Easy Rider
Films that shaped it
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Hopper and Fonda were steeped in the methods of the French New Wave, whose films they openly admired, drawing inspiration from Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1960) (...) for Easy Rider's improvisational style, jump cuts, and vérité cinematography.
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Hopper and Fonda were steeped in the methods of the French New Wave, whose films they openly admired, drawing inspiration from (...) Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up (1966) for Easy Rider's improvisational style, jump cuts, and vérité cinematography.
Films it shaped
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Easy Rider was like a hammer for all European filmmakers at the time. It really blew our minds... It gave me the freedom to make films like 'Alice in the Cities' and 'Kings of the Road' where you literally follow a road and a character, and you don't need a plot. That freedom, I owe to 'Easy Rider'.
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Wenders' early films, like Alice in the Cities and Kings of the Road, were very important to me, especially their sense of atmosphere and movement.
