Midnight Cowboy - Intro Scene - Everybody's Talkin'
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Midnight Cowboy 1969
Director: John Schlesinger
Writers: Waldo Salt (screenplay), James Leo Herlihy (based on the novel by)
Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles
Song
Everybody's Talkin'
Words and Music by Fred Neil
Arranged and Conducted by George Aliceson Tipton (as George Tipton)
Sung by Harry Nilsson (as Nilsson)
The cinematography in this film was just a work of art from start to finish.
And the editing, I'd say it's one of the most creatively edited films I've ever watched in my life
A tragic, depressing, but simply brilliant film that leaves you appreciating everything that you have in life. Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman were absolutely mega, and utterly nailed their roles. A genuine classic that everyone should watch at least once in their lifetime.
At least twice. That way you can make sure you didn't miss anything.
There's just something about this intro paired with Everybody's Talkin'. It always fills me with this sense of wanting to leave all my troubles behind and start anew somewhere else... Somewhere where the weather suits my clothes.
I can relate
Does anyone else think this is the best use of a lyrical song in a movie ever?? Matched the mood, themes, characters of the movie perfectly.
Totally agree!
Certainly one of the best!
Absolutely 💯
Harry Nilsson.... that vocal range and emotion add so much depth. It is such a perfect fit, it seems natural, you almost take it for granted..
YES Just a little bit of awesomeness...!!!
One of the saddest movies I have seen. I never recommend it because I'm afraid people won't see it for what it is, a fantastic movie. And easily my favorite Nilsson song.
The original is actually by Fred Neil but this cover is sublime
The film is a sad example of just how cruel the American 'health care' system is.
I remember seeing this film as a child in the 70s and it made me cry. I got out of bed and sneeked downstairs to watch it on TV during a weekend. The way Joe finally becomes a responsible and considerate young man through his suffering gets me every time. I put this film on a par with Disney's Pinocchio.
It's definitely a sad movie but I always watch it when I can and yes I love the Harry Nilsson song one of the best overall.
@@shack7631 our healthcare system is better than any others in the world.
God this movie touched me so deep. Imagine it was 1969 when it was released. My mam and dad would have been 17 when it came out, they're now almost 70. Time waits for no man. If I take one thing from that film, it's that. Even the music says that, you only miss something when it's gone
Sincere Truth.
This movie really captures the era it was shot in
That’s because it used so many real locations, showing the buildings and streets and cars, as well as clips from real TV shows and audio from real radio stations.
Love the opening of the movie classic!😊👍
@@ابويعرببنبسامالعوادي Lot's of films shot during that era DON'T capture that late 60's urban rot vibe. This one does. Todd Phillips manages to capture it in Joker (2019) too.
yep like the cars at the start
Reminds me as a kid the clothes , cars , buildings reminds of me of my small town I grew up in .
I come here to watch opening scene TAKES MY MIND BACK
EVERYONE SMOKED BACK THEN .
Movie starts with a bus trip and ends with a bus trip.
thats an art of story telling in motion I tell ya
...and there's an acid trip in the middle.
Book ends
Also begins with an abundance of ambition and anticipation and ends with unfulfilled dreams and hopelessness, the painful reality of life sometimes!
I love this movie the ending was so sad😔
This song was being played on the radio back when i was 6 or 7, and when i hear it, i can recall those days, when my parents were still young, and life was good. Bless you, Nilsson...
Yeah, I was 12yo back then. I remember hearing this song on my Dad`s car radio while going on the family vacation.
Song really paints a picture.
I read where the producers had a hard time deciding between this song, and the other one by Nilsson, "I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City," to headline the film. Either one works for me.
Frederick Neil song. He wrote it.
Lime in the coconut is one of the very first songs I remember singing as a little kid.
Nilsson was so cool 😎
So, I'm thinking that 'Saturday Night Fever' used this same opening sequence, only Tony was swinging a paint can in Brooklyn instead of a suitcase in Texas.
