Word: yahoo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...free of what? Certainly not of American yahoo aspirations-Billy intends to buy a home in Florida with his share of the loot. This is what Hopper insists on in his interviews: that when Wyatt says to Billy "We blew it" what they're really saying is that they're no different from the two guys in the truck. That's true, but that's not what the film says at all. The good guys are portrayed as sensitive loner types: they know grass isn't addictive: they're nice to girls: they wouldn't hurt anybody. The bad guys...
...Hopper, Fonda, and Terry Southern, arch prostitute at large, Easy Rider inherits from the Western a large quantity of corn, what intellectuals like to call folk poetry, and a simplistic moral schema. There are good guys, like Captain America, drooled over in infatuated close-ups, and bad guys, the yahoos of the South and over-thirty America in general. The good guys are warding off the yahoos (a young commune member prays to God "Thank you for a place to make a stand.") Billy and Wyatt die because they are free, like all good guys. (Hanson says: "They're scared...
...Cavett is not stopped before he gets more practice, this Nebraska citybilly, this con merchant in a Brooks Brothers special, this yahoo Yalie, this literate, witty guy, is likely to become a national habit. And then who is going to wash all those dirty dishes...
Ironically, the Yahoo-type hazing of Marshall made it more unlikely that any serious Senator would want to question him seriously. It made it all the more certain that his highly political appointment (not the first, of course, in Supreme Court history) would clear the Senate comfortably...
...heavies' heavy-handed make-up job was more yahoo than human. The hair of Edmund and Cornwall was plastered, their cheeks puffed. The two sisters looked equally horrid. Their hair must have been set with an eggbeater. Even Carnovsky's make-up, while giving his face the cast of a Biblical patriarch, seemed at times rigid enough to hide expression...