8 - Film
from Part Two - 1961–1972
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
Summary
Yeh, some folks inherit star spangled eyes,
Ooh, they send you down to war, Lord,
And when you ask them, how much should we give,
Oh, they only answer, more, more, more
Creedence Clearwater Revival, ‘Fortunate Son’ (1969)This used to be a helluva good country. I don't know what happened to it … people talking about freedom, but when they see a really free individual it scares them.
George Hanson (Jack Nicholson) in Easy Rider (1969)Great displays of war might were lined along Pennsylvania Avenue as we rolled by in our battered boat. There were B-29s, PT boats, artillery, all kinds of war material that looked murderous in the snowy grass; … Dean slowed down to look at it … ‘What are these people up to?’
Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957)Whereas 1950s youth movies such as Rebel Without a Cause and The Wild One appeared just too soon to be accompanied by a rock and roll soundtrack and, retrospectively, seem bereft of the ‘authenticating’ qualities that this would provide, the best-known Hollywood countercultural films of the late 1960s, such as The Graduate (1968), Easy Rider (1969) and Woodstock (1970/1994), are all but defined by their music.
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- The American Counterculture , pp. 201 - 222Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2007