Easy Rider movie

Two counterculture bikers travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans in search of America.

This part of the film was shot in 16mm]]Easy Rider is a 1969 road movie, written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern. It was produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper. Southern also came up with the title of the movie, which borrows the slang term easy rider(which in this context refers to a man who is supported financially by a girlfriend who is a prostitute).Plot summaryAfter smuggling some cocaine from Mexico to Los Angeles, Wyatt and Billy sell it to a man in a Rolls-Royce (played by Phil Spector) in exchange for a large amount of cash.

With this money stuffed into the fuel tank of Wyatts California style chopper (a type of customized motorcycle that was popularized by this film), they ride eastward in an attempt to reach New Orleans, Louisiana in time for Mardi Gras.Wyatt, whose name evokes the American Old West lawman Wyatt Earp, dresses in American flag-adorned leather and calls himself Captain America. Billy, whose name evokes the American Old West outlaw Billy the Kid (or, perhaps, gambler Wild Bill Hickok), dresses in Native American-style buckskin pants and shirts and a bushman hat. Clothed in black leather and natural leather, they experience its land and people as they bike through the American Southwest and South.During their trip they pick up a hitch-hiker (Luke Askew) who turns out to be a member of a commune. They agree to take him there and they stay for a few days. Life in the commune appears to be hard, with hippies from the city finding it difficult to grow their own crops. At one point the bikers witness a prayer for blessing of the new crop, as put by a communard: A chance "to make a stand", and to plant "simple food, for a simple taste." The commune is also host to a travelling theater group that "sings for its supper" (performs for food).

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Easy Rider Cast

• Antonio Mendoza
• Carmen Phillips
• Dennis Hopper
• Ellie Wood Walker
• Luana Anders
• Luke Askew
• Mac Mashourian
• Phil Spector
• Robert Ball
• Robert Walker Jr.
• Sabrina Scharf
• Sandy Brown Wyeth
• Tita Colorado
• Warren Finnerty