Not nerve. In 1969, white still ruled, and you could portray that on film. Now, everybody hates everybody. But hey, Jesus warned us it would be this way..
@@Zodroo_Tint planned or not, Hollywood has been mocking and pushing and enforcing negative stereotypes of whyt rural ppl for decades. Sasha Baron Cohen, another j00 ish zioni$t Hollywood film maker has made his entire career out of doing this.
I can’t rule out the possibility the locals in this were nasty and close-minded in real life as they were in this. After all it is the rural south back then. I remember reading somewhere the man playing the sheriff said Easy Rider was trash and didn’t want to see the movie.
The director was probably like "just be yourself," and dammit this is one of the greatest scenes in one of the greatest movies. Easy Rider was a great portrayal of America and still is.
In the summer of 1973, I saw Easy Rider and decided to go hitchhiking across America. I was 16. In the summer of '73 you could get away with hitching cross country without worrying about getting killed like nowadays. I got picked up by some good old boys. One of them had hair down over his ears, and we pulled into a diner just like the one in this movie. I had hair over my ears also. We're not talking long hair, but it was long enough to get your ass kicked in 1973 in a seedy little diner like the one in this movie. As we walked through the door, one guy in a Peterbilt cap let out a hoot and a holler... I didn't know what they were yelling about; I just sat down and waited to give the waitress my order. We waited for about a half an hour maybe, maybe just 20 minutes, and we got the message and left. The scene in this movie is extremely realistic.
There were just as many serial killers/kidnappers in the 70s. They just didn't have as much media coverage, so the general public wasn't as aware of them as we are today. If anything, I bet there are probably LESS killers/kidnappers per capita today because of advances in criminal investigation technology.
@@texaswunderkindNo son inofensivos. No para "sus mujeres". En los pueblos de Estados Unidos, en España, en los Alpes, en Siberia, en Groenlandia o en las selvas de Myanmar si un forastero mira a las mujeres de la tribu puede salir con un hueso roto. O varios. Es la naturaleza humana.
@@santiagoblasgilabert2877 Yes I have first experience of this when I went to Acapulco back in 1981. I was in a disco club and asked a local girl to dance and immediately I was approached by her male friends in a very threatening way.
Jack Straw Yes he is. He’s a rancher in that area and says he is still asked about the movie all the time. They weren’t supposed to show the patch. It was accidentally revealed in the shot.
I watched this movie in 1969. I was a 17 year old US Army soldier visiting Washington DC. 5 years later, I met Peter Fonda when he was filming Race with the Devil. He gave all the drivers & extras, envelopes full of brand new $100. bills. We went out in all directions and bought every yellow rose in San Antonio. We brought them all back to the hotel where the actors were staying and put them all over the place! There were hundreds & hundreds of yellow roses. Peter was sweet on actress Loretta Swit and she said she loved yellow roses. She was very amazed. That was a great adventure.
@@ultrameticulous1976: at the Willie Nelson Fourth of July Picnic outside Gonzales. I took my girlfriend & her girlfriend there and set up camp 2 days ahead of the concert. I set up on top of a hill near the concert. We could see everything. We stayed there for days partying. The crowds were very large. There were LOTS of drugs & even More alcohol. I found someone selling light sticks. I was stoned playing around with it. I cut one open and found that it glowed green on everything you put it on. So, I had a great idea. I cut a bunch open and put the liquid all over my clothes & cowboy hat. I was completely glowing bright green!!!! I started walking through the crowd. People were blowing thier minds watching me. It was a blast. But sadly, the drugs were messing people up. There were not enough medical care there. They were overwhelmed. I ended up taking care and watching over a handful of ODs at our campsite. Non of them died, the next morning they all woke up ok. They All thanked us, then they all started partying again. It was a real wild concert that lasted for days. I'm glad I got there early and I'm glad I took a lot of supplies & camping gear. This concert & a Grateful Dead concert in Austin at Manor Downs in the early 80s were the 2 wildest concerts I ever went too.
There might be, but maybe you have to arrive there and appear exotic and alluring to them, like these fellows do, in order to really bring the nymphomania out.
I saw this movie in the late 90s. Came from Ireland in 2003 with a cali girl and broke up soon after so went hitching. I ended up hitchhiking around America . It was the best fun and freest time I've ever known. Methheads were great for lifts and run away wives and truck drivers as well as old krusty deadheads and rainbow hippies. Sure was an eye opener for a farm boy from Ireland. The Women . Omg.
