THE BIKERIDERS Ending Explained
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The Bikeriders, Jeff Nichols' gritty 2024 neo-noir, takes viewers on a visceral journey into the underbelly of 1960s Chicago motorcycle clubs. We're thrust into the heart of the Vandals, a brotherhood bound by loyalty, a love for the open road, and the deafening roar of their chrome steeds.
THE BIKERIDERS Ending Explained
0:00 Intro
0:26 Kathy
0:57 Tensions Rise
1:27 The Brutal Showdown
2:00 The Fallout
2:28 Benny's Choice
3:00 Leaving Chicago
3:38 The Lingering Pull of the Past
4:05 A World in Flux
5:09 Unanswered Questions
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The ending was clear. Johnny is dead, Benny runs to Florida and the club takes a sharp turn to a big criminal enterprise, The End.
@GlaucoAlves
Ай бұрын
Nope
@pastense
Ай бұрын
Yup. The smile at Kathy in the end said it all. Clear as day.
@trouble1600
21 күн бұрын
nice spoiler ass breath
@Oli_The_HouseCat
19 күн бұрын
Sadly yeah. It's always a founder of a organization that's killed by their own... well atleast in gangs.
@missinglink6311
19 күн бұрын
If you only see the world through a surface level lens then you are correct.
Loved the movie! The acting was superb.. so much talent!
That's a good story if we'll watch as a separate thing. In reality Johny survived the shot, was active in the MC for some time, then he started another chapter and eventually left the club. I've seen photo of his "colors". He passed away in 2018, as far as I know. Benny became the book and movie main character only because the story was taken from his wife mostly... Katy passed away, as far as I know, not so long time ago. Benny is still alive and not active in the MC for a loooong time now. He contacted the movie crew and confirmed, that there is only one picture of him in the book - view from the back at the traffic light. It's not him at the main picture next to pool table. There are huge number of additional photos that were not included in the book for some reason. Many of them are avaliable in the Internet. Once again - movie is nice as a separate lovestory of Katy and Benny with the MC in the background.
@00bankz24
Ай бұрын
Johnny WAS murdered in real life. By a “pot smoker”
@casey1103
Ай бұрын
I was always told he died in the 70s when he was shot. Would be nice if someone were able to confirm he lived.
@thebagheadz1991
Ай бұрын
I thought he got shot in the shoulder 😭 it looked like that from the way the scene was shot
@Sapmok1
Ай бұрын
@@thebagheadz1991 nah, he was shot badly but in reality he survived.
@piercelewis2846
22 күн бұрын
@sapmok1 where did you find this information? I’ve been trying to find something on the real guys.
When all your brothers are sitting in cars witnessing the shooting of a brother and the leader yes the answer is simple quit the club because there is no loyalty.
@natevanslyke7274
Ай бұрын
Right? The National president brings 2 guys ??? The ego got the best of Johnny IMO.
@bluesmanish
Ай бұрын
@@natevanslyke7274 He didn't prepare for a traitorous murderous punk ass coward like the Kid
@user-yl9np6lt1l
Ай бұрын
If Johnny started that club and a chapter of his club got started in Milwaukee how the hell did the kid and his crew join with out Johnny's knowledge? That should by all rights been voted on and approved or disapproved by the club as a whole. What kind of club would want a bunch of punk kids that steal hub caps and probably hold up old ladies for their social security check anyway. Johnny made the right call telling them no. But he screwed up by not showing up as a proper club to get it on with the kid. Fatal error..
@throttlegalsmagazineaustra7361
Ай бұрын
I reckon this narrator could have mentioned "the lingering sound of motorcycles" a few more times...
@Marko-bh3pl
Ай бұрын
That shit was sad seeing Johnny get made like that 😢
Thanks a lot. I really liked the movie. I watched it twice.🔥👍
I think this account of the film while insightful, but lacks the depth of the knowledge of real life events that inspired the film. If you stayed through the end credits you saw photos from the book by Danny Lyon that was the foundation of the movie. The movie took that book and “fictionalized” a timeline to make a “story” of the events. Obviously it is the “story” of the dominant 1% club in the Chicago area. There is no ambiguity or uncertainty in the ending because we know what happened with the club in its future. The “kid” with the bandana is a representation of the man who became the International President of that club. (RIP) Benny’s look at the end of the movie is one any rider identifies with. You don’t ever get motorcycle riding out of your blood. Once you’re bit by that bug you change. It’s in you. Kathy says everything is good, and Benny wants to be who he really is. A freedom loving bike rider. That’s the beauty of this film, it’s based in reality. These are representations of real people. It’s not a biker club movie, it’s a love story. Johnny’s love for the club he built. Kathy’s love for Benny. Benny’s love for being free in a way only riding a motorcycle can give you. It’s all so clear! I loved this movie.
