This film, which won the "Best New Director Award" at the "Cannes Film Festival", tells an existential tragic story full of confusion, denial and rebellion. In the film, the two protagonists with long hair, fancy clothes, drugs, and roaming around on giant motorcycles, also suddenly went out like a blue candle after attending a party of drug addicts.
This film is not only one of the classic symbols of the "Beat Movement" in the United States in the 1960s, but also a watershed in the golden age of New Hollywood. The success of "Easy Rider" was like a storm that swept across Hollywood at the time. Major companies and producers have invited consultants to study this phenomenon and countermeasures, and found that nearly half of the audience during this period were young people between the ages of 16 and 24. The results of the survey made Hollywood eliminated an entire generation of screenwriters, writers, and writers almost overnight. Directors and administrators were replaced by a new generation of young producers. The film led to the production of a large number of films featuring the contradiction between young people and the existing society, making the New Hollywood movement a landscape, especially eye-catching. The original "interest principle community" of the American audience was broken.
In the 1960s and 1970s, most American audiences were tired of the "happy ending" that was used in the classic Hollywood period. So the films of this period began to try to meet the needs of the audience and create new endings. The success of the films of this era is largely due to the fact that people at that time began to gradually accept the huge denial of the original positive image from a psychological level, and also adapted to the psychology of the audience in the turbulent social situation. A whole new type of movie - road movie.
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