Fonda's character to the preacher:
"We wanna be free! We wanna be free to do what we wanna do. We wanna be free to ride. We wanna be free to ride our machines without being hassled by The Man! ... And we wanna get loaded. And we wanna have a good time. And that's what we are gonna do. We are gonna have a good time... We are gonna have a party."
Parts of the quote was sampled and used at the beginning of Primal Scream's "Loaded". That's how I got to know this movie.
shareIt was used by Mudhoney a couple of years before Primal Scream, on the "Superfuzz Bigmuff" EP.
http://www.discogs.com/Mudhoney-Superfuzz-Bigmuff/master/58252
i agree that was a funny yet pathetic rant which summed up the meaninglessness of these sad-ass characters lives. i'm guessing this was Gorman humor poking fun at the Hell's Angels. i would love to have been in the screening room with the Angels when they first saw this film. i bet they thought it was 'far out man'! some of the worst acting of the period and genre. in fact its so bad its classic!
"only one food for the rest of my life? That's easy, cherry-flavored Pez. No question about it."
"...and if you don't let us, like man, we're going to hold our breath until we..."
Only a rich,pompous,spoiled son of a famous Hollywood actor could spew that H.S. with a straight face ! Man I felt so sorry for ol' Hank ! I was a 'wild child' back then. Still, I knew HS when I heard it. I always wanted to smack him upside the head mid "speech". Maybe the cane pulling him off stage right first, then the smack. Remember Snaggle Pus ? "Eggzit stage riiigghttt...."
"Heavens To Murgatroid" (you had to be sittin' on the living room rug with a bowl of Frosted Flakes on Saturday morning -in front of your Zenith or Admiral, circa '62, to know what the hell I'm talking 'bout !!
what fascinates me about this film is how different it is from Easy Rider made three years later. not that Easy Rider is that outstanding but it does show how the youth counter-culture had changed. hippies living in communes espousing free-love and doing drugs was somehow an improvement over the aimless chaos of the biker counter culture. looking back, its all a crock of H.S. and certainly a great source of amusement to watch especially as compared with the contemporary H.S. i rent these days. i wonder how that " rich, pompous, spoiled son of a famous Hollywood actor" feels when he sees his film legacy nowadays. pretty sad body of work. does this get him a star on Hollywood Boulevard?
"only one food for the rest of my life? That's easy, cherry-flavored Pez. No question about it."
i found the movie amusing for what it was but yeah, that quote is pretty funny.
share". . . the meaninglessness of these sad-ass characters lives . . ."
These were people (both the real-world filmmakers and the fictional movie characters) who'd grown up with the Duck-and-Cover threat of the H-Bomb hanging over their childhood & teenage heads.
Is it really any wonder that post-Cuban-Missile-Crisis American youth wanted to "party like it was 1999"?
that's my mantra too.
"Hipness is not a state of mind, it's a fact of life!" - Cannonball Adderley