ance." What
became of the three Hollywood pariahs who came to New Mexico with a salty resolve to lick their wounds? None ever clea
nly resurrected their car
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- i and Lawrence
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- t's imposs
- ible to chart
- a straight path
- from Salt of the Ea
- rth to Easy Rider (1969), b
- ut the two films aren't completely at odds.
Hopper and Fonda's rebels also challe
nged the status quo, rejecting, in
- Hopper's words,
- "the good old American
- way." But while S
- alt of
- the Ear
- th met with sto
ny indifference, Easy Rid
er inspired stoned allegiance on the part
- of a new
- generation that
- closely identified with its l
- ong-haired, drug
- -taking anti
- heroes. As i
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- pitomized
- the alienated tenor
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pped out, turned on, did the
ir own thing, and ultimately, crash
- ed and burned. In many w
- ays, their ugly fate mirrored the dri
- ft of the nation.
- Flower power and the
- Summer of Love already had withered away by the time Easy Rider r
eached theaters. The y
outhful idealism of the '60s had splinter
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- ed and turned sour under the shocking impact of Altamont, the Tat
- Scale-up of synthetic methods and remote mixing facilities
- e-Bianca murders and similarly dark incidents. When Fon
da's Captain America declares
, "we blew it," he's addressi
- ng the failed pr
- omises of the co
- unterculture as well as expPKI) Services
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