Easy Rider

:This article is about the movie Easy Rider. There is also an article about the slang expression easy rider.

Impact

Easy Rider was written by Fonda, Hopper and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper. Despite being shot in the first half of 1968, between Mardi Gras and the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, it took nearly a year until its US debut in July of 1969. Southern also came up with the title of the movie, which borrows the slang term easy rider.

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Terry Southern - 1968 - Mardi Gras - Robert F. Kennedy - Debut - 1969 - Easy rider

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Both the film and the director won a Golden Palm at the 1969 festival in Cannes. It was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Jack Nicholson) and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Material Not Previously Published or Produced.

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Golden Palm - 1969 - Festival in Cannes - Academy Award - Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Material Not Previously Published or Produced

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The film was #88 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 Years, 100 Movies, and has been selected for preservation in the United States' National Film Registry.

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American Film Institute - 100 Years, 100 Movies - National Film Registry

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Along with Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, Easy Rider helped kick-start an artistic renaissance in Hollywood during the late sixties and early seventies. The major studios realised that money could be made from low-budget films made by directors with artistic intentions. Heavily influenced by the French New Wave, the films of the so-called "Hollywood Renaissance" came to represent a generation increasingly disillusioned with their government and the world.

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Arthur Penn - Bonnie and Clyde - French New Wave

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The movie was also mentioned in the book Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman; he urged all readers and "yippies" and hippies to make sure the rest of America didn't fall for the image of the Yippies, hippies, and their kind as a group with a (somewhat paraphrased) "Easy Rider take-no-crap" image.

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Steal This Book - Abbie Hoffman - Hippies

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