This trend in production started in the late 1960’s as a result of the economic and cultural influences on the film industry of that time. The following essay looks at how those influences helped to shape a new genre in the film industry‚ sighting Easy Rider as a main example‚ and suggests some possible reasons for the relatively short popularity of the genre. "The standard story of the counterculture begins with an account of the social order against which it rebelled‚ a social order that was known
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The 1969 film‚ Easy Rider‚ directed by Dennis Hopper is what many people consider to be a modern Western of the 1960’s. This film is a follow up film to the 1966 film‚ The Wild Angels‚ starring Peter Fonda. The film begins with two longhaired hippie motorcycle riders buying cocaine to smuggle from Mexico to sell to a notorious drug dealer in California. The two men are referred to as Captain America and Billy the Kid. Captain America drives a low-riding Harley Davidson bike with a red‚ white‚ and
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The movie begins with an anonymous student by the name of Olive Penderghast‚ whose desperate desire is to be recognized and noticed. Deep within she feels lonely and just wants to feel loved and accepted. This desperate desire to no longer be a loner and to just be accepted is shared from the very beginning by one of her peers‚ Brandon. During detention he shares with Olive that he is “tormented every day at school‚” and he just wants this to stop. His escape from this lifestyle is Olive. To set
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Analysis from Riders to the Sea John Millington Synge is the creator of the tragedy play “Riders to the Sea”. The story is developed in West Ireland and it begins with Nora and Cathleen two sisters that are arguing about what can they do with a bundle that contains some cloths taking from a drowned man that might be her missing brother. Suddenly appears Maurya (the mother) and she starts begging Bartley (her last living son) to stay instead of going to the sea. Bartley ignores her pleas and decided
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Whale Rider Analysis Most heroes are big strong men‚ or mythical creatures that have thousands of stories and tales written about them. This hero is an unlikely one‚ a small girl‚ from a small tribe‚ in a small village in New Zealand. Paikea is a small girl that is 13 years old‚ and is a direct descendant of Paikea‚ the original whale rider. On her journey to become the leader of the tribe‚ she comes across numerous amounts of challenges from her grandfather‚ Koro. In the Paikea tribe‚ only
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An Analysis of “Bus Riders” Gloria Garchitorena-Goloy The poem‚ “Bus Riders”‚ Gloria Gatchitorena-Goloy‚ is a symbolic poem written in free verse‚ the central theme of hardship can be found in the poem’s use of imagery‚ language and connotation of every word by which the meaning is implied. In her poem‚ these three fundamentals of writing smoothly work together to create a piece that represents the exhaustion and depressing characteristic of commuting by a public transportation like the bus
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was indeed amiss at Sayle Enterprises. Rider had been assigned to Sayle’s base in Port Tallon as a precaution. To keep an eye on things as it were. Things had progressed quicker than Blunt had anticipated and Rider had died before being able to make his final report. It had been an unfortunate setback as far as Blunt was concerned. A waste of time and resources but it was Blunt’s job to ensure that they turned the situation around to benefit them. By having Rider killed‚ Sayle had shown his hand. It
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Alex Rider is an orphan because his parents died when he was a baby a couple weeks after he was born. The fourteen year old boy was taken care of his uncle but he also died recently so he is all alone. Now he has to take over Ian Rider’s mission and join MI6. He has all the skills because his father’s brother was secretly training him. Alex is athletic‚ strong ‚ loyal‚ hardworking ‚courageous‚ and etc. He has short brown hair and dull brown eyes and tall for his age. He is strong because he was
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The video selected is the Freedom Riders History. This video sparked my interest due to the title. Many questions come to mind. What is a freedom rider? What did they do and why do they have a history? While viewing the video I was overcome with a lot of emotions. My first emotion was sadness. I experienced a feeling of extreme sadness‚ it is truly a shame that a country that was established under God had so much hate. Did the Americans who were white during that time forget that we are supposed
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THE WHALE RIDER The film’s plot follows the story of Paikea Apirana ("Pai")[In the book‚ her name is Kahu‚ short for Kahutia Te Rangi]‚ a 12-year-old girl who is the only living child in the line of the tribe’s chiefly succession following the death of her twin brother and mother when she was born. By tradition‚ the leader should be the first-born son a direct patrilineal descendant of Paikea‚ aka Kahutia Te Rangi in the book‚ the Whale Rider he who rode on top of a whale from Hawaiki. However‚ Pai
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