Anyway, Burt Lancaster is a babe-magnet to all the chicks he comes across, like Peter Fonda is in 'Easy Rider', except Burt Lancaster is in swim trunks and Fonda is in that bad-ass leather jacket with the American Flag on the back.
Burt Lancaster in 'The Swimmer': this film is, like, 'Easy Rider' for affluent suburban dudes and shit. Except he doesn't get shot in the end. In the late Sixties and early Seventies the dudes had to get shot at the end to make it, like, true, because that shit happens, man.
The most epic of this was Robert Blake in 'Elektra Glide in Blue', where the fucking hippies shoot him off his bike and he's dying in the middle of the highway and the camera keeps pulling back until he disappears in the distance of, like, Monument Valley, it fucking rocks. Shit happens at 1:50 and shit.
Anyway, Burt Lancaster is a babe-magnet to all the chicks he comes across, like Peter Fonda is in 'Easy Rider', except Burt Lancaster is in swim trunks and Fonda is in that bad-ass leather jacket with the American Flag on the back. And, like, they are both finding out about America and themselves, except the old dude is really just in the suburbs.
It's like the two films are from two different eras, except 'The Swimmer' was in 1968 and 'Easy Rider' was made in 1969 so, like, they were only a year apart. But they both are about journeys, but Burt Lancaster was a lot older than Peter Fonda, so his journey was more of a dad-journey, like all mid-life crisis and shit, where Fonda was having a young dude's journey while wearing that bad-ass leather jacket with the American Flag on the back.
So, both are kinda about disillusionment and shit, except the old dude drinks while the young dude smokes pot, but they both kinda feel like the American Dream isn't really there anymore. But in those days the old dudes suffered on the inside, while the young dudes let that shit hang out, I think this was, like, symbolized in their haircuts and shit.
The most epic of this was Robert Blake in 'Elektra Glide in Blue', where the fucking hippies shoot him off his bike and he's dying in the middle of the highway and the camera keeps pulling back until he disappears in the distance of, like, Monument Valley, it fucking rocks. Shit happens at 1:50 and shit.
Anyway, Burt Lancaster is a babe-magnet to all the chicks he comes across, like Peter Fonda is in 'Easy Rider', except Burt Lancaster is in swim trunks and Fonda is in that bad-ass leather jacket with the American Flag on the back. And, like, they are both finding out about America and themselves, except the old dude is really just in the suburbs.
It's like the two films are from two different eras, except 'The Swimmer' was in 1968 and 'Easy Rider' was made in 1969 so, like, they were only a year apart. But they both are about journeys, but Burt Lancaster was a lot older than Peter Fonda, so his journey was more of a dad-journey, like all mid-life crisis and shit, where Fonda was having a young dude's journey while wearing that bad-ass leather jacket with the American Flag on the back.
So, both are kinda about disillusionment and shit, except the old dude drinks while the young dude smokes pot, but they both kinda feel like the American Dream isn't really there anymore. But in those days the old dudes suffered on the inside, while the young dudes let that shit hang out, I think this was, like, symbolized in their haircuts and shit.
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