tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post7205429697921276996..comments2023-10-10T05:17:55.737-07:00Comments on Crushed By Ingsoc: Born To Be Wild- Easy Rider, a Message They Will Never KillCrushedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479751225625007588noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-14672438807110151862008-08-12T18:04:00.000-07:002008-08-12T18:04:00.000-07:00Hey you should write movie stuff more often. I enj...Hey you should write movie stuff more often. I enjoyed reading this.<br><br>And I haven't watched Easy Rider, can you believe it? It was at my local video shop and I picked it up the other day but put it back. Now I'll go and find it and watch it ok?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-4758978190466244392008-08-12T18:07:00.000-07:002008-08-12T18:07:00.000-07:00Interesting that you mention this film, for I've b...Interesting that you mention this film, for I've been up to my neck with it recently. Curiously, I've never taken the opportunity to see the film, yet I've read so much about it.<br><br>Curious too, this post presages my next series. I'm going to link to it somewhere, I'm sure.<br><br>Coming as it did in 1969, <i>Easy Rider</i> was one of a number of dystopian visions of the counterculture in the popular eye. Many in the '70s would ask the very question, "Did we blow it?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-89923881545449798042008-08-12T19:46:00.000-07:002008-08-12T19:46:00.000-07:00I think I was too young when I saw it, just didn't...I think I was too young when I saw it, just didn't get it. My head was probably up my ass too - my focus was more on money in those days, my creativity was repressed. You sell it well, I should watch it again.<br><br>I liked Five Easy Pieces, had some of the same themes - struggle for freedom and meaning in a soul-sucking world, need for hard work to get by conflicting with those desires for freedom and joy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-12414672464693575942008-08-13T09:35:00.000-07:002008-08-13T09:35:00.000-07:00looks like i should see it ;-)will watch your yout...looks like i should see it ;-)<br>will watch your youtube clips in the day (am online in parents bedroom now, where the computer with internet connection is, so can't watch now ;-)).<br><br>you write up the film very well; i can almost feel what you mean...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-75337215373574977662008-08-13T11:20:00.000-07:002008-08-13T11:20:00.000-07:00Kate- It's only the second review I've ever done, ...Kate- It's only the second review I've ever done, actually.<br><br>I did one for Leaving Las Vegas a while back.<br>I think I probably will end up doing more. I think Jacob's Ladder is on the cards. And Dead Men's Shoes.<br><br>You should get it out, definitely. You'll love it. Great music score, great scenery, and it moves from high comedy, to political comentery, to dark tragedy.<br><br>X-dell- I guess I empathise with the Peter Fonda character- as I guess, you're supposed to. As I've grown older I've understood the film more than I did at twenty. Back then, I just saw it as a cool film about cool people and the ending came as a shock.<br><br>It is a masterpiece, it really is.<br><br>Yes, it is a social message. Its askingcounterculture what it really stands for, pretty much as I think our generation are now, only in a diffeent, more wordly wise way, because we're more of a hidden counter-culture.<br><br>Benjibopper- You should, I think it means more when you've ben a bit battered by life. I think it's a film for those who still believe, but have lost their innocence a bit.<br><br>Not seen Five Easy Pieces, I'll admit. I'll check it out.<br><br>Eve- I think the clips are some of the best bits, though there were a couple of scenes I wanted, but couldn't find.<br><br>I think I pretty much caught the basic themes of the film. I guess it kind of lies in my subconscious somewhere, kind of like the Perseus Myth might have done to Plato- its a sort of moral fable, an allegory if you like, of the 20th century.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-8585189616695405002008-08-13T12:21:00.000-07:002008-08-13T12:21:00.000-07:00I stopped at the spoiler warning. I will borrow th...I stopped at the spoiler warning. I will borrow the movie and then come back to read. I'm taking a wild guess that I will like it and sympathise and that most of my friends will not. Unknowing slaves don't like to hear tales of those who wish to be free and often react with much indignity. Of course I'm making wild assumptions about the nature of this movie I have not yet seen...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com