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Vatican newspaper pays tribute to 1969 hippie film Easy Rider, takes swipe at Hays Code Facebook Twitter April 03, 2009

Calling its soundtrack “the musical manifesto of the hippie generation,” L’Osservatore Romano is commemorating the 40th anniversary of the film Easy Rider. In one article, Giuseppe Fiorentino and Gaetano Vallini discuss the movie’s songs, including Bob Dylan’s “It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding),” Steppenwolf’s “Born to be Wild,” and Jimmi Hendrix’s “If 6 Was 9.” In a second article, Emilio Ranzato analyzes the movie’s significance and cultural context, and in doing so takes a swipe at the Hays Code-- which promoted wholesomeness in movies between 1930 and 1968-- as “hypocritical and anachronistic.”

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