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Respectfully, I think you're missing the key element in why Easy Rider (1969) was so impactful. It wasn't about the technical filmmaking, but rather how the film was made as well as the social context that the film was coming out in.
It was made for very little money with almost no studio influence. The film itself is practically a giant middle finger to the establishment and the studio system of the day. Like you, I'm actually not much of a fan of the film but I can still appreciate the context and historical importance of it.
If you're interested in film history around this era of Hollywood (Scorsese, George Lucas, Francis Coppola, etc.), I highly recommend Peter Biskind's book Easy Riders & Raging Bulls.
Bruce Campbell at a book signing, Henry Rollins and Anthony Keidis.
I also lived in DC and met a LOT of politicians. The only two that were random were John Boehner (I was drunk outside smoking, saw him walking by, yelled BOEHNER! and he turned and waved) and Mitch McConnell (I saw him in a little corner bodega. I said hi, he looked scared and scurried away).
See EL MARIACHI made for 7000 and read the book https://www.amazon.com/Rebel-without-Crew-23-Year-Old-Filmmaker/dp/0452271878 Robert Rodriguez continues to make movies his way.
Oh no dont worry about my backup, Im a Financial Economics Major with a minor in Information Systems also im in the states so I can hop into the banking sector whenever.
This quote comes to mind when we are talking about this. " We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. "- John Keating.
Also highly reccomend watching Desparado and reading Rebel Without a Crew
Robert Rodriguez's book Rebel Without a Crew has some good info on indie filmmaking in it.
You can find it on Amazon.
I have this nice coffee table book by Matt Zoller Seitz that's pretty great with all production art and ephemera and the such.
I think he even agrees with me, since he literally wrote a book where he adopted the persona
So yeah, I’d wager a majority of people see Jeff bridges and immediately think of him in those jelly shoes and that Pendleton sweater. Just sayin ;)
Came out about 10 years ago, a very fast, weird, trashy read. Pretty eyeroll worthy in some parts, the guy spends a lot of the book attributing Bale’s career success to the fact that he ran his website or whatever.
That is absolutely going to happen. The depth and nuance on this show. Soon, it’ll be listed here for great minds to ponder:
https://www.amazon.com/Popular-Culture-and-Philosophy-125-book-series/dp/B0897GS1YK
Read the book, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood by Peter Biskind. It's a great read about New Hollywood cinema.
"When the low-budget biker movie Easy Rider shocked Hollywood with its success in 1969, a new Hollywood era was born. 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. 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. 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. "
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."
DENNIS HOPPER ON EASY RIDER: "The cocaine problem in the United States is really because of me. There was no cocaine before Easy Rider on the street. After Easy Rider, it was everywhere."
GEORGE LUCAS ON STAR WARS: "Popcorn pictures have always ruled. Why do people go see them? Why is the public so stupid? That's not my fault."
You might find this book interesting.
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood https://www.amazon.com/dp/0684857081/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_TSPH6Z0AKHD0FXY79FTW
Book recommendation: If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell. He talks a lot about working with the Raimi brothers, including the Evil Dead movies - really a great read, he's having so much fun.
If you haven't already, I highly suggest reading If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell. Tons of great little insights into him and the Raimi brothers making movies all their lives.
If you are a newbie and a fan of stuff, there's a series called "Pop Culture and Philosophy" that starts with some pretty famous properties and discusses some ideas related to those.
Rebel Without A Crew is a good read by Robert Rodriguez .... came from very little and filmed for peanuts ....
https://www.amazon.com/Rebel-without-Crew-23-Year-Old-Filmmaker/dp/0452271878
If you haven’t already, read his book If Chins Could Kill. There’s some great stuff in there.
Skip his second book Make love the Bruce Campbell Way. It’s god fucking awful.
If you think that stuff was daring you should read his definitely-100%-accurate autobiography.
The audiobook version is fantastic, too. He does the reading himself.
>I dont care about my english for now
Well...maybe try caring a little because your post is borderline nonsense. I must have read it four or five times and still don't really get what you're saying / asking.
>I am asking for tips and indication for guys filmmakers (indies or not) for inspire me.
Okay...so it appears as if you're looking for inspiration. Check out Rebel Without a Crew.
Rebel Without a Crew by Robert Rodriguez is pretty great.
Not as film related bur more related to the artistic process is Art and Fear. I highly recommend this to everybody I talk about art with. It's a great book to take notes in and destroy with highlighters.
You really should read his book The Dude and the Zen Master. It's like he's realized being The Dude is the ultimate goal in life and now he just abides.
Interestingly enough, to the best of one of his biographer's ability to tell (see here for a really worthwhile read), Walt Disney wasn't, as said below, any more anti-Semitic or racist than most at the time (not forgiving it but it appears he actually was relatively tolerant for the day, even attempting pretty hard to be understanding with "Song of the South" though that ended up going pretty badly in the public eye). Funnily enough for the present conversation though, his strong right wing leanings came about because he hated Communists and Russia so much because he perceived them (probably wrongly) as trying to destroy his studio.
Read this book and watch all of the movies that are mentioned.
Fine, Bruce Campbell wrote If Chins Could Kill and Lloyd Kaufman wrote Make Your Own Damn Movie
Keep making the videos you'd want to see. If others aren't that into it, fuck em, keep going. Have fun working so the process is its own reward, it will be very fulfilling. As you continue you'll get better and better and better.
Robert Rodriguez started with vhs tapes as a kid, editing from one vcr to another. He made tons of videos and credits his time doing so with a lot of what he learned and why he was able to become a professional. We learn by doing, so keep doing what you do. Check out his book if you're interested: Rebel without a Crew: How a 23-year-old Filmmaker with $7000 Became a Hollywood Player
Also this. Never read it, I'm not that into pop religious books, but some of the guy's earlier stuff was pretty legit. His urban retreats are interesting.
Before I moved I had 13 Steven Segal movies.
Did you know that by 2009 he was't even doing his own voice overs for his movies?
He would stay half in shadows the whole time and the sourced out his dubbing to some assholes in probablhy Bulgaria cause according to Bruce Campbell that's where you go to make your movies on the CHEAP.
They're not 100% up-to-date, but there are a couple of books by Peter Biskind that are pretty renowned for covering a couple important periods in Hollywood history, and how a few important films got made during those eras: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls covers late 60s into 70s film revolution, and then Down and Dirty Pictures covers the early 90s with the rise of film festival circuits, Miramax, Tarantino, etc. Great, adaptable story-telling that is as true today as it was in each time period, and stories about how films get made, and their impacts.
EDIT: "up to date" meaning they don't cover anything in the past 10 years, but their stories and politics ring true.