1 Nov 1955 – 30 Apr 1975 - These are the dates of the Vietnam war. Its not mentioned in the film. Even though a new wave film focusses on real issues going on rather than creating a fantasy, it's not focussed on. Yet drugs are. This could be because of the characters want to escape and drugs are a good way of doing that. And then from the camera, an audience is able to see and experience what that's like with the way it is edited with a small montage sequence.
These type of films would be more targeted at a younger gerneation 18-25 in terms of age nut with the use of a care-free and drug using lifestyle hippies would be able to relate to this type of film. A more open-minded audience member. Other who were curious were able to see what happens when people are involved with this as well. Overall a very inadvertently educational, looking at a non mainstream way of living.
Comparing it to the Vietnam war, This film enforces the counterculture as look to drugs and social behaviour, (hanging out with friends) as Hippies, and youths/everyone didn't want to know about the war. It was very adamant that it was going on, using escapism, this film captures what life would be like to have a care free look towards issues like war.
Comparing it to the Vietnam war, This film enforces the counterculture as look to drugs and social behaviour, (hanging out with friends) as Hippies, and youths/everyone didn't want to know about the war. It was very adamant that it was going on, using escapism, this film captures what life would be like to have a care free look towards issues like war.
Contextualised References:
Horwath, A. Elsaesser, T. King, N. (2004)"There was wholesale nudity, unmistakable evidence of fucking, orgies, drugs and language."
Santas, C. (2001) "Directed by Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider came at the end of the sixties when antisocial unrest, mainly caused by the Vietnam war, had reached its climax. The movie had some characteristics similar to those of the Western genre, but it was more an 'Eastern', since its vagabonds on motorcycles were traveling east in search of freedom."
Bapis, E M. (2009) "...Arrived front and center in America to meld new counterculture men with the men of Westerns past".
Bibliography:
Horwath, A. Elsaesser, T. King, N. (2004) The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood in the 1970s Amsterdam University Press
Santas, C. (2001) Responding to film: A Text Guide for Students of Cinema Art Burnham Inc.
Bapis, E M. (2009) Camera and Action: Film as Agent of Social Change 1965 - 1975 McFarland & Company Inc.
No comments:
Post a Comment