CIN240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Easyriders, Corporate Capitalism
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The new audience reached with easy rider. Associated with joints and music by nature of easy rider. Participation in the movie enforced his association with counter culture. Jonathan kirshner says that bbs is a brass ring in the relationships between producers and hollywood. New developing relationship of hollywood as a distributor bbs as an independent producer. Early bbs success came with the tv shows called the monkeys . Eventually makes a feature-length with the monkeys called head late 1970s. Rock music a central part of this film. Chronicles the life of a man evading responsibility. But life in his world, as demonstrated by the lifestyles of his counterparts, suggests little accountability or commitment to begin with nostalgic , seventies vibe. Two types of hippies the carefree crazy ones like the lady in the back seat talking about safety; the angsty sort that moves around obliviously. Women are all docile and love-wanting beings.
