'Easy Rider' question.. bikers, film gurus inside...
 

I got the classic film, Easy Rider, on DVD. After watching it several times, I am still wondering about all the religious symbolism throughout the movie.

Culminating in one of the final scenes, Wyatt and Billy bang some New Orleans whores in a graveyard. WTF was up with this scene? I don't get it.

Someone explain por favor.

Damn hippies were too cheap to get a room.

True:thumbsup

Also the writers and director was high when they filmed it.

which were the actors as well :winkwink:

It is a montage to invoke the sense that their high was of biblical proportions.

You couldnt figure out they were tripping?? :helpme:1orglaugh

They were on acid.

Love that movie.. I agree with spacedog too.

Obviously they were tripping on different drugs throughout the movie, but this doesn't address my original question.

What was with the religious symbolism throughout the movie, particularly the graveyard scene?

nobody knows?

Ride Hard, Die Free or something like that

This sounds about right:

We really get an impression of the perceived ?bad trip? and the mechanical pounding of the nearby piledriver and constant religious imagery remind us that there is no true ?escape? from the moral restrictions and cruel realities of the world. The odd incongruity of sex and drugs in a cemetery (echoing the earlier churchlike whorehouse with ?Kyrie Eleison?) and the strange religious/kitsch, sacred/profane combination that is New Orleans overtakes and overwhelms us.

Yeah, it was the acid part of the movie.

It's been rumoured that the rednecks featured in the movie are no actors but what they did is that they really went into local bars etc. and watched "people" getting disturbed with their orthodox easy rider image.

Many of the guys in the movie are non actors. Dennis Hopper surely made a great job as a director and main character, Jack Nicholson's presence is unforgettable too.

I've seen "Easy Rider" a few times.. years ago. In real life Peter Fonda's mother committed suicide when he was a boy. In the famous cemetery scene here he is asking why his mother left him he is referring to her. It was very real.

Also, the lyric "I know what it's like to be dead" in The Beatles song "She Said, She Said" was something Fonda said to John Lennon during an acid trip. I guess Fonda nearly accidentally killed himself with a self-inflicted gun shot blast as a kid.

I assumed it was because they were all high on acid and they are in New Orleans where there happen to be some pretty bloody amazing cemetaries, aren't there? Who wouldn't head there to trip out on LSD? I sure would have.

LSD and religion kind of go hand in hand, it makes you very introspective, and it seems that for awhile they are having a bad sort of trip. I don't think it really goes much deeper than that.

Drugs are for Thugs!!!

Sounds like some sort of hippie crucifixtion ??

Iam more of a Zabriskie Point kinda guy anyways...

intentionally designed to confuse the viewer, which it obviously did since you are posting about it

i love that fucking movie, one of the best...

Its to symbolize they are young but can die at ant time. Would make sense to me.