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l nature as surely as the hellish outcrops of desert and the breathless mountain spires arching toward the heavens above. No wonder Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper chose the rugged landscape of New Mexico as the backdrop for much of Easy Rider, the archetypal movie that defined the bravado spirit of independent filmmaking. Who could escape the metaphorical implications behind Fonda and Ho
pper's rootless character
