Released by Columbia Pictures on July 14, 1969, Easy Rider’s intense and somewhat transformative plot centres around Wyatt and Billy. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper in Easy Rider The older guys around the studios didn’t understand the youth market.” – Joseph McBride, film historian and author The major studios were in big trouble and they seemed to be out of touch. The studio system was really collapsing by about 1966. Peter Fonda has said that on top of this, he personally paid for the costs of travel and lodging for the crew, “ Everybody was taking my credit cards and would pay for all the hotels, the food, the gas, everything.” Numbers aside, Easy Rider holds a key place in film history because of its multi-faceted, interpretable script open to interpretation and cinematic storytelling, all of which make it stand out from the many independent films that came before it. The small-budget film earned $60 million worldwide from a filming budget of no more than $400,000. Easy Rider won the award for Best First Work in the Cannes Film Festival. Directed by Dennis Hopper and produced by Peter Fonda, it received two Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Jack Nicholson for playing the part of ACLU lawyer George Hanson). Written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, Easy Rider is one of the first hit movies made outside of the studio system. Not only that - Easy Rider is the first indie film to actually make money. However, when Easy Rider was gifted to the world, it became clear that movies can have musical identities that intensify the plot and its characters. Once upon a time, musical numbers had to be specially produced and tailored to each movie.
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But movie soundtracks weren’t always a natural part of the rapid pace of production. Every scene – especially the most emotionally driven ones – always feels a little bit more human and within our reach if the right melody is playing in the background. Sometimes we are lucky enough to manage to let go and completely immerse ourselves in the movie scene that’s playing before our eyes.
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