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Keyser Soze

On 8/22/16 12:30 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 14:47:12 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 8/21/16 2:26 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 12:46:00 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

You just don't understand the movie.

Roger Ebert said this about it, among other things:

Its strong point is the role of the self-proclaimed rebel in a
conformist society. It's not just bike freaks who get in trouble when
they challenge the establishment -- it's everybody, even Old George
(Jack Nicholson character).

And yet, "Easy Rider" suggests, it's not as simple as that. We almost
forget that the Fonda and Hopper characters have also sold out. Victims
can sell out just as well as their persecutors. They sold out because
what they were trying to be was the mirror image of the rednecks in the
truck, and neither life-style is healthy. And so there they were, their
gas tanks stuffed full of bribes from the establishment, and you
remember hearing somewhere that, in the South, "easy rider" is slang for
a prostitute's lover.

I suspect there are hundreds of classic and near-classic films you don't
get, and that would include most of the "foreign films" of the 50's and
60's. You seem to suffer from ennui about many things ethereal and
artistic. Opera, after all, is nothing more than silly plots and
costumes with singing, right?

I understand the movie but to say the bikes were just props and the
narrative was not driven by the soundtrack is naive.

You are being as silly as saying the songs do not tell the story in
the opera

The songs are the story in opera.

So we will just call Easy Rider a motorcycle opera and get on with our
lives.

Whatever works for you, even if it is wrong.