Diner scene from Easy Rider (1969)

[@glennbrymer4065]

I watched this movie in 1969. I was a 17 year old US Army soldier visiting Washington DC. 5 years later, I met Peter Fonda when he was filming Race with the Devil. He gave all the drivers & extras, envelopes full of brand new $100. bills. We went out in all directions and bought every yellow rose in San Antonio. We brought them all back to the hotel where the actors were staying and put them all over the place! There were hundreds & hundreds of yellow roses. Peter was sweet on actress Loretta Swit and she said she loved yellow roses. She was very amazed. That was a great adventure.

[@georgehenderson7783]

Nice!

[@suzmik]

That movie terrified me! 😅

[@ukraine_tbic]

That’s a memory!

[@ultrameticulous]

That's a cool story. Also, dang, that is a big group wingman effort. Got anymore stories from the 70s?

[@glennbrymer4065]

@@ultrameticulous1976: at the Willie Nelson Fourth of July Picnic outside Gonzales. I took my girlfriend & her girlfriend there and set up camp 2 days ahead of the concert. I set up on top of a hill near the concert. We could see everything. We stayed there for days partying. The crowds were very large. There were LOTS of drugs & even More alcohol. I found someone selling light sticks. I was stoned playing around with it. I cut one open and found that it glowed green on everything you put it on. So, I had a great idea. I cut a bunch open and put the liquid all over my clothes & cowboy hat. I was completely glowing bright green!!!! I started walking through the crowd. People were blowing thier minds watching me. It was a blast. But sadly, the drugs were messing people up. There were not enough medical care there. They were overwhelmed. I ended up taking care and watching over a handful of ODs at our campsite. Non of them died, the next morning they all woke up ok. They All thanked us, then they all started partying again. It was a real wild concert that lasted for days. I'm glad I got there early and I'm glad I took a lot of supplies & camping gear. This concert & a Grateful Dead concert in Austin at Manor Downs in the early 80s were the 2 wildest concerts I ever went too.

[@royrush5374]

The casting for this film is so good!!!

[@1polonium210]

The young lady in the blue dress is Rose LeBlanc. She was in my First Semester English class at Univ. Louisiana - Lafayette, 1969.

[@1polonium210]

@Merle Dixon Asshat, her name is in the screen credits. I remember her well.

[@banjo304]

@Merle Dixon fella, all these characters are played by locals from Pointe Coupee parish

[@goodtrip3520]

Daaaamn Are you serious 😃? She is a legend

[@goodtrip3520]

That blonde Am i understand right??

[@Kiatro]

very cool

[@matthewmaguire3554]

Fact that the locals performed in this scene and played stereotypes of themselves took nerve.

[@brianramirez4953]

They were too stupid to know the laugh was on them.

[@JustJeph33]

Not nerve. In 1969, white still ruled, and you could portray that on film. Now, everybody hates everybody. But hey, Jesus warned us it would be this way..

[@Zodroo_Tint]

@@brianramirez4953 Watch behind the scenes first before you form an opinion!

[@georgie-fentanyl]

@@Zodroo_Tint planned or not, Hollywood has been mocking and pushing and enforcing negative stereotypes of whyt rural ppl for decades. Sasha Baron Cohen, another j00 ish zioni$t Hollywood film maker has made his entire career out of doing this.

[@orfeo793]

@@brianramirez4953They were well aware and were acting. It's just cheaper (and for some projects more "authentic") to get local people as extras

[@johngarcia8827]

I saw a behind the scenes . The guy in the CAT hat was laughing and paling around with Fonda. Really great to watch

[@endokrin7897]

Well that's no good! How are we supposed to make fun of the dumb hicks if we know they were getting along on the MOVIE set?

[@pinecone9045]

He was certainly convincing as his character damn.

[@gatocles99]

Because country people are actually friendly.

[@warrencrawfordart]

“That is what is known as…country witticisms…” What a great line.

[@jerroldfrank5869]

Trumptards today..

[@mattwalker5129]

In the summer of 1973, I saw Easy Rider and decided to go hitchhiking across America. I was 16. In the summer of '73 you could get away with hitching cross country without worrying about getting killed like nowadays. I got picked up by some good old boys. One of them had hair down over his ears, and we pulled into a diner just like the one in this movie. I had hair over my ears also. We're not talking long hair, but it was long enough to get your ass kicked in 1973 in a seedy little diner like the one in this movie. As we walked through the door, one guy in a Peterbilt cap let out a hoot and a holler... I didn't know what they were yelling about; I just sat down and waited to give the waitress my order. We waited for about a half an hour maybe, maybe just 20 minutes, and we got the message and left. The scene in this movie is extremely realistic.

[@oldmansportsog2514]

There was people being killed by killers who would pick up hitchhikers in those days. Don't be naive

[@mattwalker5129]

@@oldmansportsog2514 I'm talking about most people, asshole. Go fuck yourself with an empty Schlitz can.

[@abstract5249]

There were just as many serial killers/kidnappers in the 70s. They just didn't have as much media coverage, so the general public wasn't as aware of them as we are today. If anything, I bet there are probably LESS killers/kidnappers per capita today because of advances in criminal investigation technology.

[@MongoLloyd-px7jt]

Cops should have arrested you and shaved your head.

