This scene never fails to choke me up. Berger symbolized everyone we ever lost to the senselessness of war. The whole clip was just incredibly deep. Treat Williams absolutely owned that role. RIP...
What makes this movie so awesome is you're watching it, and watching young minds make decisions without thinking them through. It's fun, adventurous, teaching, funny. Then, WHAM!! Reality check. Berger, whom wouldn't cut his hair for 250.00, did it for his friend. WOW!! Timeless classic.
I'm in the crowd scene at the end... somewhere. They had Bonnie Raitt and others doing a free concert on 2 stages on the national mall, and had us all run towards the 2nd stage for the part where everyone is running and converging. Was great fun and a great film to be a part of.
Thank you for posting this. I've wondered for years when and and how they managed to get a shot of an empty field, then a single young person runs into view, and finally we have a huge crowd of seeming hippies converging on the White House. I adore this movie.
blessns Dave. hope yada good n doin well brother. at the mall rat now akchully. if anyones in the area, tomorrwed be the Perfect day to do another take of that For Pentecost. slight changes to wardrobe though, all white or whitish raiment and remove the red and blue from any ol glory banners renderin em divionless n unblemished. blessns alls.
I’ve never seen this until this morning, and it brought me to tears. I’ve been in combat/served in four warzones and know what it feels like to “march into the void”. I was a volunteer, and it was scary each time. I cannot express how terrible it is for this to have been forced on even one person… and for what? A draft should never be allowed, ever again.
thank you brother, for your service and your compassion...I volunteered but would have been drafted anyway if I hadn't...its just the way it was back then...
@@Great_SandwichI'm only guessing here but by volunteering he make sure that draft is not nessesary, some choose to give up part of their life for others, also quite possible their whole life.
I agree with your view. Off subject: I went into one of those critters. They had us standing 7 people wide, with our duffel bags over our heads. We were packed heal-to-tow. When the tailgate went up, they told us we could sit. I am glad that I was not thinking of Portal to Death.
An extremely powerful scene made more powerful by the song and lyrics. The picture of soldiers who can't be really distinguished from each other than the colour of their skin, marching into a black hole, from light to dark with no end in sight is such an apt metaphor for the asinine loss of so many your men.
The draft was population control for all those baby boomer babies. That’s sadly how the elitist think and work and make decisions. They intended to tear apart families. Make women into single mothers who had to rely on systems to take care of and educate/indoctrinate their kids, fatherless and broken. And forced into the working bracket of tax payers to fund the war machine all over again.
Young guys today have NO idea what it was like to be a young male back then. I lost so many friends in Nam. When I was drafted at 19 in 1965, I didn't know if I'd even have a future. The things in life that happen can't ever be explained. We are all toy soldiers to be played with.
Thank you for your selflessness, even if you were eventually a toy soldier. gen z can't understand this. I think that this film has a message within it, that both forces of 'left' and 'right' are needed, and there's a delicate balance. those hippies protests against that stupid war eventually did something. but those hippies are also today's professors that bring these extreme progressive values in the universities, and there are conservatives forces that tries to push things back to balanced mode.
My Grandpa was in the Army for 25 years, fought in WW2 and Korea. He met his wife here in Germany after WW2, stayed here and got my Dad with her in 51. When Nam was just around the Corner he knew his fighti g Days had already passed, so he took an honorable Discharge. Because he didn't want my Dad to go to Nam, he advised him to become a German citizen like my Grandma, so he would avoid the Draft. Some people today call that cowardly, but I say Nam was a big mistake, and it wounded the soul and body of a whole Generation of American People, and the Song embodies that perfectly.
Thank you and your friends for your sacrifice may god bless you and let this open our young eyes to everything those who have come before us have accomplished by standing for a cause ❤
He didn't lay down his life for a friend. He was fn around, switching uniforms so Claud could go flitter with his chick, and he got sucked up into the machine. He thought it was a great joke, at first. Hippie thought he could play games. Guess he found out.
@@jivetalk1045 "Amen" _what..?_ He didn't nobly lay down his life in a great act of sacrifice. That wasn't the plan. The stupid hippie thought he was pulling an awesome gag by dressing up as Claude, and then he accidentally got caught in the gears and sucked into the machine. Off to Vietnam he went. I laughed.
The song never dates and the message of the story never dies, humans are cruel and at the same time so superbly creative, while we make such music I have hope for a better future.
Communists are cruel. Over 100 million dead and counting to do persecution, imprisonment, banishment, torture, execution, and starvation. Communists did that. The effort to stop them was noble. Nobody wanted to live under the red banner. And THAT is why those men marched off to war.
Ah, every time I watch this since I was 15 I've just cried when I see this. The whole thing is exttemely powerful but the tears start at that shot and then when you see the plane flying off the ugly wobbing begins. Amazing really. Every single time.
