'age Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, November 25, 1969 ~ag e Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, November 25, 1969 cinema DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Ode to By NEAL GABLER When I heard that P e t e r Fonda was making a "serious" film about two itinerant motor- cyclists, I snickered. Comne on! Peter Fonda, graduate of t h e Roger Corgan School of Act- ing, making a serious film? But somehow either he has trans- cended his former self or t h e film transcends him, because Easy Rider is one of the best films I've seen this year. It seems that this film is destined to be misunderstood by many people, young as well as old. Already. a cult has grown bemoaning the fate of the two heroes at the hands of nasty Southern rednecks. But this is not a good guys - bad guys movie with the Cowboys being the cyc- lists and the Indians, the red- necks. This is a film about a nation of people who are trap- ped by an ethic and see no way out. The protagonists Wyatt-Cap- tain America (Peter Fonda) and Billy the Kid (Dennis Hopper) make a fortune smuggling dope and stash the bankroll in their 'what used to be a good country' cycles' tanks. Then off they zoom for the Mardi Gras, care- free. Or are they free? Sure they have long hair and wear wild clothes and smoke pot. But what Easy Rider tells us is that they aren't any freer than Mr. Su- burbia or even the Southerners who hate them. Wyatt and Billy are Americans, caught in the American culture. What Wyatt comes gradually to realize and what Billy never realizes, is that all the money crammed in the gas tank can't buy t h e m freedom. Not only is he an American, but Billy is middle-class Amer- ice personified; only his cloth- es and manners are different. When he says to Wyatt, "We're rich. We did it. We're retired in Florida," he could just as well have been talking to his plat- inum blonde wife, in his subur- ban ranchhouse with the two- car garage and his kids at the U of M. The point is, we shouldn't go around feeling so superior to those dullards of the silent majority, because we're all in the same fix. That's w h y Captain America says, in those now famous words, "We blew it." The search for happiness takes them across the Southern Uni- ted States through a quiet farm, a commune and a few s m all towns. Laszlo Kovas' photogra- phy is breath-taking. With the fabulous landscapes and the fine music (the track includes The Weight, Born to be Wild, Its' Alright Ma', I Wasn't, Born to Follow), I didn't even care that a large part of the film is filler to get Wyatt and Billy from -one place to another. And somehow it is appropriate that, like many of their fellow Amer- icans, they are always going somewhere but never arrive. Dennis Hopper's direction is sharp and innovative. He has a good eye for composition, he juxtaposes shots nicely, and he uses some ingenuous transitions. Above all, he is able to get some wonderfully natural per- formances, especially from the bit players, who occasionally give the film the air of a docu- mentary. I talked about the new style of non-acting when I reviewed Alice's Restaurant. Some of the best scenes in Easy Rider u s e townsfolk whom Hopper and Co. happened to find along the way. In one classic scene, guaranteed to boil the blood, a group of crackers in a diner brandish some Southern wit. "I think she's cute." "Put 'em in a cage and charge admission." "Looks like a bunch of refugees from a gorrilla love-in." The remark- able, and frightening, thing is that these are not actors; they are just folks speaking t h e i r own minds. Dennis Hopper is perfect as Billy - crude, dim-witted, fun- ny, lovable. His feat is extra- ordinary considering the gen- uine affection the audience comes to feel for this loud- mouthed pothead. Peter Fonda may be nice to look at, girls, but he has all the range of a Steve McQueen. Always cerebral, ev- ery line gets the same dispas- sionate treatment; he's got no soul. He had me hoping that someone would get his goat just to show he was human after all. Jack Nicholson as George Hansen, an alcoholic lawyer the boys meet on their journey, gives the film's outstanding per- formance. Nicholson has been stuck in a lot of Corman hor- ror flicks, and here he finally gets a chance to show his tal- ent. He is brilliant in creat- ing a whole character from a few characteristics. I found in his cornpone ACLU lawyer, a simple wisdom that came not so much from his dialogue as from his whole presence. For all this, Easy Rider is not a flawless film. For one thing, there is Fonda's unfeeling act- ing. For another, there are some very affected lines. Fin- ally, there is an LSD scene, flashly camera work and all, that seems right out of a pseudo-hip Film About Young People. But these are small faults in what is otherwise a very good film. Easy Rider must be seen, but not as the story of an unortho- dox life style in an intolerant land. It should be seen as the story of a nation that, in George Hansen's words, "used to be a hell of a good country." The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of The Univer- sity of Michigan. Notices should be sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to 3528 LSA before 2 p.m. of the day preceding publication and by 2 p.m. Friday for Saturday and Sun- day. Items may appear only once. Student organization notices a r e not accepted for publication. For information, phone 764-9270. