Feel the thrill of speed and freedom with this stunning Easy Rider Poster that will delight any vintage enthusiast!
- Paper Feature:
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- By default, the poster contains a 4cm white border for framing (frame not included). If you don’t want it, please choose “without white border”.
- ✅ Size: Multiple choices available. ✅
- High UV resistance.
- Color vibrancy maximum, glare-free.
- Paper recycled, guaranteeing environmental friendliness.
- Poster packaged carefully and delivered in a protective tube for Total protection.
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Description of this Easy Rider Poster
Easy Rider is a 1969 American independent film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda, and directed by Hopper. Fonda and Hopper play two bikers who travel across the Southwest and Southern United States, transporting the proceeds of a cocaine trafficking operation. The success of Easy Rider helped launch the New Hollywood era in the early 1970s.
A seminal counterculture film and “a touchstone of a generation” that “captured the national imagination,” Easy Rider explores the societal landscape, issues, and tensions facing teenagers in the United States in the 1960s, such as the rise of the hippie movement, drug use, and communal living. Real drugs were used in scenes depicting the use of marijuana and other substances.
Released by Columbia Pictures on July 14, 1969, Easy Rider grossed $60 million worldwide on a modest filming budget of $400,000. Critics praised the performances, direction, writing, soundtrack, and cinematography. The film received two Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Jack Nicholson).
In 1998, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry because of its cultural, historical, or aesthetic significance.
Wyatt and Billy are freewheeling bikers. After smuggling cocaine from Mexico to Los Angeles, they sell their loot and receive a large sum of money. With the money in a plastic tube hidden in the gas tank of Wyatt’s California motorcycle, they ride east to reach New Orleans, Louisiana, in time for the Mardi Gras festival.
During their journey, Wyatt and Billy stop to fix a flat tire on Wyatt’s bike at an Arizona farm and have a meal with the farmer and his family. Later, Wyatt picks up a hippie hitchhiker who invites them to visit his commune, where they stay for the rest of the day. The notion of “free love” seems to be put into practice, as two of the women, Lisa and Sarah, seem to share the affection of the hitchhiking commune member before turning their attention to Wyatt and Billy. As the bikers leave, the hitchhiker gives Wyatt some LSD to share with “the right people.”
Later, at a parade in New Mexico, the two are arrested for “parading without a permit” and thrown in jail. There, they befriend lawyer George Hanson, who spent the night in jail after abusing alcohol. After mentioning that he worked for the ACLU, George helps them get out of jail and decides to travel with Wyatt and Billy to New Orleans. While camping that night, Wyatt and Billy introduce George to marijuana. As an alcoholic and a “square,” George is reluctant to try marijuana, fearing he’ll become “hooked” and that it will lead him to even more dangerous drugs, but he quickly relents.
Stopping to eat at a small Louisiana diner, the trio attracts the attention of the locals. The girls in the diner find them exciting, but the local men and a police officer make disparaging comments and taunts. Wyatt, Billy, and George decide to leave without a fuss. They set up camp outside of town. In the middle of the night, a group of locals attacks the sleeping trio, beating them with clubs. Billy screams and brandishes a knife, and the attackers leave. Wyatt and Billy are slightly injured, but George has been bludgeoned to death. Wyatt and Billy wrap George’s body in his sleeping bag, gather his belongings, and vow to return them to his family.
They continue on to New Orleans and find a brothel George had told them about. Taking prostitutes Karen and Mary with them, Wyatt and Billy wander the streets filled with Mardi Gras parades. They end up at a cemetery in the French Quarter, where the four ingest the LSD the hitchhiker gave Wyatt.
The next morning, when they are passed on a two-lane country road by two local men in an old pickup truck, the passenger in the truck grabs a shotgun, saying he’ll scare them. As they pass Billy, the passenger fires, and Billy crashes. The truck passes Wyatt, who has stopped, and Wyatt returns to Billy, finding him lying on the side of the road covered in blood. Wyatt tells Billy he’s going to get help and covers Billy’s wound with his own leather jacket. Wyatt then runs down the road toward the pickup truck, which turns around. Passing in the opposite direction, the passenger fires his shotgun again, this time through the driver’s side window. Wyatt’s unmanned motorcycle flies through the air and breaks apart before landing and bursting into flames.