Henry Fonda is said to have come out of Easy Rider a confused and puzzled man. He had worked in movies for 35 years and made some great ones, and now his son Peter was going to be a millionaire because of a movie Henry couldn’t even understand. Where did those two guys come from, he wanted to know. What was their background? How did they set up that drug-smuggling deal? Where were they going? And what, oh what, did the movie mean? I suspect many members of the Hollywood older generation believe, sincerely and deeply, that Easy Rider doesn’t have a story, and doesn’t mean anything, and that the kids are all crazy these days. — Roger Ebert, 1969.