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Easy Rider

Original movie poster
Directed by Dennis Hopper
Produced by Peter Fonda
Written by Peter Fonda
Dennis Hopper
Terry Southern
Starring Peter Fonda
Dennis Hopper
Jack Nicholson
Music by Roger McGuinn
Cinematography Laszlo Kovacs
Editing by Donn Cambern
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) July 14, 1969
Running time 94 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $340,000 (estimated)[1]
Gross revenue $60,000,000 (Worldwide, January 1972)[1]

Easy Rider is a 1969 American road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper. It tells the story of two bikers (played by Fonda and Hopper) who travel through the American Southwest and South with the aim of achieving freedom. The success of Easy Rider helped spark the New Hollywood phase of filmmaking during the late sixties. The film was added to the Library of Congress National Registry in 1998.

A landmark counterculture film,[2] and a "touchstone for a generation" that "captured the national imagination",[3] Easy Rider explores the societal landscape, issues, and tensions in the United States during the 1960s, such as the rise and fall of the hippie movement, drug use, and communal lifestyle. Easy Rider is legendary for its use of real drugs in its portrayal of marijuana and other substances.

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Plot

The protagonists are two bike-riding drug dealers: Wyatt, nicknamed 'Captain America' (Fonda), and Billy (Hopper). Fonda and Hopper have said that these characters' names refer to Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid.[citation needed] Wyatt dresses in American flag-adorned leather, while Billy dresses in Native American-style buckskin pants and shirts and a bushman hat.

After smuggling cocaine from Mexico to Los Angeles, Wyatt and Billy sell their contraband to "Connection," a man (played by Phil Spector) in a Rolls-Royce. With the money from the sale stuffed into a plastic tube hidden inside the Stars & Stripes-adorned fuel tank of Wyatt's California-style chopper, they ride eastward in an attempt to reach New Orleans, Louisiana, in time for Mardi Gras.

During their trip, Wyatt and Billy meet and have a meal with a rancher, whom Wyatt admires for his simple, traditional farming lifestyle. Later, the duo pick up a hitch-hiker (Luke Askew) and agree to take him to his commune, where they stay for a day. Life in the commune appears to be hard, with hippies from the city finding it difficult to grow their own crops in a dry climate with poor soil. (One of the children seen in the commune is played by Fonda's four-year-old daughter Bridget.) At one point, the bikers witness a prayer for blessing of the new crop, as put by a communard: A chance "to make a stand," and to plant "simple food, for our simple taste." The commune is also host to a traveling theater group that "sings for its supper" (performs for food). The notion of "free love" appears to be practiced, with two women seemingly sharing the affections of the hitch-hiking communard, and who then turn their attention to Wyatt and Billy. As the bikers leave, the hitch-hiker (known only as "Stranger on highway" in the credits) gives Wyatt some LSD for him to share with "the right people."

While jokingly riding along with a parade in a small town, the pair are arrested by the local authorities for "parading without a permit." In jail, they befriend ACLU lawyer and local drunk George Hanson (Jack Nicholson). George helps them get out of jail, and decides to travel with Wyatt and Billy to New Orleans. As they camp that night, Wyatt and Billy introduce George to marijuana. As an alcoholic and a "square," George is reluctant to try the marijuana ("It leads to harder stuff"), but he quickly relents.

George Hanson (Jack Nicholson) with Wyatt (Peter Fonda)

While attempting to eat in a small rural Louisiana restaurant, the trio's appearance attracts the attention of the locals. The girls in the restaurant want to meet the men and ride with them, but the local men and police officer make mocking, racist, and homophobic remarks. One of the men menacingly states, "I don't believe they'll make the parish line." Wyatt, Billy, and George leave without eating and make camp outside of town. The events of the day cause George to comment: "This used to be a hell of a good country. I can't understand what's gone wrong with it." He observes that Americans talk a lot about the value of freedom, but are actually afraid of anyone who truly exhibits it.

In the middle of the night, the local men return and brutally beat the trio while they sleep. Wyatt and Billy suffer minor injuries, but George is killed by a machete strike to the neck. Wyatt and Billy wrap George up in his sleeping bag, gather his belongings, and vow to return the items to his parents.

They continue to New Orleans and find the brothel George had intended to visit. Taking prostitutes Karen (Karen Black) and Mary (Toni Basil) with them, Wyatt and Billy decide to go outside and wander the parade-filled street of the Mardi Gras celebration. They end up in a cemetery, where all four ingest LSD. They experience a psychedelic bad trip infused with Catholic prayer, represented through quick edits, sound effects, and over-exposed film.

Making camp afterward, Wyatt declares: "We blew it." Wyatt realizes that their search for freedom, while financially successful, was a spiritual failure. The next morning, the two are continuing their trip to Florida (where they hope to retire wealthy) when two rednecks in a pickup truck spot them and decide to "scare the hell out of them" with their shotgun. As they pull alongside Billy and insult him, he sticks his middle finger up at them dismissively. In response, one of the men fires the shotgun at Billy and seriously wounds him. As Wyatt goes for help, one of the rednecks fires at him as he speeds by the pickup. The shot hits the gas tank of Wyatt's bike, causing it to explode. Wyatt is flung from the bike; the movie ends as the camera shows the flaming bike, then ascends to the sky, the duo's journey over.

Cast

Production

During test shooting on location in New Orleans, Hopper fought with the production's ad hoc crew for control. At one point he entered into a physical confrontation with photographer Barry Feinstein, who was one of the camera operators for the shoot. After this turmoil, Hopper and Fonda decided to assemble a proper crew for the rest of the film.[4]

Allegedly, the characters of Wyatt and Billy were respectively based on Roger McGuinn and David Crosby of The Byrds.[5] According to Terry Southern's biographer, Lee Hill, the part of George Hanson had been written for Southern's friend, actor Rip Torn. When Torn met with Hopper and Fonda at a New York restaurant in early 1968 to discuss the role, Hopper began ranting about the "rednecks" he had encountered on his scouting trip to the South. Torn, a Texan, took exception to some of Hopper's remarks, and the two almost came to blows, as a result of which Torn withdrew from the project and had to be replaced by Jack Nicholson. In 1994, Hopper was interviewed about Easy Rider by Jay Leno on The Tonight Show, and during the interview, he alleged that Torn had pulled a knife on him during the altercation, prompting Torn to sue Hopper successfully for defamation.

