Who directed the 1969 film 'Easy Rider'?
Easy Rider Easy Rider Easy Rider is a 1969 American independent road drama film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda, and directed by Hopper. Fonda and Hopper played two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South carrying the proceeds from a cocaine deal. The success of "Easy Rider" helped spark the New Hollywood era of filmmaking during the early 1970s. A landmark counterculture film, and a "touchstone for a generation" that "captured the national imagination", "Easy Rider" explores the societal landscape, issues, and tensions in the United States during the 1960s, such as the
Easy Rider: The Ride Back Easy Rider: The Ride Back Easy Rider: The Ride Back is a 2012 drama film and a prequel to the 1969 film "Easy Rider". Although none of the cast or production team of the original film were involved in its production, the director Dustin Rikert did secure the legal rights to the name. The film focuses on the history of Wyatt Williams' family and takes an unusually conservative point of view compared to the countercultural tone of the original. On Rotten Tomatoes, "Easy Rider: The Ride Back" has an audience rating of 27%, based on 123 reviews, with an average