EASY RIDER IS A MARDI GRAS MOVIE

I mean, among lots of other things. But seriously, remember that, as far as the plot goes, the entire point to their cross country journey on motorcycles from Los Angeles to New Orleans is to go to Mardi Gras!

Yeah, that's right. I'm getting in the mood.

Anyway, for your illegal viewing pleasure, here is, in full, until they yank it off Youtube, the 1969 winner of the Cannes Film Festival's top honor, the Palme d'Or, Easy Rider:



If you just want to see the footage of the cast wandering around actual and real Mardi Gras festivities circa 1969, clip forward to around 1:15 or so, and watch until 1:18 or thereabouts. From what I can tell from my own revelries here in NOLA, things haven't changed that much in forty years, but it is pretty vintage looking in lots of ways.

Happy Mardi Gras!

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