Easy Rider: An Epic journey into the unknown
For the American dream
Easy Rider is the late 1960s "road film" tale of a search for freedom (or the illusion of freedom) and an identity in America, in the midst of paranoia, bigotry and violence. The story, of filmmakers' Fonda/Hopper creation, centers around the self-styled, counter-cultured, neo-frontiersmen of the painfully fashionable late 60s. As for the meaning of Easy rider, Peter Fonda (Wyatt) said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, ：it is a southern term for a whore・s old man, not a pimp, but a dude who lives with a chick. Because he・s got the easy ride. Well, that・s what・s happened to America, man. Liberty・s become a whore, and we・re all taking an easy ride； . However, their journey is far from an easy ride; it is a unsettling, frightening and revealing experience rounded up in self-destruction.
Introduction to Easy Rider (1969)
Easy Rider is a counter-cultural, experimental, independent film for the......
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