Easy Rider

Question 1

Easy rider date

Answer 1

1969

Question 2

3 actors

Answer 2

Peter fonda 1940-2019 :
Denis Hopper 1936-2010 → the next Hippie, ++ conservative in 80s and 90s
Terry Southern 1924-1995

Question 3

Plot easy rider

Answer 3

2 bikers travel through the American Southwest : another roadtrip
At the beginning they are drug dealers : so have a lot of money & decide to travel.

Question 4

Schizophrenic movie

Answer 4

2 moments :
- the bonnie & clyde moment , life is short let’s have fun
- the darkest side at the beginning

Question 5

Trailer

Answer 5

They are in their own world
++ symbolical ; attack of the system : flag of the USA on the bike & money in his bike
Typical of the southwest setting : nobody around just driving for mile & mile

Question 6

2 songs

Answer 6

→♪ The Pusher, Hoyt Wayne Axon // grass, pills (LSD)..

→Born to be wild

Question 7

The beat generation
vs The Hippies date

Answer 7

Beat generation 1950s
Hippie 1960s

Question 8

The beat generation
3 names

Answer 8

Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs

They didn’t want to create a mvt
One day Kerouac interviewed said was beating down : was ++ tired

Question 9

= quote on freedom

Answer 9

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere so just keep on rolling under the stars” = quote on freedom

Question 10

Ginsberg
Who is he ?

Answer 10

published Howl and other poems
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness”
“I touch your book and dream of our odysseys in the supermarket & feel absurd”

Ginsberg influenced by Wilt Wiltman who celebrated the body & was gay
→ Trial because Ginsberg spoke about his sexuality, trial but finally could publish his book → Became ++ famous after

Ginsberg = a gay icon thanks to Howl

Question 11

William Burroughs :

Answer 11

1914-1997

“The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods” = Western man is externalising in the form of gadgets

Older than the others. He killed his girlfriend : accident wanted to shot the apple.
Heroin-addict
Destroyed himself, went to Algae and his friend Ginsberg and Kerouac saved him from addiction etc.

The naked lunch = result of all that, hallucinating.

For him, “language is a virus”
→ quote

Question 12

HIPPIES
/!\ Dialogues :
to have a gas =
Ape =
Crash =
To dig
Far out =

Fuzz =
Heat =
Hip =
Get your Kicks =
Slug Bugs =
Square =

Answer 12

to have a gas = have a great til like a blast
Ape = crazy / made
Crash = a place where you can sleep especially when under drugs
To dig = to understand
Far out = awesome

Fuzz = police
Heat = police
Hip = very cool
Get your Kicks = to have fun
Slug Bugs = cars volkswagen Beetle
Square = not cool

Question 13

Center of Hippie mvt :

Answer 13

Haight Ashbury, SF
Small communities where hippies lived & shared resources : communes

Question 14

hippie is considered as a —

Answer 14

Ac culture with lifestyles & values opposed to those of the established culture = counterculture

Question 15

The “freedom” speech in Easy Rider

Answer 15

Feel good movie turns into a tragedy. Moment when high on drugs & have a speech about freedom
“They are not scared of you. They’re scared of what you represent to em”

As long as you talk about freedom = not dangerous
60s = ++ mvts, civils right, student mvt

BUT you have to accept consequences of being free, once people accepted you, then you’re in danger.
You’re bought and sold on the market

Cf student manifesto 1960s
→ speeches were student parodied the declaration of independence

⇒ outsiders, people who don’t respect the law

Question 16

Difference of filming : Bonnie & Clyde VS Easy Rider

Answer 16

Easy rider : schizophrenia zooming, like under drugs : you enter his consciousness.
VS Easy rider film cost 300k$ : not a lot

VS Bonnie & Clyde ++ control, academic

1968 : thanks to those films and academic bonnie & clyde it created the hollywood renaissance = new way of filming.