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Billy and Wyatt and the two commune women are having a swim in a water basin. Wyatt is sitting on the rim, splashing his feet in the water, and 'his' girl starts swimming towards him. Then it cuts to a frontal close-up of her smiling at him, but you can still see his feet splashing in the background. See more...

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When Wyatt, Billy and George Hanson enter the diner, all the people in the diner were local inhabitants of that town - none of them were actors. Same for the two rednecks who shoot Wyatt and Billy from their truck, at the end of the film - they weren't actors and that was their pickup truck. See more...

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Easy Rider (1969) - 4 corrections

Directed by Dennis Hopper, starring Dennis Hopper (add more)

Genres: Adventure, Crime, Drama

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At the time the picture was made, there were helmet laws in every state they passed through except California. It seems established that a helmet is the one thing Jack Nicholson needs to join them on the trip. In an environment in which the law was champing at the bit for an excuse to bust them, it seems odd that Dennis Hopper manages to ride his bike from Arizona to Florida without a helmet. [A lot of people during that era ignored helmet laws, and since it cost more money to administer a ticket than the penalty, many police didn't bother giving a no helmet ticket, unless there was another charge, such as speeding. It's much the same way with seatbelt laws in present day. Unless there is an enforcement focus program, most officers won't issue a seatbelt ticket unless the driver is cited for another infraction. The police were more interested in giving the bikers a ticket for drug possession or something more serious than no helmet.]

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In the scene at the hippy camp, where Wyatt and Billy are sitting against a large rock, just before accompanying the girls to the swimming hole, Billy passes a joint to Wyatt who takes a drag on it, gathers up his stuff, and walks away with the joint in his mouth. As Wyatt departs with the joint between his lips, it appears between the fingers of Billy's right hand. Billy glances at it, then stubs it out on the ground as he gets up and departs. [Billy was smoking a joint as he passed by the stage and joined Wyatt and the girl at the rock. It was in his right hand all along. He took the joint from Wyatt in his left hand.]

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In the scene where George Henson talks about the Venusians to Billy and Wyatt, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, and Peter Fonda were actually smoking marijuana on camera, and Nicholson's monologue about the aliens was improvised as a result of his high. [Although high on marijuana, Jack Nicholson actually delivered the monologue word-perfect, as scripted. This was referred to in a documentary broadcast on British tv on the making of the film about ten years ago.]

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At the beginning of their ride Wyatt and Billy come to a farm where two men shoe a horse. One guy holds the obviously cold horseshoe with his hand, hammers on it, and then nails it to the hoof. If he'd just refit it because the horse had just lost it he wouldn't hammer on it, and if it were a new one he would have to heat it till it's red hot. [Horse shoes are not always heated anymore, I have seen it done several times.]

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