{"id":90690,"date":"2023-03-23T11:59:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T18:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=90690"},"modified":"2023-09-03T00:13:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T07:13:01","slug":"trip-the-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=90690","title":{"rendered":"Trip, The (1967)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s beautiful, man.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Poster-206x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-90691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Poster-206x300.png 206w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Poster-88x128.png 88w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Poster-185x270.png 185w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Poster.png 641w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA commercial film maker (Peter Fonda) about to divorce his wife (Susan Strasberg) visits a friend with LSD (Bruce Dern) and undergoes a supervised trip which gets progressively wilder.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bruce Dern Films<\/li>\n<li>Dennis Hopper Films<\/li>\n<li>Dick Miller Films<\/li>\n<li>Living Nightmare<\/li>\n<li>Peter Fonda Films<\/li>\n<li>Roger Corman Films<\/li>\n<li>Susan Strasberg Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nRoger Corman followed up on his biker exploitation flick <a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1319\"><em>The Wild Angels<\/em> (1966)<\/a> with this similarly audience-pandering look &#8212; scripted by Jack Nicholson &#8212; at the subculture of experimental drug use. The resulting film delivers exactly what its title promises: a feature-length LSD trip taken by the lead character (Fonda): <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Peter-Fonda.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Peter-Fonda-1024x553.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"346\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-90694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Peter-Fonda-1024x553.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Peter-Fonda-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Peter-Fonda-128x69.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Peter-Fonda-768x415.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Peter-Fonda-500x270.png 500w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Peter-Fonda.png 1295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; under the supervision of Dern&#8217;s stern but caring friend. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Dern.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Dern-1024x567.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"354\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-90692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Dern-1024x567.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Dern-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Dern-128x71.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Dern-768x425.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Dern-488x270.png 488w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Dern-1038x576.png 1038w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Dern.png 1285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other than impressively rapid-fire editing and creative in-camera techniques (earning the film a cover story in <em>American Cinematographer<\/em>), the trivia surrounding the making of this movie is perhaps its most interesting element, so I&#8217;ll list just a few items of note here (all taken from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/93930\/the-trip#articles-reviews\">TCM&#8217;s articles<\/a>): <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Nearly all the major players in this production experimented with LSD themselves prior to making it (other than straight-laced Dern).  <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Location shooting spots included an L.A. club, a house in Laurel Canyon, Big Sur, Yuma, Arizona, and Big Dune, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Desert.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Desert-1024x548.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"343\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-90705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Desert-1024x548.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Desert-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Desert-128x69.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Desert-768x411.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Desert-504x270.png 504w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Desert.png 1287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Big-Sur.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Big-Sur-1024x547.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"342\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-90706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Big-Sur-1024x547.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Big-Sur-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Big-Sur-128x68.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Big-Sur-768x410.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Big-Sur-506x270.png 506w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Big-Sur.png 1291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The film&#8217;s budget was $300,000, but by January of 1968 it had already earned $4 million in rentals, and gross box-office sales reached ~$10 million over time. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The most memorable effects are likely those &#8220;created by &#8216;liquid projectors,&#8217; in which liquid dyes are compressed between two watch-crystal dishes, and light is shined through the crystals as they are manipulated (and the color blotches morph on-screen).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Light-Swirl.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Light-Swirl-1024x551.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"344\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-90707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Light-Swirl-1024x551.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Light-Swirl-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Light-Swirl-128x69.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Light-Swirl-768x413.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Light-Swirl-502x270.png 502w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Light-Swirl.png 1289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The film&#8217;s most amusing (and believable) sequence takes place in a laundromat, when Barboura Morris&#8217;s chicken-eating housewife observes Fonda obsessing over spin cycles. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Chicken.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Chicken-1024x549.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"343\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-90704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Chicken-1024x549.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Chicken-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Chicken-128x69.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Chicken-768x412.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Chicken-504x270.png 504w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Chicken.png 1289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Notable Performances, Qualities, and Moments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wild sets and costumes<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Hopper.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Hopper-1024x559.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"349\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-90693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Hopper-1024x559.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Hopper-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Hopper-128x70.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Hopper-768x420.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Hopper-494x270.png 494w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Hopper.png 1287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>A seemingly authentic look at drug\/hippie culture in the mid-&#8217;60s <a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Passing-Toke3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Passing-Toke3-1024x550.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"344\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-90701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Passing-Toke3-1024x550.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Passing-Toke3-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Passing-Toke3-128x69.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Passing-Toke3-768x413.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Passing-Toke3-502x270.png 502w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Passing-Toke3.png 1297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Arch R. Dalzell&#8217;s cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Fonda-Trip2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Fonda-Trip2-1024x569.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-90699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Fonda-Trip2-1024x569.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Fonda-Trip2-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Fonda-Trip2-128x71.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Fonda-Trip2-768x427.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Fonda-Trip2-486x270.png 486w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Fonda-Trip2-1038x576.png 1038w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Trip-Fonda-Trip2.png 1273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, though it&#8217;s worth a one-time look for its curiosity value alone. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0062395\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moriareviews.com\/fantasy\/trip-1967.htm\">Moria Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdsavant.com\/s769trip.html\">DVD Savant Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s beautiful, man.&#8221; Synopsis: A commercial film maker (Peter Fonda) about to divorce his wife (Susan Strasberg) visits a friend with LSD (Bruce Dern) and undergoes a supervised trip which gets progressively wilder. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Bruce Dern Films Dennis Hopper Films Dick Miller Films Living Nightmare Peter Fonda Films Roger Corman Films Susan Strasberg Films Review: Roger Corman followed up on his biker exploitation flick The Wild Angels (1966) with this similarly audience-pandering look &#8212; scripted by&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=90690\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90690"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91054,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90690\/revisions\/91054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}