first movie about 1960s culture that wasn't made by boomers
first movie to portray hippies as lazy hypocritical parasites and not as well-meaning idealists
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First movie about 1960s culture that wasn't made by boomers
first movie to portray hippies as lazy hypocritical parasites and not as well-meaning idealists
Yeah what a surprise Tarantino makes the Manson Family look bad. Retard.
The Manson Family and the Altamont Free Concert disaster were the end of the hippy movement, so it's appropriate.
this poster is soulless
That's his only good movie since it isn't just him masturbating his movie knowledge ego
Lol, there's literally a 5 minutes digression about a fictional ''italian phase'' of Leo's character's acting career that does nothing to advance the story whatsoever.
yeah he's a shit director, that's my point
muh plot
it's a hangout movie
maybe you should have said that if that was your point
it's a hangout movie
low bar indeed
i mean think about it logically anon. if you saw a modern libertardian, would you assume they were well meaning idealists.... or just hypocritical parasites that want to do drugs and jerk off to child porn? Hippies were just that, but they lived in an era when the drugs and child porn were still legal so their demands were even dumber.
not really sure about the child porn part
Wait what? Drugs were legal? Uh?
Altamont Free Concert
qrd?
i've read the wiki page but i'm sure there is more interesting trivia that sanitized sourced won't tell
They hired actual Hell's Angels to provide stage security in exchange for beers, they ended up killing some poor bastard badtripping and causing a ruckus in the crowd
Kill yourself Jew
It was a nog and they killed him because he pulled out a gun and threatened to kill one of the bikers.
checked and lold
makes you wonder how shit like this hasn't occured on a regular basis up to that point
but Tarantino got to namedrop Antonio Margheriti, which I'm sure was the main point of that sequence.
Basically this Meredith Hunter, a black guy who was off his face on meth got pissed off, tried to rush the stage multiple times. The final time he pulled a gun, waved it toward the stage, one of the Hell's Angels who was doing security pulled a knife, stabbed the guy multiple times in the head, then a bunch of the Angels kicked the shit out of Hunter as he was on the ground (most likely already dead).
The whole event was a disaster, the crowd were drunk/high/both, belligerent and violent the entire concert, the Angel's were completely shit-faced the whole time because they were paid in beer, and responded in kind using sawed off pool cues and chains to beat people back from the stage.
After Hunter was killed during the Rolling Stones' set, Jagger asked for a doctor to be called and the Stones resumed playing. Mainly because they were convinced if the tried to end the set early, the crowd would turn into a full-scale riot and shit would get worse.
The event was basically the end of the
"Summer of love" 60s hippy movement. The killing of Sharon Tate and the Manson Family's other killings shifted cultural perception of hippys specifically from being at best a society of peace and love, or at worst an irritating nuance of stoned lay-abouts spewing bullshit, to a collective disdain for hippys as potentially dangerous, drug-taking losers. The Altamont Free Concert made the entire freelove movement go from the Woodstock Festival (which took place just a couple months earlier) the peak of 60s hippy culture, where it was all groovy vibes, "consequence free" sex, hallucinogens, and music, to the idea that society had collapsed and that people really needed to get their shit together and get a fucking job. Which is why the 70s and especially the 80s swung heavily back into a neo-conservative livestyle where traditional morals and structure were important. Obviously there is more nuance when you get deeper, but those are the broad strokes.
Good because hippies destroyed the West and need to die off
So you uh, wanna come in and watch my F.B.I.?
I just figured we would, bought a six pack figured we'd order a pizza
alright!
alright
Favorite part of the entire film.
It was an aimless film that constantly felt like it was going nowhere. Why do people like this?
first movie to portray hippies as lazy hypocritical parasites and not as well-meaning idealists
Hunter was way ahead of everyone on this. He wrote Fear and Loathing in 1971.
so it'd be correct to say the whole hippie movement was basically a wave of carefree hedonism that is common among young adults that got out of control, and most of the same people doing lsd and weed turned into stuck up yuppies in their 30s and 40s in the following decades?
and thanks for spoonfeeding.
despite all the american cultural exports there's still always tons of events and occurences that anyone outside the US would rarely know of or even properly grasp their importance
The first hippies were homosexual jewish men from manhattan that stole car stereos back when those were worth a week's salary to buy drugs so they could party every night and get fucked up the ass.
Man I really liked this movie. I wish I could have one of those cars from the decade this movie is set. There is something so cool about them
i enjoyed it as a slice of life 60s hollywood golden era period piece but i largely agree
I wish I could have one of those cars from the decade this movie is set. There is something so cool about them
until something starts breaking down every time you turn the ignition key and you need to track overpriced parts for maintenance
it's much more QT-made up fiction with token 60's costumes and hairstyles than an actual 60's slice of life period piece
slice of life 60s hollywood golden era period piece
i wish they had turned it into a miniseries instead, it's just too comfy.
and generally more movies and shows need to produce low drama SoL kino without any of the typical fag or nig problems stinking up the aether.
just people chilling, overcoming some challenges here and there but nothing too drastic or annoying
Too many young adults, a dangerous demographic bulge to be catered to. Surprisingly well managed in retrospect, their revolution easily bought and sold.
One of the all-time great hangout flicks.
Hippies were a movement engineered by the CIA to transform the protesting youth into controled opposition, at the height of student protests (and cold war).
But the values of the counterculture are legit.
I wish I could put into words how much I dislike hippies. Their minds ain't right.
Most of the spreaders of the movement were balding 30 and 40 year olds selling drugs on college campuses which were allied to socialist student unions
It's a honest movie made by a hippie, which contradicts the idea the movement is irredeemably hypocritical.
don't forget
first movie to lastingly disenchant bruce lee's bullshido myth with a single backflash sequence
Hunter wasn't the prototypical hippie though, he just hung out with some
most of it was an act and that's why he offed himself
Most hippies were upper-middle class and rich kids. Dregs and losers were always around it too, but the losers, not rich kids, became the majority of hippies by the 70s. The CIA and other intelligence agencies were also intimately in all matter of psyops around and social engineering around the hippie and adjacent movements because the CIA was full of sociopaths that had basically no oversight and the US government would grant any money to literally experimental or psychological research if they thought it would help win the Cold War. The term "drug trip" was first coined by the CIA.