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Easy Rider : "Take a Load off Fanny"

Set to The Band's "The Weight," Wyatt (Peter Fonda), Billy (Dennis Hopper), and the hippie-hitchhiker they've picked up (Luke Askew) drive through the American West to his commune.

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ambient sound , backlighting, camera leading, color, color balance, disjunctive editing, extreme long shot, flash frame, following shot, lighting, location, long shot, medium shot, music, nondiegetic, natural lighting, pan, reverse angle, tracking shot, traveling shot, zoom-out

Diversity in Media Representation

LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, White, White: White American

""Take a Load off Fanny" " in Easy Rider. Directed by Dennis Hopper, Columbia Pictures, 1969, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=3994

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