I absolutely think the same thing!! Like a rip off! Although both movies are by now classic...
@@lindasue4237 Saturday Night fever a classic?
@@rman52 It's considered a "problematic classic", according to Google
Wow are you film student? I wouldn't have noticed that until you said!
@@rman52 It is a classic. A great film.
Some of the greatest movies ever made came out of the late 60's and early 70's. This is one of the greatest of that bunch. Midnight Cowboy drips with melancholy from start to finish.
This film destroyed me. Made me feel as vulnerable as anything I've ever seen. Feeling the constant city crossroads and psychological turmoils of Joe and Ratzo are... so desperate, sad, playful and colourful, everything that can perfectly represent the sense of survival in a world to which you do not belong, or a world where you are the smallest of the smallest. One of the greatest american films ever, one of the greatest Best Picture winners ever... and one of the greatest opening credits of all time!
Midnight Cowboy is cinema at its absolute finest
Agree 100%!
And sadly means Hollywood is long past it’s best.
Seinfeld
Peliculon ❤
1:47 - A closed movie theater that's now a furniture store, with some jumbled letters on the marquee that once read "JOHN WAYNE / THE ALAMO". Meaning that the Hollywood romanticized version of Texas is dead.
hebneh Good noticing!
@@emirsabic7908
Yes - genius level!
A different Hollywood from today. A Hollywood I sometimes miss.
20:21 A closed movie theater with Top Gun: Maverick on the marquee.
What's ironic is I feel John Voight should have won best actor that year but they gave it to John Wayne for True Grit.
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Love this ! Back when they used to make real movies in Hollywood
25 years later, George Constanza bought his car...
🤣
George would have been better off with Liam Neesom's car.
The dentist Jon Voight. 😂
@@Alaska-Jack Dentist spelled it John Voight. Lol!
"Just drivin' around in Jon Voight's car"🎶🎶
Always loved the lyrics "goin where the weather suits my clothes".
Over half a century later it is still a masterpiece. Nothing even close being made today but then it was actually a pretty "deep" movie with some disturbing undertones. A bit beyond todays potential audiences.
Most people unlike you live this life every day so we have to be depressed at the movies too ?
This movie was magic. They don't make movies like this anymore, today its shallow, shoot 'em up, and written poorly.
A truly spectacular performance by Jon Voight.
You can tell when all concerned really put their heart into making great cinema as opposed to machine cranked out for a fast dollar. The former being so rare.
Mr. Sir I’m his Youth haha
One of the greatest movies.
It's 2021 and those dishes still haven't been washed since buck walked out 40 years ago 😆😆😆😆😆
Mmm....more like 52 and man does that kitchen SMELL!
This movie is just sublime, pure art, pure poetry. The music too, just straight to your heart.
It's about how stupid you can be when you're young, and how the whip called the world cuts the skin on your back
My wife said she played this for her mom's funeral it was her favorite song I wish I met my mother in law she sounds like one classy lady ..but I thank you for giving me an angel to love ..classic song
I saw Midnight Cowboy on the big screen for the 1st time four days ago! The pathos, the naive characters, the dashed expectations, the sordidness, the squalor, the consumer excesses, the strangeness of the huge city, the venal American life. Wow. It's a knockout.
So glad you got to see it!
I'll take a movie made in this era anyday than the computer generated, overpriced worthless crap that's being produced today.
I grew up in Big Spring, Texas and I was living there when these scenes were shot. I remember my mother telling me that the movie they were making there was "a BAD movie".
Back when bad meant bad and not good or awesome .
had a friend who worked in the movie while shooting in Big Springs, he told us a new guy was the star, and then they cut his scene out of the movie but he still go paid.
What bad movie? Ain’t that bad and, I’ve lived nearby Seminole 69-71. And moved back to San Antonio.
Bad as in X rated.
Bad, as in kinda dirty.