I remember those guys with flat tops, full of smug hatred. Though I was a little kid at the time, I was old enough to remember the bikers of that time period also. I spent a lot more time around them. My dad sold motorcycles for a living and had a Harley chopper raked out there close to Captain America's, except dad's was yellow. I have a picture of him somewhere with long hair, dark sunglasses, and a beer sitting on his chopper. He probably headed out for a ride drunk soon after. He used to sometimes ride with a bike gang for kicks.They were some crazy, hilarious guys. We'd go every five years or so to Sturgis for vacation, back in the 70s before it became a bunch of patent attorneys with fake tatts. In our small lower Midwestern town, there were so many bikers who hung around that the locals, even though some of them might have liked to hate on them, just kind of shut up about it. The bikers weren't outnumbered where I came from. I remember in '69 when dad and the guys from the cycle shop went to see Easy Rider. I was a small child not even in kindergarten yet, so I didn't get to go and was sore about it. When dad got home he said "They blew 'em away." Didn't know what that meant at the time, but of course I know now. Years later, in the early 80s, I became a Christian. Dad never could stomach that until the day he died, he was always the "live free biker" type, he didn't have time for faith in anything but himself and his friends. He was always ready to fight. Still drank and caroused here and there and got in bar fights into his 60s. Walked with a bad limp til the day he died from that time he plowed his Harley drunk into a car head on. Amazing he lived to be 74. I spoke about becoming a Christian. Unfortunately, many of those smug, hateful flat tops had gone into religion and did a pretty good job of making it rough on many of us young guys just trying to love Jesus. As I grew older, I stopped caring what people thought of me and stopped playing nice with them. I didn't hold my tongue anymore. I even broke up a church service once, big verbal showdown from the pews with the pastor. He finally gave up and stopped trying to preach that evening. If I told you what he'd said, you'd agree with what I did. It was unbelievable how hateful those types could be when they got religion without Jesus. Whenever I saw cold, hateful hypocrisy I called it out--and still call it out, including on myself. I may be a lot different from dad, but in some ways I'm my father's son ready to fight. Love you, dad.
The hostility from the male diners is entirely believable. The flirty interest of SIX attractive young women jammed in a single booth in the diner is entirely unbelievable.
What a lot of people don't realize is that Dennis Hopper the budget was so small that every time they went to a town, they just asked for people to be in their movie. So everybody in this scene is actually just some local towns people. Pretty cute girls for 1968 I must say😊
@@SFVGIRL I thought Dennis Hopper directed the movie there's even the DVD extras that have the movie with his narration of what he did on certain scenes
For 1968? There's been beautiful girls ever since Eve was created. I'd even say they were cuter in 1968 than they are now because they were more natural.
@@ChildOfThe1970s Yea, I say this as an overweight uggo, people looked better in the 60's and 70's. Everyone got fat when we quit smoking. Sure we live longer but we have to use piano crates as coffins now. I would start smoking again if I could afford it.
Women were more wholesome looking back then--no tattoos, no smoking or drinking or meth; no looking down at their smart phones; always engaged in conversation.
The depiction of this era and in this part (and other parts) of the country is extremely accurate. I went to visit my grandparents and uncles, aunts etc out west wearing mild hippy garb in 1971.....denim jacket, bell bottoms and just hair over the ears and the first thing my uncle said to me when he saw me was..........you on dope boy?
@@humantacos9800 LOL.....absolutely not. My true major addictions was coca cola (when it had real sugar in it) pizza, and un-filtered Lucky Strikes and Pall Malls. Nicotine and sugar was my life. Lucky I quit the cigs or I definitely would not be alive today. I tried weed "once" and it made me so paranoid I swore I would never touch the stuff....or anything else ever, ever again. I don't know exactly what it was, what type etc. but it was a total nightmare.
I’m sorry you grew up in that miserable, close-minded place! My first wife was from Emmet nearby. A blind date from a coworker of mine from nearby Barksdale AFB 80 miles away. She and her family thought I was a Yankee and I grew up in Austin, Texas. That’s how backwoods they were!
I think it was more for the character of George. He's kinda presented as a functional alcoholic, so a receding hairline would make good sense from a character development standpoint. The receding hairline would signal that he has misgivings as a person, which is something D. H. Lawrence would often do in his writings.
Easy Rider... Like this film or hate it but either way it doesn't matter because it's a classic. I think Jack Nicholson made the right decision to be in Easy Rider because it's a very good film and won awards. 👌
Of course the locals don’t confront them face to face. A lot of passive aggressiveness. Just like the red hat in white letters supporters that have been around the past 6-7 years.
@@jondstewart especially in the south. Southerners are the worst about judging people from afar and being passive aggressive to people that are different.
It's a stupid movie. Try touring on a motorcycle with a tiny gas tank with even less capacity because you hid money in plastic tubing in gasoline. Don't get me started on super moron Ian Fleming's malarkey.
First time noticing in this clip! and i've watched this film over decades, countless times! and even went to LSU--grew up going to the football games throughout the 80s. Go Tigers!
Have you ever traveled to small southern towns? Time has stopped. The only difference is that the smallest towns have disappeared as people have moved to the cities.
After watching this movie back in 69 at age16, I started in on my off road BSA Bantam 175cc I hacksawed the front forks and extended them with waterpipe and painted the tank stars and stripes, what a great time it was, these days if I extended my forks the first cop that see me would pull me over and defect me, how boring the RMS has made motorcycling.
