“The Bikeriders” ( racing into theaters nationwide Friday ) is a rare summer gem: An original film with stars, cool cred, pathos and a clear-eyed wistfulness for a brief moment.
Jeff Nichols, left, writer/director of "The Bikeriders," poses with cast members Austin Butler, center, and Jodie Comer, Thursday, May 30, 2024, in Los Angeles. The motorcycle is a 1965 Harley Davidson Pan Head that Butler rode in the film. The obsession started when he first cracked open Danny Lyon’s book “The Bikeriders,” a New Journalism-style account of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club in the mid-1960s. He saw it as a story about rebels, romantics, frauds and the end of an era.
“I love how Jeff talks about him as being this empty cup that everybody wants to fill with their own expectations and their own responsibilities. He doesn’t want any of that,” Butler said. “That’s when he wants to cut loose and be free.” Comer saw in her a fascinating character, an “ordinary” but still extraordinary person that reminded her of women she knew growing up in Liverpool. She worked tirelessly to nail Kathy’s very specific working-class Chicago accent.“The ultimate truth, and a subtext of the film, is that men are really bad at sharing their emotions,” he said. “Observing this group in the hands of a male narrator I think would be really boring.”“The Bikeriders” is a work of fiction.
“They’re beautiful, but they are romanticized,” Nichols said. “I think when you put them in color, they become less affected. They become more realistic.”Like Butler, Hardy came into the film with some motorcycle know-how. But neither would describe it as a leg up — antique bikes are a different beast.
And the danger was ever-present. But it also resulted in some real movie magic, like the near-impossible recreation of one of Lyon’s most famous photographs with a single rider speeding across the Ohio Bridge.
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