Easy+Rider

 toc =OVERVIEW=

Dennis Hopper Jack Nicholson || Wyatt Billy George Hanson ||
 * ** Director ** |||| Dennis Hopper ||
 * ** Year ** |||| 1969 ||
 * ** Actors ** || Peter Fonda

=KEY SCENES=

The end
The ending of the film is abrupt, but it is powerfully symbolic for the meanings of the film. Ultimately, Wyatt and Billy sit too far outside the accepted norms of society. Their deaths begin as a prank by a group of hillbillies, who themselves symbolise the ultra-conservative myth of the cowboy. It would be a mistake to consider this a uniquely American story; perhaps the point of the film is that it is part of the human condition to shun those who wander too far from the culturally accepted path.

Amerca, the land of the free, cannot accept people who take freedom to its limit.

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=LEARNING ABOUT VIEWING=

The conventions of genre
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The conventions of film language
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Contextual understandings
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Intertextual understandings
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