I've just watched this after 30 odd years ago. Has the USA changed?

From some posts I doubt it.

Cindy

It's been long though that you know you're a grown-up when Easy Rider turns out to have a happy ending after all.

Sadly that is what I was afraid of.
Has it changed?


From posts here it hasn't.

The movie is very simple; did USA people understand it? Or was the drug reference too much?

Cindy

Well doesn't everyone find coke smugglers romantic?

Lost me

You did watch the movie?  They get the money for their trip by selling cocaine.

Personal observation:

No Cindy, the US did not get any better after "Easy Rider".  If anything it got worse.

It was a fun movie about discovering America, despite the drug references.  Many thought it would be fun to go see America from the back of a steel horse.

But there are areas that look down on bike riders.  I have been in some places where I was looked at as a Hell's Angel.

It is a place that is 1000 miles X 2000 miles, with 300 million people, your going to be able to find anything and everything.

I was ignoring the drug related funding of the trip. I also don't smoke any drug, so I may miss some aspects of the movie.

I was more concerned about the presentation of American society.

25 years plus ago I travelled Australia in a 4WD for over a year, we went to many small and isolated communities, ignored big cities unless I needed medical repairs (I did, I got a nasty parasite infection). But I found everyone to be friendly and outgoing. Most hated the federal government, but everyone else was so nice. And I met people from the most marginalised members of Australian  society. In fact the only people I really had a problem were wealthy people doing the  retirement 'tour', since we had no money and basically had to work to keep the fuel tank full, we met all sorts.  Lots of racists, lots of thugs, lots of the lost souls. But mainly decent human beings.

Funny world, Easy Rider didn't reflect them.

Maybe it did.

I keep reflecting

Cindy
 

Quote from: tekla on May 21, 2011, 10:03:25 AM
It is a place that is 1000 miles X 2000 miles, with 300 million people, your going to be able to find anything and everything.

Not disputing;but in a continent of a same size with 15 million people you can find isolation and rules may not apply.

Cindy

The cultural war between the conservatives and the liberals rages harder than ever, yet you can see that minorities right have improved. Much remains, ignorance, poverty, and greed are -in my opinion- the main problem.

My gig with my masters take to many different countries for periods of times, and these visits has lead me to believe that most countries in the world -including the largest -China, India, Brazil, Russia- are indeed in a parallel condition to that of the USA. Not surprise here considering the level of globalization.

We -humans- are changing, what had happen to us is that the technological revolution has proceed to far and not in synchrony with the equally needed sociological  changes. I think it is going to take us two to three hundred years to eliminate some of the sociological maladies that permeate our current civilization. 

I'm in Australia and so I view the USA with different lenses. I first saw ER when it came out. I was interested to see if the country had  'caught' up to the movie or still rejected the life style that was portrayed.

I'm not condoning or rejecting any thing, I was interested if the USA had fundamentally changed in 30+ years. It seems it hasn't

I find that very sad.

Cindy