![]() Easy Riders, Raging Bullsfollows the wild ride that was Hollywood in the '70s - an unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (both onscreen and off) and a climate where innovation and experimentation reigned supreme. This was an age when talented young filmmakers such as Scorsese, Coppola, and Spielberg, along with a new breed of actors, including De Niro, Pacino, and Nicholson, became the powerful figures who would make such modern classics asThe Godfather, Chinatown, Taxi Driver,andJaws. It only lasted for a decade, but what a ride it was.When the low-budget biker movieEasy Ridershocked Hollywood with its success in 1969, a new Hollywood era was born. After Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider, almost anyone who looked like he - they were mostly all male - had slept in his clothes, wore a bandana around his head, had a joint jammed between his lips, and a three day growth of beard, could walk into the office of a studio head and get a deal. ![]() This book explores the cultural and political context - the Civil Rights Movement, the anti-Vietnam War Movement, Watergate - which spawned them, and describes the sorry state of the studios in the late-1960’s that made them vulnerable to the so-called movie brat generation that successfully stormed the gates. ![]() How did this happen? What was going on in America, and Hollywood in particular to prepare the soil from which sprang such a remarkable group of films? This was the era of movies like The Godfathers, Chinatown, Shampoo, Nashville, The French Connection, The Last Detail, Annie Hall, Jaws, The Last Picture Show, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, and so on, a group of pictures that towers over the product Hollywood is releasing today. The 1970s was the last Golden Age of Hollywood film.
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