Reply #344: I wonder how it messed with your head...

[sipping radicchio]

(This is an older post and I don't know if you will be reading my question in the near future.)

I have seen "Easy Rider" several times. It's an interesting period piece, for sure. Interesting that it came out the last year of the '60s because as usual, what is "hip" doesn't become mainstream until later and the quest for understanding the self, which the characters were undertaking, became much a part of the early '70s. I recommend that you see an earlier movie starring Fonda and Hopper (and written by Nicholson) called "The Trip." It came out in 1967 and predates "Easy Rider," but there is a trippy scene which echoes the latter film. Also, "Head" starring the Monkies is bizarre and messed with my mind, I suppose...