This film has a remarkable long scene of Joe 'Loser' Kearns being wheeled in to a surgical ward, prepared then anaesthetised and we cut out just as surgery commences. Its engaging and documents the procedure authentically to a point of being unsettling and almost creepy.
Being such an incidental moment I am wondering if there are theories why the director would need all of this footage and not just cut around it?
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I think the surgery scene is as long as it is to help fill time to make the movie longer.
The plot is so thin that it barely exists. The 'real' plot needs about thirty seconds to explain. The Hell's Angels are rebelling against society for the same reason that the beatniks, the hippies, and others are rebelling, they don't like it and want something different. The plot doesn't have anywhere to go after about fifteen minutes. It barely makes a fifties to sixties TV episode on 'Dragnet' or 'Highway Patrol.' That means the need for a lot of filler to get to theater release length.
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