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David Harris mended a fence while they waited; his wife Joan Baez strolled about visibly pregnant, and other members of the commune pranced around in the nude spraying one another with a garden hose. Finally, a motorcycle roared up to the house in Los Altos, Calif., and the rider yelled, "They're two minutes behind me." Two minutes later, "they"-a pair of federal marshals-arrived to escort Harris to prison where he will serve a three-year sentence on his 1968 conviction for refusing induction into the Army. The former president of Stanford's student body went...
Still, these are minor lapses in a major movie. In terms of contemporary mores and methods, Easy Rider has told its story from the far side of the generation gap. For once the aura of evil that clings to drug-and-motorcycle movies is gone. Like other films directed to-and by-youth, Easy Rider could have settled for catcalls and rebellion. Instead the film has refurbished the classic romantic gospel of the outcast wanderer. Walt Whitman might not have recognized the bikes-but he would have understood the message...
...straddle motorcycles instead of horses, and they smoke marijuana instead of tobacco. But the central characters in Easy Rider are as remote as the freedom they are seeking. Wyatt (Peter Fonda) is a vague, unshaven pothead who likes to refer to himself as "Captain America." His manic sidekick Billy (Dennis Hopper) has a droopy Stephen Crane mustache and shiny eyes fixed on some wild interior vision. Flush from the profits of dope selling, the cyclists symbolically cast off their wristwatches and head for that persistent American symbol of adventure, The Road...
Bedeviled Minds. With the single exception of Nicholson, Easy Rider's authentic force resides not in its professional but its amateur performances. Filming throughout the Southwest, first-time Director Hopper let the townspeople "rap" as they pleased, then caught them on camera. The result is a harrowing gallery of American primitives, from mindless high-school girls to the redneck truck drivers who case the cyclists' long hair and ad-lib: "Looks like refugees from some gorilla love-in . . . We ought to mate 'em up with . . . black wenches. That...
...style circuit rider, familiar to any fan of Hollywood westerns, largely disappeared in the U.S. around the turn of the century as urbanization advanced. Morrow is one of his few surviving descendants in North America. In Igloolik, he began by explaining the legal system in simple terms and by introducing the other members of the court, who flew along with him. There was a court clerk and a court recorder, a crown attorney who prosecuted the cases from a few notes made by the arresting Mountie, and a legal-aid counsel who prepared a defense after similarly sketchy study...