Peter Fonda: Five crucial movies to remember the actor

OPINION: The first time I really saw Peter Fonda, who died on Friday, he was crying in a graveyard, mad of acid.

We were looking at Easy Rider and Fonda's Sphinx-ish Captain America is ultra-cold. But I do not really have see he, as an actor or as a counterculture icon, would make this scene to the frenetic scene of the New Orleans cemetery, where he addresses a stone angel as if was his dead mother, who committed suicide at the time Fonda was 10 years old.

Looking at this heir of Hollywood royalty, absolutely above his gourd, who hysterically rolled his face against a stone angel as tears ran down his face, I finally figured out what my parents' generation had seen in him: he was a worthy champion of the depths that he would not want to get rid of his "old man's troubles".

Although this film and this scene are probably what Fonda best remembered, it was more than a symbol of the counterculture of the 60s.

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With 116 credits as an actor, he challenged to be defeated by Hollywood until the end. His latest films will be big budget The last complete measure with Samuel L Jackson and the independent film Itty Bitty The magic hoursDavid Connelly, director for the first time, about a couple in search of an elusive author.

So when you're looking for a movie to watch in the honor of Fonda's life and work this week, do not settle for Easy Rider, do like Captain America and relax, man. Try one of these five movies too:

Wild Angels

"We want to be free, we want to be free to do what we want, and we want to be loaded and have a good time … that's what we're going to do, we're going to have a good time, we're going to have a party! "

Long before he became Hopper's Captain America, Fonda made this mission statement for the disgruntled youngsters throughout Roger Corman's motorcycle exploitation movie. Wild Angels. The scene was so adolescent that it was defined 35 years later, with Bobby Gillespie's Primal Scream, for the ultimate rave anthem effect of the early '90s. Charge.

THE LIMEY

"Have you ever dreamed of a place where you never really remember …? It was in the 60s." In a film that relies heavily on the nostalgia factor, the scene where Fonda's fat-label producer Terry Valentine tries to explain the 60s to his very girlfriend is full of pathos, not just because of the dialogue but because it is Fonda who says it.

It's apparently the Terrance Stamp movie, but Fonda will always be the first performance you think about when you remember it The Limey.

THE PASSION OF AYN RAND

Normally, I would never encourage anything to look at something about Ayn Rand, but Fonda's performance in this film is a unique enlightenment of humanity in this otherwise monochrome biopic.

"Cock-a-doodle-doo, nobody here except us, chickens," was perhaps his best counterpart in this bland thing, but there's a reason he won a Golden Globe for this pathos-animated character the incarnation of all that is shabby, selfish and disgusting about Ayn Rand's ridiculous philosophy. (This is also remarkable because he's playing the cuckold to Eric Stoltz, who was dating his daughter, Bridget, at the time).

3:10 IN YUMA

Yes Easy Rider Fonda took her father's western sandbox, tilted it on the head and turned it into a soap dish of the counter culture, the little-known 3:10 in Yuma, is his excuses for that.

He plays a role that could have been back in the day of Henry, a god who fears Pinkerton who was killed while trying to bring the outlaw Ben Wade, played by Russel Crowe.

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Fonda is so perfect as a scary charismatic cult leader in this 1982 cult panic film, it 's a wonder that he' s never settled in a commune and that he 's the only one. have actually tried.

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Lilith, in which he plays in front of Jean Seberg, the main contest of his sister Jane, Counter Culture Queen.