There are just some movies that burn themselves into your memory
I used to visit Cardiff city in South Wales for a weekend, used to watch the young girls get dropped off by the minibuses and vans from the small villages and communities up in the valleys, all looking for excitement and possibly someone or someway to help them escape the boredom of their lives in the valleys. This film and lyrics always came to mind. It's about hope and dreams and of course ignorance and want.
Interesting.
Thanks to "Escape To The Country", I know exactly where it is and why some prefer North Wales and Some prefer South. Before that, I thought Wales was like somewhere up by Ireland or Scotland.☺
@@BeachsideHank
Actually, people used to retire to South Wales because the property was cheaper and the costs of living better.
The 60s and 70s iconic films. No more rock hunters. Ordinary folks portrayed in extraordinary ways. Warts and all. Midnight Cowboy and The Graduate might possibly be the best of that genre.
Also, Last Picture Show...same era.
Today Joe Buck would have to fly if they wanted this movie to get made in 2021.
What would become modern Hollywood and modern filmmaking
@@dg1006 Last Picture Show was a great movie. Gig Young in they shoot horses was also fantastic. He was also in Walking Distance in Twighlight Zone. Arguably the greatest tv episode ever.
great opening scene. joe buck was an innocent, too naive for his own good.
Totally agwee
And abused from a young age.
Where’s that Joe buck!!??
It was the first 'adult' film I had watched at the age of 16 in 1969. For me it was a truly magical experience. A perfect film.
16 in 1969 it was great
Ahead of its time by seemingly light years and in some ways still ahead of its time in naked undiluted honesty of a side of life most in society do not know about or comprehend. In that stark realism , it was revolutionary in the history of cinema.
Ah! I remember these! I believe this is called a "movie".
Back when movies worth seeing were made. GREAT song too!
You see this opening scene once and it sticks with you your whole life. Back when movies were actually good.
Back when the opening credits looked like the end of the movie.
Um filme maravilhoso !
love the unapologetic reality of this film. dustin hoffman is brilliant.
Don't go to New York City, Joe Buck. You'll be sorry.
Didn't it make him a better person in the end though?
It made him a more realistic person who gave up his fantasies - but don’t forget it made him a murderer too, even though it’s implied that killing an older gay man is kind of OK.
@@hebneh Yes, that was more than nagging me as I wrote that it made him a better person.
@@hebneh --Are you sure he killed him? I thought he just robbed him, which was kind of OK because the guy tried to stiff him after he did whatever he'd done for him in desperation to save his friend.
@@dandavis8300 If the old gay man didn't die, he was severely assaulted and significantly injured by Joe's attack. I don't recall that he "stiffed" Joe, but even if he had, the assault can't be justified.
Born and raised west Texan. Big Spring pretty much died when Webb AFB was closed in the 70s and later the oil boom going bust in the 80s.
I drive through Big Spring about 3 times a year on the he way to Denver City (TX) to visit my sister.
Does that street still look like that in that town?
@@ernestkovach3305
Most of the film locations were to the north near the rail line but the town’s heart seems to have drifted south, now lining Highway 87, so there’s little left to see of Joe Buck’s Big Spring.
The ‘Big Tex’ drive-in of the opening shot, originally the Sahara Drive-in Theater, stood at 5714 I-20 Frontage Road, west of town but there’s no trace of it today.
Likewise, the Big Spring Hotel, out of which Joe strides with his cowhide suitcase to a better future. This used to stand at the southeast corner of East 3rd Street and Donley Street, now a vacant lot. In the film, you can glimpse the tower of the Hotel Settles in the distance along 3rd Street.
Joe is off to hand in his notice at Miller’s Restaurant, which stood about four blocks west on the southwest corner of 3rd Street at Austin Street. Though it is now an empty plot, you can for the moment make out the building alongside, which then housed a Pontiac dealership.
The Rio cinema which, judging by the jumble of letters left on the marquee, closed after a final showing of John Wayne’s The Alamo, stood at 309 Northwest 4th Street. It had served Big Spring since 1947, but now that entire block has gone.
