Torn later sued Hopper, stating that Hopper pulled the knife and not him.
EASY RIDER MOTORCYCLE MOVIE
Inspiration for the Work: Peter Fonda got the idea for this movie after seeing a picture of he and Bruce Dern on their motorcycles in The Wild Angels.Fernstein wasn't distracted for long, and threw a television set at Hopper. They got up and stared at the sight of Fonda in bed with Karen Black and Toni Basil (though Black denied this). An enraged Fernstein hurled the film cans at him, and the two got into a brawl and fell through the door of one of the motel rooms. A paranoid Hopper demanded that cameraman Barry Feinstein hand over all the footage he'd shot, so he could keep it safe in his room.As the film's producer, Fonda did his utmost to have co-star and director Hopper fired. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper quarrelled continually during the shoot.Apparently, to get the right reactions from the rednecks in the diner, they were told that Fonda, Nicholson, and Hopper's characters had raped and killed a girl just outside of town.But Hopper insisted, which is why you hear Peter call the statue "Mother", and he states that he both loves her and hates her, which expresses his conflicted emotions. Peter didn't want to do it, as he had never confronted his feelings about his mother. For the famous soliloquy that Wyatt does in the cemetery while tripped on acid, Dennis Hopper asked Peter Fonda to talk to the statue as if he were talking to his mother, who died via suicide when Peter was 10 years old.An extended versions of all the campfire scenes including the enigmatic finale in which Wyatt says We blew it, Billy.An extended and much longer Madam Tinkertoy sequence.Wyatt and Billy checking into a hotel before going over to Madam Tinkertoy's.Haggerty claimed to have built this “Captain America” bike from the wreckage of the fourth bike, which was nearly destroyed in filming the movie’s dramatic finale.Įisenberg and auction house Profiles in History cited Haggerty as their principal reference in authenticating the bike, even though Haggerty admitted to The Times that he had already sold and authenticated a different “Captain America” bike, years before, and provided written assurances to its owner that it was the one true remaining “Easy Rider” chopper. Haggerty had confirmed for Eisenberg stories that three of the four “Easy Rider” bikes were stolen and sold for parts before the movie was released.
The chrome-heavy, star-spangled Harley Davidson panhead, ridden by actor Peter Fonda in the ground-breaking movie directed by his co-star Dennis Hopper, was owned by Los Angeles Realtor and movie memorabilia collector Michael Eisenberg.Įisenberg bought the “Captain America” bike earlier this year, having become convinced it was the last remaining “Easy Rider” motorcycle by Dan Haggerty, the actor most known for his role as “Grizzly Adams.” Haggerty had a small part in “Easy Rider,” and helped work on the four motorcycles used in the filming of the druggy road movie. Despite reports that cast doubt on its provenance, a “Captain America” chopper purported to be the last remaining motorcycle used in the filming of the 1969 movie “Easy Rider” sold at auction Saturday night for $1.35 million - or just more than $1.6 million, after auction fees are included.
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