundtrack album was one of the first albums I ever bought. I remember one afternoon I put on the second side and lay down for a nap. At the end of the side, I had a dream that matched the movie almost frame-for-frame. When I finally saw the movie, I was like, "I've seen this before!" But it was just a memory of my dream.
@@donkensler Life imitates art...imitates life imitating art...
The mentality was not the same coast to coast at the end of 60's. Weapons, civic rights, air cut, education. Hard reality, hard ending. Masterpiece !!
>Weapons
Well, the Louisiana boys at least got this one right.
Good perspective.
Nor is it the same today. Look at San Francisco now and tell me if the prevailing mentality there makes any sense. The kindness of the left in the 60s has turned into lunacy and intolerance today.
I remember as a young man of 10 years old, all my friends fathers had these choppers with OUTRAGEOUS long Front wheel forks. Everyone had them for a few years all because of this movie. They should have kept all the bikes from the film and made a fortune. Just like Steve Mcqueen should have kept that green mustang from the movie Bullitt. I understood that the production company after the bullitt movie , just sold the mustang movie cars to a car lot and called it good. Some lucky guy bought one of the mustans and steve mcqueen spent alot of years trying to get the guy to sell the car to him. God I want to go back to the Late Sixties and LIVE THERE FOREVER.
Do you have photos of those bikes i could put up in my bar? (Choppers)
Those long-folks weren't always popular with MCs in the bay area because some of the streets were narrow and made it difficult to swing around.
@@maxmulsanne7054 HA - y'all goin' make me turn this bike around - cuz if ya do y'us all gonna regret it big time!
The shooter in the pickup truck is David C. Billodeau . Died at age 67 in 2001 He was around 35 years old in this movie. He probably went around for years saying "You know I was in the Easy Rider Movie". I often wonder how big that boil on his neck get over the years. LOL
Damn, he looked to be 60.
Holllly hell bud 35
@@piotrm9616everyone seemed older back in the day.
Michael Ledford Yours is such a Loving and moving story of what not only people can do but Families as well.Thank you for sharing your memories and wonderful stories with everyone. They are enjoyed and greatly appreciated. May you be able to ride for a few more years to add to them and share in them as well.
The easy riders are no more. The death of an era.
though in the us people still shoot each other without any remorse...the spirit of the movie remains alive.
He hated President Trump. He was a dummy.
@@drippinglass trumps a moron= cost me money cuz of trade war...i despise him now
@@drippinglass Only makes him greater.
Kkthxhf He picked on a 10 year old kid last year. That’s great?
I saw this movie when it was first released. I just sat there stunned at the end. Couldn't move, couldn't speak.
Same here. I was 17 in 1969. End of Bonnie and Clyde same. Movies weren’t as violent then.
I watched this film a few days ago for university. I was speechless by how it ended so suddenly and bleakly.
I don't think I have ever been so surprised by the ending of a movie as I was by Easy Rider. Watching it again, it still pisses me off. The bulk of the movie = 6 stars. The LSD scene = 8 stars. Jack Nicholson's scenes were an 8. The ending = 10 stars. I hate that they got killed, but the sheer shock of seeing it happen = 10 stars. I have this in my DVD collection. Thanks to Dennis and Peter and that fantastic soundtrack.
Nyick nyick nyink nyick, Indians.
ledzeppelin711 Yes, I did see it (on UA-cam) several years back. I was pretty high myself when I saw it, but from what I remember I liked it OK. (My favorite part was seeing Peter Fonda's full frontal nudity.) I liked the part in the laundomat when he's watching the clothes go around and says, "wow!" I remember Bruce Dern as well, and I think crazy ol' Rip Torn was in it too. I liked Easy Rider much better, though.Another great film with Jack is "Five Easy Pieces." Karen Black stars in that one as well. I just love her to death. Also partly written by Jack was a movie starring Susan Strasberg, Jack, and Dean Stockwell. Forget the name, but it was also about the hippie drug scene. I liked that one better than The Trip (Dean is a big favorite of mine!). I'll give it another try when sober! Thanks for your reply.