@@Ashfold_Eberesche I totally agree. And the way Berger's final words (Claude Hooper Bukowski, that's me, that's me, that's MEEEEEEEE") echo as he disappears into the darkness of the transport plane taking him to his death in Vietnam. It gets me every time.
For those who minimize Berger's sacrifice, true, that Berger didn't plan to get deployed, he did a favor for a friend. But take into account the fact that he could have immediately proven he is not the real Claude, which would result in him being tried for trespassing on restricted military property with a short stint in prison at best. What would Claude face? DEATH PENALTY FOR DESERSION, INPERSONATING AN OFFICER, AND PUTTING A CIVILIAN IN DANGER. Berger consciously sacrificed himself for Claude.
This scene has haunted me ever since I saw this on vhs back in the 1990s. One question: wouldn’t his fellow soldiers or commanding officer be suspicious when Berger didn’t know how to use a weapon?
I've watched is 5 or 6 times in the last week or so. The scene of soldiers walking toward a dark ending and then watching that darkness cover George just gets me every time.
This always hits me. First he's a soldier, watching his friend flying away in a plane. Next scene he's one of the hippies, refusing to go to war, standing at the grave of his friend. Damn.
@@kevinboudreaux7860 He probably notified his parents about the switcheroo, but by the time they could get him out of there, it was too late, and they buried him under his real name.
@@firstlast1947 I meant the other guy getting off the base and stuff. Once the army figured it out, he would have been persued as a deserter. They went after that way harder than not showing up for the draft
1:36 ... how many times have I lived that scene during my later years in the Army...but the first time, having been 18 years old for a whole week, it was terrifying... few of us left who can truly relate to this closing finale...
@@AmazingGrace-pd7zc thank you for caring.... means a lot to me as most of us never heard a kind word when we got home... I never heard one until about 15v years later....😪💙
@@lwc2009 You are most welcome! How very sad to HAVE to acknowledge that our Country failed you....young men and women....who served! Such a very sad time in our history! A time when we were trying to do good things with some incredible, engaging young people! To be a voice of reason, caring, compassion to all! Such a mixed bag of "rules"!!! Very sorry that the powers that be...turned the tables upside down....and somehow you young men and women who served were vilified....not the people in charge!! Wrong on so many levels!! Please know you have not gone unnoticed!! Blessings in all you do, ♥️🙏♥️
This is the saddest part of the entire Milos Forman movie. It’s shows what a friend in George Berger was willing to do for his friend Claude Bukowsky not knowing him very long. He gave the ultimate sacrifice having no training or military knowledge. Remember George tried to talk Claude out of going to Vietnam. All of these soldiers that had the training had no idea what was really happening to them. No choice and no say to turn away from that metal machine transferring them to War. Very poignant and sad that they perished in Vietnam. What was left was grieving people all over the United States and Vietnam too. Rip Milos Forman you were a genius. 💜😘🎥🎞
@@johndean4727 Thank you it makes me cry every time to think the man hardly knew Bukowsky but wanted him to see his girl so he gave the ultimate sacrifice when he stepped onto the metal machine to Vietnam. 😉💔🙏
This is the most moving ending! Treat Williams and John Savage are such great actors that I really can feel their fear and disbelief. Combine that with a great song and this ending makes me cry ever time I see it.😭
The scene is so touching that you can feel the courage and, at the same time, the sadness of the soldiers who would never abandon their obligation to fight, but who know they are heading certain death.
I've never seen the movie, but it's one of my dad's favorite movies. But I knew the song. Seeing it sung in this movie reminded me of when he flew to South Korea in 89 and when I went to Iraq in 2009. The use of the planes as the portal of death is ingenious. The movies of this age have more soul and feeling than probably 90% of movies that have come out in this century. So much has been lost to the pages of history, never to be read or learned from ever again.
What gets me is the look on Claude's face when he sees the empty barracks and realizes that Berger is on his way to Vietnam in his (Claude's) place....
In my 70 years I have gone to only one on stage play, and my friends had to drag me there. Did not want to go to see Hair. After that, I went back 6 times to see it again.
Thank you, Mr. Foreman, for not pulling any punches. You were a great artistic force, and you will always be remembered as one of the great filmmakers of all time.
I love this scene. I realize it is a musical. But if it was either going to jail for impersonating an officer or ending up in the jungles of Nam without any training, I would take off all my clothes, act crazy, and do anything not to get in that plane.
