This paper discusses the film, Easy Rider. It serves serve as an introduction to 60's hippie culture as it was at its very core. When we first meet the film's two protagonists, Billy (Dennis Hopper) and Wyatt (Peter Fonda), they're making a drug deal for a few kilos of cocaine which they then promptly turn around and sell for profit. Easy Rider is, more than anything else, a film about freedom. It seems that young Americans had spent a few years trying to achieve freedom at any cost and now, as '67's summer of love was fading into memory, many were wondering exactly what it meant to be free and if it were even possible to ever attain true freedom.