ledzeppelin711 Hello again. I had to edit my reply to your post because I said Susan Sarandon, and not the correct actress, Susan Strasberg. Also, I found out the name of that one. It's called "Psych-Out," from 1968 [the year I was born, coincidentally :D ] Give it a whirl some time. Peace!
anthony spedale Hey, Anthony. Thanks for your reply. I wish I could have seen Easy Rider at its debut, but I was only one year old, so I doubt that I would have remembered any of it anyway (tee hee hee). Yeah, for me it's one of the great, sadly realistic looks at that time and place, and Hopper and Fonda knew what they were talking about. Were you at Woodstock? I think I would have grooved along to that experience. The pot probably isn't as good now as it was back then. Sadly, I have lost my 'connection' by now, but that's a story for another time! Peace Out.
Ditto...shocking, needless, brutal killing but that's life, ain't it. Dylan's singing is perfect too. I first saw this as a teen at my local Cali Drive-in.
+Allison Halpin Absolutely the same with me. I stood with my jaw dropped for like 5 minutes straight.
I was 16 when I first saw this film on a moped with all my mates I’m 60 now rode a chopped shovel for 30 years just taken it off the road to rebuild it rideing a chopped revtec now missing the shovel though keep on riding from England 🏴
My parents took me to see this at a drive-in when I was two months old. The next day I sat on the floor with momma on the side of a stage while my father jammed with Mississippi Fred McDowell. A lot of images and sounds being absorbed by my infant self.
And now, more than half a century later, people still get mocked, harrased and killed for being different all around the world
Because hollywood movies are accurate depictions of reality.
@@MNAHN-T.GOF-NN
This movie was accurate for the time...
Meh…..not really. These days victimhood is a status symbol.
@@billyb4790 We're not talking about these days. This movie accurately depicted the great divide and the tensions of the country in the late 60's.
I remember seeing the movie and was 14 and the scene when they throw their watches away is so valid and holds true today .
two men went looking for america and couldnt find it
oh...they found it all
right...or it found them.
@@tobiassinclair4646 international drug smugglers not dope heads.
The Snow Nigro what a fucking artistic way of looking at the story really, it’s all presented in context
The back roads of America were not a safe place in the 60's for hippies....
Indeed.
That film showed me (in highschool) that America was (and is still) a very sick society that seems incapable of facing it's demons, and instead turns to violence, outside the country, and also within society itself at home. There have been a number of opportunities for America to heal, but it has failed, over and over to do so. 1969 was a lot like it is right now in 2024. Except it's become worse. Rather than face up to our social problems and do something constructive, there's a grow chorus of Americans who are considering scrapping the Constitution itself in order to avoid facing the fact that we, collectively, have brought these days of self demolition on ourselves. I've been aware of this possibility ever since I watched Easy Rider as a young man. Are we ever going to truly live out what the Constitution says? That's the issue.
I was a 21 year old when I saw this movie, now 73 and still riding, 60K on my 08 Fatboy! Always take the long way home
Hippies of the 60's and 70's were the true free spirit peace loving and accepting kind. I don't think humans will ever reach that level of enlightenment again. Not in my lifetime.
Yet, some continue to say that once upon a time there was more tolerance.
The hippies got disillusioned and burned out once they realized they were all full of shit. Human nature need redemption, not a bunch of phony slogans and symbolism.
BS
"It's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace".
Jack Hanson - Easy Rider
They wouldn't end that movie like that now. They wouldn't be able to make two sequels.
Easy Rider II, starring Adam Sandler as Bobby Boucher and David Spade as Joe Dirt.
Easy Rider 2: Easy Revenge
a biker gang hears about Wyatt and Billy's death that happened several years ago so they decide to track down the 2 men responsible but if they can't find the 2 men cuz they're already dead the biker gang decides to go after the relatives people who're related and/or friends of the 2 men who drove the pickup truck
I’m surprised they haven’t attempted to “reboot” it using CGI.
You just answered George Hanson's question. Men in suits who produce nothing and whose only standard is money.
Oh they could easily make sequels. It wasn't definite that either of them died. :)
George Hanson: You know, this used to be a helluva good country. I can't understand what's gone wrong with it.
