Easy Rider

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. The success of Easy Rider helped spark the New Hollywood phase of filmmaking during the early 1970s. The film was added to the Library of Congress National Registry in 1998.

The protagonists are two freewheeling guys Wyatt Fonda, nicknamed Captain America, and Billy Hopper. Fonda and Hopper have said that these characters names refer to Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid. Wyatt dresses in American flagadorned leather with an Office of the Secretary of Defense Identification Badge affixed to it, while Billy dresses in Native Americanstyle buckskin pants and shirts and a bushman hat. The former is quite open to people they meet on their journey and accepting of help while the latter is more hostile and suspicious.Aftersmuggling cocaine from Mexico to Los Angeles, Wyatt and Billy sell their haul to Connection, a man played by Phil Spector in a RollsRoyce, and receive a large sum in return. With the money stuffed into a plastic tube hidden inside the Stars amp Stripespainted fuel tank of Wyatts Californiastyle chopper, they ride eastward aiming to reach New Orleans, Louisiana, in time for the Mardi Gras festival. ........

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