During an interview with Al Horner excerpted on ScreenCraft, The Bikeriders screenwriter Jeff Nichols discusses how he chose the perspective through which his audience experiences his road trip story.
Inspired by a 1967 book of photos, the ensemble picture follows a group of bikers in the 1960s called the Vandals, and is told through a series of interviews with Kathy, a young woman associated with the gang. “Kathy was the most interesting interview in the book,” Nichols remarked.
Through Kathy, Nichols explores the masculinity of the male characters, the toxic side as well as elements that undermine stereotypes, and how the women are caught up in their behavior and complicit in it.