[@mattwalker5129]

@@MongoLloyd-px7jt Blow me, weirdo.

[@edwardbliss8931]

All those people in the diner aren't actors. They were locals.

[@katherinerobillard2165]

Yep. They are all wonderful men and women. Cat man is my great uncle. The Sherif is a good family friend along with the rest.

[@jondstewart]

I can’t rule out the possibility the locals in this were nasty and close-minded in real life as they were in this. After all it is the rural south back then. I remember reading somewhere the man playing the sheriff said Easy Rider was trash and didn’t want to see the movie.

[@EphemeralProductions]

But they were probably only saying lines they were told to say by the director

[@booqueefious2230]

@@EphemeralProductions they weren't given specific lines, but they were told generally what the scene was

[@zom-b4237]

The director was probably like "just be yourself," and dammit this is one of the greatest scenes in one of the greatest movies. Easy Rider was a great portrayal of America and still is.

[@davidc6032]

The guy in the Cat hat still gives me the creeps. I grew up in the south in the 60s and 70s, and that kind of guy was everywhere.

[@jobson586]

Yeah I hear you, all inbreds the whole lot

[@texaswunderkind]

Weird how they immediately get violent, but view the harmless outsiders as a threat.

[@santiagoblasgilabert2877]

​@@texaswunderkindNo son inofensivos. No para "sus mujeres". En los pueblos de Estados Unidos, en España, en los Alpes, en Siberia, en Groenlandia o en las selvas de Myanmar si un forastero mira a las mujeres de la tribu puede salir con un hueso roto. O varios. Es la naturaleza humana.

[@PunchBuggyDreams]

@@santiagoblasgilabert2877 Yes I have first experience of this when I went to Acapulco back in 1981. I was in a disco club and asked a local girl to dance and immediately I was approached by her male friends in a very threatening way.

[@TBrosProject]

They’re still around. They vote for Trump.

[@DonVideoGuy007]

The chant "The man is at the window!" still makes me LOL, all these years after I saw "Easy Rider" at the local movie theatre.

[@michaelpaul5801]

😄

[@TexasMan77]

The deputy sheriff was the real life deputy of the parish. His patch was displayed at the beginning of the scene and he was nearly fired afterward.

[@TexasMan77]

Jack Straw Yes he is. He’s a rancher in that area and says he is still asked about the movie all the time. They weren’t supposed to show the patch. It was accidentally revealed in the shot.

[@DarthVader-1701]

Why does the patch say County if it's supposed to be in Louisiana?

[@alexdebruge2396]

Jamie N It doesn’t say county, it says “Pointe Coupee”, that is the parish where this scene was filmed.

[@katherinerobillard2165]

His name is Arnold Hess and he was the Sheriff in Pointe Coupee. And yes he is still alive and well. Great man.

[@angelopapas3521]

Unfortunately dead now.

[@1176hambone]

"You gotta a note from your Mom?" ...."the man is at the window, the man is at the window" pure gold

[@robsimpson6537]

Yes 😂!

[@charlieburns4272]

I saw this movie in the late 90s. Came from Ireland in 2003 with a cali girl and broke up soon after so went hitching. I ended up hitchhiking around America . It was the best fun and freest time I've ever known. Methheads were great for lifts and run away wives and truck drivers as well as old krusty deadheads and rainbow hippies. Sure was an eye opener for a farm boy from Ireland. The Women . Omg.

[@rickrose5377]

I saw this movie at a drive-in theater when it first came out and I was in high school -- a drive-in theater! One could safely hitchhike in the U.S. in the 70s. As a 19-year-old, I hitchhiked from Chicago to Boston via NYC and Connecticut. There were no cell phones, social media, fewer guns, and less casual violence. It was a more civil society, generally, but racism and prejudice were more overt and outspoken as depicted here.

[@thetoddlanders1992]

@@onazram1 Sounds normal to me. I probably hitched about 15,000 miles round the US and Mexico in the late 90s, was a very wonderful time. To be fair, the last time I hitched in the US was 2014 (just Missouri to California and back to Colorado then down to Mexico) and it was still great. People always tell you it's not what it once was. But only the people that have no experience of it.

[@mwj5368]

@@thetoddlanders1992 What's the word today about conditions for hitching? The last I hitched was about 1994. I have a tent and could camp. My back is so bad I can no longer wear a backpack and will have a wheeled suitcase. I suppose with 500,000 homeless and now hundreds of thousands of migrants allowed in the country that hitching might be a hassle from law enforcement making it difficult. In 2007 all I did in California is pay the fee (I had a mini station wagon I could sleep in) for a state park that had hike-in only campsites, and was on the Big Sur Coast of California. I was very tired and arrived at 1AM. I decided why hike in at this point and just sleep in my car. I woke to big spotlights. Even though I had paid they made me go to another state park with drive=in campsites. They followed me all the way too, about 15 miles, and it was like 2AM. I ended up paying 3 times as much at that park, lost my money at the other park, and they said, "We have too many transients around here." and that was in 2007! In California I wanted to stop at a wayside rest and the entrance ramp, the entire parking lot, and the exit ramp was all packed full of cars!

[@artstrology]

@@mwj5368 Today, I would not hitch through any small towns, and I would use a sign saying where you are going to get a straight through ride. It is more safe in some ways, and way less safe in others. Guatemala is way safer than the US.