Joe crosses the road in front of the old freight station which once dominated the northern end of South Main Street. It’s gone but, even though the names have changed, you’ll still recognise the stores which led up to it on either side of the street.
@@FN_FAL_4_ever Sad...almost all gone . Thank you so much for your detailed answer .
Yeah, Webb AFB closed in 1977. Now a federal prison and a deaf college. And oil bust was 1982. Downtown businesses have shut down but thanks goodness for restoring Settles Hotel beautifully.
Saw it in the theater in 1969 when I was in the Air Force stationed in Texas. Loved the movie and loved this song forever.
Big Springs had Webb AFB until 1977. Now a federal prison and the rest is a deaf college since 1980. And you saw Settles Hotel background. It’s restored beautifully. Try check it out on Google or RUclips.
Iconic opening scene.
Great movie. Voight and Hoffman did an incredible job of bringing those characters to life.
Both extremely talented and creative artists. True Movie Stars.
John’ s acting was so natural it is easy to miss the greatness of his performance of course Waldo Salt did a great job with his name
He recently joined the talk-shows to denounce today’s liberal trends.
@@stephenpowstinger733 He's crazier than a shithouse rat, but an undeniably good actor.
This is my favorite movie of all time.
Great movies will never be made again due to the cult of political correctness and the new Hollywood quota system. Everything will now become mediocre, predictable, and dumbed down to fit the new socio-Marxist agenda.
@@powertuber3.047 Ain't that the truth.
In my top10.
This was about a time when young people had the stones to go out and explore the world. Today's 30 year olds living with mommy are missing a lot more than stones.
The internet ruined everything. No longer can you pull into a tavern on the back road and talk to an oldtimer at the bar. Everyone is on the internet. Adventure has been sucked out of the human experience. Nobody is out there anymore, everyone is on the internet
@@therecanbeonlyonechris5019 True mate. Young people do still travel (before the corona virus), but they are still on the internet. I travelled around South America a few years ago, and I met a lot of young travelers. They were sound, but totally on their mobiles using the hostel WIFI. It's a shame.
Well, it was easier then. You could live on a lot less. What was rent back then now will only get you a parking space.
@@robertpearson9137 You're right, boomer kids didn't have those pesky $1000 iPhones and 5G internet to worry about or have to pay for parking while getting a $5 coffee at Starbucks. Golly, kids today really do have it harder than any other generation in human history.
Yeah, they're missing the opportunity to get a decent job.
Brilliant film, that was foretold by the wonderful opening intro to possibly the greatest film ever. Jon Voigt is so good in that opening scene, and maintains that excellent level throughout the film, unfortunately all the wonderful optimism being replaced by terrible tragedy . Jon , the most underrated actor to emerge from Hollywood.
The only X rated movie to win the Oscar. It was changed to an R rating a few years later.
my Gran to me and little sister to drive in to see...I WAS ONLY 13!! They let her in with us
Damn good movie!
This and the opening scene of Saturday Night Fever, perfection in cimematography synching with a perfect soundtrack.
Just read on Wiki that Bob Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay" was considered as the movie's theme song but it wasn't finished on time. That REALLY would have justified the "X" rating...lol.
I read that too. The Dylan song is great, but "Everybody's Talkin'" is perfect for this movie.
That suitcase is something.
Where's that Joe Buck?
i love how the theme song breaks in after e says ‘you know wjhat you can do with those dishes’
Gives me chills every time.
Peliculón, artistazos y banda sonora entrañable.
Looks like Santa Fe around :45 right off the main drag.
In my sentimentality-fueled curiosity to see what still exists today in these scenes, I'm sorry (or maybe I should be happy) to say that almost none of it is still around today. The Big Springs Motel (0:40) gone, not surprising. Rio Theater (1:45), long gone. Big Springs Hardware (2:15), gone. Miller's Restaurant (2:21), gone.