The hippie commune was recreated from pictures and shot near Santa Monica, California overlooking Malibu Canyon, since the New Buffalo commune near Taos in Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico did not permit shooting there.[6]

Most of the film is shot outside with natural lighting. While this can be attributed to the film being a road movie, at the time Hopper said all the outdoor shooting was an intentional choice on his part, because "God is a great gaffer." The production used two five-ton trucks, one for the equipment and one for the motorcycles, with the cast and crew in a motor home.[6] One of the locations was Monument Valley.[6]

The restaurant scenes with Fonda, Hopper, and Nicholson were shot in Morganza, Louisiana.[6] The men and girls in that scene were all Morganza locals.[6] In order to inspire more vitriolic commentary from the local men, Hopper told them the characters of Billy, Wyatt, and George had raped and killed a girl outside of town.[4] The scene in which Billy and Wyatt were shot was filmed on Louisiana Highway 105 North just outside of Krotz Springs, Louisiana, and the two other men in the scene were Krotz Springs locals, Johnny David and D.C. Billedeau.

While shooting the cemetery scene, Hopper tried to convince Fonda to talk to the statue of the Madonna as though it were Fonda's mother (who had committed suicide when he was 10 years old) and ask her why she left him. Although Fonda was reluctant, he eventually complied. Later, Fonda used the inclusion of this scene as leverage to persuade Roger McGuinn to allow the use of his cover of Bob Dylan's "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)".[4]

Despite being filmed in the first half of 1968, roughly between Mardi Gras and the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, with production starting on February 22[7] the film did not have a U.S. premiere until July 1969, after having won an award at the Cannes film festival in May. The delay was partially due to a protracted editing process. One of Hopper's proposed cuts was 220 minutes long, inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey. From his extensive use of the "flash-forward" narrative device, wherein scenes from later in the movie are inserted into the current scene, only one flash-forward survives in the final edit, when Wyatt in the New Orleans brothel has a premonition of the final scene. At the request of Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider, Henry Jaglom was brought in to edit the film into its current form, with Hopper effectively removed from the project. Upon seeing the final cut, Hopper was extremely pleased, claiming that Jaglom had crafted the film the way Hopper had originally intended. Despite the large part he played in shaping the film, Jaglom only received credit as an "Editorial Consultant".

Motorcycles

"Easy Rider" Replica in German Museum

The motorcycles for the film, based on hardtail frames and Panhead engines, were designed and built by chopper builders Cliff Vaughs and Ben Hardy, following ideas of Peter Fonda, and handled by Tex Hall and Dan Haggerty during shooting.

"Easy Rider" Replica in Alabama Barber Motorsports Museum

In total, four former police officer bikes were used in the film. The 1949, 1950 and 1952 Harley Davidson Hydra-Glide bikes were purchased at an auction for US$ 500 (equivalent to approx. US$ 2500 at 2007 currency rates). Each bike had a backup to make sure that shooting could continue in case one of the old machines failed or got wrecked accidentally. One "Captain America" was demolished in the final scene, while the other three were stolen and probably taken apart before their significance as movie props became known. The demolished bike was rebuilt by Dan Haggerty and shown in a museum. He sold it at an auction in 2001. Many other replicas have been built since the film’s release.

Hopper and Fonda hosted a wrap party for the movie and then realized they hadn't shot the final campfire scene. Thus, it was shot after the bikes had already been stolen, which is why they are not visible in the background as in the other campfire scenes.[8]

Significance

A box office hit with a $19 million intake, along with Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate, Easy Rider helped kick-start the New Hollywood phase during the late 1960s and early 1970s.[9] The major studios realised that money could be made from low-budget films made by avant-garde directors. Heavily influenced by the French New Wave, the films of the so-called "post-classical Hollywood" came to represent a counterculture generation increasingly disillusioned with its government and the world, the Establishment.[9] Although Jack Nicholson appears only as a supporting actor and in the last half of the film, it helped make Jack Nicholson a movie star,[9] along with his subsequent film Five Easy Pieces in which he had the lead role.

The film's success, and the new era of Hollywood that it helped usher in, led to Hopper getting the chance to direct again, making whatever film he wanted with complete artistic control. This turned out to be 1971's The Last Movie, which was a notable box office and critical failure, effectively ending Hopper's directorial career for well over a decade.

Awards and honors

Hopper received the First Film Award (Prix de la premiere oeuvre) at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.[10] At the Academy Awards, Jack Nicholson was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and the film was also nominated for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Material Not Previously Published or Produced.

The film appears at number 88 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 Years, 100 Movies. In 1998, Easy Rider was added to the United States National Film Registry, having been deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

American Film Institute recognition

Music

The movie's "groundbreaking"[11] soundtrack featured The Band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and Steppenwolf.[11] Donn Cambern used various music from his own record collection to make watching hours of bike footage more interesting during editing.[6] Most of Cambern's music was used, with licensing costs of $1 million, more than the budget of the film.[6] When CSN viewed a rough cut of the film, they assured Hopper that they could not do any better than he already had.

Bob Dylan was asked to contribute music, but was reluctant to use his own recording of "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)", so a version performed by Byrds frontman Roger McGuinn was used instead. Also, instead of writing an entirely new song for the film, Dylan simply wrote out the first verse of “Ballad of Easy Rider” and told the filmmakers, “Give this to McGuinn, he’ll know what to do with it.” McGuinn completed the song and performed it in the film.

