“Easy Rider” ends with two “Rednecks in a pickup truck (who) use a shotgun to blast both men from their bikes. The camera climbs high into the sky on a crane, pulling back to show us the inevitable fate, I guess, of anyone who dares to be different.”
Roger Ebert “A cinematic snapshot of the ‘60s” (October 24, 2004)
The scene in which Billy and Wyatt are shot and killed was filmed on Louisiana Highway 105 North, just outside Krotz Springs, and the two other men in the scene—Johnny David and D.C. Billodeau—were locals, who also provided their pickup truck. They were released and sent home after they requested another $25 apiece to continue working after lunch, which is why their pickup doesn’t appear on the highway in the closing shot from a helicopter (a widening ‘pull back’) of Billy’s bike burning with Wyatt’s on the highway in the deep background.
Towards the end of the shoot, when Dennis was about to run out of money, he offered the crew points …thanks but no thanks on just another harum-scarum biker flick.
Joyce King was the script supervisor and reportedly the only crewmember to take him up on the deal, with the result that she’s apparently still getting residual checks. https://cinephiliabeyond.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/30.jpg?x72833
Thích Quảng Đức was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963. Quảng Đức was protesting the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government led by Ngô Đình Diệm, a staunch Roman Catholic. Photographs of his self-immolation circulated around the world, drawing attention to the policies of the Diệm government.
Eventually, a U.S.-backed coup toppled Diệm, who was assassinated on 2 November 1963. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c
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“Easy Rider” ends with two “Rednecks in a pickup truck (who) use a shotgun to blast both men from their bikes. The camera climbs high into the sky on a crane, pulling back to show us the inevitable fate, I guess, of anyone who dares to be different.”
Roger Ebert “A cinematic snapshot of the ‘60s” (October 24, 2004)
The scene in which Billy and Wyatt are shot and killed was filmed on Louisiana Highway 105 North, just outside Krotz Springs, and the two other men in the scene—Johnny David and D.C. Billodeau—were locals, who also provided their pickup truck. They were released and sent home after they requested another $25 apiece to continue working after lunch, which is why their pickup doesn’t appear on the highway in the closing shot from a helicopter (a widening ‘pull back’) of Billy’s bike burning with Wyatt’s on the highway in the deep background.
‘Easy Rider’: A Revolutionary Road-Trip Film that Heralded a New Era of Filmmaking (Cinephilia & Beyond, Nov 24, 2016) https://cinephiliabeyond.org/easy-rider-revolutionary-road-trip-film-heralded-new-era-filmmaking/
Towards the end of the shoot, when Dennis was about to run out of money, he offered the crew points …thanks but no thanks on just another harum-scarum biker flick.
Joyce King was the script supervisor and reportedly the only crewmember to take him up on the deal, with the result that she’s apparently still getting residual checks. https://cinephiliabeyond.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/30.jpg?x72833
Thích Quảng Đức was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963. Quảng Đức was protesting the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government led by Ngô Đình Diệm, a staunch Roman Catholic. Photographs of his self-immolation circulated around the world, drawing attention to the policies of the Diệm government.
Eventually, a U.S.-backed coup toppled Diệm, who was assassinated on 2 November 1963.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c
‘Easy Rider,’ hippies and the Dennis Hopper legacy : The era was the late 1960s and a lot of things were happening in Taos back then (Taos News May 10, 2022) https://www.taosnews.com/news/local-news/easy-rider-hippies-and-the-dennis-hopper-legacy/article_ae7305a7-297a-521c-9c3b-b156d5358fb0.html