At 2:09 is one of the only backshot buildings that is still there that I could find.
www.google.com.au/maps/@32.2537802,-101.477637,3a,45.2y,0.53h,89.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbXHX5kglZw1XEn7IDj14SA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
That point on top of that building is distinctive. I noticed that too. What I find most curious is my (and perhaps your) curiosity concerning the changes in town landscapes over the last 5 or 6 decades. I see a building that is unchanged from my youth and it somehow, for some reason, feels reassuring.
That is a distinctly human thing to be reassured by: some semblance of continuity that has to do with humanity.
Meaning, whether real or imagined. We all need some measure of it in our lives.
Yeah, but Lone Star beer is still around (2:07).
This opening scene was shot at the old Big Spring Motel on E 3rd Street in Big Spring, Texas. It's long gone, but you can see the lot where it once stood, I believe there's a pipe company there now.
I was trying to figure out what Town that was . Looks a lot like parts of Albuquerque , especially back then . Classic Film .
Agree. One of several buildings have been razed. And 1930 Settles Hotel restored beautifully.
I grew up in the 1960's and this movie and the harmonica by John Barry and the theme song from Harry Nilsson capture what it was like. There is no wondering why this flick got so many awards. I like to go back to those times in my mind and this does it!
Note...John Barry did not play the harmonica.
Fantastic opening score for a picture.
Decidely so. Frederick Neil wrote it. Harry's version is the one we grew up with. Thus...
I'm from the Big Springs area and travel by that exact area all the time. still looks exactly the same as it did in the 60's!! Awesome time capsule without the interference of making it an official site.. it's magic!! Il I suggest yall go by it and see it in the real everyday raw before some damn hipster entrepreneur comes and capitalizes on it and turns it into a damned ol gawk squat coffee shop!!
I'm from Odessa, but live in Dallas now. I sometimes drive through Big Spring. I always think it hasn't changed.
@@frankgutierrez6016 Thank God for small blessings. Thats what love coming back back to.. familiarity and a rare gem that is stuck in time. But with this new age of hyper connectedness, all secrets are revealed and all the cool regional stuff is exposed to the world, it's inevitable that sooner or later some will change something you like just because they are spiteful, bored and are rich enough to do it for no reason other than being pricks and to show they can. Hope some.things will be left unknown to others and kept sacred to those who apart of what ever it is that makes their life, city, town, community unique and rare.
I drove through town in January. I drove around the new parts. But went downtown. I remember going there with a friend to visit a long time ago. Seeing that tall building, so I parked and walked around it.
@@frankgutierrez6016 Nothing there but the neatness of being a tine capsule, huh?
I like seeing places I seen years ago. When I to Odessa I like to go to all the places and bring back memories. Sad to see places change or gone now.
Love John V one of kind of actor he doesn't get enough credit a true blue American
I'm English, not American, but I know how great Jon Voight is. He gets his due credit, believe me...a brilliant and unique actor.
1969. We were walking on the moon before someone thought that it was a good idea to put wheels on luggage.
Amazing opening scene!
Filmed here...
Big Spring Motel Site (Big Spring, Texas)
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This is my favorite version of the song.
It easy to see where Angelina Jolie got her looks
Needles California opening scene, in the song I was heading for Los Angeles only Made it out to Needles,by Three Dog Night.
Such an amazing movie. The music, the setting in the southwest in the late 60s, what a classic era to be alive in.
Fantasy and then an hour and change later ... the reality.
Una gran película, unos grandes actores y una maravillosa música.
Im walkin here!
I remember seeing this in theater when it first came out. It made quite an impression on me. And millions of other young people. Powerful brilliant movie.
Great article about this in April 12thNew Yorker...which is actually a review of a book about the production.
