It was indeed. I was just a tween when this came out and I went and saw it several times in the cinema as I was crazy for the soundtrack, HDS, NK, and a brief beautiful scene with the Texas female punk band, The Mydolls.
This is my favorite film of all time. Everything of it is amazing. The actors, the cinematography, the script, the direction... This is really the best film humanity ever made. In my opinion.
Ry Cooder's score is stunning. I bought the soundtrack immediately after seeing the film. I'd place the film on my top ten favourite films of all time. Hollywood films with all their sound and fury just couldn't compare to the simple beauty of this film.
Perhaps it's the mystery and the conjecture it causes. Who is this guy, what has happened, why is he trudging in the desert with a water problem (the discarded bottle and the last slug of water.)? Why the suit and tie? Will his shoes hold out? Great photos or paintings are great because they are so intriguing.
Great film with soundtrack to go with it. On my first trip to experience the Big Bend country in 1977, I drank a cold beer in the bar where Travis passes out. The area has changed somewhat but the film will keep it the way it was, forever
I remember seeing this film first time, accidentally.. I was going to sleep and wanted to turn the tv off and accidentally pushed the button on a channel, where it just started. The opening images with a slide guitar playing immediately caught me… and I didn’t go to sleep that nigh at all, sitting an crying, happy and sad, I felt I just witnessed a miracle. It was in eighties Eastern Europe, where we had only two channels.
This opening scene is stunning on so many levels. Both the scene itself, the music and the credits give a few reasons why. Also today (16/9/17) I learned the very sad news that Harry Dean Stanton (aka Travis in the film) has just passed away. RIP.
Just moved into this from watching some footage from the Perseverance rover on Mars, eerily similar! Would not be surprised to see Harry Dean Stanton striding by! This was a great movie and the music! Stunning.
5/2023,......Stunning movie imagery with an incredible soundtrack. As a long time fan of Ry Cooder's music, going back to the early 1970s, I loved seeing this video excerpt from this movie paired with the music.
I wish I could dress like the Paris, Texas man played by the late Harry Dean Stanton! Great actor! Appeared in ALIEN AUTOPSY, an all-time sci-fi comedy favourite!
One of the best films ever made. Ry Cooper's music is inspirational. Harry Dean Stanton was such an amazing actor; The film's shows what can happen when you fall over the edge in to depression and just wanting to escape from society; I salute wim wenders. 🇬🇧🎸
For those thinking Ry Cooder wrote this track - he didn't. It's a total mimicking of Blind Willie Johnson's 1927 "Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground." The only difference - Cooder did it with modern recording equipment.
I find it hard to watch the opening scene as good as it is this is not Paris, Texas country. I have visited Paris, Texas a much different place topographically than this landscape. Paris, Texas is green with trees and grasses.
This scene was filmed about 20 miles north-northwest of Terlingua, Texas on what is now the Agua Fria Ranch. The location where we first see Travis is 29.584411° N, 103.733924° W. The filming location can be seen on page 131 of the book Marfa Flights by Paul Chaplo.
It’s kinda sad how people think Paris Texas is like this great movie but I live in Paris Texas and it’s nothing like this it’s more like going to school with people with weed and vapes in the 6th grade
While a great flick, like so may films set in or about Texas however, little attempt is made in researching the state on which they have set the film (and it's not just Texas). Classic Hollywood arrogance assuming that Texas is this one monolithic, topographic landscape. Paris Texas is about as far from the desert as one can get in this massive, diverse state. Paris Texas is in the lush rolling hills of NE Texas not far from Dallas, nary a desert to be found. Like Spielberg's "Sugarland Express" a decade earlier, the town of Sugarland as suburb of Houston is not a couple of hours drive from Mexico, try a 6 hour drive and 350 miles. And like Paris Texas, Sugarland located in SE Texas, HAS NO DESERT!!!.
Completely agree. I live in Paris, Texas and it (as all of NE Texas) is lush piney woods and oak trees, heavily wooded. Most of the movie Paris, Texas wasn't even filmed there, as William Wenders was offended by some things said and positions taken by some of the powers that be in Paris, Texas. I was there, so I know what happened.
Dieser Film ist etwas unrealistig, so wie das aussieht ist der doch schon lange in der Wüste unterwegs , das er da noch so schnell geht ,kann in Wirklichkeit nicht sein! Normal müsste er erschöpft aussehen und waklich sein! Das wäre etwas realistischer
For realism there is reality ... cinema does not deal with realism many times if the poetic vision of a subject and make the experiences of its characters not feel through their images, cinema would be very boring just being realistic
I cry every time I watch this movie. it's one of the most beautiful pieces of art ever created.
