Just how spoilable are Easy Rider and Death Race 2000? Easy Rider as a piece of New Hollywood. Where have the communes gone? Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper as Wyatt (Captain America) and Billy. Life lessons via cross country motorcycle journey. UFO stores and pot smoking. Inspirations. The Dennie Hopper vs Rip Torn controversy. The editing and transitions in Easy Rider. What’s the scariest thing about Easy Rider? You kinda have to talk about the Death Race remake. Where has exploitative killing for sport gone? Casual nudity.
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Also referenced: Hell Ride, Roger Corman (House of Usher), Death Race, Fur, Bioshock, Atlas Shrugged, Spun, Requiem for a Dream, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Escape from LA, The Crow, Elephant, Alien vs Predator, Rambo, Children of the Corn, Repo: The Genetic Opera, The Blair Witch Project
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Easy Rider
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Director: Dennis Hopper
Writer: Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Terry Southern
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Antonio Mendoza, Jack Nicholson
Two counterculture bikers travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans in search of America.
Death Race 2000
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Director: Paul Bartel
Writer: Robert Thom, Charles B. Griffith
Starring: David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone, Simone Griffeth, Mary Woronov
A champion of a brutal cross-country car race of the future where pedestrians are run down for points.