@c0jonz
11 күн бұрын
Excellent summary! I saw it twice in movie theater. The 2nd time I noticed that Johnny mumbled something about how “the kid” would probably like to be the president. It happened the first time the kid came to the Stoplight Bar.
You can never run away, hide, leave or forget loyalty to brothers. The best one can do is mask it...
Amazing Film. Tom Hardy AKA Marlon Brando. Austin Butler AKA James Dean.
As soon as I heard new guys and Vietnam Vets. It was a wrap for the OG’s.
I saw the the movie last night. I couldn't really believe the ending I don't think Benny gave up the life completely.
@mrc.p8423
Ай бұрын
Shes got what she wants and says their hsppy, but benny is clearly miserable, then he hears the bikes and smiles. Thats what i took from it, for her to be happy he would have to give up what makes him truly happy.,... The bikerlife
@phantom213
Ай бұрын
@@mrc.p8423yep.
@dack575
23 күн бұрын
I got the same impression. He moved to FLA and from what I understand the club is deep there so who knows.
@priceysquirrel3489
22 күн бұрын
@@mrc.p8423 I say it a little differently. I think he has two loves, Kathy and the gang. I think he is happy with her. It looks like he makes eye contact with her before he smiles. To me it seemed like Benny wanted to say he didn't care about anything, but he did. When Johnny died he realized he cared and cried for the first time. He loved both the gang and Kathy. He lost lost the gang when Johnny died and he wasn't there, so he rides back and gets the one other thing he does love.
@mrc.p8423
22 күн бұрын
@@priceysquirrel3489 very good mate , i can see that too👍
Just seen it johnnys death pissed me off
@Drugstorecowboy8
8 күн бұрын
same
Kathy did not return after a period away, Benny was the one who left after she demanded he quit the club. He eventually returned to her. This is significant to their relationship and Benny's state of mind.
@user-hn3lc6jt2j
22 күн бұрын
Kathy moved to Tennessee
when bikers were wild and full of dreams, they weren't so violent. they weren't so 'political'. they liked wrenching on their cheap-ass bikes, because they WERE cheap back then. there were fights but the bikers weren't a BUSINESS back then. they knew each other and they got along. look at the book for the reality. look at the movie for the hype.
Benny from the BRONX RIP CARLITO
He finally was able to cry.
Half Doc, half movie with chronicoligical plot. The Doc side represents accounts that occurred. The movie (albeit telegraphed) paves us a scripted plot via the Doc. I watched the movie to understand a perspective on a biker club that formed in the early '60's and how it devolved. Not for Hollywood's stylized plot twists and maneuvers. Oh, and by the way there was nothing that Benny could do to bring Johnny back and have the club back to its original state. It's better to have had his moment in the clubs sun than to never of had it at all. Everything changes, just look back at your life. Yeah, regrets may be plenty but the most we can hope for is to minimize our failures of now and tomorrow. Benny represents all of us, some way and some how.
The ending was true. Reality.
@thehumancrumb.668
Ай бұрын
Fr. No honor among thieves/thugs or gangsters. That was some pussy and bitch shit. But. What do you expect. From a bunch of thugs. Too much of a coward to fight one on one.
His smile at the end is like Mona Lisa's 😂 also I think the character Benny in the movie clearly displayed features of a Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)? I wish someone would analyse the psychological aspect and the dynamics between the three main characters in a video.
What was the last ending song female voice plz tell me
My ex-girlfriend's dad who was 19 wanted to leave the chapter that he helped started & the club said no, He left after they shot & killed his girlfriend by mistake change his name moved from Joliet IL to Florida & became a mechanic just like in this movie. I saw pictures of him with his hair down to his ass on a chopper, He died many years ago,
What blows my mind is how the guys who came in support of Jonny wasn’t strapped up with a gun just in case shit went left.
I love the ambiguity of the ending. It's the way it should be.
@sij809
Ай бұрын
Was it ambiguous?? Dude misses biking. That's literally it.