In popular culture

  • Author Philip K. Dick mentions Easy Rider in his story A Scanner Darkly.
  • The Duckman episode Not So Easy Riders directly parodies the motorcycle scenes from this film.
  • In the show Veronica Mars, Logan Echolls plagiarizes a quote from this movie for his prize-winning essay.
  • Easy Rider has been cited and parodied many times since. A scene from the film Starsky & Hutch features the titular characters dressed as Wyatt and Billy, riding motorcycles to The Band's "The Weight".
  • The movie was also mentioned in the book Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman; he urged all readers, yippies and hippies to make sure the rest of America did not fall for the image of the Yippies, hippies, and their kind as a group with a (sic) "Easy Rider take-no-crap" image.
  • The characters Mike Doonesbury and Mark Slackmeyer of the Doonesbury comic strip embarked on an Easy Rider-style cross-country motorcycle trip in 1972, a story arc that introduced the character of Joanie Caucus.[12]
  • The first season finale of The Venture Bros. directly parodies the final scene.
  • The 1973 film Electra Glide in Blue—starring Robert Blake as a Vietnam War veteran getting his life back together in Arizona as a motorcycle cop—inverts the tragic shooting that ends Easy Rider by having hippies in a Volkswagen mini-bus blast away with a shotgun at Blake's bike, the Electra Glide.
  • In the 1986 biopic Sid and Nancy about The Sex Pistols' bassist Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen there was an Easy Rider poster in Sid and Nancy's apartment.
  • After watching the movie, Jimi Hendrix was inspired to write a song about the movie (using different spelling), "Ezy Ryder".[citation needed]
  • In the Season 5, Episode 17 "Sweating It Out" of Beverly Hills, 90210, Brandon makes a reference to Easy Rider when he attempts to soothe his parents' nerves before leaving for his planned motorcycle trek to Lake Whitney with Dylan McKay. Jim Walsh responds with, "Brandon, that film ended with both riders being blown to bits."
  • The man pictured on the cover of The Desert Sessions, volumes 3 & 4 is Peter Fonda from the theatrical poster for the movie.
  • In Terry Gilliam's 1998 film adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Dr. Gonzo reluctantly attends an anti-drug convention with Thompson and whispers "I saw these bastards in 'Easy Rider'. I didn't believe they were real. Not like this, man - not hundreds of them." (Referring to the hundreds of police officers attending the convention).
  • In 2008, the award-winning documentary Iron City Blues channels the spirit of Easy Rider in several scenes throughout the film.
  • In Stephen King's novel Hearts In Atlantis a quote from Easy Rider is used at the beginning of the book. The quote was Wyatt's pessimistic, "We blew it," to foreshadow the themes of high ideals that failed in the five stories that followed.
  • The cover of the movie Beavis and Butthead Do America is a direct reference to Easy Rider, both share the same plot of "trying to score" while making a trip across America. Beavis and Butthead are seen riding motorcycles, whilst wearing outfits that are very similar to Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper's in Easy Rider.
  • In the movie Me & Will Sherrie Rose and Melissa Bahr's characters Jane and Will abscond from a detox center to go on a search for the supposed Captain America replica from Easy Rider (presumably the one Dan Haggerty reconstructed and sold). At the detox center the scenes with the opening credits of Easy Rider are seen on screen, and at the end Jane, the sole survivor, finds the replica Captain America bike and blows away two young rednecks in a pickup with a shotgun in a reversal of the Easy Rider script.
  • In the movie Love and a .45 Peter Fonda plays Renee Zellweger's father, a wheel chair bound hippie, and a lamp made from a motorcycle gas tank painted to match the Captain America bike's tank is clearly seen in their home.
  • The graphic novel and film Akira were influenced by Easy Rider, in the form of Kaneda and his motorcycle gang being rebellious figures who are heavy drug users.
  • This film was referenced in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. A character mentions the movie and bikers that were featured resembled the gang in this film. This reference could be a homage to Easy Rider director and star Dennis Hopper, who also appeared in a sequel of the original 1974 film (ironically, Hopper considered the original sequel as his worst film ever made).

See also

Peter Fonda's American Flag Patch, sold for $89,625 in 2007

References

Notes

  1. ^ a b Internet Movie Database. Box office/Business for Easy Rider (1969). Retrieved on April 18, 2009.
  2. ^ "Peter Fonda's Easy Rider auction". Boing Boing. 2007-09-16. http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/16/peter-fondas-easy-ri.html. Retrieved 2008-10-18. 
  3. ^ "BORN TO BE A CLASSIC: "EASY RIDER" WAS A TOUCHSTONE FOR A GENERATION AND FOR AMERICAN FILMMAKING". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 2001-07-29. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&p_theme=sl&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0ED904BFDE2A32EA&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved 2008-10-19. 
  4. ^ a b c Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage at the Internet Movie Database. A Making-of documentary.
  5. ^ Walker, Michael. Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Legendary Neighborhood. New York: Faber and Faber, 2006, p. 210.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g "Easy Rider: 35 Years Later". Moviemaker.com. 2004-06-24. http://www.moviemaker.com/directing/article/easy_rider_35_years_later_2921/. Retrieved 2008-10-19. 
  7. ^ http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/category/this_day_in_indie_history/P100/
  8. ^ (as told in Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind).
  9. ^ a b c "Easy Rider (1969)". The New York Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/15197/Easy-Rider/overview. Retrieved 2008-10-18. 
  10. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Easy Rider". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2517/year/1969.html. Retrieved 2009-04-05. 
  11. ^ a b "The greatest week in rock history". Salon. 2003-12-19. http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/feature/2003/12/19/rock/index.html. Retrieved 2008-10-19. 
  12. ^ Biography of Mike Doonesbury, Doonesbury@Slate.com. Retrieved June 21, 2007.

