Line #8 Film/TheWildAngels


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:Heavenly Blues' gang is [[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou about to run you over.]]]]
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4	''The Wild Angels'' is a 1966 outlaw biker {{exploitation film}} made by Creator/RogerCorman.
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6	The film tells the exploits of the "Angels", a California motorcycle gang led by Heavenly Blues (Creator/PeterFonda), and their adventures while looking out for their member Loser (Creator/BruceDern). Music/NancySinatra and Creator/DianeLadd also appear as Blues' girlfriend Mike and Loser's wife Gaysh, respectively.
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8	This was the first film to associate Peter Fonda with Harley-Davidson motorcycles and [[TheSixties 1960s]] counterculture, being made three years before ''Film/EasyRider''. In fact, Fonda got the idea for that movie after seeing a picture of himself and Dern on their motorcycles in this movie.
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11	!!This film features examples of:
12	* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: All the members of Blues' gang are brutish thugs and criminals. In fact, given that they are called the "Angels", it's heavily implied that they might actually be a chapter of the trope-naming gang itself.
13	* AttemptedRape: After Loser is shot and put in the hospital, and the Angels go to sneak him out of the hospital, one of the other Angels attempts to rape a nurse, but Blues pulls him away.
14	* BigBad: Heavenly Blues, a VillainProtagonist biker gang leader.
15	* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler:The film ends with the Angels going to bury Loser when police sirens approach and everyone scatters except Blues, who decides to stay behind to bury his friend. The last line of the film is him saying with resignation, "There's nowhere to go."]]
16	* CoveredUp: The exchange between the minister and Blues at the end was later used in Primal Scream's song "Loaded", and gained more popularity still when the song was used in Edgar Wright's ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'', which saw its main character use the same quote from this film.
17	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:While burying Joey, the Angels get in a massive brawl with some locals after one throws a rock at them. The police are called, and Blues orders his men to scatter while he finishes the burial. Last shot of the film is Blues leaving the cemetery in resignation, having accepted his imminent arrest.]]
18	* DueToTheDead: After Loser dies, the Angels forge a death certificate and arrange a church funeral in the Loser's rural hometown. However, Blues soon loses his temper at the ceremony and turns it into TheFunInFuneral.
19	* TheFunInFuneral: At Loser's funeral, Blues loses his temper and interrupts the minister's sermon, remove Loser from his casket, sit him up and place a joint in his mouth while they knock out the minister and place ''him'' in the casket.
20	* LastNameBasis: Nickname variant; "Heavenly Blues" tends to just be called "Blues".
21	* MeaningfulName: "Loser" ends up being an ominously appropiate name for somebody whose misfortunes and eventual death keep up moving the plot.
22	* NoNameGiven: "Heavenly Blues", "Mike", and "Gaysh" sound most likely to be nicknames, and the audience isn't given any other names for them (except for Mike, who's also called "Monkey"). Averted with Loser, whose real name is given as Joe Kearns.
23	* PragmaticVillainy: Blues seems to practice this; he stops an Angel from raping a nurse at the hospital Loser is in, but when the Angels turn Loser's funeral into TheFunInFuneral and two Angels drug and rape Loser's widow Gaysh, Blues is apparently raping another woman. It seems that he only stopped the incident at the hospital only because it would get them caught.
24	* TeamTitle: ''The Wild Angels''.
25	* TomboyishName: Blues' girlfriend is called "Mike".
26	* VillainProtagonist: Heavenly Blues, a violent biker gang leader. While he's less ruthless than a lot of his comrades, he's still willing to assault preachers and cops, and employs a lot of Nazi imagery.

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