Discussion Questions
June 11, 2009

1. "Easy Rider contains within it an expression of everything the counterculture represented, or was believed to represent, at the end of the 1960s."  Evaluate this contention in the context of the movie.  In doing so, make careful and specific notes of language, imagery, values expressed, and other details to support your analysis.
2. "The death of Peter Fonda at the end of the movie is merely a metaphor for the death of the counter culture and the youth rebellion of the 1960s"  Discuss.
3. According to Costello, the film Easy Rider was a "...warning that the values of the counter-culture were becoming indistinguisable from the values of the mainstream."  What is the evidence in the movie to support Costello's contention?

4. In Nixon’s speech on Vietnamization (1969) what was the solution offered by Nixon?

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