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Easy Rider
Directed by Dennis Hopper
Produced by Peter Fonda
Written by Peter Fonda
Dennis Hopper
Terry Southern
Starring Peter Fonda
Dennis Hopper
Jack Nicholson
Music by Roger McGuinn
Cinematography Laszlo Kovacs
Editing by Donn Cambern
Studio Raybert Productions
Pando Company Inc.
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) July 14, 1969 (1969-07-14)
Running time 94 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $340,000 (estimated)[1]
Gross revenue $41,728,598[1]

Easy Rider is a 1969 American road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper. It tells the story of two bikers (played by Fonda and Hopper) who travel through the American Southwest and South with the aim of achieving freedom. The success of Easy Rider helped spark the New Hollywood phase of filmmaking during the late sixties. The film was added to the Library of Congress National Registry in 1998.

A landmark counterculture film,[2] and a "touchstone for a generation" that "captured the national imagination",[3] Easy Rider explores the societal landscape, issues, and tensions in the United States during the 1960s, such as the rise and fall of the hippie movement, drug use, and communal lifestyle. Easy Rider is famous for its use of real drugs in its portrayal of marijuana and other substances.

Contents

Plot

The protagonists are two freewheeling hippies: Wyatt, nicknamed "Captain America" (Fonda), and Billy (Hopper). Fonda and Hopper have said that these characters' names refer to Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid.[4] Wyatt dresses in American flag-adorned leather, while Billy dresses in Native American-style buckskin pants and shirts and a bushman hat.

After smuggling cocaine from Mexico to Los Angeles, Wyatt and Billy sell their contraband to "Connection," a man (played by Phil Spector) in a Rolls-Royce and score a large sum of money. With the money from the sale stuffed into a plastic tube hidden inside the Stars & Stripes-adorned fuel tank of Wyatt's California-style chopper, they ride eastward in an attempt to reach New Orleans, Louisiana, in time for Mardi Gras.

During their trip, Wyatt and Billy meet and have a meal with a rancher, whom Wyatt admires for his simple, traditional farming lifestyle. Later, the duo pick up a hitch-hiker (Luke Askew) and agree to take him to his commune, where they stay for a day. Life in the commune appears to be hard, with hippies from the city finding it difficult to grow their own crops in a dry climate with poor soil. (One of the children seen in the commune is played by Fonda's four-year-old daughter Bridget.) At one point, the bikers witness a prayer for blessing of the new crop, as put by a communard: A chance "to make a stand," and to plant "simple food, for our simple taste." The commune is also host to a traveling theater group that "sings for its supper" (performs for food). The notion of "free love" appears to be practiced, with two women seemingly sharing the affections of the hitch-hiking communard, and who then turn their attention to Wyatt and Billy. As the bikers leave, the hitch-hiker (known only as "Stranger on highway" in the credits) gives Wyatt some LSD for him to share with "the right people."

While jokingly riding along with a parade in a small town, the pair are arrested by the local authorities for "parading without a permit" and thrown in jail. In jail, they befriend ACLU lawyer and local drunk George Hanson (Jack Nicholson). George helps them get out of jail, and decides to travel with Wyatt and Billy to New Orleans. As they camp that night, Wyatt and Billy introduce George to marijuana. As an alcoholic and a "square," George is reluctant to try the marijuana ("It leads to harder stuff"), but he quickly relents.

) with Wyatt (Peter Fonda)]] While attempting to eat in a small rural Louisiana restaurant, the trio's appearance attracts the attention of the locals. The girls in the restaurant want to meet the men and ride with them, but the local men and police officer make mocking, racist, and homophobic remarks. One of the men menacingly states, "I don't believe they'll make the parish line." Wyatt, Billy, and George leave without eating and make camp outside of town. The events of the day cause George to comment: "This used to be a hell of a good country. I can't understand what's gone wrong with it." He observes that Americans talk a lot about the value of freedom, but are actually afraid of anyone who truly exhibits it.

In the middle of the night, the local men return and brutally beat the trio with baseball bats while they are sleeping. Billy luckily manages to scare the men off by pulling a switchblade on them. Wyatt and Billy suffer minor injuries, but George is killed by a machete strike to the neck. Wyatt and Billy wrap George's body up in his sleeping bag, gather his belongings, and vow to return the items to his parents.

They continue to New Orleans and find the brothel George had intended to visit. Taking prostitutes Karen (Karen Black) and Mary (Toni Basil) with them, Wyatt and Billy decide to go outside and wander the parade-filled street of the Mardi Gras celebration. They end up in a cemetery, where all four ingest LSD. They experience a psychedelic bad trip infused with Catholic prayer, represented through quick edits, sound effects, and over-exposed film.

Making camp afterward, Wyatt declares: "We blew it." Wyatt realizes that their search for freedom, while financially successful, was a spiritual failure. The next morning, the two are continuing their trip to Florida (where they hope to retire wealthy) when two hillbillies in a pickup truck spot them and decide to "scare the hell out of them" with their shotgun. As they pull alongside Billy, one of the men lazily aims the shotgun at him and threatens and insults him by saying "Want me to blow your brains out?" and "Why don't you get a haircut?" When Billy flips his middle finger up at them, the hillbilly fires the shotgun at Billy who immediately hits the pavement, seriously wounded in the side. As the truck then takes off past Wyatt down the road, Wyatt races back to put his jacket over his injured friend already covered in blood before riding off for help. But by this time, the same pickup truck has turned around and closes on Wyatt. The hillbilly fires at Wyatt as he speeds by the pickup, hitting the bike's gas tank which instantly erupts in a fiery explosion with parts flung everywhere along with Wyatt. The movie ends with a shot of the flaming bike before the camera ascends to the sky: the duo's journey has ended.

