The Trip 1967 Two versions of the script were written by Charles B Griffith before producer director Roger Corman had Jack Nicholson write the final screenplay. Roger took LSD to see what it was like to trip. Corman spent a $100,000 to make the movie and it made 6 million for AIP.
Peter Fonda is a TV commercial director, he takes LSD, with Bruce Dern acting as his guide. He starts in Bruce's house but gets paranoid and leaves. He wonders down to the Sunset Strip, stopping at some nightclubs. He meets people who take him places. Eventually he comes down when the sun comes up.
It's sort of captures what a trip is like. Parts of the film try to recreate the audio and visual experience from the POV of the tripper but it's such a personal thing that each person is going to have a different experience based on their set, setting and size of the dose. Tripping by yourself isn't always the best idea, the experience lasts several hours, and varies in intensity, that having an experienced person along is helpful.
It's colorful and noisy, there's plenty of places to see and a fairly entertaining cast with Dennis Hopper, Susan Strasberg, Salli Sachse, Dick Miller, Peter Bogdanovich and Gram Parsons. It's not got much story, it's more an experience. I got the 2003 release, it's on a Midnite Movie DVD from MGM, paired with Psych-Out. There's a fairly interesting commentary by Roger Corman. Not one I'm going to rush back to see again to soon but glad to have seen it.
I have 13 Roger Corman movies on dvd but not this one. I believe I saw it quite some time ago but don't really remember it that well. If I find it cheap or on TCM I'll probably watch it again.
Posted by: Gary | November 21, 2020 at 02:36 PM