[@mwj5368]

@@artstrology HI! I'm wanting to hit the road for a short trip and bring my tent. I can't use a backpack any more because of a ruptured disk. I thought I'd hitch west out of Minnesota on ramps to the interstate and maybe camp in the Badlands and see old acquaintances at Pine Ridge Reservation. So you suggest using signs only? What makes it safe and also unsafe to use signs? The last I hitched was in 1994. Are there many hitchhikers any more? I don't own a car and rarely get out of this city I need to get a break from. A lot of bad weather this summer in Minnesota. Where are you hitching? Do you live in Guatemala?

[@triggerfish999]

I love this movie. Americana at its finest. I'm a Brit b1960. Saw it in first around 1976…the finest decade there ever was.

[@DavidBostock-ti2fv]

It's a stupid movie. Try touring on a motorcycle with a tiny gas tank with even less capacity because you hid money in plastic tubing in gasoline. Don't get me started on super moron Ian Fleming's malarkey.

[@vondernacht]

I like the metaphor of his match refusing to light

[@stanmonzon5788]

Explain

[@pinchechingata]

@@stanmonzon5788the light knew it wasn’t the right place to light lol

[@ilirllukaci5345]

I like the irony of losing a millimeter off my molars every time I watch this scene.

[@HPCAT88]

wow look at you being all deep and "getting it"

[@Sheba386]

My uncle just loves this movie. So many great memories watching it with his friend. Great sound track too

[@MagicAyrtonforever]

How come there are no nymphos like that in my local cafe 😂

[@DH_Artist]

Saaame

[@brianm2881]

There might be, but maybe you have to arrive there and appear exotic and alluring to them, like these fellows do, in order to really bring the nymphomania out.

[@boomerhgt]

FlatEarthBrother They ain't all like that man

[@nommme1849]

Well do you look like Chris Evans when you walk into a cafe?

[@jessewjames-ym1rc]

🤣

[@brucerogermorgan2388]

I saw this movie when it was released here in New Zealand in 1969. I was 19 and rode a motorcycle, but just a standard road bike - a Honda, I think, from memory. The last scene shook me up so much that for 6 months afterwards, every time I saw a Jeep coming down the road I would turn into a side road! Awesome movie, and the song Born to be Wild is still played regularly on my favourite radio station. And yes, I still ride at 74. Got a BMW now. Harley's were never very popular here.

[@dmystify1381]

Harleys werent being exported like they have been for last 30yrs...Not because they werent popular.

[@SmileyDave-h5z]

harley's suck unless you know how to repair them constantly and then they still suck

[@brucerogermorgan2388]

@@SmileyDave-h5z Yeah, but they look pretty and sound cool, and that's enough for the less educated riders.

[@sgshumblecrumb6046]

When the local in the trucker hat said "I think she's cute," I couldn't help but get a Deliverance vibe.

[@AmenYeshua]

Yes. Me too.

[@MikeDunn]

Weird thing to say.

[@ManicMindTrick]

Just drop em' boy. And panties. Squeal like a pig!

[@MWiggins-m2g]

I remember those guys with flat tops, full of smug hatred. Though I was a little kid at the time, I was old enough to remember the bikers of that time period also. I spent a lot more time around them. My dad sold motorcycles for a living and had a Harley chopper raked out there close to Captain America's, except dad's was yellow. I have a picture of him somewhere with long hair, dark sunglasses, and a beer sitting on his chopper. He probably headed out for a ride drunk soon after. He used to sometimes ride with a bike gang for kicks.They were some crazy, hilarious guys. We'd go every five years or so to Sturgis for vacation, back in the 70s before it became a bunch of patent attorneys with fake tatts. In our small lower Midwestern town, there were so many bikers who hung around that the locals, even though some of them might have liked to hate on them, just kind of shut up about it. The bikers weren't outnumbered where I came from. I remember in '69 when dad and the guys from the cycle shop went to see Easy Rider. I was a small child not even in kindergarten yet, so I didn't get to go and was sore about it. When dad got home he said "They blew 'em away." Didn't know what that meant at the time, but of course I know now. Years later, in the early 80s, I became a Christian. Dad never could stomach that until the day he died, he was always the "live free biker" type, he didn't have time for faith in anything but himself and his friends. He was always ready to fight. Still drank and caroused here and there and got in bar fights into his 60s. Walked with a bad limp til the day he died from that time he plowed his Harley drunk into a car head on. Amazing he lived to be 74. I spoke about becoming a Christian. Unfortunately, many of those smug, hateful flat tops had gone into religion and did a pretty good job of making it rough on many of us young guys just trying to love Jesus. As I grew older, I stopped caring what people thought of me and stopped playing nice with them. I didn't hold my tongue anymore. I even broke up a church service once, big verbal showdown from the pews with the pastor. He finally gave up and stopped trying to preach that evening. If I told you what he'd said, you'd agree with what I did. It was unbelievable how hateful those types could be when they got religion without Jesus. Whenever I saw cold, hateful hypocrisy I called it out--and still call it out, including on myself. I may be a lot different from dad, but in some ways I'm my father's son ready to fight. Love you, dad.

[@bent4645]

What do you mean "It was unbelievable how hateful those types could be when they got religion without Jesus"? Which types, the bikers or the preacher? And what do you mean "they got religion"? The bikers or the preacher? Cool story.

