3. Dennis Hopper Gets Into A Fight - Creates Classic Movie Scene
The "acid trip" scene in
Easy Rider is undoubtably one of the film's highlights, and one which takes place in New Orleans during Mardi Gras, and has Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper wandering around being on drugs. To get the sequence filmed, Hopper gave a bunch of his friends 16mm cameras, and everyone went about filming stuff in the most unprofessional fashion imaginable - they completely disregarded things like "composition" and "focus" ('cause it was the '60s and who wants rules,
man?) and generally made a bad time of it. That's when Hopper, fearing for his movie, got into a fight with camera-holder Barry Feinstein. This little ruckus eventually culminated in an assortment of bizarro antics, two of which included breaking a guitar on Feinstein's head and hurling a TV at him. The resulting footage is "far-out," of course, but it was also accidentally exposed to sunlight before it had a chance to be developed, 'cause - once again - it was the '60s. For any other movie, that'd mean the footage would need to be re-shot all over again, but drugs being drugs, Dennis Hopper being Dennis Hopper, and the '60s being the '60s, it just kind of worked. The footage was kept and thus a classic sequence was born, and everybody - we presume - had a really great time.