It gets the scope of its travel on the film in all its variegate grandeur and individual character, the American Southwest literally serving as the backdrop and woof of the story fabric. Thanks to a compact and creative NABET crew, Easy Rider manages what many other film on the road fails. The film will not be limited to audiences of the young, thanks to an intelligent program of advance opinion maker screenings, which will spur general word of mouth for high profits and critical honors. His original version of the film is said to have run nearly twice the present length, yet the final cut, executed by film editor Donn Cambern by collaborative agreements, unfolds with unmarred lyric simplicity. Hayward as associate producer, Easy Rider marks the directorial debut of co-star Dennis Hopper, who has assembled an outstanding company of younger and second-generation Hollywood talents before and behind the cameras. Produced by its star, Peter Fonda, with Bert Schneider as its executive producer and William L. Largely improvisational, yet unified by variations on a constant theme and a sustained allegoric outline, Easy Rider develops episodically toward a brilliantly conceived and executed climax. 'Four Weddings and a Funeral': THR's 1994 Sundance Film Festival Review It presents as well their anguished recognition that one group’s freedom to conform to one mode of expression encourages that group to presume to discriminate against, even justify liquidation of those who would freely choose a different style. If Easy Rider succeeds in illustrating a manifest disillusionment with the land of the free, it is because it simultaneously and clearly chronicles the idealism of its youth. Easy Rider is very likely the clearest and most disturbing presentation of the angry estrangement of American youth to be brought to the screen, played against the barren and bountiful beauties of a cross-country pilgrimage that is at once a search for freedom and a tragic encounter with the intolerance that corrupts the ideals of freedom. They have some contact with drugs, yet this is no cheap trip of matinee psychedelics. Its central characters ride motorcycles, yet this is no chopper film. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review is below:Īfter years of pandering, brutalizing and titillating films exploiting the spirit of vague protest comes Columbia’s Easy Rider, a production of the Pando Co. The film went on to be nominated for two Oscars at the 42nd Academy Awards, for Jack Nicholson’s supporting role and for the screenplay. On July 14, 1969, Columbia brought Peter Fonda’s Easy Rider to the big screen at the Beekman in New York.
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