Billy: Man, everybody got chicken, that's what happened. Hey, we can't even get into like, a second-rate hotel, I mean, a second-rate motel, you dig? They think we're gonna cut their throat or somethin'. They're scared, man.
George Hanson: They're not scared of you. They're scared of what you represent to 'em.
Billy: Hey, man. All we represent to them, man, is somebody who needs a haircut.
George Hanson: Oh, no. What you represent to them is freedom.
Billy: What the hell is wrong with freedom? That's what it's all about.
George Hanson: Oh, yeah, that's right. That's what's it's all about, all right. But talkin' about it and bein' it, that's two different things. I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free, 'cause then they're gonna get real busy killin' and maimin' to prove to you that they are. Oh, yeah, they're gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em.
Billy: Well, it don't make 'em runnin' scared.
George Hanson: No, it makes 'em dangerous
This quote is Bolshevik hogwash!
Yes and very true and profound, thanks Dave for writing this down.
Dave Martin 😢
Nice, that was the essence of the movie really not accepting these guys as their own
cant believe you typed all of that out
In a school book I found a pic from the movie, it was a music book and they talked about the soundtrack. I was amazed by the landscapes and the bikes. I took the vhs that was out with a comunist newspaper, there was this collectiin called "americana", with amercan cult classics, very strange story gotta say. First time I watched the movie I was seven, I didn't get a lot of the content, and in the ecxact moment of the final shot someone hit a dog right down on the street. It's been very, very odd. Well, I was a bit scared by the trip part, but the dialogues and off course che george hanson part were amazing, and influenced me a lot. For an italian kid living in a little town, was very suggestive, I can say it changed my life in many ways
Fortunate to meet Peter Fonda some years back and treasure his autograph on the paperbook of his film dirty Mary crazy Larry. Rog. Pacific sunset records.
RIP Peter Fonda. Easy Rider was certainly an interesting film.
This movie Peter fonda shouldn't be in
@@thomastrainandkriskringles1183 Agreed, he turned out to be a leftist idiot.
@@rodpalm6398 Really? That makes me like him even more!
@@rodpalm6398 Why bring politics into this?
@@jerrygil1965 Cause the far right especially far right southerns have always bin the enemy of the hippie good free spirit lifestyle
Today Peter Fonda passed away. Easy Rider was the first ever adult film I ever watched when I was 16 in 1970. I watched it again last night for the second time. There are so many new things I saw in the film. When Jack Nicholson talks about aliens is the first thing. This seems to be a prediction as what he said is now believed to be true. Secondly, in the commune, where there was a chap, possibly the leader of the commune does these weird and mysterious movements. At 16, I thought this was simply strange motions and that there was something wrong with him. I now know that the "strange movements " were the self defence movemensts of Tai Chi.
May Peter have a long memory. With this film he will.
There is absolutely no way a sequel could be made with an ending like this.
Wouldn't want a sequel regardless. This is one of the most important films ever made.
Sequels shouldn’t even be considered for powerful films like this.
You can't make a sequel because the world it took place in is, just like its characters, dead.
Didn't stop them from trying, when i was younger i was like "oh, looks like there'll never be a sequel, damn" but now i'm older i've come to realise looking back it was all the more better it ended like this.
unless its a prequel....
I was 14 yo or so when this was made. Started me off on my life time riding. Still going strong at 67
I'll never for the life of me understand why certain people are so full of hate.I once heard a quote that said "hurt people,hurt people".😢😢
The movie, and especially the ending woke a lot of people up to the fact that there was more than "2 America's." This movie was barely/lucky enough to be made, yet the message we could have missed was so profound. I was 10 when it came out and didn't see it until I was about 15, I was able to understand it at 15... at 10 I would've thought it a cool Biker Movie.
I watched this a few months ago prior to seeing the movie, because I have this awful habit of spoiling things for myself. For me to see the end coming and still feel the emotional impact is a testament to how good this film is. It's become my new favorite movie.
If you freeze the frame at the right split second at 3:15, there are three frames that I guess show the explosion, but they are really weird.
When you want to be free and your way of being and without disturbing anyone, there will always be someone who does not like the way you live and feel life.
But they won;t be braindead and kill you!!
