Film Analysis: Easy Rider

The three terms/concepts in Easy Rider are genre, generic transformation, and the western genre. Easy Rider gets viewers revved and their motors running right through a generic transformation within the new American cinema in the adventure and drama genre, and incorporates a parallel twist on the western’s genre.
Director Dennis Hopper characterizes ideological meaning through performing in the film, and historically uses drugs in the production of Easy Rider and throughout the duration of shooting the film. Hippies, Billy played by Hopper, and Wyatt played by Peter Fonda set out on the highway to pick up drugs in Mexico to sell in Los Angeles to fund their pending retirement to Florida via a cross-country motorcycle road trip, earning the