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Easy Rider is a 1969 American independent film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, and directed by Hopper. It stars Fonda and Hopper as 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
Oct 11, 2014 · The alleged last authentic motorcycle used in the 1969 film Easy Rider is going up for auction. The man who designed the bikes, Clifford Vaughs, says he has never gotten proper credit for his...
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- 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.
Aug 2, 2024 · Dennis Hopper, American film actor, director, and writer who rose to fame as a countercultural icon in the 1960s and later became a noted character actor. He is perhaps best known for Easy Rider, which he cowrote and directed as well as starred in.
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- Dennis Hopper's first significant film role was in Rebel Without a Cause (1955).
- The drug-fueled motorcycle drama Easy Rider (1969) was Dennis Hopper's first movie as a director. Also starring in the film alongside Peter Fonda,...
- Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, and Terry Southern earned an Academy Award nomination for their screenplay for Easy Rider (1969). Hopper also earned an...
Easy Rider is the 1969 film that launched the counterculture movement in cinema, directed by and starring Dennis Hopper. The film follows two bikers on a cross-country trip, featuring a young Jack Nicholson, a revolutionary soundtrack, and a shocking ending.
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Hippie drug dealers Wyatt (played by Peter Fonda, who also produced) and Billy (Dennis Hopper, who also directed) are ostensibly en route to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, but in reality they are on an odyssey in search of freedom and some meaning in life.
