The Classic Head Flick The Trip is about just what the title says, a trip. We get Peter Fonda on Acid. The Classic Duo of Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper star in this late 60’s drug flick. Tis one is well worth the rent or buy.
The Trip is not as out there as some of the movies to come like Holy Mountain, but I believe it is all around a better film. The plot is not great and some of it kind of lacks, but some of the images are phenomenal. Dennis Hopper is not in it nearly as much as I would have liked, but the scenes with him are good to see. Roger Corman directed this classic and it is one of those movies that makes you ask what happened to Roger Corman. Hopper has a few scenes one of them with his anti commercialism speech is one of the highlights of the film.
This movie was written by Jack Nicholson, yeah the Joker and Shining Jack Nicholson. It seems to be a piece of film history with all these names involved in 1967.Peter Fonda’s character goes to a drug house, well not a current day drug house but a peace and love hippie commune drug house. There he plans on tripping on acid for his first time. Some of the visuals at times look much like a Hammer flick. And then we get all the cool light effects and tripy acid camera fun.The first half of the film Peter is stuck in one room tripping realizing his sexual freedom and imagining running through nature. It seems to pick up when he sees his companion who has left the room to get apple juice shot in the head. In reality this is all part of his “Trip”. He runs out into the world where he becomes paranoid and acts a fool running around tripping on LSD. One particular scene he wonders into a suburban home and wakes up a little girl who he makes friends with is a great one. The scene has a sense of humor, as well as just an odd event that it seems to stick out as part of what makes this good.Some of the best visuals involve seeing the city as it was in the late 60’s with all the branding, signs and sights of the city as Peter Fonda wonders through the world on LSD.The end is not like Easy Rider or Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, it ends with a nice hippie ending of free love.In the Scheme of Peter Fonda And Dennis Hopper Films this one seems like the moment Peter Fonda has his realization that sends him into the role he takes so often. I like to see it as an indirect pre-quill to Easy Rider. This is the moment he realizes what in the world he stands against and finds the freedom he is constantly trying to achieve.
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