Dystopi Landscaping The Nation In Easy Rider

In Barbara Klingers essay, “The Road to Dystopia: Landscaping the nation in Easy Rider,” her quote portrays two different viewpoints of what the world was like in the 1960s. She explains that in in the Movie “Easy Rider”, both conflicting viewpoints were discussed. The idea of the Old West 1960 America that represent hippies and freedom verses the “nightmarish portrait of small towns, cities, and the end of the frontier” (Klinger, 199). These two opposing views were shown throughout the film as the Old West was shown through open landscape as they drove on the road which captured Americas physical beauty, opposed to the deeper meaning of how America actually was at the time. In Klinger’s essay reviewers called Easy Rider, “the first ‘commercial’…
The specific technique of cross-cutting was used in the film “Vanishing Point”. Cross-cutting is cutting between two scenes that are happening at the same time but in different locations. In this film it would cross back from Kowalski furiously driving on the road, and cut to Dj super bowl. The Dj would talk about the police chase that was happening on the road and then it would cut back to the actual police chase that was happening with Kowalski. Kowalski was driving extremely fast, without stopping throughout the whole movie because he wanted to achieve the bet of coming to the end. Kowalski eventually beats the police chase and finishes his bet while reaching his end point. Throughout the film of “Two-Lane Blacktop”, the film technique of speed of motion was used throughout the entire movie. The speed of motion takes control of the driver, like a feeling of intoxication. The use of wide-angle shots is portrayed to emphasis the idea of speed. Wide-angle shots can be used to suggest a misleading reality, which is what they did to emphasis the motion of the car, making it look faster than it actually is. In the movie “Duel”, the point of view is strictly directed from the truck, and not the truck driver. The point of view refers to the position from which the character, an event, or an object is filmed. The point of view of Duel is an objective point of view because throughout the movie it focuses on the object rather then the character who is driving the vehicle. The driver is the machine throughout the whole movie, because we never see the drivers face or know his true identity. Throughout the film of Duel he has no real sense or quest of where he is going but his goal is to survive on the road and not become hurt or diminished by the large forceful truck. Throughout the three movies of “Two-Lane Blacktop”,