Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place | movie | 2011 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster’s fabled road trip across America in the legendary Magic  | dG1fNTdPYW9aWjYxb00

Transcript

00:00When did the 60s begin?

00:11That might seem obvious, but in 1964, this man, Ken Kesey, lit the fuse for the explosion

00:18of the 60s.

00:44We weren't old enough to be beatniks, and we were a little too old to be hippies.

00:48Everybody I knew had red on the road.

00:50It stirred us up.

00:52So we decided to go travel across the country.

00:55Since it turned out that there were so many of us, we decided we'd buy a bus.

00:58It was like a troop of minstrels.

00:59There was this guy with no shirt on, talking a mile a minute.

01:03Cassidy is going to drive the bus.

01:05It looked like a traveling pleasure palace.

01:08It was big and roomy and spacious, until we got all the people in it.

01:13Yes, that's it, commander, as usual.

01:15We'd take turns riding shotgun with him.

01:17It was almost impossible for him to ever shut off.

01:20All you can do is experience this thing.

01:23Ken really believed that things could be changed.

01:25He saw himself as a kind of liberator.

01:28People didn't think we were hippies or that we were drug freaks, because it wasn't in

01:32the news yet.

01:33The public always grinned when they saw that bus.

01:34We are the Merry Band of Pranksters.

01:36Once Pandora's box is open, you can't regulate who gets to use the stuff that flies out of

01:55it.

02:02I thought this was as American as you could get, because we were exploring a new territory.

02:08What it meant was that everybody had to consider a new way for things to be.