[@Yowzoe]

That is an incredible piece of feeling and you owe it to put it out there beyond a KZbin comment. You’re capturing scenes which will help others understand. It’s great that you wrote it here, but please consider fleshing it out. You are a really good writer.

[@ezraepizon5303]

WOW. Thanks for sharing!

[@AndriiTyshchenko]

Basically, you are a free-spirit rebel biker Christian, sir. Best of both worlds :) When the time comes and you go to heaven, perhaps you could ride with Jesus to the West. By the way Jesus was known for disrupting smug preachers back in his day, just as you did, you will be in a good company.

[@mrrocknroll5284]

Rest in Peace Mr Fonda.... And as for Nicholson he is still the greatest

[@uttaradit2]

wots wrong with dennis hopper ?

[@bobshark123]

@@uttaradit2 well, regretfully he died

[@jamescosby2343]

Sex, drugs and Rock-n-Roll. 🎶 The Band! 🎶. U put the load right on me! :))

[@PixPix-zi6vi]

Peter Fonda chilling in this scene.

[@mortb9]

@@uttaradit2 Pabst...Blue Ribbon!!!

[@stevenmitchell2996]

Easy Rider... Like this film or hate it but either way it doesn't matter because it's a classic. I think Jack Nicholson made the right decision to be in Easy Rider because it's a very good film and won awards. 👌

[@dewok2706]

Damn this is a real airhead comment.

[@boomer3150]

Yes...great comment!

[@MrOctober44]

Considering his career was going nowhere and the film was a huge success and he was nominated for an Oscar, I think it's safe to say that, lol

[@billyidol2115]

What a lot of people don't realize is that Dennis Hopper the budget was so small that every time they went to a town, they just asked for people to be in their movie. So everybody in this scene is actually just some local towns people. Pretty cute girls for 1968 I must say😊

[@BiffJackson-o4i]

There's been cute girls in every year. Duh.

[@SFVGIRL]

This was Bill Haywards direction.

[@billyidol2115]

@@SFVGIRL I thought Dennis Hopper directed the movie there's even the DVD extras that have the movie with his narration of what he did on certain scenes

[@ChildOfThe1970s]

For 1968? There's been beautiful girls ever since Eve was created. I'd even say they were cuter in 1968 than they are now because they were more natural.

[@1978garfield]

@@ChildOfThe1970s Yea, I say this as an overweight uggo, people looked better in the 60's and 70's. Everyone got fat when we quit smoking. Sure we live longer but we have to use piano crates as coffins now. I would start smoking again if I could afford it.

[@modmeemays2245]

“The man is at the window” 😂

[@tendrams]

My wife and i still drop this line periodically when we see someone taking note of us in an unfavorable way. LOL

[@seanadamson280]

​@@tendrams👍👍

[@michael.prescott4016]

I grew up in SW Arkansas, near Hope AR, the dude in the Cat Hat, sounds just like my Grandfather back in the day.

[@katherinerobillard2165]

His name is Hay Robillard. Really cool guy he had the cast over to his home. He was known to cook for them and show them around.

[@jondstewart]

I’m sorry you grew up in that miserable, close-minded place! My first wife was from Emmet nearby. A blind date from a coworker of mine from nearby Barksdale AFB 80 miles away. She and her family thought I was a Yankee and I grew up in Austin, Texas. That’s how backwoods they were!

[@boomer3150]

@@katherinerobillard2165 Very cool! Thanks for sharing.

[@1blastman]

@@jondstewart In South Louisiana if you live north of the 31st parallel, you are considered a Yankee.

[@Vingul]

​@@jondstewart you have a lousy attitude.

[@mohuckmedshishkeblob1712]

After watching this movie back in 69 at age16, I started in on my off road BSA Bantam 175cc I hacksawed the front forks and extended them with waterpipe and painted the tank stars and stripes, what a great time it was, these days if I extended my forks the first cop that see me would pull me over and defect me, how boring the RMS has made motorcycling.

[@chewface]

In 2017, all those girls would be on their phones. IF they had glanced up at the guys that walked in, they would have just kinda grumbled a bit, maybe made some snide remark about how old and ugly they looked....and then they'd go back to their phones where they'd be browsing guys' online profiles and saying equally dismissive and rude things about their physical appearance.

[@1982kinger]

chewface sadly yes

[@danpilsworth6301]

spot on lol is that in the uk or us tho? because that dam well happens Here in the uk

[@Gr8Layks]

Today, if they pulled up in exotic supercars the bitches would ask THEM out, then try to marry, sneak in a baby or two, then divorce them and try to get as much $$$ as possible. That's the American Woman modus operandi. Avoid them like the plague that they are.

[@domeskeetz]

sounds like someone who hasn't been laid in years lol

[@rickyray2794]

domeskeetz you hit the nail right on the head. I guess when it's hard to get laid you start hating women and make up scenarios where they are all mean cunts. Problems I've never known fortunately.

[@RoscoPColetraneIII]

Dude, I still know of a few diners that this scene could happen in today.

[@LastNameEver-FirstNameGreatest]

Where? I’d like to go.

[@duffbaker9554]

@@LastNameEver-FirstNameGreatest If you're a conservative, try any bar in Portland, for starters. They'll really 'love' you..

