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Posted by: Buck Turgidson at June 4, 2008, 5:58 pm

Topic: What are your thoughts on Easy Rider? Forum: JoBlo

Quote: Originally Posted by DaMovieMan Yeah I can easily see why this film wouldn't work with people. It is at times slow where nothing happens. But I do love it as well, not as much as some people but the scenery, the three characters brought to life by Hopper, Fonda and Nicholson and the over-all "fuck you" statement to the Hollywood machine that the movie champions makes me respect it and its makers. 8/10 The fuck you statement, and the fact that they were so successful with is, is a main reason this film has attained legendary status. It still works for me, and I think it always will. Utterly classic cinematography by the great Laszlo Kovacs. The sequence where they pick up Luke Askew's hitchhiker and ride for a while as that Byrds song plays on the soundtrack is one of my favorites in any film. (I only realized about a year ago that Luke was the same guy who played one of the walking bosses in Cool Hand Luke. The moustache makes him look different, but mostly it's because the two characters are so different and he inhabits them each so completely.) And, yes...that is the Toni Basil, and one of the little kids in the commune is Bridget Fonda

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