1969: DENNIS HOPPER talks about EASY RIDER | Line Up | Classic Interviews | BBC Archive 

This is the best ‘pure’ Hopper interview I have seen.

What are they going to say about him? What? Are they going to say he was a kind man? He was a wise man? He had plans? He had wisdom?

Interviewer is Philip Jenkinson. Along with Tony Bilbow they were the BBC's resident cinema gurus before Barry Norman.

Dennis really was the character he played in Apocalypse Now

Thank you so much for preserving this moment BBC

This is good. Though I don’t believe American news media have ever given “all” the information, I appreciate his righteous indignation at American hypocrisy throughout the clip.

This was great to see. Easy Rider was an absolutely perfect period piece for that time. It's very cool to hear Dennis explain it so eloquently. Although it's one of my favorite movies, (I don't think we will ever have movies that depend on character and acting like this ever again) I can only watch it when I'm psychologically prepared, it is so disturbing in a few ways. The ending especially. Thank you for putting this in my feed today, Google

Fantastic.

Always liked Dennis hopper” ❤

Can't say exactly why, but I just had this passing thought. "Dennis Hopper as Indiana Jones.."

Dennis was often seen as wayward or difficult by certain members of the Hollywood establishment, and he may well have been those things from time to time, but there was also an honesty and deep understanding of the untruths within the Governmental system that few main stream Americans were willing to acknowledge, you could dislike Hopper but you couldn't ignore what he had to say.

Dennis nails it here.😊

Half a century later; nothing much has changed, just everything got louder (the future is just the past with the volume turned up!).

Really proud of Dennis holding his cool with this idiot interviewer because Dennis Hopper could be quite explosive when attacked. Who'd have ever guessed that in many U S States today (at least 2 dozen) there are actually state sanctioned retail pot stores. There is a store 3 blocks from me here in the Boston suburbs. No big deal at all. The state sure loves the taxes from it.

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The interviewer represents the man who’s afraid of new ideas and resorts to trying to diminish those ideas by suggesting that the artist (now famous and with money) is just like him. This type of person is still around nowadays. It is very wise not to heed them as they’re afraid of challenging or progressive ideas. The interviewer is only concerned with the surface of the film, without really paying any attention at the content and message of the film. Truly a narrow mind.

It's Sancho Panza in Don Quixote, Dennis, not 'Poncho Sanchez' 😂😂😂 3:31

When I watched the film, the marijuana smoking was not something that I saw as a big deal. It is just something they did. Maybe it shows more how we see it these days. For the sake of transparency: I do not use marijuana myself, but I fully support legalisation.

The information is still there same today.

Meanwhile, Hopper had smoked a lot of grass and dropped some acid before this interview.

Johnny Depp copped this look for years.

He looks hungover as hell, probably was lol.

What a smart and inspirational pot smoker. Go well Dennis.

This interviewer is obsessed with pot and the cameraman is drunk.

In my opinion, he's way out...there

Жизнь:-У тебя НА выбор есть 3 варианта! 1) Жизнь даёт ОЧЕРЕДНОЙ урок в чёткой последовательности; 2) Повезло-Неповезло! 3) и ЗА ЧТО МНЕ ЭТО? ВЫБОР ЗА ТОБОЙ❗

Thank the gods that the insane and evil war on a plant is over in my country. Not so in the UK where the interviewer probably spent his entire career lying about it like he does in this video.

This movie sucks. It was only a box office success because it was made for about $400,000 so it was guaranteed to make money given the ethical and artistic drift of the late 1960s. It’s a terrible movie that just looked avant-garde due to ineptitude. As far as having cultural impact, other than deluding young people that you could change the world by taking drugs, listening to rock music, and engaging in promiscuous sex, there was none. Look at it this way…if you and your friends watched this movie at age 18-the Vietnam War was going on-and “dug” the message, you all would have been 52 years old and at the hight of your earning and political power by 2003. Yet you folks still let George W. Bush be elected president and we still went to war in Iraq. Your generation changed nothing. Because change takes real effort. And you folks from the 1960s either never learned that or sold out sometime in the 1970s or 1980s. This movie starts with those two main characters engaging in a drug deal and ends with them being murdered. I always considered that as Karma. That’s the only good part of the movie. I believe the screenplay for this movie was, unfortunately, was written at the Hotel Chelsea, where I eventually lived. I’ll rank that below Sid stabbing Nancy.

'They smoke the jazz cabbage the whole time.'

Definitely one of the greatest artists of the 21st century. And an incredibly kind human. I used to work for him and he treated me like an honored guest, always.

Hopper is an absolute legend. Of cinema, and life. 💚✌🏻

Focus going in and out, close-ups of hands - I think the camera operator must have been smoking some of Hopper's stash!

Makes a lot of sense if you ask me.

Jesus Christ man move past the 'pot smoking'

his vision for a world to be clothed, transported, fed thanks to technology...its taking us far too long

Philip Jenkinson spent money to get rid of his Manchester accent. I'd suggest it would have been a better interview if he had stuck to his roots.

You didnt lose your mother....i lost your mother.come on hopper fans comment the movie he said that in

02:13 mk. ...exactly

Hopper " nobody's getting the right information ". Wow, he was already totally on to that in '69.

We are not getting the information !!!!!!! Take note BBC