@johngrepo9976
Ай бұрын
Dude missed riding, had that wildcat look of returning..can't tame the passion
@phantom213
Ай бұрын
I actually agree and to me it also seemed exactly like this: he is gonna come back riding. But I saw some people thinking that his smile and the look on his face indicated that he is happy with Kathy and won't return to that life. @@johngrepo9976
@femlin1994
29 күн бұрын
Yeah, I didn’t find the ending ambiguous. His new role in a dead end job, no brotherhood and no riding showed that this is now the rest of his life.
@phantom213
29 күн бұрын
And I did find it ambiguous because of the motorcycle sounds and his facial expression can be read differently. Of course Kathy wants to think that he is happy, they are happy, but maybe in the next 5 min he gets up and says "fuck this, I am gonna ride". The ending is open to interpretation. He smiles back to Kathy but what's behind that smile is an open question. I personally find it hard to believe that a person can just ditch everything and turn 180 degrees without regrets. To me it's unbelievable. @@femlin1994
Basically, if you own a shovelhead its worth about 50k now.
@johngrepo9976
Ай бұрын
Very true. Sadly!
Thanks man. This was the first movie I’ve ever watched, so I need all the help I can get. Can you explain how they recorded it in such HD for the 1960s next please? Thanks and God bless.
@olliewakefield226
29 күн бұрын
What are you like 7 or In a mud hut somewhere
@veak5874
14 күн бұрын
@@olliewakefield226🤣🤣
@BigFaoiter
4 күн бұрын
@@olliewakefield226your mums mud hut mate
@olliewakefield226
4 күн бұрын
@@BigFaoiter I'm white darkie
So basically, Johnny put all kinds of energy and loyalty into Benny, who didn’t have a care in the world about anything. Benny totally deserted his family and left them to die.
I was in a gang punks thrashers metal heads and love the movie!! 😮😮 Ride to live live to ride!
People are missing the point. He didn’t stop riding or part of a club. The club portrayed as “Vandals” were actually the Outlaws, and “Benny”, gets his own chapter in Florida. I know people who actually met the man, and his name isn’t Benny.
@casey1103
Ай бұрын
I think his name actually was Benny, or at least that's what he was called. They tried contacting Kathy Bauer prior to releasing the movie but were unsuccessful. After it was released, their son Kurk called. Kathy passed away sometime before the movie was released but "Benny" is alive and well.
I hated the ending. There’s no way Benny would not have avenged Johnny’s death. So the tough guy cries and runs off to Florida? 😂
@seniorp9444
Ай бұрын
Especially after Johnny burned down the bar where Benny was attacked. He would never let Johnny be murdered with no consequences.
@user-ol4we4iw3t
Ай бұрын
Right!
@thehumancrumb.668
Ай бұрын
They probably left it as that in case it becomes a huge success. They can make a part 2 . If not they can leave it as that. Lots of films do that they'll leave a little something. They'll probably make a part 2 of him avenging Johnny and him longing for riding again. If it blows up
@00bankz24
Ай бұрын
You have no insight lol
@user-ol4we4iw3t
Ай бұрын
@@00bankz24 u think you do
Johnny didn’t want to be president of the Vandals anymore. He was planning to let “the kid” win the knife fight. Benny couldn’t avenge Johnny’s death without becoming president. He never wanted to be president, so he left.
The ending needed explaining ? Truely ? Truely sad you felt the need.... derrrrrrr
I loved loved the movie
Left the theater bothered, that no one avenged Johnny.
@DeathComesSwiftly
Ай бұрын
Yeah and no one else got out of their car to kill the others or fight them when Johnny was killed
@thehumancrumb.668
Ай бұрын
Fr I can imagine a real biker gang would of beat the shit out of a chicken shit/pussy that cheap shotted their leader. Not follow him 😂
@Pnk_Rckr
Ай бұрын
@brandonehansen They came to a meet expecting a knife fight and the kid pulls a gun. They didn't expect it, they were shocked, and they didn't know what to do. From both their reaction, and Benny's reaction to the Cockroach send off, the use of guns wasn't all that common, especially when they expect a member to honor the rules of a traditional, club sanctioned challenge.
@thehumancrumb.668
Ай бұрын
@@Pnk_Rckr even then you'd think they go after him or something. Not just let it be . Like ok he just killed our leader. By a pussy move. Brought a gun . When it was strictly a knife fight. Like you said rules.