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It's tremendously poetic.
Fantastic,my favourite movie - ever *
It was indeed. I was just a tween when this came out and I went and saw it several times in the cinema as I was crazy for the soundtrack, HDS, NK, and a brief beautiful scene with the Texas female punk band, The Mydolls.
You are right. Art. Beautiful art for eyes, ears, mind and heart. A masterpiece that gets better with time 💕 🏜️
One of my favourite guitar riffs of all time. Really encapsulates loneliness, isolation, regret and sadness.
Yes indeed!
Looks like Breaking Bad theme
@@gigipapal6445 its based on the song " dark was the night, cold was the ground" by blind willie johnson
then check out gotan project's Paris Texas song
You nailed it Edward. That movie and those guitar riffs took me to all the dark corners of my own life.
There is just something about this movie which feels like a greatest movie of all time.
Yeah, it's got a really unique vibe throught it. It's so good
This is my favorite film of all time. Everything of it is amazing. The actors, the cinematography, the script, the direction... This is really the best film humanity ever made. In my opinion.
RIP Harry Dean Stanton. One of America's greatest actors.
One of the greatest introductions to a film/story ever captured on film.
This film never leaves me.
Ry Cooder's score is stunning. I bought the soundtrack immediately after seeing the film. I'd place the film on my top ten favourite films of all time. Hollywood films with all their sound and fury just couldn't compare to the simple beauty of this film.
There you go again complaining about hollywood like it makes a difference. TALK ABOUT THE MOVIE!!!
This intro track is a total mimicking of Blind Willie Johnson's 1927 recording of "Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground."
What’s your top 10?
Never seen the movie, but there’s something hypnotic about that opening that I can’t quite describe.
Perhaps it's the mystery and the conjecture it causes. Who is this guy, what has happened, why is he trudging in the desert with a water problem (the discarded bottle and the last slug of water.)? Why the suit and tie? Will his shoes hold out? Great photos or paintings are great because they are so intriguing.
Have you seen it yet?
Great film with soundtrack to go with it. On my first trip to experience the Big Bend country in 1977, I drank a cold beer in the bar where Travis passes out. The area has changed somewhat but the film will keep it the way it was, forever
Hector is that Terlingua? Alpine?
That place was called the Camel. As I recall. Across from the American Legion... 20 miles or so from Terlingua. Never was much.
Paris, Texas is one of the most perfectly shot films of all time
Goodbye Harry 'Zen' Stanton... A legend is gone.
I remember seeing this film first time, accidentally.. I was going to sleep and wanted to turn the tv off and accidentally pushed the button on a channel, where it just started. The opening images with a slide guitar playing immediately caught me… and I didn’t go to sleep that nigh at all, sitting an crying, happy and sad, I felt I just witnessed a miracle. It was in eighties Eastern Europe, where we had only two channels.
One of the best of the 80's, for sure. Too God Damned similar to my life than I care to admit. Not an easy watch, but an essential one.
So fantastic. probably one of the most unique openings to a film. it just keeps your attention and forces you to be intrigued
It's a fantastic film.
RIP Harry Dean Stanton :'(
This opening scene is stunning on so many levels. Both the scene itself, the music and the credits give a few reasons why. Also today (16/9/17) I learned the very sad news that Harry Dean Stanton (aka Travis in the film) has just passed away. RIP.
i dont even know what this film is about but i love it. the music makes the film special
I love this film and the music.
Just moved into this from watching some footage from the Perseverance rover on Mars, eerily similar! Would not be surprised to see Harry Dean Stanton striding by! This was a great movie and the music! Stunning.
This introduction is simply about human being. Beautiful, to me.
5/2023,......Stunning movie imagery with an incredible soundtrack. As a long time fan of Ry Cooder's music, going back to the early 1970s, I loved seeing this video excerpt from this movie paired with the music.
One of the greatest American films ever made!
Only foreigners could make a movie like this and that says so much...go figure...
Made by a German director lol
@@darrenrichards2065 Wim Wenders, a genius
@@darrenrichards2065written by an American director
I wish I could dress like the Paris, Texas man played by the late Harry Dean Stanton! Great actor! Appeared in ALIEN AUTOPSY, an all-time sci-fi comedy favourite!
One of the best films ever made. Ry Cooper's music is inspirational.
Harry Dean Stanton was such an amazing actor;
The film's shows what can happen when you fall over the edge in to depression and just wanting to escape from society;
I salute wim wenders. 🇬🇧🎸
Ry's musical inspiration was Blind Willie Johnson, as this opening song is actually "Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground" recorded in 1927.