[@solitaryman777]

@@duffbaker9554 you reap what you sow

[@Johndoe345-k2d]

waffle house

[@Randall-Mi]

Now those guys would be wearing MAGA hats! 😂

[@inkey2]

The depiction of this era and in this part (and other parts) of the country is extremely accurate. I went to visit my grandparents and uncles, aunts etc out west wearing mild hippy garb in 1971.....denim jacket, bell bottoms and just hair over the ears and the first thing my uncle said to me when he saw me was..........you on dope boy?

[@humantacos9800]

Were you?

[@inkey2]

@@humantacos9800 LOL.....absolutely not. My true major addictions was coca cola (when it had real sugar in it) pizza, and un-filtered Lucky Strikes and Pall Malls. Nicotine and sugar was my life. Lucky I quit the cigs or I definitely would not be alive today. I tried weed "once" and it made me so paranoid I swore I would never touch the stuff....or anything else ever, ever again. I don't know exactly what it was, what type etc. but it was a total nightmare.

[@NATIVESUNSETS65]

I'm from Ca. and in the 90's i went to visit my extended family out in Northern Texas and they're first question was did i ever see a drive-by shooting 😏 Their impressions were that everyone in Ca. was either a dope dealer - user , surfer , homosexual or gang banger . . . . Thanks Hollyweird 🫤

[@gatocles99]

That is because Hippies were known for being loser druggies.

[@SmileyDave-h5z]

and your answer was, yep, but i'll do some more iff'n ya gots some...

[@spacetrucker2952]

The man is at the window.

[@tamburello9902]

just checking to see if someone already quoted. Nice work.

[@earthwatcher2012]

@@tamburello9902 blobblllblobobobpootang

[@terryhancockroc6560]

Ease up there​@@tamburello9902

[@vivalapsych]

Whoops. I need to delete mine. Ha ha. And I got it wrong

[@blackstonpoetrymusic8744]

R.I.P. Peter Fonda....

[@boomerhgt]

Yeah he was a cool guy that film got me hooked on Motorcycles

[@TOM15555555]

I know dude Rip Peter Fonda Great 👍 actor 🎬👨🏼‍💼 but he was crazy 😜 god Speed Fonda and Hopper

[@1blastman]

@@TOM15555555 Fonda's best movies were this and Ulee's Gold.

[@TungB]

Yeah..Watch Ulee's gold again if you miss him. His heart is right there.

[@oldgit4260]

I find myself going back to all these old movies with Nicholson, Brando and Stanley Kubrick films because I'm so sick of modern cinema, the same old soulless crap every time.....these older films seem better than ever

[@aaronmartinez6621]

Eat This badass gun mine's bigger lol

[@unhingefringe4735]

Theres alot of modern movies with meaning and heart

[@michaeldavis5775]

I agree, I'm tired of these new movies with unrealistic special effects, and computer animation.

[@ezryder_]

@@BigSplenda1885 There was a much crap made then as now, the ratio is no different. Its just easier to filter out the classics in retrospect.

[@boomer3150]

@@unhingefringe4735 One or two.

[@mhrbernards6589]

The girl in blue, I'm in love with her beauty.

[@floydfletcher4313]

The one in brown makes me stiff.

[@EphemeralProductions]

They were all hot. This coming from a gay guy. Lol. Lucky dudes they were

[@BC-wt6dw]

Really? The one in blue was the ugliest one. The two next to her are way hotter.

[@RA-VEN8]

@Les Brown Sounds like a Gino Vannelli lyric.

[@mkultra8729]

The one in blue is like the best-looking one.

[@HBICTiff]

The blonde and the girl in brown are beautiful.

[@GordiansKnotHere]

They are but the girl in the white shirt caught my eye for some reason...

[@michaelpaul5801]

Green dress brunette is by far the most beautiful

[@captainbeastazoid7084]

Every single one of them is gorgeous.

[@earlmonroe9251]

@@michaelpaul5801 Actor Tony Curtis: "Never settle for a brunette".

[@mrcpaddler]

No way man, the girl in the brown will blimp-out. The girl in the green will be the wildest.

[@EphemeralProductions]

I feel for em. I used to be made fun of a lot when I was younger. I know what it’s like to walk into a place and get stared at

[@mattmadge5917]

Hippie and proud ☮️

[@joejones9520]

you pretend it doesnt bother you but you just want to explode...

[@jondstewart]

Of course the locals don’t confront them face to face. A lot of passive aggressiveness. Just like the red hat in white letters supporters that have been around the past 6-7 years.

[@gabrielanthony1129]

@@jondstewart especially in the south. Southerners are the worst about judging people from afar and being passive aggressive to people that are different.

[@mitonaarea5856]

@@gabrielanthony1129 It seems that they have standards...

[@johnclark4593]

Fonda is Roger McGuinn and Dennis Hopper is David Crosby.

[@artmartin9691]

Nailed it!!!!

[@arrayyan1169]

i guess dickey betts 😂

[@ronniewoodinsteadofmt2615]

For the love of GOD you smashed a grand slam with that one . Great call . I’m 61 and we’ll aware of them. One of my top 5 all time R&R songs is CSN&Y ( Almost cut my hair )

[@lashabaramidze1576]

all these girls are about in their seventies now :D

[@chrisruth7057]

Mid to late 60s mybe 1 of them is 70

[@lashabaramidze1576]

@@chrisruth7057 yeah true

[@floydfletcher4313]

I like old gray headed pussy.

