We were all lured into talking to this guy because people thought he was a straight guy but he was filling a commission from the publisher for a hatchet job. When asked about the book, Robert Altman said, “It was hate mail. But Spielberg and Lucas did slam the blockbuster nails into the coffin. To be fair, the movie lays a lot of the claim for that at the fact that so many of the New Hollywood auteurs flamed out or had badly recieved films. That said, Spielberg and Lucas come off the worst in the book, so I can see them not wanting to be part of a movie that was going to blame their blockbusters for being the end of the artistic aims of Hollywood.
Many of the subjects from the book - including Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Robert Altman and William Friedkin - declined interviews. Kenneth Bowser directed this - and several documentaries on another of my pop culture obsessions that had a brief period (s) of greatness followed by mediocrity, Saturday Night Live - and it’s the perfect companion to the book, building on the stories there by featuring interviews with most of the people who survived, like Martin Scorsese, Dennis Hopper, Peter Bogdanovich, John Schlesinger, Johnathan Demme, John Milius, Karen Black, Cybill Shepherd, Francis Ford Coppola and more. It was a time when an "anything goes" experimentation prevailed both on the screen and off.Every few years, I re-read the Peter Biskind book that this documentary was based on, if only to make myself more depressed as time goes on over the fact that the New Hollywood that changed cinema faded so quickly and was replaced by whatever we have now.
Summary: "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls vividly chronicles the exuberance and excess of the times: the startling success of Easy Rider and the equally alarming circumstances under which it was made, with drugs, booze, and violent rivalry between costars Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda dominating the set how a small production company named BBS became the guiding spirit of the youth rebellion in Hollywood and how, along the way, some of its executives helped smuggle Huey Newton out of the country how director Hal Ashby was busted for drugs and thrown in jail in Toronto why Martin Scorsese attended the Academy Awards with an FBI escort when Taxi Driver was nominated how George Lucas, gripped by anxiety, compulsively cut off his own hair while writing Star Wars how a modest house on Nicholas Beach occupied by actresses Margot Kidder and Jennifer Salt became the unofficial headquarters for the New Hollywood how Billy Friedkin tried to humiliate Paramount boss Barry Diller and how screenwriter/director Paul Schrader played Russian roulette in his hot tub.
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