It was July 14, 1969 when a film was released in American theaters that to many seemed an ambitious but hopeless operation: an independent and largely improvised film, costing just 400 thousand dollars, without a real plot and made by two actors known to the general public. Despite the premises, the cinemas of Los Angeles and New York were stormed by entire legions of young people from all over the country, attracted above all by the word of mouth of the many groups of the hippie counterculture. In less than a few weeks that film, Easy Rider, became a real cinematographic case, so much so that the following year it even earned two Oscar nominations for best screenplay and best supporting actor (Jack Nicholson, at the time practically unknown). Even today, according to the American Film Institute, the film “Easy Rider” is in eighty-fourth place in the ranking of the best one hundred US films of all time and is one of the few films preserved in the United States Library of Congress.
HVJ transports you to the myth of EASY RIDER … ride with us a Chopper Captain America on the legendary Route 66.
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