[@mistermax3034]

@@chrisruth7057 no, they're in their mid-70s.

[@On_Dust]

Imagine how they feel when they see their younger selfs in the movie.

[@MattieMc]

One of many classic scenes from a classic movie. Another scene, really just a shot from the opening scene, Fonda looks at his watch a moment before they ride off, takes off his watch, looks at it again, and throws it on the ground. Born to be Wild.

[@artmartin9691]

"Ya wanna ride?" "Yeah yeah" "Ya got a note from yer mama??" Bahahaa

[@shootum1]

The man is at the window the man is at the window

[@scottsclafani9535]

Love the 1968 LSU football schedule in the window.

[@michaelpaul5801]

First time noticing in this clip! and i've watched this film over decades, countless times! and even went to LSU--grew up going to the football games throughout the 80s. Go Tigers!

[@mykeyoh1536]

On the 50th anniversary of Woodstock. Fitting....

[@robsimpson6537]

I did a report on this movie some 40 plus years ago and I swear my teacher treated me much much better afterwards.

[@adjust.clinic]

Most people don’t realize this, but Rick Dalton was really against playing this role. When they brought out the wardrobe change, he didn’t want to dress like a goddamn hippie. But it turned out to be one of his greatest roles once he threw himself into it.

[@tPsychedelic]

I always include this movie in my top ten all time. Very revolutionary and unique for the time. First time I saw it I thought it was trash but now I’ve changed my opinion and is a true counter culture icon and influence many films to come!

[@jasoncarnevale2998]

This scene always makes me so uneasy

[@earthwatcher2012]

Uneasy Rider ? 🤨

[@jerrygil1965]

@@earthwatcher2012 Uhaha

[@Unsung_Earth]

@@earthwatcher2012 lol

[@Johndoe345-k2d]

It makes me hard as a rock.

[@catherinebirch2399]

The scene that follows not long after is really harrowing. They're asleep and a bunch of rednecks attack them with baseball bats, killing George.

[@ButteBill1]

I drove cross country back in '72 on way to college from California to Michigan on a Honda 350SL. Gave a ride to a man in uniform back from Nam in Nebraska. Got less than a mile before police pulled us over and arrested my passenger for hitch hiking. I was a coward and kept going. Crazy times.

[@justonfletcher9508]

Scenes that evoke emotions and debates is the mark of great acting and art in film this is a Top 100 greatest films of all time you do not see many films reach this level

[@moonkream]

Totally agree. One of the best pieces of cinema you can get to experience. And it was cheap as fuck

[@laurenceschwartz8606]

I think this same thing could have occured in certain small towns in upstate NY and certainly parts of Pennsylvania.

[@duffbaker9554]

Or Wisconsin, for that matter..

[@1247.cccccc]

It could happen now with a MAGA hat in Chicago; vengeance for Saint Juissie Smollette, martyr of the resist.

[@laurenceschwartz8606]

Even the south shore of Long Island and most of upstate NY

[@terryhancockroc6560]

Absolutely. Still. Small towns all along the canal in western New York, F Biden flags hang from manufactured homes, the epitome of persons voting against their best interests

[@1247.cccccc]

@@sunkintree I am mocking you weirdos that believe stories like Jussie Smollette. You people are lobotomized by CNN and msnbc. At least you're reliable.

[@kdwaynec]

The oddest thing about this scene is the fact that the diner was serving both Pepsi and Coke

[@johnsmith-xv3dl]

No diner in the South serves pepsi.

[@JustBCWi]

They also play both kinds of music: country AND western.

[@michaelpaul5801]

@@johnsmith-xv3dl cmon.... Pepsi was big in Louisiana

[@ED-209UHD]

It’s called product placement

[@roberthorton9820]

I watched this movie at the Oakland Army base movie house on 3/15/70, the night before deploying to Vietnam. I smelled something funny and said "what's that funny smell". The guy next to me laughed and asked, "you don't know what that is?". Marijuana hadn't made it yet to the neighborhood where I grew up on the South side of Houston. It was a real eye opener to me then that somebody had the nerve to light up on the base.

[@kevinceniceros1690]

Jack Nicholson was half bald even in the 60s?

[@floydfletcher4313]

like your mom

[@jessewjames-ym1rc]

Since I saw him in the 1st movie

[@dntv7006]

He was like 32 when the movie came out. I know a handful of guys in their early 20s with less than that lol

[@UncleAnaesthesia]

I think it was more for the character of George. He's kinda presented as a functional alcoholic, so a receding hairline would make good sense from a character development standpoint. The receding hairline would signal that he has misgivings as a person, which is something D. H. Lawrence would often do in his writings.

[@faviodezi9553]

Born to be bald

[@murderhill1947]

That happened to me in 69...twice. Driving across country with my friend Pat in his VW bug. We were stoned most of the way and I was hungry most of the way. I was one year out of the Marines and Vietnam and still looked decent but Pat was the doppelgänger to Dennis Hopper. Once in Omaha Nebraska and again in the NE corner of Arizona. We stopped at a restaurant off Interstate 80 and a group of teens were sitting right behind us in a booth. "f**kin hippies...Kick your ass" and so on. I turned to Pat and said "come on, we can take them" and he was adamantly opposed to fist fighting. Then again, in Arizona, we were on a rural desert road and we stopped at a road house dinner. We walked in and right away, everyone in the place stopped what they were doing and watched as we made our way to the counter. It was like we were in a movie. There were guys with cowboy hats and holstered revolvers on their hips. One guy put his hand on the butt of his gun and Pat said "Let's get the F out of here. I had to agree.

