Peter Fonda Wyatt as Wyatt. Dennis Hopper Billy as Billy. Antonio Mendoza Jesus as Jesus. Phil Spector Connection as Connection. Mac Mashourian Bodyguard as Bodyguard. Warren Finnerty Rancher as Rancher. Luana Anders Lisa as Lisa. Sabrina Scharf Sarah as Sarah. Robert Walker Jr. Jack as Jack as Robert Walker. Robert Ball Mime 1 as Mime 1. Carmen Phillips Mime 2 as Mime 2.
Michael Pataki Mime 4 as Mime 4. George Fowler Jr. Guard as Guard. Dennis Hopper. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Netting a hefty profit from their latest drug deal, hippies Wyatt and Billy decide to outfit themselves with among other things motorbikes - Wyatt complete in what they call his Captain America gear and similar motif on the bike - and chucking any structure in their lives beyond the want to get there for the event, cycle from their home base of Los Angeles to New Orleans for Mardi Gras in just over a week.
They don't plan to spend their proceeds on this trip - they saving that for a more carefree life in Florida after the fact - they sleeping in the great outdoors along the way. While Wyatt is more easy going, believing in the karmic nature and practicality of helping others when they can and in turn asking for help when they need it, Billy is a little more suspicious of the people they encounter, especially in hiding their wad of cash that is stuffed into the gas tank of Wyatt's bike, that money their future.
They will find that not all counter-culturalists have the exact same mindset, while they will also find the spiritual and practical connections to others in perhaps the most unlikely of places and people. But they will also ruffle some feathers just for being hippies, arguably in the fear not of them as people but what they represent. Through it all, Wyatt in particular evaluates if the trip ends up being what he expects or wants for his life. This Year It's Easy Rider.
Did you know Edit. Trivia Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda did not write a full script for the movie, and made most of it up as they went along. They didn't hire a crew, but instead picked up hippies at communes across the country, and used friends and passers-by to hold the cameras, and were drunk and stoned most of the time. Equally interesting is where there is no music. Those Southern boys sneak up on the sleeping trio at night and beat George to death. Where a more conventional score would normally underline the tension, the soundtrack here is silent.
He bartered with Mo Ostin at Warner Bros. Columbia had three pressing plants at the time, and pressing vinyl was about 3 cents a unit. The highs and lows of the new movie musical boom. However, Jack Nicholson was largely able to stick to the script as written, much to the crew's amazement. This is stark contrast to the other cast members, who improvised most of their lines.
According to Jack Nicholson, he, Dennis Hopper, and Peter Fonda went through one hundred fifty-five joints while filming the campfire scene. Peter Fonda got the idea for this movie after seeing a picture of him and Bruce Dern on their motorcycles. He got Dennis Hopper who was planning to get out of the acting business and become a teacher at the time involved when he promised him he could direct the film.
Dennis Hopper was going through a very bad time during production something he later put down to marijuana not being his "creative drug of choice". He was in a state of drug-induced paranoia and he screamed at everyone.
Crew members secretly recorded his tirades and sent the tapes to the production company in Los Angeles to explain why so many of them quit the film.
The swimming scene, where Billy Dennis Hopper and Wyatt Peter Fonda go swimming with two commune girls, was shot at two different times. When they shot the scene, Peter Fonda was in the hospital.
You can't see him together with Dennis Hopper, or one of the girls in the entire scene. The legs you see are from a stand-in. The images of Fonda were shot separately, several weeks later. It was one of the first films to make extensive use of previously released musical tracks, rather than a specially written film score.
This is common with films now, but was quite unusual at the time the exception being The Beatles films and some other special cases. While the actors smoked real marijuana, the cocaine seen at the start of the film is fake.
According to Peter Fonda, this is because they couldn't afford the real thing. Some of the weird lighting effects in the LSD scene came about because a can of film was accidentally exposed when it was opened before being developed. Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson, huge fans of Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, invited their idol to the first screening of their film. Antonioni was sufficiently impressed to cast Nicholson in his next feature film, The Passenger Peter Fonda was an experienced motorcycle rider, and the chopper he rides in the movie is seriously stretched and raked, and has tall "apehanger" style handlebars.
Dennis Hopper was not as experienced a rider, therefore his bike is less radically chopped. For the famous soliloquy that Peter Fonda does in the cemetery while tripping on acid, director Dennis Hopper asked Peter to talk to the statue as if he were talking to his mother, who had committed suicide when Peter was ten years old.
Peter didn't want to do it, as he had never confronted his feelings about his mother. But Hopper insisted, which is why you hear Peter call the statue "Mother", and he states that he both loves her and hates her, which expresses his conflicted emotions. This scene persuaded Bob Dylan to allow the use of his song "It's Alright Ma" in one of the final scenes, which contains lyrics referencing suicide.
Peter told Dylan, "I need to hear those words", and he agreed to its use. The rednecks in the Louisiana coffee shop who taunt the boys, and the two in the pickup truck at the end of the movie, were all local residents recruited by the filmmakers. In the case of the coffee shop denizens, the filmmakers were preparing to audition a group of local theater people, when Dennis Hopper saw Buddy Causey, Jr. Captain America's Peter Fonda's chopper was so "squirrely" to ride that at one point, Jack Nicholson who was on the back squeezed his knees on Fonda's side to balance himself and broke one of Fonda's ribs.
Rip Torn was originally cast in the role of George Hanson. According to Torn, Dennis Hopper pulled a knife on him during a pre-production meeting. Torn sued Hopper for defamation, and won. Most of the film is shot outside with natural lighting. Dennis Hopper said that all the outdoor shooting was an intentional choice on his part, because "God is a great gaffer. The cc Harleys driven by the main characters in the film were purchased from the Los Angeles Police department.
Harley-Davidson refused to provide free bikes for the film, because "The protagonists were outlaws, and they thought it was bad for their image", according to an article that appeared in the June edition of the History Channel Magazine. The film's driving sequences were among the first to deliberately use of lens flare to add atmosphere.
Initially derided because they had failed to keep the shots 'clean', the technique went on to become commonplace in cinematography. The New Orleans cemetery is St. Louis 1, a Catholic cemetery.
They didn't have permission to shoot there, and Catholic audience members were shocked that the church had allowed it. Since then, no other films have been allowed to shoot at St. Louis 1, unless it's a documentary, and you have permission. The final campfire scene was left out of the original shooting schedule, and was shot after both motorcycles had been stolen. Roger Corman turned down the chance to produce the film. He cited this as the worst decision he ever made. It was later sold at a charity auction.
During one meeting at Columbia, Dennis Hopper stood up and stuffed his finger in an executive's nose. A paranoid Dennis Hopper demanded that cameraman Barry Feinstein hand over all the footage he'd shot, so he could keep it safe in his room.
But Southern saw it in another way. He said that he and Dennis liked the film so much they wanted to be in on the screenplay credits. Well, one of them was the producer and other was the director so there was no way the Writers Guild was going to allow them to take a screenplay credit unless I insisted. I wonder what that's about? As the story goes, in , Rip Torn had dinner with Fonda and Hopper, who were considering casting him in the role of lawyer George Hanson.
Hopper went on The Tonight Show in and recounted how Torn pulled a knife on Hopper during the dinner, thus losing the gig. But Torn said it was the other way around: Hopper pulled the knife on him. It was supposedly a butter knife. In an interview with Film Comment , the interviewer asked Nicholson if he knew the film would be a hit, and he said yes.
I thought the moment for the biker film had come, especially if the genre was moved one step away from exploitation toward some kind of literary quality.
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