Cast

Production

During test shooting on location in New Orleans, Hopper fought with the production's ad hoc crew for control. At one point he entered into a physical confrontation with photographer Barry Feinstein, who was one of the camera operators for the shoot. After this turmoil, Hopper and Fonda decided to assemble a proper crew for the rest of the film.[4]

Allegedly, the characters of Wyatt and Billy were respectively based on Roger McGuinn and David Crosby of The Byrds.[5] According to Terry Southern's biographer, Lee Hill, the part of George Hanson had been written for Southern's friend, actor Rip Torn. When Torn met with Hopper and Fonda at a New York restaurant in early 1968 to discuss the role, Hopper began ranting about the "rednecks" he had encountered on his scouting trip to the South. Torn, a Texan, took exception to some of Hopper's remarks, and the two almost came to blows, as a result of which Torn withdrew from the project and had to be replaced by Jack Nicholson. In 1994, Hopper was interviewed about Easy Rider by Jay Leno on The Tonight Show, and during the interview, he alleged that Torn had pulled a knife on him during the altercation, prompting Torn to sue Hopper successfully for defamation.

The hippie commune was recreated from pictures and shot near Santa Monica, California overlooking Malibu Canyon, since the New Buffalo commune near Taos in Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico did not permit shooting there.[6]

A short clip near the beginning of the film shows Wyatt and Billy on Stone Avenue in Tucson, Arizona, passing a large figure of a lumberjack, once in front of a lumber store. The lumberjack is still there in 2010.

Most of the film is shot outside with natural lighting. While this can be attributed to the film being a road movie, at the time Hopper said all the outdoor shooting was an intentional choice on his part, because "God is a great gaffer." The production used two five-ton trucks, one for the equipment and one for the motorcycles, with the cast and crew in a motor home.[6] One of the locations was Monument Valley.[6]

The restaurant scenes with Fonda, Hopper, and Nicholson were shot in Morganza, Louisiana.[6] The men and girls in that scene were all Morganza locals.[6] In order to inspire more vitriolic commentary from the local men, Hopper told them the characters of Billy, Wyatt, and George had raped and killed a girl outside of town.[4] The scene in which Billy and Wyatt were shot was filmed on Louisiana Highway 105 North just outside of Krotz Springs, Louisiana, and the two other men in the scene were Krotz Springs locals, Johnny David and D.C. Billedeau.

While shooting the cemetery scene, Hopper tried to convince Fonda to talk to the statue of the Madonna as though it were Fonda's mother (who had committed suicide when he was 10 years old) and ask her why she left him. Although Fonda was reluctant, he eventually complied. Later, Fonda used the inclusion of this scene as leverage to persuade Roger McGuinn to allow the use of his cover of Bob Dylan's "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)".[4]

Despite being filmed in the first half of 1968, roughly between Mardi Gras and the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, with production starting on February 22[7] the film did not have a U.S. premiere until July 1969, after having won an award at the Cannes film festival in May. The delay was partially due to a protracted editing process. Inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey, one of Hopper's proposed cuts was 220 minutes long, including extensive use of the "flash-forward" narrative device, wherein scenes from later in the movie are inserted into the current scene. But only one flash-forward survives in the final edit, when Wyatt in the New Orleans brothel has a premonition of the final scene. At the request of Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider, Henry Jaglom was brought in to edit the film into its current form, with Hopper effectively removed from the project. Upon seeing the final cut, Hopper was extremely pleased, claiming that Jaglom had crafted the film the way Hopper had originally intended. Despite the large part he played in shaping the film, Jaglom only received credit as an "Editorial Consultant".

Motorcycles

in the German Motorcycle and NSU Museum in Neckarsulm]]

The motorcycles for the film, based on hardtail frames and Panhead engines, were designed and built by chopper builders Cliff Vaughs and Ben Hardy, following ideas of Peter Fonda, and handled by Tex Hall and Dan Haggerty during shooting.

in Alabama Barber Motorsports Museum]]

In total, four former police officer bikes were used in the film. The 1949, 1950 and 1952 Harley Davidson Hydra-Glide bikes were purchased at an auction for US$ 500 (equivalent to approx. US$ 2500 at 2007 currency rates). Each bike had a backup to make sure that shooting could continue in case one of the old machines failed or got wrecked accidentally. One "Captain America" was demolished in the final scene, while the other three were stolen and probably taken apart before their significance as movie props became known. The demolished bike was rebuilt by Dan Haggerty and shown in a museum. He sold it at an auction in 2001. Many other replicas have been built since the film’s release.

Hopper and Fonda hosted a wrap party for the movie and then realized they hadn't shot the final campfire scene. Thus, it was shot after the bikes had already been stolen, which is why they are not visible in the background as in the other campfire scenes.[8]

Significance

A box office hit with a $19 million intake, along with Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate, Easy Rider helped kick-start the New Hollywood phase during the late 1960s and early 1970s.[9] The major studios realised that money could be made from low-budget films made by avant-garde directors. Heavily influenced by the French New Wave, the films of the so-called "post-classical Hollywood" came to represent a counterculture generation increasingly disillusioned with its government and the world, the Establishment.[9] Although Jack Nicholson appears only as a supporting actor and in the last half of the film, the standout performance signaled his arrival as a movie star,[9] along with his subsequent film Five Easy Pieces in which he had the lead role.

The film's success, and the new era of Hollywood that it helped usher in, led to Hopper getting the chance to direct again, making whatever film he wanted with complete artistic control. This turned out to be 1971's The Last Movie, which was a notable box office and critical failure, effectively ending Hopper's directorial career for well over a decade.

Awards and honors

Hopper received the First Film Award (Prix de la première œuvre) at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.[10] At the Academy Awards, Jack Nicholson was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and the film was also nominated for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Material Not Previously Published or Produced.

The film appears at number 88 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 Years, 100 Movies. In 1998, Easy Rider was added to the United States National Film Registry, having been deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

American Film Institute recognition

Music

The movie's "groundbreaking"[11] soundtrack featured The Band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and Steppenwolf.[11] Editor Donn Cambern used various music from his own record collection to make watching hours of bike footage more interesting during editing.[6] Most of Cambern's music was used, with licensing costs of $1 million, more than the budget of the film.[6] When CSN viewed a rough cut of the film, they assured Hopper that they could not do any better than he already had.