[@Billy_Bull_Sheeter]

I wrote the script for this and I'm so proud of the way it was made into a movie.

[@TygerTyger24]

I was Jack Nicholson in this scene, so proud of my role in the film.

[@Billy_Bull_Sheeter]

@@TygerTyger24 Are you really Jack Nicholson.?

[@TygerTyger24]

@@Billy_Bull_Sheeter Yeah.

[@Billy_Bull_Sheeter]

@@TygerTyger24 nice

[@TygerTyger24]

@@Billy_Bull_Sheeter Thanks Billy Bullshitter.

[@Valeriazane]

great movie and still relevant today

[@bobbyricigliano2799]

The hostility from the male diners is entirely believable. The flirty interest of SIX attractive young women jammed in a single booth in the diner is entirely unbelievable.

[@guepardiez]

They're not really attractive, though. They're just young, thin and female.

[@bobbyricigliano2799]

@@guepardiez To each their own, but I’d party with them.

[@captainbeastazoid7084]

Yeah, it's not really believable. 9 times out of 10, girls like that are gonna be looking at muscular, popular, jocks not dirty, thin, long-haired, hippies. This is just a fantasy.

[@Johndoe345-k2d]

@@guepardiez One in brown gave me a stiffy.

[@secondchance6603]

@@guepardiez They're not thin they're slim.

[@martinishot]

The girls would be swiping right on them today, except maybe Fonda.

[@martinishot]

@Jack Straw best way to get the swipe right today is to look like you've committed actual crimes. Today's standards, looks beta.

[@jgonzales912]

100%

[@CodPatrol]

What does that even mean? You don’t think he’s not good looking?

[@martinishot]

@@CodPatrol Congratulations on never being exposed to social media. You don’t know how lucky you are. Continue to avoid it it could save your life.

[@CodPatrol]

@@martinishot Why what did I say?

[@salty2667]

Hey Man… I Loved That Movie…

[@arvydussibonus1712]

This scene is so f’ing realistic.

[@MrOctober44]

A lot of experience?

[@justing7631]

Yeah their delivery has a weird vibe to it, like it's a documentary instead of an acted out piece of written and rehearsed fiction. If it's acting, some of it is incredible acting.

[@privetotyeti]

Girls just want have a ride😀 R.I.P. easy rider 🤘

[@tonylani2015]

Great scene, but I wanna know how they panned across the booth of the girls staring at Fonda without seeing the camera? Wow! 🎥

[@laurenceschwartz8606]

I actually once had lunch in this diner and it serves a marvelous quiche and tuna tartar.

[@notnek202]

I doubt that.

[@srbaruchi]

Its wine cellar is OUTSTANDING!

[@badnewsjp]

I'd have stayed for the lobster thermador but I wanted to make the parish line before sundown

[@johnarmstrong472]

​@@badnewsjp😅

[@SimonsRandomRants]

Nowadays everyone glued to their phone this would never happen.

[@BanalayerPete1972]

Much better for that.

[@ronniewoodinsteadofmt2615]

Classic comment . Matter of fact the those phone ( and I’m just as guilty sometimes ) But your right they’d be comatose neck& head dropped Buried in the phone .!! Lol .

[@pumpupthevolume4775]

The good old days when a trip across America was a trip to foreign lands.

[@Vingul]

Is it not still like that?

[@ezraepizon5303]

The comments here are amazing. I grew up in Sweden but saw the movie early seventies and had a huge poster of "Easy Rider" on my wall as a kid. I think you know the one. Later, in Fl I had my own baby Harley but I never got to understand the culture properly. Now I have a Vespa...

[@carolkewley7410]

When you realize you should probably just get takeaway...

[@boomerhgt]

Ha ha yep

[@pepawg2281]

Reminds me of the scene in Weird Science when they walk into the "Kandy Bar". The needle slides across the record and the place goes silent! 😆

[@michaeljaye8776]

Drink it!

[@ki4hw]

This is about when American film went back on location after being studio bound for so many years. Ushered in a great decade (70s) for American film. Interesting film that in hindsight, glamourized a hippie lifestyle that had a very dark underside. The film making's very good though. Hopper had some very good people working with him on this.

[@deadseagull-xf3lk]

2:18 the kid scared me the most because of the sheer confidence he had in what he was saying and the venom in his face saying it. He's probably 18, but behaves just like the old men around him. They were getting blood lust for sure.

[@blackmetalraider8081]

My favorite movie

[@kevinhammond2361]

The director told the local men in the diner that the 3 main characters were actually murderers and rapists (not just hippies) to bring out an extra level of hostility in their acting

[@billyb4790]

So I grew up in Berkeley California, right across from San Francisco bay. You can imagine it was just the opposite of this. Out there, everything was abnormal and weird. It got on my nerves sometimes how everyone tried to outdo everyone else about what a freak they could be. But scenes like this sober me up pretty fast and freak me out when I imagine how much worse it could have been.

