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Easy Rider is a 1969 American independent road drama film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda, and directed by Hopper. Fonda and Hopper play two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South, carrying the proceeds from a cocaine deal.
Easy Rider: Directed by Dennis Hopper. With Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Antonio Mendoza, Phil Spector. Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware.
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- Adventure, Drama
- Dennis Hopper
- 1969-06-26
Easy Rider (1969) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper), two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual...
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- Dennis Hopper
- R
- Peter Fonda
- Garin Pirnia
- 2 min
- Easy Rider was made for the youth of the time. Before Easy Rider, Hollywood was churning out happier films starring the effervescent Doris Day, but Dennis Hopper’s film changed that.
- The film's original ending involved Bill and Wyatt sailing into the sunset. One of the most shocking things about Easy Rider is its ending, where both of the leads violently perish.
- It was one of the first films to integrate found music. Instead of hiring a musician to compose a score for the film, Hopper decided to use pre-recorded music from Bob Dylan, The Band, Steppenwolf, and Jimi Hendrix on the soundtrack.
- Dennis Hopper claimed Terry Southern's only contribution to the film was the title. “Terry Southern never wrote one f***ing word of Easy Rider. Only the title Easy Rider came from him,” Hopper told The Guardian in 2001.
May 17, 2024 · Easy Rider, American countercultural film, released in 1969, that was hailed as a youth anthem for its message of nonconformism and its reflection of social tensions in the United States in the late 1960s.
Two young "hippie" bikers, Wyatt and Billy, sell some dope in Southern California, stash their money away in their gas-tank, and set off for a trip across America on their own personal odyssey looking for a way to lead their lives.