I find myself going back to all these old movies with Nicholson, Brando and Stanley Kubrick films because I'm so sick of modern cinema, the same old soulless crap every time.....these older films seem better than ever
I drove cross country back in '72 on way to college from California to Michigan on a Honda 350SL. Gave a ride to a man in uniform back from Nam in Nebraska. Got less than a mile before police pulled us over and arrested my passenger for hitch hiking. I was a coward and kept going. Crazy times.
One of many classic scenes from a classic movie. Another scene, really just a shot from the opening scene, Fonda looks at his watch a moment before they ride off, takes off his watch, looks at it again, and throws it on the ground. Born to be Wild.
Yeah their delivery has a weird vibe to it, like it's a documentary instead of an acted out piece of written and rehearsed fiction. If it's acting, some of it is incredible acting.
@@MarklovesAngelsdon’t know about that. I moved to Colorado from Ireland in the late 70s. In the bars and clubs as soon as the ladies heard my accent they were all over me. People are attracted and intrigued by someone different.
Absolutely. Still. Small towns all along the canal in western New York, F Biden flags hang from manufactured homes, the epitome of persons voting against their best interests
2:18 the kid scared me the most because of the sheer confidence he had in what he was saying and the venom in his face saying it. He's probably 18, but behaves just like the old men around him. They were getting blood lust for sure.
he looked younger...heh but even at 32 he was young as shit compared to recently....like in The Departed or As Good As It Gets, or even A Few Good Men.
The director told the local men in the diner that the 3 main characters were actually murderers and rapists (not just hippies) to bring out an extra level of hostility in their acting
In 2017, all those girls would be on their phones. IF they had glanced up at the guys that walked in, they would have just kinda grumbled a bit, maybe made some snide remark about how old and ugly they looked....and then they'd go back to their phones where they'd be browsing guys' online profiles and saying equally dismissive and rude things about their physical appearance.
Today, if they pulled up in exotic supercars the bitches would ask THEM out, then try to marry, sneak in a baby or two, then divorce them and try to get as much $$$ as possible. That's the American Woman modus operandi. Avoid them like the plague that they are.
domeskeetz you hit the nail right on the head. I guess when it's hard to get laid you start hating women and make up scenarios where they are all mean cunts. Problems I've never known fortunately.
Scenes that evoke emotions and debates is the mark of great acting and art in film this is a Top 100 greatest films of all time you do not see many films reach this level
I watched this movie at the Oakland Army base movie house on 3/15/70, the night before deploying to Vietnam. I smelled something funny and said "what's that funny smell". The guy next to me laughed and asked, "you don't know what that is?". Marijuana hadn't made it yet to the neighborhood where I grew up on the South side of Houston. It was a real eye opener to me then that somebody had the nerve to light up on the base.
Small towns never change. Back in 2003 or so my friends and I went camping on the north shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota, close to the Canadian border. Split Rock Lighthouse (highly recommended) was our main campsite, though we also went up to Grand Portage, and took the ferry to Isle Royale NP. On the way home we decided to take a leisurely drive on state highways instead of rushing home on the Interstate. In small-town Minnesota we stopped for dinner at a small-town cafe. We weren't hippies or anything unusual, though one friend was a Korean-American. You'd think lizard people from the planet Pluto entered on hovercraft or something. The whole place stopped and looked at us. As we were served, the waitress kept interrogating us about where we were from. Maynard? Maybe Clara City? Nope. As she served other customers, we could see her relaying the intel to them, and receiving instructions for more questions. Maybe we bought one of those new houses going up outside of Prinsburg? Nope. Out-of-state contractors for the highway? Wrong again. They were standoffish, but not rude. We definitely were the talk of the town that day.
Most people don’t realize this, but Rick Dalton was really against playing this role. When they brought out the wardrobe change, he didn’t want to dress like a goddamn hippie. But it turned out to be one of his greatest roles once he threw himself into it.
Back then if a black guy walked into the cafe with a white girl he'd probably end up lynched or in jail. It was legalized nationwide in 1967 but time stops in small towns.
"I still say I don't think they'll make the Paris line." Hindsight is 20/20... Have one of them keep watch for 4 hours with a rifle, then swap out with one other guy... Better yet, just haul ass all night till you get past the Paris line.
Its the parish line...there are no counties here in Louisiana. They were in Pointe Coupee Parish. The movie kind of does not make sense if they were heading to Florida and had already been in New Orleans...Morganza is back West of NOLA. If i recall, the final scene was filmed on highway 105 near Krotz Springs, which is in St. Landry Parish.
One good thing is people like these hillbillies went away in the 80's and people could start looking like they wanted to and no one said anything about it anymore. But it was bad in the 70s and earlier.
Southern belles..! Well.. I used to work in South Louisiana for about 7 years.. let me tell you, plenty beautiful girls with that accent..! And in this scene, the Blue and blond are ok, but the pretiest is the girl with green dress.. classic type in south Louisiana..!
