Daily Dialogue — September 27, 2017

Captain America: Have you gotta helmet?
George Hanson: Have I gotta helmet? Ha ha ha!

— Easy Rider (1967), written by Peter Fonda & Dennis Hopper & Terry Southern

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Transportation, suggested by Denise Garcia.

Trivia: Peter Fonda was an experienced motorcycle rider and the bike he rides in the movie is seriously stretched and raked and has tall “apehanger” style handlebars. Dennis Hopper was not as experienced a rider, therefore his bike is less radically chopped.

Dialogue On Dialogue: A central theme of the movie is freedom and the motorcycles as the primary form of transportation symbolized that as even George (Jack Nicholson) responded to the call of the open road.