“Our marketing plan is about preserving the relationships we already have, but also reaching out to new riders,” he says. That’s why the brand created a welcoming space. But Anoop Prakash, managing director of Harley-Davidson Canada, says heritage can also make walking into a dealership intimidating for customers who are curious about buying their first Harley, be it because of the brand’s overwhelming history or pre-conceived notions about tattooed bikers. Harley-Davidson has enjoyed a long history as an iconic lifestyle brand, which allows it to talk about its heritage in its marketing or in environments like 1903. In the back, a garage-themed event space also houses a “Jumpstart” simulator, which puts Harley models on a sort of heavy-duty treadmill to give people an idea of what it’s like to take one of the bikes for a spin.
The walls of the café are decked out with vintage photographs of Harley riders throughout the company’s 110-plus-year history.
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The café is meant to harken back to the “café-racing” subculture of the ’60s and ’70s, when bikers would ride smaller, quicker bikes between cafés (which, occasionally, could be code for a bar). It’s a place where brand enthusiasts can “stop and talk about how they love riding, like the old days, in a gathering place that’s steeped in the lifestyle and our heritage,” says Jo Figueiredo, marketing director at Harley-Davidson Canada, and that’s something that is becoming more in-demand among city dwellers. On the hip Ossington Avenue strip in Toronto’s downtown core, Harley-Davidson has set up 1903, a coffee shop named for the year the brand was founded. People would say, 'Wow, Terry Southern co-wrote that.This article appears in the Summer 2016 issue of strategy. Having him with us as a writer on the script put it above periscope depth. Peter Fonda said of Southern's contributions, "He gave us dark humor and a literary panache that Dennis and I did not have. Well, one of them was the producer and other was the director, so there was no way the Writers Guild was going to allow them to take a screenplay credit unless I insisted." Not listening to the WGA, Southern allowed them to have their credits on the film, which was largely improvised. He said that he and Dennis liked the film so much, they wanted to be in on the screenplay credits. After they had seen a couple of screenings of it on the coast, I got a call from Peter. In an interview with Creative Screenwriting, Southern claimed, "Peter was to be the actor and producer, Dennis the actor and director, and a certain yours truly, the writer.
In an interview with The Guardian, Dennis Hopper claimed that Terry Southern wrote nothing in the film besides contributing the title, as he broke his hip in a fall.
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Some of the scenes which were in the original cut, but got deleted are: The original opening showing Wyatt and Billy performing in a Los Angeles stunt show (their real jobs), the two of them being ripped off by the promoter, getting in a biker fight, picking up women at a drive-in, cruising to, and escaping from Mexico to score the cocaine they sell, an elaborate police and helicopter chase that took place at the beginning after the dope deal, with police chasing Wyatt and Billy over mountains, and across the Mexican border, the road trip out of Los Angeles, edited to the full length of Steppenwolf's ''Born to Be Wild'' with billboards along the way offering wry commentary, Wyatt and Billy being pulled over by a cop while driving their motorcycles across highway, two of them encountering the black motorcycle gang, ten additional minutes for the volatile café scene in Louisiana, where George deftly keeps the peace, Wyatt and Billy checking in a hotel before going over to Madam Tinkertoy's, extended and much longer Madam Tinkertoy sequence, extended versions of all of the campfire scenes, including the enigmatic finale in which Wyatt says ''We blew it, Billy.'' All deleted footage is believed to be lost.
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There are various reports about exact running time of original rough cut of the movie Four hours, four and a half hours, or five hours.