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You might, if you're lucky, find something recent from Matt at his blog matt's debates. Kernow bys vyken.
Easy Rider
the one line review:
nothing like Long Way Round
the overview
This is an allegedly cult film, that defined the 70s America hippy drug taking rebellious phase. I was hoping for some decent bike riding, which you don't really get.
the plot:
Billy and Wyatt (Hopper/Fonda) get on a couple of choppers and ride from LA to New Orleans, in search of the real America. It's a voyage of discovery for both of them. Along the way, they meet a vast array of different people. By the end of the film they look back and consider what they've found.
the verdict:
I'm not a fan of this film, I'm afraid. It was good, well, OK, definitely, but not great. Fonda and Hopper do a good job as the long-haired rebels off on looking for adventure, living the dream of having no ties. Nicholson is good (and young!) as the lawyer who wants more from life. The bikes used are quite impressive and much of the dialog and messages used in the film, I suspect, are fairly true to that time of American history.
I suppose being my age, i.e., missing out on it completely, it doesn't mean as much to me as it might to someone 20 years older than me.
Haven't got a lot else to say.
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