Bob Dylan was asked to contribute music, but was reluctant to use his own recording of "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)", so a version performed by Byrds frontman Roger McGuinn was used instead. Also, instead of writing an entirely new song for the film, Dylan simply wrote out the first verse of “Ballad of Easy Rider” and told the filmmakers, “Give this to McGuinn, he’ll know what to do with it.” McGuinn completed the song and performed it in the film.

In popular culture

  • Author Philip K. Dick mentions Easy Rider in his story A Scanner Darkly.
  • The movie was also mentioned in the book Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman; he urged all readers, yippies and hippies to make sure the rest of America did not fall for the image of the Yippies, hippies, and their kind as a group with a (sic) "Easy Rider take-no-crap" image.
  • In Stephen King's novel Hearts In Atlantis a quote from Easy Rider is used at the beginning of the book. The quote was Wyatt's pessimistic, "We blew it," to foreshadow the themes of high ideals that failed in the five stories that followed.
  • The Duckman episode "Not So Easy Riders" directly parodies the motorcycle scenes from this film.
  • In an episode of the series Veronica Mars, Logan Echolls plagiarizes a quote from this movie for his prize-winning essay.
  • The first season finale of The Venture Bros. directly parodies the final scene.
  • In the Season 5, Episode 17 "Sweating It Out" of Beverly Hills, 90210, Brandon makes a reference to Easy Rider when he attempts to soothe his parents' nerves before leaving for his planned motorcycle trek to Lake Whitney with Dylan McKay. Jim Walsh responds with, "Brandon, that film ended with both riders being blown to bits."
  • The Electric Company educational television series had a character known as Easy Reader.
  • The 1973 film Electra Glide in Blue—starring Robert Blake as a Vietnam War veteran getting his life back together in Arizona as a motorcycle cop—inverts the tragic shooting that ends Easy Rider by having hippies in a Volkswagen mini-bus blast away with a shotgun at Blake's bike, the Electra Glide.
  • In the 1985 teen comedy My Science Project, Hopper plays a high school teacher who goes back in time by way of an alien artifact and returns claiming he went back to the 60s and is wearing the same type of buckskin and bush hat he wore as Billy.
  • In the 1986 biopic Sid and Nancy about The Sex Pistols' bassist Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen there is an Easy Rider poster in Sid and Nancy's apartment.
  • In Terry Gilliam's 1998 film adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Dr. Gonzo reluctantly attends an anti-drug convention with Thompson and whispers "I saw these bastards in 'Easy Rider'. I didn't believe they were real. Not like this, man - not hundreds of them." (Referring to the hundreds of police officers attending the convention).
  • The home video cover of the movie Beavis and Butthead Do America is a direct reference to Easy Rider, both share the same plot of "trying to score" while making a trip across America. Beavis and Butthead are seen riding motorcycles, whilst wearing outfits that are very similar to Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper's in Easy Rider.
  • In the movie Love and a .45, Peter Fonda plays Renee Zellweger's father, a wheel chair bound hippie, and a lamp made from a motorcycle gas tank painted to match the Captain America bike's tank is clearly seen in their home.
  • The manga and film Akira were influenced by Easy Rider, in the form of Kaneda and his motorcycle gang being rebellious figures who are heavy drug users.
  • This film was referenced in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. A character mentions the movie and bikers that were featured resembled the gang in this film. This reference could be a homage to Easy Rider director and star Dennis Hopper, who also appeared in a sequel of the original 1974 film (ironically, Hopper considered the original sequel as his worst film ever made).
  • A scene from the film Starsky & Hutch features the titular characters dressed as Wyatt and Billy, riding motorcycles to The Band's "The Weight".
  • The 2008 biker documentary Iron City Blues, which featured two bikers riding into a lawless Southern town, was directly inspired by Easy Rider.[12]
  • In the 2007 film "Ghost Rider" when Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage) changes into Ghost Rider for the first time, Peter Fonda's character circles his motorcycle and makes the comment "Hmm... Nice bike." This was most likely a reference to his iconic role in Easy Rider.
  • The characters Mike Doonesbury and Mark Slackmeyer of the Doonesbury comic strip embarked on an Easy Rider-style cross-country motorcycle trip in 1972, a story arc that introduced the character of Joanie Caucus.[13]
  • After watching the movie, Jimi Hendrix was inspired to write a song about it (using different spelling), "Ezy Ryder".[citation needed]
  • The man pictured on the cover of The Desert Sessions, volumes 3 & 4 is Peter Fonda from the theatrical poster for the movie.
  • In an episode of Red Dwarf, Lister attempts to inspire a sense of freedom, individuality, and rebellion in Kryten by having him watch Easy Rider amongst other iconic movies.
  • Cheetos used a chopper-riding mouse called the "Cheesy Rider" in their early 1970s advertisements.
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Peter Fonda's American Flag Patch, sold for $89,625 in 2007

See also

References

Notes

  1. ^ a b Internet Movie Database. Box office/Business for Easy Rider (1969). Retrieved on April 18, 2009.
  2. ^ "Peter Fonda's Easy Rider auction". Boing Boing. 2007-09-16. http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/16/peter-fondas-easy-ri.html. Retrieved 2008-10-18. 
  3. ^ "BORN TO BE A CLASSIC: "EASY RIDER" WAS A TOUCHSTONE FOR A GENERATION AND FOR AMERICAN FILMMAKING". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 2001-07-29. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&p_theme=sl&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0ED904BFDE2A32EA&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved 2008-10-19. 
  4. ^ a b c d Interviews in Easy Rider: Shaking the Cage at the Internet Movie Database. A Making-of documentary.
  5. ^ Walker, Michael. Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Legendary Neighborhood. New York: Faber and Faber, 2006, p. 210.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g "Easy Rider: 35 Years Later". Moviemaker.com. 2004-06-24. http://www.moviemaker.com/directing/article/easy_rider_35_years_later_2921/. Retrieved 2008-10-19. 
  7. ^ http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/category/this_day_in_indie_history/P100/
  8. ^ (as told in Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind).
  9. ^ a b c Canby, Vincent. "Easy Rider (1969)". The New York Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/15197/Easy-Rider/overview. Retrieved 2008-10-18. 
  10. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Easy Rider". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2517/year/1969.html. Retrieved 2009-04-05. 
  11. ^ a b "The greatest week in rock history". Salon. 2003-12-19. http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/feature/2003/12/19/rock/index.html. Retrieved 2008-10-19. 
  12. ^ http://www.indieflix.com/film/iron-city-blues-22237/#director-statement
  13. ^ Biography of Mike Doonesbury, Doonesbury@Slate.com. Retrieved June 21, 2007.

