Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood,'' I share the view that for a variety of social and economic reasons, the best American directors in that era were able to make highly
Without resorting to the romantic hyperbole that pervades Peter Biskind's ''Easy Riders, The agent Sue Mengers observed to me back then, ''Movies are becoming like dinosaurs - their bodies are getting bigger and bigger and their brains are getting smallerīut with the passage of time, the artistic landmarks of a period become clearer and the schlock (even if it presaged the future) vanishes into the mist.
Misogynistic buddy pictures and bloated disaster epics. For every ''Chinatown'' and ''Godfather,'' I had to sit through dozens of schlocky car-chase movies, brutal revenge fantasies, Occasional success in slipping masterpieces through the system. When I covered that period as a reporter and reviewer for Daily Variety, I felt American movies were in a perilous state of decline, mired in a coarsening process thrown into stark relief by filmmakers' I felt much the same sense of surprise when I began to hear people talk about the early-to-mid-70'sĪs Hollywood's last golden age. Talk about the 1930's as a golden age, when he and other actors remembered those years as a constant struggle to escape mediocre projects. Late in his long career, Melvyn Douglas said he was flabbergasted to hear film buffs Golden Age seldom seems like a golden age when you're living through it. Critic's Notebook: Hollywood Under the Influence (May 5, 1998).
Why do people go see them? Why is the public so stupid? That's not my fault.Despite (or because of) the excesses of the 70's, great films got made. GEORGE LUCAS ON STAR WARS: "Popcorn pictures have always ruled. There was no cocaine before Easy Rider on the street. MARTIN SCORSESE ON DRUGS: "I did a lot of drugs because I wanted to do a lot, I wanted to push all the way to the very very end, and see if I could die."ĭENNIS HOPPER ON EASY RIDER: "The cocaine problem in the United States is really because of me. Based on hundreds of interviews with the directors themselves, producers, stars, agents, writers, studio executives, spouses, and ex-spouses, this is the full, candid story of Hollywood's last golden age. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls follows the wild ride that was Hollywood in the '70s - an unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (both onscreen and off) and a climate where innovation and experimentation reigned supreme. This was an age when talented young filmmakers such as Scorsese, Coppola, and Spielberg, along with a new breed of actors, including De Niro, Pacino, and Nicholson, became the powerful figures who would make such modern classics as The Godfather, Chinatown, Taxi Driver, and Jaws. When the low-budget biker movie Easy Rider shocked Hollywood with its success in 1969, a new Hollywood era was born.
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