The movie has two main characters Wyatt (Peter Fonda), and Billy (Dennis Hopper). Wyatt plays the loud, aggressive, arrogant role, while Billy plays the levelheaded, mindful, and insightful role. Wyatt, called Captain America by Billy wears a black leather jacket with the American flag imprinted on the back and a star-and-strips helmet. These two take part in what is known as a road trip, heading

The film builds up it’s hate from beginning to end, getting stronger and stronger, until the end resulting in the utmost form of hatred, killing. Billy and Wyatt ask George to join them on their trip to Mardi Gras. George looks like the scrubby private school boy, who’s cute, innocent and has a sense of humor. George accepts their offer to take the trip not knowing that he would be taking the trip that would in the end take his life.

One can clearly see the hate portrayed in these scenes. Billy, Wyatt, and George did nothing to cause such a terrible thing to happen. The townspeople and the gang that choose to beat George to his death hated them and hated what they represented. Going back to the restraunt, there were a group of young girls fascinated with the 3 men. They thought they were cute and saw them as being different but in a good way. The young girls are just growing up and their minds are not set on certain traditions and prejudices. They can see two sides of what is going on; they can see parents looking down on these “hippies” and they can see their generation trying to change the way America looks at certain types of people.

Billy and Wyatt go on to New Orleans, where they find a whorehouse that George had recommended. They celebrate Mardi Gras and take two girls to a cemetery where they trip on Acid. These scenes are restless, and disturbing. After the Mardi Gras they head back on the road. Billy then goes on to say “ We’ve done it. We’re rich Wyatt. We did it, man.” Wyatt simply and critically replies “We blew it.” Critics have pondered and debated over the meaning of what Wyatt meant by “we blew it.” What Dennis Hopper said he meant by it was that they lost their innocence because their wealth was corrupt. It had come from a dope sale. When Peter Fonda says “We blew it’, he’s talking about easy money, that we should have used our energies to make it.” A quote taken from David Zinman, “Fifty Grand Movies of the 1960’s and 1970’s.” What I think Wyatt `meant by when he said, “We blew it”, was that their purpose of their journey was lost. With everything that had happened, George being killed and all the bigotry they had seen and dealt with, they were lost. I feel like the American life of freedom was nothing more than a bunch of confusion to which Wyatt was lost in. When Billy and Wyatt stopped at a commune to drop a friend off. The commune members had built their own

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