What's the significance of the man and girl in the cemetery acid trip scene?

bake_betty

In Easy Rider (1969), Wyatt and Billy took two prostitutes from the brothel to a cemetery in the French Quarter, where all four ingested the LSD given to Wyatt by the hitchhiker. During the trip, the girl 's voice repeatedly recites religious creeds, and Wyatt encounters a man : What's the significance of the man and girl in the cemetery acid trip scene?

Originally asked by Joey Ryan on Stack Exchange (movies) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

uncredited extras (unverified, thought to be: Jon Provost and his sister (reading prayer), and Paul Ernest as the Preacher) tl;dr: one youtuber though, has said that he and his sister were unpaid extras in the cemetery scene, specifically his sister was asked to read out a prayer while they filmed around her. Edit due to OP adding in the comment clarification: I'm trying to figure out what Hopper was thinking about then I remember when he kept on yelling this is gonna be so and so blah blah blah you know and the Fellini and all these kinds of smells and and you're gonna be like young Christ and Fonda is gonna be the Christ on the Madonna, sitting on her lap and and your sister is like the...

Full answer by blobbymcblobby: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/132407 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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