Easy Rider - Dennis Hopper + Fonda

[NES]

you've got to be a total fucking moron to make that statement about Easy Rider

You will have to pardon my friend here Brock, I think he is a RobFunk ghost.

 

[GoSooners]

BOTH! Two teamer. My parents were both going to college at the time of the book(1939) and Movie(1940) and saw very little of the stereotype Steinbeck tried to convey in his masterpiece. My mother ended up being an english professor, and hardly would discuss the book with me. I still cringe at the words, "Dumb Okie." Wil, there is a slight chance I may be in Vegas during the Bash. Good Luck

Yeah, I still cringe every time I see this movie. It's funny, half of the Californian's who accuse us of being dumb backwoods hillbilly okies, are probably decendents of Okies from those Grapes Of Wrath days. If you go inland and out to the Barstow/Fresno areas of California, the decendents would be well over half.

 

[Joe_Hallenbeck]

I don't agree with the politics...

But as a movie buff, I loved it because you can't go wrong with John Ford and Henry Fonda.

 

[asufan550]

you've got to be a total fucking moron to make that statement about Easy Rider

Yeah. That, or I'm an intelligent human being that doesn't find the topic/production/political undertones of the movie interesting or redeeming or worth a shit at all. It's a fucking joke that anybody considers this a top 10000 movie, much less top 50, etc.
Coming from a guy like you though, I'll take that as a compliment.

 

[Brock Landers]

Yeah. That, or I'm an intelligent human being that doesn't find the topic/production/political undertones of the movie interesting or redeeming or worth a shit at all. It's a fucking joke that anybody considers this a top 10000 movie, much less top 50, etc.
Coming from a guy like you though, I'll take that as a compliment.

right here fuckstik:tongue2:

 

[GreenDoberman]

Good movie, not in my top favorites but good. It is in one of the top 100 movies lists that I watched as is "Grapes of Wrath". Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" is a novel somewhat in the vein of "Easy Rider" and a must-read.

Steinbeck was a very good author who wrote tons of top-notch books. "East of Eden" is one of the classics, imo.

 

[PatPatriot]

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Terrible fucking movie.
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you've got to be a total fucking moron to make that statement about Easy Rider
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Don't trust anybody under 30.

 

[HiPockets]

Those photos above are of of one of America's finest actors, Henry Fonda, from the movie Grapes of Wrath, Fonda played the tragic character Tom Joad, the patriarch of a family during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

The movie focuses on a poor family of sharecroppers driven from their home by drought, severe economic hardship, and ultimately the loss of their sharecropper farm in Oklahoma. In a brutally hopeless situation, they set out for California along with thousands of other "Okies" in search of land, jobs, and a way of life. Fonda was nominated for an Academy Award for his work in the film, which was directed by the great John Ford..

The movie was based on the classic American novel written by John Steinbeck who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature as author of Grapes of Wrath.


wil.

Years back I cut some Depression era Walker Evans photos out of a magazine. As if I could separate starvation and desperation from protestant predestination, I stared into their sunken eyes tying to understand their sense of survival standing with the midwest dustbowl as background. I think their muscled arms and skeleton ribs shaped my politics permanently.