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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.
Oct 11, 2014 · Peter Fonda, who played Wyatt in the Dennis Hopper-directed film, rode the so-called "Captain America" bike, named for its distinctive American flag color scheme and known for its...
Jul 12, 2019 · Peter Fonda, editor Henry Jaglom, actress Toni Basil and veteran filmmaker Henry Jaglom and filmmaker Roger Corman reflect on the making of 'Easy Rider' 50 years later. By Susan King. July...
Sep 4, 2019 · In 1969, Fonda and his filmmaking partner Dennis Hopper set off a riot all their own with Easy Rider, a film about the colors and the chaos and the head-trips of a new generation, a film that would seismically shift the commercial bedrock on which Hollywood was built.
The protagonists are two freewheeling hippies: Wyatt, nicknamed "Captain America" (Peter Fonda), and Billy (Dennis Hopper). Their names are a reference to Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid. Wyatt dresses in American flag-adorned leather, while Billy dresses in Native American-style buckskin pants and shirts and a bush hat.
Aug 16, 2019 · August 16, 2019 3:26pm. Photofest. Peter Fonda, who broke out from under the legendary Fonda family name with 1969’s Easy Rider, has died. He was 79. Fonda, the son of acting legend Henry...
Aug 17, 2019 · As it happened, Peter Fonda had based the two central characters of Easy Rider — Billy, played by Dennis Hopper, and Captain America, the role he would inhabit — on Roger McGuinn and David Crosby, both founding members of The Byrds. In the hands of McGuinn the song became The Ballad of Easy Rider.
Oct 24, 2004 · Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper play Captain America and Billy, journeying cross-country on their motorcycles, using a drug deal in Los Angeles to finance a trip to Mardi Gras. The drug is cocaine (sold to a dealer played by rock producer Phil Spector ), but their drug of choice is marijuana. Billy gets the giggles around the campfire at night.
Easy Rider. This is the definitive counterculture blockbuster. The down-and-dirty directorial debut of former clean-cut teen star Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider heralded the arrival of a new voice in film, one pitched angrily against the mainstream.