[@elxaime]

I saw this in the theater when it came out and you could hardly see the screen for the pot smoke! Same with Yellow Submarine.

[@joshmccollen700]

It's such a "middle school cafeteria" vibe the way these locals taunt them.

[@bob-p7x6j]

seems like a century ago, things have changed so much...

[@johnking6252]

Been there, ain't no joke ! 1972 New Mexico. 🌎✌️🌍. Strange times indeed.

[@jamesmack3314]

This is only 55 years ago look how much America has changed since then totally different world

[@texaswunderkind]

Have you ever traveled to small southern towns? Time has stopped. The only difference is that the smallest towns have disappeared as people have moved to the cities.

[@azmike3572]

Sadly, this diner no longer exists. I visited the area years ago.

[@WmJ-x7j]

Most bikers today are like the locals in this scene. Completely flipped.

[@johnarmstrong472]

Yup. Long-haired freaky people voting for Trump.

[@jefforgeron5249]

Yep and I R 1

[@sionnachog894]

The best part of that movie was the music. Dublin Ireland.

[@ChuckSchickx]

Here in 2024, sadly folks like those "gentlemen" in the booths still exist.

[@joejones9520]

yeah theyre called democrats just like they were called then

[@robertcavalier6133]

That was an explosive year! Kind of glad I was just 12 and attending junior high school. * Cav *

[@Stingball22]

I always thought the girl in the green dress at 0:20 was gorgeous.

[@GordiansKnotHere]

The girl in the white shirt caught my eye for some reason.

[@televinv8062]

"Look like a bunch of refugees from a gorilla love in" One a dem country witticisms.. Thats gold Jerry...Gold!

[@andrewherold389]

I started wearing my hair long in Chicago when I was 16 in 1965.The principle and vice principle threatened to kick me out of high school but I graduated anyway in 1966.I then didn't get a haircut for over 3 years.Despite public pressure! My hair was clean and combed,I wore clean sneakers,clean staight-leg jeans,clean T-shirt,and a jean jacket.I worked,and didn't break the law. I still wear my hair long,getting it trimmed every 5-6 months.Times sure have changed.

[@Gieszkanne]

2022 now the strangest thing of this scene is seeing girls flirting so actively and open!

[@MattMadge-iv6zh]

It would be nice man!

[@MarklovesAngels]

Totally unrealistic.

[@Redsince66]

@@MarklovesAngelsdon’t know about that. I moved to Colorado from Ireland in the late 70s. In the bars and clubs as soon as the ladies heard my accent they were all over me. People are attracted and intrigued by someone different.

[@MarklovesAngels]

@Heyok-vx7yf LOL! I haven't played a video game since 1983.

[@MarklovesAngels]

@@Redsince66 Not saying it doesn't happen every minute of every day. I've had it happen to me more than once and it's fun. but this scene was typical late 60s movie cheese with bad acting. I thot at the time the whole movie was a slog.

[@claudedalton8970]

AS A MUSICIAN, I STILL CAN AND WILL PLAY MANY OF THE SONGS IN THIS MOVIE, BUT, DOESN'T MEAN I SUPPORT THIS!

[@artcorvulay2428]

i said babalaboobtang

[@MD0100]

I came here just to like this

[@MikeDunn]

Could someone explain what the heck that means???

[@Jordi_Ventura]

in spite of being from a very old movie, very nice scene ❤

[@lisagardner5157]

Somethings never change .

[@garyanthony4854]

Love it.

[@liverturcxdanpavs]

My lord, the blonde...

[@floydfletcher4313]

I jizzed in my tighties when I saw her.

[@joejones9520]

Right, ya feel like she should have elevated to world-wide fame just from this scene.

[@DanielCadarette]

She is incredible 😲

[@captainbeastazoid7084]

Yeah, my thoughts exactly. She's stunning.

[@brandonmacias8013]

To know this scene . U know music and art period

[@johndonaldson3619]

2:39 I just bought a pair of the RayBan Olympian's Fonda is wearing here - they still make them!

[@bjk8901]

I wanted to see this film with my girlfriend when I was 15 but she insisted we go see Freebie and The Bean instead. That was the end of that.

[@ronniesen2522]

Our teachers forced us to watch this in 1973. I fell asleep.

[@stingylizard]

Well,at least you woke up and made it this far! Cool,man

[@ilmaio]

There are shows more suitable for you, like Lego Batman. You shouldn't overextend your mental abilities. Brain may overheat.

[@Johndoe345-k2d]

and woke up wet.

[@byLokie]

A Charles Manson vibe about it.

[@christophkuropkaGR]

This is how it all began. I used to think it was the beginning of a new and exciting era but it was the beginning of the end of Western culture...

[@ED-209UHD]

Legend has it they are all still there 😂

[@bengolfs1]

Women were more wholesome looking back then--no tattoos, no smoking or drinking or meth; no looking down at their smart phones; always engaged in conversation.

[@michaelkelley9096]

But apparently plenty horny.

[@texaswunderkind]

Most women smoked and drank. I don't know what small town you grew up in.

[@kryptothesuperdawg8043]

Ok, we get you"re old.

[@BanalayerPete1972]

Old fart.

[@sneakerfreak2002]

Ok boomer