The book really made me think about how whatever is popular at the time is a reflection of the types of people in those generations. However I’d be surprised if there was a boom period for these films, where people start going to the cinema to watch films like Sound of Metal and Minari instead of the new Marvel film that comes out. I had similar thoughts when reading it a few months back! There’s definitely similarities between then and now, especially with the generic blockbusters being churned out by Hollywood whilst there seems to be a slow rise in smaller, character driven films. I’ve read several different places that Scorsese, Spielberg, and the likes stated that the book was untrue and exaggerated stories. I also wondered how much of the book was actually true and how much was fabricated. Just parallels I noticed with today’s industry. I feel like audiences of today are similar to how they were in the 1960s, just wanting something different than the typical Hollywood studio film, and movies like Parasite, Lady Bird, Midsommar, are similar to audiences attending Cassavettes, Godard, and Felini pictures of the 1960s. Then there’s studios like A24, and foreign films like Parasite that are starting to gain a larger audience in America with more personal and creative films.
I really feel like the studios today are falling into the same trends as they were toward the end of the studio system (1960s) just over producing mass entertainment movies that are made by a committee of writers and producers (Marvel as an example) constant sequels, reboots, and cash grabbing films that are mostly made with no heart or artistic vision (not all but a majority), it’s almost assembly line esque with some of the pictures that are coming out today. One of the main takeaways I had from reading the book was just how similar the film industry of today is compared to how it was during the fall of the traditional studio system. I’ve had a lot of thoughts and feelings regarding the subjects and overall story of Easy Riders. The incredible behind the scenes look into the lives of Bogdanovich, Scorsese, Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg, & others during their rise to power in Hollywood as it was being transformed from the traditional studio to the New Hollywood direction the movie brats generation was bringing it in, which set the stage for the way the film industry operates today, was super interesting to say the least. As a young, independent filmmaker myself, who specifically loves the 1960s and 70s era of filmmaking, the stories were so intriguing and relatable on an artistic level. I recently read “Easy Riders, Raging Bulls” by Peter Biskind.
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