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Quotes

Up to date as of January 14, 2010

From Wikiquote

Easy Rider is a 1969 film about two counterculture bikers who travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans in search of America.

Directed by Dennis Hopper. Written by Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, and Terry Southern.
A man went looking for America and couldn't find it anywhere.
Spoiler warning: Plot, ending, or solution details follow.

Contents

Wyatt

  • No, I mean it. You've got a nice place. It's not every man that can live off the land, you know. You do your own thing in your own time. You should be proud.
  • [reading inscription] "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
  • [while tripping on LSD] Oh Mother why didn't you tell me? Why didn't anybody tell me anything?...What are you doing to me now?...Shut up!...How could you make me hate you so?...Oh God, I hate you so much.

Billy

  • Whew. Man, look, I gotta get out of here, man. Now we - we got things we want to do, man, like - I just - uh - I gotta get out of here, man.
  • You gotta be kidding. I mean, you know who this is, man? This is Captain America. I'm Billy. Hey, we're headliners baby. We played every fair in this part of the country. I mean, for top dollar, too!
  • [about marijuana] It gives you a whole new way of looking at the day.

George Hanson

  • Well, you boys don't look like you're from this part of the country. You're lucky I'm here to see that you don't get into anything...Well, they got this here - see - uh - scissor-happy 'Beautify America' thing goin' on around here. They're tryin' to make everybody look like Yul Brynner. They used - uh - rusty razor blades on the last two long-hairs that they brought in here and I wasn't here to protect them. You see - uh - I'm - uh - I'm a lawyer. Done a lot of work for the A.C.L.U.
  • You can get out of here, if you haven't killed anybody - at least nobody white.
  • [to guard] Very groovy. Very groovy. See there. I bet nobody ever said that to you.
  • Here's to the first of the day, fellas. To ol' D. H. Lawrence. Nik-nik-nik-f-f-f-Indians!
  • I must've started off to Mardi Gras six or seven times. Never got further than the state line.
  • 'Madame Tinkertoy's House of Blue Lights. Corner of Bourbon and Toulouse, New Orleans, Louisiana.' Now this is supposed to be the finest whorehouse in the South. These ain't no pork chops. These are U.S. Prime.
  • You- you mean marijuana. Lord have mercy, is that what that is? Well, let me see that. Mmmmm-mmm. Mmmm...I-I-I couldn't do that. I mean, I've got enough problems with the - with the booze and all. I mean, uh, I - I can't afford to get hooked...it-it-it leads to harder stuff.
  • That was a UFO, beamin' back at ya. Me and Eric Heisman was down in Mexico two weeks ago - we seen forty of 'em flying in formation. They-they-they've got bases all over the world now, you know. They've been coming here ever since nineteen forty-six - when the scientists first started bouncin' radar beams off of the moon. And they have been livin' and workin' among us in vast quantities ever since. The government knows all about 'em.
  • Oh, yeah, that's right. That's what's it's all about, all right. But talkin' about it and bein' it, that's two different things. I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free, 'cause then they're gonna get real busy killin' and maimin' to prove to you that they are. Oh, yeah, they're gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em.
  • Well, they are people, just like us - from within our own solar system. Except that their society is more highly evolved. I mean, they don't have no wars, they got no monetary system, they don't have any leaders, because, I mean, each man is a leader. I mean, each man - because of their technology, they are able to feed, clothe, house, and transport themselves equally - and with no effort...Why don't they reveal themselves to us is because if they did it would cause a general panic. Now, I mean, we still have leaders upon whom we rely for the release of this information. These leaders have decided to repress this information because of the tremendous shock that it would cause to our antiquated systems. Now, the result of this has been that the Venutians have contacted people in all walks of life - all walks of life. [laughs] Yes. It-it-it would be a devastatin' blow to our antiquated systems - so now the Venutians are meeting with people in all walks of life - in an advisory capacity. For once man will have a god-like control over his own destiny. He will have a chance to transcend and to evolve with some equality for all.

The Stranger

  • It doesn't make any difference what city. All cities are alike. That's why I'm out here now...cause I'm from the city, a long way from the city - and that's where I want to be right now.
  • The people this place belongs to are buried right under you. You could be a trifle polite...It's a small thing to ask.
  • You see, what happened here is these people got here late in the summer. Too late to plant. But the weather was beautiful and it was easy livin', and everything was fine. And then came that winter. There were forty or fifty of them here living in this one-room place down here. Nothing to eat - starvin'. Out by the side of the road lookin' for dead horses...Anything they could get ahold of. Now there's - there's eighteen or twenty of them left and they're city kids. Look at them. But they're getting this crop in. They're gonna stay here until it's harvested. That's the whole thing.

