The protagonists are two freewheeling bikers: Wyatt (Fonda), nicknamed "Captain America", and Billy (Hopper). Wyatt dresses in American flag-adorned leather (with an Office of the Secretary of Defense Identification Badge affixed to it), while Billy dresses in Native American-style buckskin pants and shirts and a bushman hat.
Easy Rider - Intro - Born to be wild!
https://youtu.be/J1cDECkN2xg
With the money stuffed into a plastic tube hidden inside the Stars & Stripes-painted fuel tank of Wyatt's California-style chopper, they ride eastward aiming to reach New Orleans, Louisiana, in time for the Mardi Gras festival.
Easy Rider - Trailer
https://youtu.be/bDm31ESVM70
During their trip Wyatt and Billy stop to repair one of the bikes at a farmstead, and have a meal with the farmer (Warren Finnerty) and his family. Wyatt seems to appreciate the simple, traditional lifestyle presented here.
I Wasn't Born to Follow..an epic of hippie..so called 1969
https://youtu.be/DLF9v2NcOo8
Later Wyatt stops to pick up a hippyish hitch-hiker (Luke Askew) and he invites them to visit his commune, where they stay for the rest of the day.
Easy Rider (1/8)
Cellmates (1969)
https://youtu.be/r763LgcxCyM
There, they befriend American Civil Liberties Union lawyer and local drunk George Hanson (Jack Nicholson), who has spent the night in jail after overindulging in alcohol.
Easy Rider (2/8)
You Got a Helmet? (1969)
https://youtu.be/4j7zD5ydpUo
George helps them get out of jail and decides to travel with Wyatt and Billy to New Orleans.
Easy Rider (3/8)
Unidentified Flying Object
https://youtu.be/L7GJ018Avgw
As they camp that night, Wyatt and Billy introduce George to marijuana. As an alcoholic and a "square", George is reluctant to try the marijuana ("It leads to harder stuff", and "I don't want to get hooked"), but he quickly relents.
Easy Rider (4/8)
You Represent Freedom (1969)
https://youtu.be/8Gu2ouJNmXc
The events of the day cause George to comment: "This used to be a hell of a good country. I can't understand what's gone wrong with it." He observes that Americans talk a lot about the value of freedom but are actually afraid of anyone who truly exhibits it.
Easy Rider (5/8)
House of Blue Lights (1969)
https://youtu.be/iamsdf-VSQI
Easy Rider (6/8)
Cemetery Acid Trip (1969)
https://youtu.be/SDAdzb9IeGU
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 the LSD which the hitch-hiker had given to Wyatt. They experience a bad trip.
Easy Rider (7/8)
We Blew It (1969)
https://youtu.be/lQWvCntonxE
Making camp afterward, Billy declares that their trek has been a success. Wyatt disagrees, declaring, "We blew it."
Easy Rider (8/8)
The End of the Road (1969)
https://youtu.be/QLAYw0vM-bw
The next morning, the two are continuing their trip eastward to Florida (where they hope to retire wealthy) when tworednecks in an old pickup truck spot them and decide to "scare the hell out of them" with their shotgun. As they pull alongside Billy, one of the men lazily aims the shotgun at him and threatens and insults him by saying, "Want me to blow your brains out?" and "Why don't you get a haircut?" When Billy casually flips his middle finger up at them, the hillbilly fires the shotgun and the shot hits Billy. His motorcycle goes down and he lands near the edge of the road, seriously wounded in the side. As the truck then takes off past Wyatt down the road, Wyatt turns around and races back to put his American flag-emblazoned jacket over his critically injured friend, who is already drenched in blood, before riding off for help. Seeing the injured biker, the old pickup truck turns around and closes in on Wyatt. The hillbilly fires at Wyatt as he speeds by, hitting the bike's gas tank and causing it to erupt in a fiery explosion, killing Wyatt instantly. As the murderous rednecks drive away, the film ends with an aerial shot from a helicopter of the flaming bike in the middle of the deserted road, as the camera recedes into the sky.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Rider
Counterculture of the 1960s - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture_of_the_1960s
