Easy Rider Culture

As highlighted in the previous sources, the 1960’s counterculture revolution can be widely portrayed as an era where there was a clear challenge and feeling of hostility towards the older establishment generation of authority, as well as a period in American culture where psychedelic drugs and rock music were widely popular. The 1969 film Easy Rider is a very well known film, which portrayed many of the cultural aspects and characteristics of the Hippie age. The message of this film clearly is to make a statement that expressed the fact that many young college aged students resented traditional authority. The storyline of the film takes place in the late 1960’s, where sex, drugs, and rock and roll was the ultimate way to reject traditional values. The film stars Peter Fonda as Wyatt/ Captain America, and Dennis Hopper as
The 1960’s experienced a lot of instances where hippies and non conformists would be subject to massive backlash due to the lack of conformity that they would give off. This film reasserts the fact that the 1960’s was a period in which anyone would get in trouble if they attempted to challenge the Establishment. While bikers may not have completely matched the image of a self proclaimed hippie, the time period in which this film was made sought to communicate that the 1960’s was a period that was all about being a rebel in a conformist society. Easy Rider reasserts the non-conformity crisis that many young people were exposed with, which was the fact that many young people felt resistant to the establishment set of rules, which were seen to be the societal norm. This was one of the first films that used the biker image as a symbol for