I saw this movie when I was stationed in Fallon Nevada back in 69.
You know those 2 guys hated each other for the rest of their lives after this movie was made. Very Very Sad.
A couple of years after this movie came out, I was hitch-hiking across the country,on my savings,and in Texarcanaa TX I stopped at a little cafe, to fuel up, and 4 dudes,just like the guys in the pick up truck,started giving me a hard time about my Yankee hat,I paid,got up and left then the 4 came out,pulled knives out and said they were going to kill them a Yankee,I run for my life and outrun them so back in those days there were real people in the deep South just like the movie portrays.
Damn man those fuckers should be shot, fuckin animals they are. Ignorant fucks
The movie shows real southerners being themselves...
The cafe scene... Locals there were told to say what they would say.
that's when my Colt 45 comes out to see if they REALLY want to continue the conversation ! Never go ANYWHERE without your piece! Be a little prepared for god's sake. Somebody loves you somewhere ! ! !
Richard Kuklinski ran into that very thing while down south. 3 or 4 yahoos decided to give him a hard time. Things ended for the yahoos that night. Don't blame Richie one bit...
yeh, almost the same thing happened to me...the same day I saw the movie!! "Cept I live in Canada, and one guy really wanted to kill me!!!...I was 15 yrs. old....damned rednecks!!
Great movie, when the young hoped in a different world. Thanks Peter and Denis
Movie like this is cool because you get to see there’s a lot intelligent sensitivity people in this world , some awesome comments here , thank you for uploading, this one of the finest movies ever made for sure , thank you
I grew up on the back of my dad's BSA going to the races in Laconia NH and all over. Saw this movie with a babysitter when I was 8. Went to bed and cried my eyes out.
Id say that the exit from the physical body is the Real freedom they were looking for.
I was eleven, when this film came out, saw it at the theatre, I cried when this happened...with my parents..then when I was 13, my dad bought me my first bike ( Yamaha 125 ).
How did you get into an R-rated movie at 11?
@@danielgolus4600 good question..kiddie pass
He should have given you a haircut instead.
@@danielgolus4600 I don't know, your age, but back then, they really didn't care. I went to a x rated film, when I was 16, with a friend ( hold over movie Midnight Cowboy )
Pasaron 45 años y aún me me pone triste el final......
He vuelto a ver la película después de varios años y aún me sigue dejando un mensaje ese final. Es un final amargo como la vida misma...
A precious time long vanished, the witnesses gradually going to eternal sleep, "a crystal passing reflected in our eyes..."
I’m posting from ‘Australia’…..proves ‘Easy Rider’ had and still has a deep impact on a global audience after 60 years. It proves the positive impact that ‘motorcycles’ culture and fashion has on the ‘working class man’. For me……..Easy Rider depicts a great irony’…….”they went looking for America and could’nt find it anywhere” ! But, they were still able to ‘freely’ go look for it in the first place. Some places in the world people wake up every day to, starvation, imprisonment, persecution by some ‘Ugly little Authoritarian or Dictator !
Mi papá y ésta hermosa generación, papá por siempre, papá rock,libertad, ❤❤❤❤❤❤
RIP, easy rider. What an era. 😔
Easy Rider ist das beste .Sowas kommt nie wieder.Harley Davidson forever.R.I.P
Peter und Dennis in unserem Herzen lebt ihr weiter.
50 Year anniversary today for this landmark film.
Just finished watching it! :D
Damn ...Time Flys !
Steven. Easy Rider is an awesome 👌 😎 motion picture. Love and PEACE ✌ 😌 💕.
Film signified the bitter loss of innocence of the 60's --- it mirrored the senseless violence that happened at the Altamont Stones' concert
These old movies always had a happy ending!
This is the only movie I ever rented. Wished I'd known about the ending. I got it to try and cheer up my friend who had found his brothers body after he shot himself in the head. Was a good movie up until the end, then it made us sick. Still hurts 17 years later.
It is a scary time for all of us. This has to change. I hear you. Welcome “home” brother.
Saw this in the movie theater at the age of 12. I have made it a point to stay out of the south ever since.
You allow some dumb movie to dictate where you will and will not go? Pretty ignorant.