From airplane to starship...

[bandwraith at aol.com]

The only way I could see _Easy Rider_ being
worth the price of admission, and it didn't
occur to me until years later- maybe about
the time Ginsberg went on ?Dick Cavitt?
with a briefcase full of documents- was seeing
Billy and Wyatt as figures for the CIA. The link
begins at the beginning- raising huge amounts
of off the books cash via SoCal drug sales. The
vamping of traditional American archetypes and the
"penetration" and destabilization  of "alien"
cultures, followed by taking themselves too
seriously, also came to mind. I don't think any of
that is what Hopper had in mind, but with
Southern on board, who knows?



-----Original Message-----
From: bandwraith at aol.com
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 9:56 am
Subject: Re: From airplane to starship...


Call me a traditionalist. I prefer Butch and Sundance to Billy and 
Wyatt. 
Slim Pickens = Billy, Henry Green = Wyatt? I'm not familiar with Green. 
Terry Southern- unique. 
 
 
-----Original Message----- 
From: malignd at aol.com 
To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 4:24 pm 
Subject: Re: From airplane to starship... 
 
I seem to recall Crosby saying once that his relationship with McGuinn 
was the model 
for the relationship between Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper in Easy 
Rider although, 
as the screenplay was written by (wasn't it?) Terry Southern, more 
likely the models 
were Henry Green and Slim Pickens.