Others

  • Sarah: We just can't take anymore, Stranger. Just too many people dropping in. Oh, I'm not talking about you and your friends, you know that. And like the week before, Susan dropped in with twelve people from Easter City. She wanted to take ten pounds of rice with her...Well naturally, we had to say no...So she gets all up tight and she breaks out some hash - and she won't give us any. Oh, and...that's not all. The next morning, they went outside to start their bus and they couldn't get it started...
  • Joanne: [reading from the I-Ching] Starting brings misfortune. Per-serverance brings danger. Not every demand for change in the existing order should be heeded. On the other hand, repeated and well-founded complaints should not fail to a hearing.
  • The Devil: Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye. We've come to play for our dinner. Or should I say, stay for our dinner. Or even slay for our dinner...We've come to drink your wine, taste your food and take pleasure in your women.
  • Jack: [praying] We have planted our seeds. We ask that our efforts be worthy to produce simple food for our simple taste. We ask that our efforts be rewarded. And we thank you for the food we eat from other hands - that we may share it with our fellow man and be even more generous when it is from our own. Thank you for a place to make a stand.
  • Prostitutes: [while tripping on LSD] I'm going to die. I'm dead...Do you understand?...Oh dear God, please let it be. Please help me conceive a child...I'm right out here out of my head...Please God, let me out of here. I want to get out of here...You know what I mean...You wanted me...You wanted me ugly didn't you? I know you johns - I know you johns.

Dialogue

Billy: You're pulling inside, man. You're getting a little distance tonight.
Wyatt: Yeah, well, I'm just getting my thing together.

Billy: Hey man, everything that we ever dreamed of is in that teardrop gas tank - and you got a stranger over there pourin' gasoline all over it. Man, all he's got to do is turn and look over into it, man, and he can see that...
Wyatt: He won't know what it is, man. He won't know what it is. Don't worry, Billy. Everything's all right.

Wyatt: You ever want to be somebody else?
Stranger: I'd like to try Porky Pig.
Wyatt: I never wanted to be anybody else.

Billy: This is nothing but sand, man. They ain't gonna make it, man. They ain't gonna grow anything here.
Wyatt: They're gonna make it. Dig, man. They're gonna make it.

Stranger: [giving Wyatt some LSD] When you get to the right place, with the right people, quarter this. You know, this could be the right place. The time's running out.
Wyatt: Yeah, I'm, I'm hip about time. But I just gotta go.

Billy: I'm sorry about the misunderstanding.
George Hanson: There was no misunderstanding. We're all in the same cage here.
Billy: You must be some important dude. That treatment--
George Hanson: What does he mean "dude"? Dude ranch?
Wyatt: "Dude" means a nice guy, you know? "Dude" means a regular sort of person.

Deputy: What the hell is this? Troublemakers?
Cat Man: You name it - I'll throw rocks at it, Sheriff.
...
Cat Man: Check that joker with the long hair.
Deputy: I checked him already. Looks like we might have to bring him up to the Hilton before it's all over with.
Cat Man: Ha! I think she's cute.
Deputy: Isn't she, though. I guess we'd put him in the women's cell, don't you reckon?
Cat Man: Oh, I think we ought to put 'em in a cage and charge a little admission to see 'em.
George: Those are what is known as 'country witticisms'.

Customer 1: You know, I thought at first that bunch over there, their mothers had maybe been frightened by a bunch of gorillas, but now I think they were caught.
Customer 2: I know one of them's Alley-oop - I think. From the beads on him.
Customer 4: Well, one of them darned sure is not Oola.
Customer 1: Look like a bunch of refugees from a gorilla love-in.
Customer 2: A gorilla couldn't love that.
Customer 1: Nor could a mother.
Customer 3: I'd love to mate him up with one of those black wenches out there.
Customer 4: Oh, now I don't know about that.
Customer 3: Well, that's about as low as they come. I'll tell ya...Man, they're green.
Customer 4: No, they're not green, they're white.
Customer 3: White? Huh!
Customer 4: Uh-huh.
Customer 3: Man, you're color blind. I just gotta say that...
Customer 1: I don't know. I thought most jails were built for humanity, and that won't quite qualify.
Customer 2: I wonder where they got those wigs from.
Customer 1: They probably grew 'em. It looks like they're standin' in fertilizer. Nothin' else would grow on 'em...
Customer 3: I saw two of them one time. They were just kissin' away. Two males. Just think of it.

Deputy: What'cha think we ought to do with 'em?
Cat Man: I don't damn know, but I don't think they'll make the parish line.

George: You know, this used to be a helluva good country. I can't understand what's gone wrong with it.
Billy: Huh. Man, everybody got chicken, that's what happened, man. Hey, we can't even get into like, uh, second-rate hotel, I mean, a second-rate motel. You dig? They think we're gonna cut their throat or something, man. They're scared, man.
George: Oh, they're not scared of you. They're scared of what you represent to 'em.
Billy: Hey man. All we represent to them, man, is somebody needs a haircut.
George: Oh no. What you represent to them is freedom.
Billy: What the hell's wrong with freedom, man? That's what it's all about.
George: Oh yeah, that's right, that's what it's all about, all right. But talkin' about it and bein' it - that's two different things. I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. 'Course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free 'cause then they're gonna get real busy killin' and maimin' to prove to you that they are. Oh yeah, they're gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom, but they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em.
Billy: Mmmm, well, that don't make 'em runnin' scared.
George: No, it makes 'em dangerous. Nik, nik, nik, nik, nik, nik, nik, nik - Swamp.

Billy: We've done it. We've done it. We're rich. Wyatt. [laughs] Yeah, man. [laughs] Yeah. Clearly, we did it, man we did it. We did it. Huh. We're rich, man. We're retired in Florida, now, mister. Whew.
Wyatt: You know, Billy. We blew it.
Billy: What? Huh? Wha-wha-wha- That's what it's all about, man. I mean, like you know - I mean, you go for the big money, man, and then you're free. You dig? [Laughs]
Wyatt: We blew it. Good night, man.

Driver: Hey, Roy, look at them ginks!
Roy: Pull alongside, we'll scare the hell out of 'em. [to Billy] Want me to blow your brains out? [Billy obscenely gestures at him] Why don't you get a haircut?

Billy: [after being shot] Oh my God!
Wyatt: Oh my God! I'm going for help Billy.
Billy: I got 'em. I'm gonna get 'em. ...Man, I-I'm gonna get 'em. Where are they now?

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