The Trip (film)

The Trip (film)

Infobox_Film
name = The Trip


image_size=
caption = Theatrical poster to "The Trip" (1967)
director = Roger Corman
producer = Roger Corman
writer = Jack Nicholson
starring = Peter Fonda
Dennis Hopper
Susan Strasberg
Bruce Dern
music = Mike Bloomfield, The American Music Band
cinematography = Arch Dalzell
editing = Ronald Sinclair
distributor = American International Pictures
released = 1967
runtime = 85 min.
language = English
budget =
amg_id = 1:51015
imdb_id = 0062395|

"The Trip" (1967) is a low-budget cult film released by American International Pictures, directed by Roger Corman, and shot on location in and around Los Angeles, including on top of Kirkwood in Laurel Canyon, Hollywood Hills, and near Big Sur, California in 1966. Peter Fonda stars as a young television commercial director, Paul Groves.

In this plot-free drama, Groves takes his first dose of LSD while experiencing the heartbreak and ambivalence of divorce from his beautiful but adulterous wife, played by Susan Strasberg. He starts his trip with a "guide," John (Bruce Dern), from whom out of fear, Groves runs away and abandons. As Groves experiences his trip, he wanders around the Sunset Strip, into nightclubs, and the homes of strangers and acquaintances, he considers the roles played by commercialism, sex, love, the role of women in his life, and materialism in his existence. He meets a young woman, Glenn (Salli Sachse), who is interested in people who take LSD. Having learned from Groves recently that he would be taking LSD, she has been looking out for him. Glenn drives Groves to a beach house, where they have passionate intercourse. As the sun rises, Groves steps out to the balcony to get some air. Glenn asks him whether his first LSD experience was constructive. Groves defers his answer to "tomorrow." His face is frozen in close-up, and his image cracks like glass through an animation special effect. "The Trip" also features Dennis Hopper as Groves' dealer Max, who appears here with Fonda in a precursor role to "Easy Rider" (1969). Contrary to their characters in "Easy Rider", though—and for obvious reasons—Fonda's Paul Groves acts paranoid and anxious in "The Trip", while Hopper's Max appears calm and collected.

Corman wildly edited some scenes for "The Trip", particularly the exterior night scenes on the Sunset Strip, to simulate the LSD user's racing mind. "The Trip" features photographic effects, body paint on seminude actresses to lend atmosphere, and colorful patterned lighting, during sex scenes and in a club, which imitates LSD-induced hallucinations. Finally, Corman included inscrutable fantasy sequences including one where Fonda is faced with revolving pictures of Che Guevara, Sophia Loren and Khalil Gibran in a wildly lit room and then yells out "Bay of Pigs!!" in terror. The story plays over a musical backdrop of improvisational jazz, blues rock of the band The Electric Flag, plus an exotic musical score with an organ and horn-drenched theme.

Jack Nicholson wrote the original screenplay. Corman encouraged Nicholson's experimental writing style and gives between 80 and 90 percent credit to Nicholson for the shooting script in the director's commentary appearing on the DVD of this film. Corman slightly modified the story to stay within budget.

External links

* [http://www.moria.co.nz/fantasy/trip.htm "The Trip" movie review by Richard Scheib ]


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