I love "Everybody's Talkin'" and Nilsson does a stunning job of singing it, with a great rhythmic banjo-driven music behind him. it's just great! AND, go listen several times to he song Nilsson wrote and sang and submitted for the film; it's called "I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City." My opinion--it's better for the film than "Everybody's Talkin'." The music is very similar, rhythmic yet lyrical, his voice is heart-stopping, and it's all about this kid leaving home to have all his prayers answered in New York City. I can't get it out of my head, and it's beyond beautiful. The film makers had been using ''Everybody's Talkin'" as a temporary song in rehearsals until they could find a really great song. Several people submitted songs., including Bob Dylan, who wrote "Lay, Lady, Lay" for it. Fred Neal, who wrote '"Everybody's Talkin'" did NOT write it for the film, but the folks in charge decided it was the best to go with the film. As I said, I love it, but personally i would've taken the song Nilsson not only sang but wrote, for the film: "I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City."
Back in the day when my Grandparents thought the world was going to hell in a handbasket and all the movies coming out of Hollywood were nothing but garbage about sex and drugs.
This movie is in my top ten favorites !!! All of the players fit right in but I liked liked the John McGiver character
because he was such an odd ball...Then again there were plenty of oddballs and that definitely helped the
movie carve itself as a classic ..The very end when Joe B. made it to Florida was a tribute to Rico Ratzo
and his dream to make it there ......................................................................................................................................
That little piece of genius when Voigt turns to the mirror and the camera matches perfectly. Then it gets even better.
Lol watched this before quitting a shitty job. Best movie in the world. Definitely felt good walking out humming this song.
hollywood can never make films like this again, they have lost all decent creativity and fairness, they have lost their collective soul.
It takes genius to make seemingly mundane phrases like "I'm walking here!" (or "You talkin' to me?) legendary. This movie is a national treasure.
Dustin Hoffman improvised that scene of "I'm walking here!". Completely unscripted, filmed as it happened
@@sirliner8035 , yes, so I've read. It's not just the line though, it's how he delivered it. The confidence, passion,, defiance, authority etc. Dustin throws himself into his characters...
@@10gallons Right. Hoffman didn't ad-lib that line. Ratso Rizzo did.
I wonder how many of these shooting locations in Big Spring, TX are still around.
poor joe so optimistic before ratso and reality set in
Yup, it's called growing up, something today's 30-somethings who live with mommy, sleep till noon and protest at night know nothing about.
Them boots ain't made for walking.
Jon Voight has what them Hollywood types call the 'X' factor...in spades.
Greatest opening scene for any movie all time - and best theme song too
Living up north here in Canada , I don't know why someone would leave a warm climate (Texas) for a cold climate .
Every single time I've ever seen an actor carrying a suitcase on stage or on film it always looks EMPTY - too light. Drives me insane. Where's the attention to detail?
You are not alone! It's SO obvious isn't it. I guess after 20-30 takes, a full case might pall!
@@studebaker4217 ha ha, glad you agree - I'm an actress and have always asked props to please make any suitcases I have to carry look a REALISTIC weight!
I have a disklike for movie intros/ opening credit scenes general. But the opening for this movie is so amazing that I can watch it by itself over and over again.
Im only hear to hear Harry Nilsson sing Everybody's Talking.
John voight was really young
Dustin,your an American legend.
Steven Crowder sent me here
Wow vintage cars were really popular back then
That was all they had.
'Hey I'm walkin' here!'
Never saw this before but the credits mention “The Joshua Light Show”, they did all of the lighting effects for concerts at the Fillmore East in NYC. Their lighting work was just as important as the performers onstage that they were always listed on posters promoting the shows
One of the beautiful song from a beautiful bygone era!
Yep, that's Big Spring, Texas, all right. I had a friend who grew up there. His father had been transferred to work at the American PetroFina refinery back in the 60's. He told me that on Saturday nights his family would think nothing of driving to San Angelo just to eat dinner, a round trip of 180 miles, with no interstate.
I know what you're talking about. Worked there, done that. Two Sisters.
Looking at Jon Voight in this movie, comparing him to his daughter Angelina.... I can clearly see the family lineage. It’s stunning. When he’s in the movie theater with his first gay suitor watching “Voyage Into Space”, and you can see his face from the side up close, it’s almost like looking at Angelina Jolie.