Films

[Malignd]

<<They (writers, directors & actors) were young and
living in a time and culture where such discourse was
normal.  Criticizing the dialog in Easy Rider from a
perspective over 30 years later is unfair.  At the
time it broke new ground in film making, even if it
now seems trite.  It still deserves respect.>>

Please.  Time and distance can magnify the
sentimental, puerile, and simply bad, but they don't
create it where it didn't theretofore exist.  Easy
Rider was self-serious tripe the day it appeared.  The
film broke no new ground, although you may be saying
that the dialog broke new ground, which certainly
isn't the case.

The screenwriter was Terry Southern, which raises the
possibility that the screenplay was a send-up from the
get-go, but that Fonda and Hopper were too deluded to
notice or too witless to get.  He (Southern) may also
have been merely earning a buck.

Jack Nicholson's very funny though.





	
		
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