Easy Rider - Cemetery Acid Trip - 1969 (HQ)

Easy Rider is a 1969 American road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper. It tells the story of two bikers (played by Fonda and Hopper) who travel through the American Southwest and South with the aim of achieving freedom.

Scene Plot:
They continue to New Orleans and find the brothel George had intended to visit. Taking prostitutes Karen (Karen Black) and Mary (Toni Basil) with them, Wyatt and Billy decide to go outside and wander the parade-filled street of the Mardi Gras celebration. They end up in a cemetery, where all four ingest LSD. They experience a psychedelic bad trip infused with Catholic prayer, represented through quick edits, sound effects, and over-exposed film.

Trivia
For the famous soliloquy that Peter Fonda does in the cemetery while tripped on acid, Director Dennis Hopper asked Peter to talk to the statue as if he were talking to his mother, who died a suicide when Peter was 10 years old. Peter didn't want to do it, as he had never confronted his feelings about his mother. But Hopper insisted, which is why you hear Peter call the statue "Mother", and he states that he both loves her and hates her, which expresses his conflicted emotions. This scene persuaded Bob Dylan to allow the use of his song "It's Alright Ma" in one of the final scenes, which contains lyrics referencing suicide. Peter told Dylan, "I need to hear those words", and he agreed to its use.

The New Orleans cemetery is St. Louis #1, a Catholic cemetery. They didn't have permission to shoot there and Catholic audience members were shocked that the church had allowed it. Since then no other films have been allowed to shoot at St. Louis #1, unless it's a documentary and you have permission.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• easy rider
• cemetery
• acid
• trip
• LSD
• 1969
• film
• american
• road movie
• psychedelic
• catholic
• prayer
• freedom
• dennis hopper
• peter fonda
• trivia

[MrRobot17]

@prpvost2 well someone missed the point of the movie they were supposedly in...

[bobthebakedpotatoe]

@prpvost2 actually extras dont get paid, sorry

[GiantDoucheNG]

@prpvost2 Where are you in this?

[prpvost2]

FUCK YOU!!! Take our image off this video or I will sue you bitch!!! My sister and I are in this footage we did not sign a release so this gives me the rights to sue and I will sue you!!! I 'm so sick and tired of seeing and hearing this footage that we should have been paid for.

[wipandco]

what's up with the language?

[MrNIO888]

that scene is sooo fucking trippy....i love it!!!

[EmpresarioSP2011]

WTF ??????????????????????????????­??????????????

[Christinacolasanto]

Oh freaky,Its starts off at night but at 1:30 it turns to day while the storyline is surposed to be continued the same!

[Christinacolasanto]

This scene is LENGENDARY,for those of you movie fans out there dear sweet Peter Fonda 's mother passed away{may she rest in peace}to bring out real emotion for the storyline the director told him to talk to the stature like he was talking to his mother... SO SAD....SO INTENCE....IS THE MINEING OF MOVIE GOLD

[SKOTP69]

NOT keen on the drug use, but Toni Basil looks SO GOOD and Captain America's dressed cool!