1969: DENNIS HOPPER talks about EASY RIDER | Line Up | Classic Interviews

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1969: DENNIS HOPPER talks about EASY RIDER | Line Up | Classic Interviews | BBC Archive

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Just prior to the release of Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper spoke with Philip Jenkinson.
They talked about the film as a social commentary on the US at the time and its depiction of drug use. Hopper then talks about becoming part of the establishment and his aspirations to buy land near Taos, New Mexico to continue writing film scripts.
Clip taken from Line Up, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 28 September, 1969.
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@jasonedwards6870 8 ай бұрын

What are they going to say about him? What? Are they going to say he was a kind man? He was a wise man? He had plans? He had wisdom?

@iadorenewyork1 Ай бұрын

Ha! "Apocalypse Now"!

@digamojones 8 ай бұрын

This is the best ‘pure’ Hopper interview I have seen.

@annapeterson2602 2 ай бұрын

Definitely one of the greatest artists of the 21st century. And an incredibly kind human. I used to work for him and he treated me like an honored guest, always.

@SenorMoose 10 күн бұрын

He was physically abusive to every one of his wives -- not sure how kind he was -- but he was incredibly talented.

@TobinHolz 5 күн бұрын

@@SenorMoose People are complicated and they grew up with different backgrounds and personal issues. no person is perfect. In the divorce proceedings between Dennis Hopper and Victoria Duffy-Hopper, several specific allegations were made. Victoria Duffy-Hopper accused Dennis Hopper of abuse, claiming that she was a victim of his abusive behavior. She alleged that Hopper "berated, belittled, threatened, and intimidated" her into signing a prenuptial agreement and that he threatened to "publicly destroy her" if she did not comply. Additionally, she claimed that Hopper and his adult children engaged in a campaign to force her out of the family home and to change his estate plan against his wishes. On the other hand, Hopper's assistant, Emily Davis, accused Victoria Duffy-Hopper of being a "threat to Dennis' life," claiming that she was trying to kill him and spreading false accusations about Hopper being abusive and financially unsupportive. These allegations were part of a highly contentious and public divorce battle that included disputes over child custody and financial support.

@1954telecaster 4 ай бұрын

Dennis really was the character he played in Apocalypse Now

@phillipecook3227 8 ай бұрын

Interviewer is Philip Jenkinson. Along with Tony Bilbow they were the BBC's resident cinema gurus before Barry Norman.

@tharpdown Ай бұрын

Great interviewer. Genuinely interesting and well thought out questions all around

@xiscozapatero1914 8 ай бұрын

Hopper is an absolute legend. Of cinema, and life. 💚✌🏻

@TobinHolz 5 күн бұрын

Thank you so much for preserving this moment BBC

@MatteBlack2024 8 ай бұрын

This is good. Though I don’t believe American news media have ever given “all” the information, I appreciate his righteous indignation at American hypocrisy throughout the clip.

@RSimoes10 8 ай бұрын

Fantastic.

@artful_dodger59 8 ай бұрын

This was great to see. Easy Rider was an absolutely perfect period piece for that time. It's very cool to hear Dennis explain it so eloquently. Although it's one of my favorite movies, (I don't think we will ever have movies that depend on character and acting like this ever again) I can only watch it when I'm psychologically prepared, it is so disturbing in a few ways. The ending especially. Thank you for putting this in my feed today, Google

@azinegg 8 ай бұрын

Always liked Dennis hopper” ❤

@Johnconno 6 ай бұрын

'They smoke the jazz cabbage the whole time.'

@jasonayres 8 ай бұрын

Can't say exactly why, but I just had this passing thought. "Dennis Hopper as Indiana Jones.."

@phillipecook3227 8 ай бұрын

Remember he's changed in 54 years : )

@bid84 8 ай бұрын

He’s dead, don’t think he would do it

@Guminyourhair 8 ай бұрын

@@bid84 couldn't be any worse than what we actually got...

@larrymclarnon-pd8xf 3 күн бұрын

Dennis nails it here.😊

@Broomehall 8 ай бұрын

Dennis was often seen as wayward or difficult by certain members of the Hollywood establishment, and he may well have been those things from time to time, but there was also an honesty and deep understanding of the untruths within the Governmental system that few main stream Americans were willing to acknowledge, you could dislike Hopper but you couldn't ignore what he had to say.

