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Easy Rider (1969) directed by Dennis Hopper

• overcame perception of “biker films” as low culture drive-in fair

• produced for $375,000, earned $50 million

• cast of unknowns: Jack Nicholson received Academy Award nomination as best supporting actor

• opened opportunities for many young filmmakers

• improvisational acting

• promotional slogan was “A Young man went looking for America … and couldn’t find it anywhere.”

• iconographic anti-Western with Wyatt and Billy riding east on motorcycles instead of horses

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