Easy Rider Was Defined A Movement
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Easy Rider is an independent road drama film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern. Fonda and Hopper play two bikers in the American Southwest and South in possession of the profit from a big drug deal. Released in 1969, the success of the film brought about the New Hollywood era of film during the early 1970s. Aside from its success, the film is recognized as a cult classic and a staple of the counterculture movement in the United States with a lot of focus on the hippie movement, drug use, and communal living. It has also been revealed that real drugs were used in scenes that portrayed drug use demonstrating the attitude of the time.
