Synopsis
James Dean to Hopper
"I saw what you did today. Today you were great."
Jack Nicholson to Hopper
"We're geniuses, you know that?
Isn't it great to be a genius?"
The chopper-riding hippie outlaw in Easy Rider. The prophetic madman in the jungle in Apocalypse Now. The terrifying psychopath in Blue Velvet. The kid gone wrong in Rebel Without a Cause. The actor taken under the wing of James Dean who longed to be the next Orson Welles. The hell-raising director who revolutionized Hollywood. An enigmatic man from Dodge City, Kansas, on an endless quest to realize the American Dream.
Dennis Hopper has been described as a rebel, an icon, an addict plagued by demons, and one of the most important champions of the pop-art movement. Friend to Warhol, muse to David Lynch, mentor to Sean Penn, champion of Ice-T, Dennis Hopper built a career that was a half-century of rebellion waged at the edge of American popular culture.
Tom Folsom's Hopper is a wild ride through Dennis's many lives. Featuring hundreds of interviews with Hopper's fellow actors, artists, musicians, and residents of Taos, New Mexico (where he spent much of his most manic time), as well as his ex-wives and many other people who knew him, Hopper takes you on an extraordinary—and sometimes troubling—journey. From Dennis's early days with his grandparents on a dusty farm in Kansas, where he watched trains go by on their way to Los Angeles, to his formative time in Hollywood as one of a bright new crop of actors straddling the edge of the studio system, to the rebellious 1960s and the start of the independent film movement, to the drug-addled 1970s and beyond, when Hopper staged one of the greatest Hollywood comebacks of all time—Tom Folsom has crafted a biography as unconventional as Dennis Hopper himself.
Chapters
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Hopper_01_Open
Duration: 11s -
Hopper_02_Prologue
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Hopper_03_Part1a
Duration: 16min -
Hopper_04_Part1b
Duration: 08min -
Hopper_05_Part1c
Duration: 10min -
Hopper_06_Part1d
Duration: 07min -
Hopper_07_Part1e
Duration: 05min -
Hopper_08_Part1f
Duration: 10min -
Hopper_09_Part1g
Duration: 08min -
Hopper_10_Part1h
Duration: 09min -
Hopper_11_Part1i
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Hopper_12_Part1j
Duration: 10min -
Hopper_13_Part1k
Duration: 08min -
Hopper_14_Part1l
Duration: 11min -
Hopper_15_Part1m
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Hopper_16_Part1n
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Hopper_17_Part2a
Duration: 08min -
Hopper_18_Part2b
Duration: 07min -
Hopper_19_Part2c
Duration: 07min -
Hopper_20_Part2d
Duration: 05min