Rest in peace
a man we all loved
At my first partner's grandma's funeral she was carried in to the track in this scene. It was as surreal as she was
For those thinking Ry Cooder wrote this track - he didn't. It's a total mimicking of Blind Willie Johnson's 1927 "Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground." The only difference - Cooder did it with modern recording equipment.
But Cooder never took credit for it. He had even paid homage to the original score as per Film's wikipedia page.
One of the greatest opening scenes of all time. In fact I'm struggling to think of a better one
let me know
willie otoole touch of evil
Love this movie but 2001 A Space Odyssey easily
Goodfellas
Badlands?
paris texas is contemplative
So good
This is a must see. It's not super exciting, but it will stay in your mind forever. I almost can't explain it.
It would be very hard to come to grips with a film with Ry Cooder music to Harry Deans Stanton and let it go as just music. Loved the film.
And still a great film!
great movie! Harry Dean Stanton ... fantasic!
music sounds like Blind Willie Johnson - Dark was the night
It looks like Müller is up there in the stars with Stanton...
Grand film , grands acteurs
Does anybody know what kind camera and what film they used to make this, 16mm maybe? The look of this is so dreamy.
It's 35mm. I haven't been able to find out what film stock, but almost certain which company's it was will be on the credits, if not the name.
@@ShanghaiRooster appreciate ya
Top 10 movie
How small is Man in a landscape
I would say it's the best film ever made.
It is every bit as impactful as FFC's Apocalypse Now's opening. Sheer imaginary and creativity.
i concur
Video e musica divini💖
Back when studios weren't afraid to make 'slow' movies
I find it hard to watch the opening scene as good as it is this is not Paris, Texas country. I have visited Paris, Texas a much different place topographically than this landscape. Paris, Texas is green with trees and grasses.
Love the opening scene! I would have kept the empty milk jug...just in case.
Bad ass!
Love slide cooder
Can somoeone tell me where this scene is shot?
Filmed at 29°35’05.3″N 103°44’01.4″W
Wow he's literally me :0
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💙💙💙💙✨💥
Where is this? Big Bend? Terlingua?
Terlingua
This scene was filmed about 20 miles north-northwest of Terlingua, Texas on what is now the Agua Fria Ranch. The location where we first see Travis is 29.584411° N, 103.733924° W. The filming location can be seen on page 131 of the book Marfa Flights by Paul Chaplo.
Ry Cooder...
Daddy used to joke, he'd say, I married a woman from paris
This is a cult flick, only cool people know it.
It’s kinda sad how people think Paris Texas is like this great movie but I live in Paris Texas and it’s nothing like this it’s more like going to school with people with weed and vapes in the 6th grade
The.bigbend
is it just me or has this film atleast a bit amount of satiric/ironic scenery/imagery?
Especially that bald eagle. Its almost comical.
Reminds me of Cowboy Bebop
Two of the greatest masterpieces ever made.
While a great flick, like so may films set in or about Texas however, little attempt is made in researching the state on which they have set the film (and it's not just Texas). Classic Hollywood arrogance assuming that Texas is this one monolithic, topographic landscape. Paris Texas is about as far from the desert as one can get in this massive, diverse state. Paris Texas is in the lush rolling hills of NE Texas not far from Dallas, nary a desert to be found. Like Spielberg's "Sugarland Express" a decade earlier, the town of Sugarland as suburb of Houston is not a couple of hours drive from Mexico, try a 6 hour drive and 350 miles. And like Paris Texas, Sugarland located in SE Texas, HAS NO DESERT!!!.
so
Completely agree. I live in Paris, Texas and it (as all of NE Texas) is lush piney woods and oak trees, heavily wooded. Most of the movie Paris, Texas wasn't even filmed there, as William Wenders was offended by some things said and positions taken by some of the powers that be in Paris, Texas. I was there, so I know what happened.
Totally agreed !
It’s misleading.
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Was he walking out there to die ? Seems like the only option
Kinda sounds like Breaking bad intro music
Dieser Film ist etwas unrealistig, so wie das aussieht ist der doch schon lange in der Wüste unterwegs , das er da noch so schnell geht ,kann in Wirklichkeit nicht sein! Normal müsste er erschöpft aussehen und waklich sein! Das wäre etwas realistischer
For realism there is reality ... cinema does not deal with realism many times if the poetic vision of a subject and make the experiences of its characters not feel through their images, cinema would be very boring just being realistic
pretty sure this is Utah,but whatever ,artistic liscence I guess....jus sayin
Big Bend National Park in Texas.
MAGA HAT! LOL
I've always disliked everything Wenders has ever done.
Maybe I should keep an open mind and give him another chance?
NAH.
Nomen est omen