@micktaylorisgod 6 ай бұрын

Makes a lot of sense if you ask me.

@BuckRolly1 8 ай бұрын

It's Sancho Panza in Don Quixote, Dennis, not 'Poncho Sanchez' 😂😂😂 3:31

@petergivenbless900 8 ай бұрын

Half a century later; nothing much has changed, just everything got louder (the future is just the past with the volume turned up!).

@marvelmoviessuckass 25 күн бұрын

Exactly!!

@xelphinx Ай бұрын

"RIGHT ON!" Huey ☮️ Johndavid NM 7.6.24

@TheSnowdogsShorts 8 ай бұрын

When I watched the film, the marijuana smoking was not something that I saw as a big deal. It is just something they did. Maybe it shows more how we see it these days. For the sake of transparency: I do not use marijuana myself, but I fully support legalisation.

@gary7vn 8 ай бұрын

Try it. You'll like it. Safest substance on the planet.

@TheSnowdogsShorts 8 ай бұрын

@@gary7vn I have tried it. I am one of a very small minority of people who get no positive benefits from it. I just get extremely paranoid while using it. I have several medical conditions that in most people are often helped by using marijuana. It frustrates me that I get no benefit from it.

@peterm1826 Ай бұрын

The information is still there same today.

@swampape201 3 ай бұрын

his vision for a world to be clothed, transported, fed thanks to technology...its taking us far too long

23 күн бұрын

The interviewer represents the man who’s afraid of new ideas and resorts to trying to diminish those ideas by suggesting that the artist (now famous and with money) is just like him. This type of person is still around nowadays. It is very wise not to heed them as they’re afraid of challenging or progressive ideas. The interviewer is only concerned with the surface of the film, without really paying any attention at the content and message of the film. Truly a narrow mind.

@JMoruzzi 8 ай бұрын

Focus going in and out, close-ups of hands - I think the camera operator must have been smoking some of Hopper's stash!

@k_DAN 8 ай бұрын

Meanwhile, Hopper had smoked a lot of grass and dropped some acid before this interview.

@AladdinSaneNYC 8 ай бұрын

How do you know? You his dealer?

@MysteryZenSide2 2 ай бұрын

02:13 mk. ...exactly

@samsquanch1996 6 ай бұрын

He looks hungover as hell, probably was lol.

@k_DAN 8 ай бұрын

Hopper " nobody's getting the right information ". Wow, he was already totally on to that in '69.

@TerryRyan-xs7fw 2 ай бұрын

You didnt lose your mother....i lost your mother.come on hopper fans comment the movie he said that in

@davidshurville3658 8 ай бұрын

What a smart and inspirational pot smoker. Go well Dennis.

@inkey2 2 ай бұрын

Really proud of Dennis holding his cool with this idiot interviewer because Dennis Hopper could be quite explosive when attacked. Who'd have ever guessed that in many U S States today (at least 2 dozen) there are actually state sanctioned retail pot stores. There is a store 3 blocks from me here in the Boston suburbs. No big deal at all. The state sure loves the taxes from it.

@aadirao9401 8 ай бұрын

Jesus Christ man move past the 'pot smoking'

@iadorenewyork1 Ай бұрын

That's what squares were hung up on back then!

@djhoneylove5710 5 ай бұрын

This interviewer is obsessed with pot and the cameraman is drunk.

@ramonathompson6932 8 ай бұрын

In my opinion, he's way out...there

@Liofa73 8 ай бұрын

Philip Jenkinson spent money to get rid of his Manchester accent. I'd suggest it would have been a better interview if he had stuck to his roots.

@JackSmith-kp2vs 8 ай бұрын

@Liofa73 Of everything spoken about in the interview and you chose to make that irrelevant identity politics statement

@allancrotch2953 8 ай бұрын

We are not getting the information !!!!!!! Take note BBC

@user-mp1fm5pj6j Ай бұрын

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@gary7vn 8 ай бұрын

Thank the gods that the insane and evil war on a plant is over in my country. Not so in the UK where the interviewer probably spent his entire career lying about it like he does in this video.

@xiscozapatero1914 8 ай бұрын

He is like an advert for those DEVIL'S HARVEST propaganda posters