The ending left me infuriated, and horrified, and I did not fully understand it, or WHY they were butchered, at 13 years old. I most certainly can understand that happening nowadays though, in this current 'climate' in which our country is consumed. :( :(
The original ending that was planned for the movie was for Billy and Wyatt to buy a boat with the money they earned and travel across the ocean. I don't know how it turned out to be this way.
@@LS1conehead Truer words never spoken. I saw this movie before M16 training at Nelllis AFB and then it was off to another regime change wars. I made Captain before I lost mind. When we went into Iraq what mind I found I lost again watching John Kerry vote in the Senate. I'm ready to die as we have learned nothing. There is no sanity anywhere except in the beauty of art and it is still mad.
@@LS1conehead Hey, um.. .you're not pretending that Trump supporters are the lynchers, rather than the other way around are you? If it's the first one I'm going to have to fine you $500 for rank ignorance
Hard to believe that Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper are gone. That movie seems like only a little while ago to me but it was over 50 years ago. Time is like a river and the further down it you get, the faster it flows.
The only song that has ever meant any thing to me.Terribly unhappy as a child,a life of inner struggle till recently.Have found the peace I have always been searching for a few short months ago. A wonder full life ahead of me! Form age 15 to 61. Good thing I have ALWAYS believed I will live to 100! 39 to go,YE HA!!!!
I saw this movie late night at Janus Theatre in Greensboro. I can't believe my parents allowed me to stay out that late maybe 1971-1972. The guy I was hanging out with that night. I haven't seen in 45+ years and I have no clue where he is. That movie Theatre is no more too. Progress? When you get older your mind begins to wonder about your youth. There were a lot of crazy movies out between 1970-1972. My mother would have been living then too. Just lost her in the end of June.
It was an incredibly influential film at the time Bill. I wonder what young people like yourself would make of it now and the times us oldies lived through. However it's your time now so go out there and live it. Peace and love x
May you be at Peace in your rest, brother. You'll always be Captian America to me. Ride on you are Free now. Elvis died on August 16, 1977, and now You Peter Fonda today August 16, 2019. Cried my eyes on both dates. Peace and love be with you both. KEH
Such a haunting commentary about life. As I think about my own life (I am a healthy and active 72) this is one of the tunes that I want played at my memorial reception.
RIP, man. You said, you said, and I listened. So did John Lennon, even though he didn't want to, at that moment in time. But, he preserved your words, and immortalized you, forever! Peace to you, brother! Flow down your river of love into the sea of eternity!
The river flows It flows to the sea Wherever that river goes That's where I want to be Flow river flow Let your waters wash down Take me from this road To some other town All he wanted Was to be free And that's the way It turned out to be Flow river flow Let your waters wash down Take me from this road To some other town Flow river flow Past the shaded tree Go river, go Go to the sea Flow to the sea The river flows It flows to the sea Wherever that river goes That's where I want to be Flow river flow Let your waters wash down Take me from this road To some other town
Bob Dylan often recorded and wrote uncredited (his choice, he’s a mysterious guy, obviously. He co-wrote this with McGuinn and did that, and also plays on George Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass” album. So much talent!
I just heard that in a commentary by Roger over on Spotify. Dylan wrote the basics and gave it to Fonda and he gave it to McGuinn. Very cool musicians back then. Definitely about the art.
Just a few weeks ago I posted a recent interview with Peter Fonda about the impact of Easy Rider some 50-years later.Peter Fonda in Easy Rider is a counterculture image as quintessentially American as the Statue of Liberty. When asked today if Easy Rider is still relevant, Fonda says, "Go look out the window and tell me we haven't blown it."
There are a few songs that tell you what America is all about. This is one of them. And there are a few movies that do the same, and Easy Rider is one of them. Thank you, Peter Fonda - you defined America.
@@67065682 Music and guitar by Roger McGuinn, harmonica by Gene Parsons and lyrics by Bob Dylan (who declined credit for it)= this haunting and beautiful ballad that capped the tragic ending of this iconic counter-culture movie-is a classic. In memoriam-Peter and Dennis.
I was in the back of my friend Mike's mother's car while he made out with Brenda. Whatever I'd taken was kicking my rear. I think it nearly killed me. Peter and Dennis and Jack were creating the real culture on a drive in screen. I barely knew where I was but I remembered all of the scenes, felt the power that was for a fleeting moment there for all of us. Now Peter is gone like Dennis, like the moment. Time is running short, if there has been any progress I'm pretty sure it's hiding somewhere. God bless Peter Fonda.
@@thawedantarctican2171 I know he is dead. He died sometime around 2002. A little bit after he did those credit card commercials. (Capital One) commercials if I believe.
a classic gem of a ballad of a masterpiece of song and voice and river and a whole lot of tears to go with it a heart felted motor cycle riding to and through the rocky mountains and Plato's and tall timber trees and bushes and shrubs and lakes and rivers and oceans goodness what a journey for two buddies that are more like brothers just to discover the Land we all come to know and love 😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭.
"Ballad of Easy Rider" by Roger McGuinn, with only a few of the original beginning lyrics by Bob Dylan, passed on on a napkin to McGuinn from The 1969 classic movie , with harmonica by Gram Parsons. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BWoMz6C7INQ.html
That really was the top ever movie for the fifty generation I m 65 now but it sure was joe we felt no rules, no constraint , free, choice to live or die
I used to be free. When I hear this stuff I mourn for a dead man replaced by this animal in a cage. I fear I'll never escape. Im gonna die in this cage and regret having been trapped. I don't think I'll ever be happy again.
