Easy Rider (1969)
Directed by Dennis Hopper
Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth.
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It also showed that, unlike Bonnie and Clyde (1967), they didn’t have to dress the counterculture up in historic metaphor.
Most so-called "revolutionary" movies do not age well – "Easy Rider" is the prototypical example – but "Breathless" still leaps off the screen.
Movie buffs might assume this is an example of Michel showing his obsession with film, naming himself after the legendary cinematographer who later worked on the New Wave-inspired Easy Rider (1969), as well as Five Easy Pieces (1970), Paper Moon (1973), and Ghostbusters (1984).
This is a true masterpiece of the unrest of the 1960s, years before Easy Rider or anything else remotely like it.
It wasn’t just a film, but an event, and going to see it said something about you (The Graduate screenwriter Buck Henry described it as “the automatic handwriting of the counterculture”).
The charms of both "The Graduate" and "Easy Rider" touched a lot of people in the late sixties, two very different films with similar themes about the alienation of youth.