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 Day Calendar Wind Instrument Department S t u- dent Recital: School of Music Recital Hall, 11:30 am. Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies Lecture: Joseph W. 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Dulzo, a literary college jun- ior who got the show on the lo- cal radio station just 10 months ago, was fired. "It's really too bad I got fir- ed because it looked like WAAM was against war," he says. "It's most unfortunate that a radio station, whether on purpose or by accident, can't c o m e out against killing." Station officials deny the fir- ing was political, however. "Failing to clear this adver- tising was a clear violation of policy," charges assistant sta- tion manager Larry Zimmer. "We had no objection whatso- ever to h i s playing anti-war songs," Zimmer adds. "We have no editorial policy," he explains, "and this makes it appear that we do." "We never made any move to regulate his m u s i c," says WAAM manager Wayne Adair. "But we objected to his putting out this paper -,- it was the straw t h a t broke the camel's back." "I did the show because of my beliefs," Dulzo says simply, "and I did the advertising because I thought it would help the show." WAAM isn't traditionally a progressive rock station. T h e predominant fare on the station is light, 'housewife' music. But, last December, the station hired Dulzo to do 'Spectrum' a 10 p.m.-la.m. show of rock and folk. "I was always severely lim- ited," says Dulzo, "apparently what they wanted was j u s t three more hours of music. They wanted me to ignore reality." "I sincerely believe in the type of show Jim did," says Zimmer. "I still think Jim's a very tal- ented person." Dulzo says that with the lack of advertising not many people could find out about a show like his being on WAAM. "I had a girl call me once," he says, "after I'd been on the show for eight months. She lived three blocks from WAAM and h a d never heard of my show." But apparently, Dulzo a 1 s o had some enthusiastic fans. One of them, Greg Schulz, was so in- censed about Dulzo's firing that he sent an open letter to the station and started circulating petitions. "I feel they're taking away my right to evaluate what comes over the airwaves," says Schulz. "Also, the fact is it was a very good show. T hey destroyed a really good show." Adair and Zimmer insist that the distribution of a thousand fliers on the Diag by a N e w Mobilization worker who is a friend of Dulzo's was only the last of a long series of rule vio- lations. "This was a culmination," says Zimmer. "It was more than we could take. Jim had repeat edly failed to follow administra- tive procedures within the sta- tion. He had visitors in the con- trol room and he didn't record changes properly in the log." "We've got to follow FCC rules," says Zimmer, "and it's Jim's nature not to follow rules." "You can't run a ship," says Adair, "with one man breaking the rules." "They should have taken. me aside two weeks ago," says Dul- zo, "and said, 'Look - you're coming to a culmination.' I categorically deny that I was continually b r e a k i n g station rules. I did rather broadly in- terpret some of the rules, but these charges are really exag- gerated." "The mistake I made was not looking at the leaflet before it was circulated," says Dulzo, "but I'm bitter about the com- plaint that I didn't clear the publicity. In ten months, they didn't spend one goddam dime on publicity for the show. I asked repeatedly if I could do some advertising-they repeat- edly turned me down." Dulzd now has a show, 'Liber- ation,' on WOIA-FM. He seems to like it there. "I'm much happier being there," he says, "I can be my- self. WOIA has given me pub- licity -- they're willingto push the show. And I just might WAAJI There doesn't seem to be much hard feeling on either side of the WAAM-Dulzo dispute. "We're very sorry to have Jim gone," says Zimmer. "He was good for us-he had a certain spirit. Everybody liked him." "I was good friends with everyone over there," agrees Dulzo. "I don't take it person- ally." 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