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Cool to see a very young Jack Nicholson philosophizing.

Cool to see a very young Jack Nicholson philosophizing.

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You might find (BlackPilled) Devon Stack's short review about Easy Rider to be interesting/enlightening.

Life on Easy Mode ~18 minutes long

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I sent my friend an email about it because Peter Fonda wears a Rolex:

I just watched the movie Easy Rider, which I’d not seen before. It came out a few years before I was born. Anyway, I know the movie is lauded as this great, cinematic masterpiece or what have you, but I didn’t really care for it.

A pivotal point in the plotline is when Peter Fonda’s character Captain America discards his wristwatch and throws it in the dirt. Honestly, I hadn’t even noticed he was wearing a watch because I was concentrating more on the dialogue and the visual of his whole American motif. Anyway, the watch he discards is apparently a Timex, but that is a goof because the watch he wears in a couple of scenes before that is a solid gold GMT-Master with a Black Dial (Ref# 1675?) Looked like Root Beer, but it must have been a Pepsi. I don’t think they made Root Beers back then. Did they? Anyway, the movie was in production in 1968, so I’ll guess it is from 67 or 68.

Kind of unrealistic to me. Hopper and Fonda are a couple of hippie/biker hybrids who seem to eschew everything for the open road and it seems unlikely that Fonda’s Captain America would have ever taken timekeeping so seriously at any time in hie life or had the means to have opted for a solid gold Rolex—-although his back story is never revealed , so it isn’t impossible. Maybe he was a rich kid who was rebelling. He appears to be in his late 20’s in the movie. I have heard stories of guys who bought Rolex back in that era and while the prices were not as inflated as they are now (even proportionately), it wasn’t exactly like buying a Timex, either. Servicemen overseas in Europe would buy them and it wouldn’t exactly be a casual purchase. I think it would be 2-3 months of an enlisted man’s wages back then.

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Hahahahaah! He’s 100% correct and annihilated them. I thought that leaving Nicholson’s body being left there summed up the movie.

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I came here to say exactly that.

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Rednecks don’t like hippies. You can make a lot of money selling cocaine. That’s all I remember. Wasn’t that great IMO.

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It shows how much of a shithole American was turning into, by that point, due to the shitheads that were being raised after WWII.

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I put the decline of the West with the generation before the boomers, the so-called "greatest generation" that fought WW2 (a war that never needed to happen, by the way). They fucked up the raising of their boomer children, and that is why the 1960s were so chaotic and lawless. The "greatest generation" was in control during the 1960s, and they brought in LBJ's welfare state and the new immigration act that discouraged white immigration from Europe, and encouraged non-white immigration. Both those political bills were death to the West.

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Gotta push the individual over the collective. Clint Eastwood's Magnum Force is another good example.

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"Five Easy Pieces" was actually a good philosophical movie starring Jack Nicholson.

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Y'all don't realize how different this movie was at the time and how the dirty hippy boomers related to it and loved it. What the hell do you millenials know anyway, y'all fap to anime.

Anyhow, the boomers embraced every degeneracy and rejected their parents and all Western traditions. They embraced the African ways that was promoted for over a decade before this movie came out.

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I’m Generation X. It was a shitty movie about 2 hedonistic sociopaths.

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Yeah, pretty much. That was the hippie-dippie philosophy of the late 1960s.

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Also, people say Hopper and Fonda were Boomers, but they weren’t. They were a little older than Boomers. I believe they were born in like 1936. Boomers are like 1946-1965.

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That's the whole point of Easy Rider. Their lives are pointless. Their deaths are pointless. All they do is ride around, having random experiences, until they die. It's a depressing philosophy of life which, personally, I don't agree with, but it has its advocates.

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It was pointless hippie and drug glorification, yes

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I'm on the Peter Fonda Diet.

I get up in the morning, smoke two joints, have a light breakfast and then go over to my rich sister's house and ask her for money.

The Fonda family = old Hollywood = all controlled clowns.