@Pnk_Rckr
Ай бұрын
@@thehumancrumb.668 They just didn't see it coming. Sometimes, moments like those make it difficult to move, regardless of who they are. They saw someone, a brother who they thought was invincible, get shot by some punk kid. Not only that, they were already out numbered, against atleast one guy with a gun pulled. They knew that they were probably next. They got stunned by a power move
I saw Benny had biker boots on. So he reclaimed the club by challenging the leader who killed his boy. And now he and his wife act like nothing just like the Original Leader and his wife.
It wouldn't end like this is Benny was Jax Teller 😎
JOHNNY CAL RIP 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
@susanbarco2579
22 күн бұрын
Think you should see the movie again … Kathy doesn’t say ‘it’s mine’, she says ‘he’s mine’ and you can’t have him … meaning Benny.
@BENNY-CROSS.VANDALS-CHICAGO
21 күн бұрын
@@susanbarco2579Benny was so sad it made me sad to see how his
@BENNY-CROSS.VANDALS-CHICAGO
21 күн бұрын
@@susanbarco2579Benny was so sad it made me sad to see how his
Wish benny listen to Johnny and runs the club ..jhonny wouldn't die like that ..feel bad for Jhonny
Johnny Lewis (Sons of Anarchy), Johnny Klebitz (The Lost and Damned) and now Johnny Davis from the Bikeriders joins the dead biker Johnny list. But hey, at least Johnny Strabler (The Wild One) survived.
Wasn't there members in his house at the end? Maybe Benny handled business with the dude that took out Johnny and then took over the club
@thehumancrumb.668
Ай бұрын
Nah. You reaching 😂
@outcastamongoutcasts359
Ай бұрын
@@thehumancrumb.668 is it really that much of a reach he had members at his house you think he would still be cool with a club being lead by someone that killed Johnny I just think there's more to that ending then just being he's done riding and done with the club when the club was still there haha
@thehumancrumb.668
Ай бұрын
@@outcastamongoutcasts359 that was the old house before he moved to Florida. That was when Johnny was still alive....johnny even went over there.. I doubt he drove all the way down to Florida.
@Pnk_Rckr
Ай бұрын
@@outcastamongoutcasts359Yeah, there were at least two different time periods that Kathy got interviewed in the movie. The interviewer explicitly states that he went away for a while and came back to learn more about the aftermath of Johnny's death
@outcastamongoutcasts359
Ай бұрын
@thehumancrumb.668 in that last house where she was telling them to get the bikes off the grass the club was at both houses or maybe I'm tripn haha I'm gonna watch it again eventually
Did anyone else feel sexual tension between hardy and butler?
@user-ol4we4iw3t
Ай бұрын
Yea they both were gay and weak
@mrc.p8423
Ай бұрын
Lol, definitely more than benny n kathy anyway😂
@phantom213
Ай бұрын
Of course. It's way more than between Kathy and Benny actually
@zackmckenzie3582
29 күн бұрын
No. Just no. My God. He looked at Benny as a son if anything. He had two little girls so he couldn’t gift them the club, he was trying to give the club to Benny as a king would give to his heir.
@phantom213
29 күн бұрын
@@zackmckenzie3582well, father -son relationship is clearly not what Nichols intended by any means. He said multiple times in the interviews that this is a story of an unconventional love triangle and that Johnny covets Benny and fighting with Kathy over him, so...I definitely could see this angle.
tired of ai narration of copied content. I wish youtube had a filter. Blocking channel
A.I narration 🤮
Everything was good, but the story was trash
Lemme guess. Wacked by Pauly Walnuts.
This script feels like it was written by AI. the amount of times that sentences or points are repeated is annoying.
I saw the movie i didn't like it how it ended sucks
It's a stupid name. I ride a motorcycle. A bike has pedals.
@natevanslyke7274
Ай бұрын
Motorcycle,motorbike... same thing .
@kikim6116
13 күн бұрын
Glad we got that big difference settled!
@natevanslyke7274
13 күн бұрын
😂😂😂😂 right. @@kikim6116
Correct, A really slowww burn. Flat, slow, no plot
@MichaelH416
Ай бұрын
Clearly lost on you. It was a GREAT movie.
@pwilliam255
Ай бұрын
I agree. It was like they took a pic from the book and just made a scene out of it. Then tried to tie them into a story. I thought it was a cool, artsy type film, but it was boring.
The movie was dull and predictable. The acting and the phony acting was terrible.
@nazzsantiago6953
20 күн бұрын
Your mother 😂
@kikim6116
13 күн бұрын
Was almost not real life. Like a movie or something.
Worst film ive ever watched what a waste of time
It wasnt an ambiguous ending bro.