@@newtybot They wouldn't in the scenario outlined. If he proved himself a liability rather than an asset he wouldn't be sent. They wouldn't send a naked raving lunatic to Vietnam. It would hinder their operation, not help it
I remember I watched this movie during one of my husband’s deployments to Iraq in the early 2000’s and it made me cry so hard. Made me cry for my husband because I knew he had to be scared where he was and cry for all the soldiers that have ever had to march bravely toward war.
I have cried like a couple times in my life but for some reason this makes me burst into tears every time. Im 28 and I've been watching this since I was like 6 years old... Heartbreaking, such a senseless war... I hope someone that knows me knows that I want this to be played at my funeral. Absolutely Beautiful.
This has got to be the saddest ending to any film. It hit all the notes for sure. Great acting across the board and the vocal performance were perfection.
Gets me every time. I was living in Hungary in the late 80's, and this was among a handful of films in English that hadn't been dubbed, and was always on show in one of Budapest's many cinemas - they like their films in Magyarorszag. Any time I had time on my hands, I'd drop in and see it. Great movie, great music, great director, powerful message. Thanks for putting it up here
This scene reminds me of watching this on TV as a kid back in the late 70s with my dad. I remember having it backwards and saying he died in 1945, and then my dad saying that's when he was born. It also happens to be the year my dad was born. RIP Treat Williams.
that look. That look of horror and shock on seeing the empty barracks. I am too young to have experienced this, by a thin margin. For me, it is history and not the end of life. I have no way to know what this is about in a real way, and so all I have is a faint echo. All that art can move from my heart.
LYRICS: We starve-look At one another Short of breath Walking proudly in our winter coats Wearing smells from laboratories Facing a dying nation Of moving paper fantasy Listening for the new told lies With supreme visions of lonely tunes Somewhere Inside something there is a rush of Greatness Who knows what stands in front of Our lives I fashion my future on films in space Silence Tells me secretly Everything Everything Manchester England England Manchester England England Across the Atlantic Sea And I'm a genius genius I believe in God And I believe that God believes in Claude That's me, that's me, that's me We starve-look At one another Short of breath Walking proudly in our winter coats Wearing smells from laboratories Facing a dying nation Of moving paper fantasy Listening for the new told lies With supreme visions of lonely tunes Singing Our space songs on a spider web sitar Life is around you and in you Answer for Timothy Leary, dearie Let the sunshine Let the sunshine in The sunshine in.....
BTW,"Moving paper fantasies" referes to LSD! Acid literally gave birth to Hippie movement. Acid teaches of freedom,Tepeyo/Peyotl teaches of unity and beauty and connection to all...gov didn't like it,it seems,so they attacked those brave,innocent children putting those heavy drugs at the Flower Power-scene,showing how 'gross' we are! We count millions today,we can officially be a nation! Like Romani-people,not an real country,but real nation! POWER TO THE PEOPLE,BROTHER BY THE NAVEL!
I live in Canada and I was born in 1966. My Parents told me they met alot of Draft Dodgers. Could someone tell me if Curt Henderson was drafted in American Graffitti. They say in the end that he was a writer living in Canada where Terry `The Toad`Fields was reported MIA in An Loc. He may have been a Prisoner Of War.
Leave it to a genius like Milos Foreman to take a pretty powerful song and make it absolute genius when soldiers marching off to die are actually singing it in their minds and spirits.
true. Reminds me of my grandfather who told me history. He had to go to Verdun in WWI and he remembered that they had been brainwashed long before that the french were the absolute enemy. So they went all singing on the way to the trainstation. His awakening must have been terrible, as he realised that the young man in front of him was in no way different to him. He was one of the rare who made it, otherwise I would not be writing here! The same thing is happening today, as the enemy is build up towards us to lead us mayby to another big war. Sourounding Russia with Nato bases is the ultimate provocation!
I am deeply touched every time! Meaningfully similar things are happening at the time. I am hopeful that this time everything will turn out well. State violence and corruption will be replaced by freedom and equality. Have faith in good things happening.
I am a veteran, 9 1/2 years as both an enlisted person and a commissioned officer. OMG, could you imagine being deployed to a combat zone as an infantryman in Vietnam an being "totally untrained", not even knowing anything, even how to fire a weapon. Think of the horror of that, the terror of that proposition. It's a wonder he lasted like even 5 minutes before he was killed. When he was singing while loading onto the plane he knew his fate I imagine. And all that because of trying to help a friend. Jeeze!
One of the most powerful film endings. Had to watch it tonight. RIP Treat Williams.
came here for the same 😢
Me too. RIP Berger 😢
Me too...i'm crying like the first time i watched it...R.I.P. Treat ❤
Same :(
😥
This last scene despite so many decades ago, it still brings tears to min eyes.
It makes me feel deep inside my soul...
Me too.
Yess🥺🌈❤
Mine too.
Bawled my eyes out...
This scene never fails to choke me up. Berger symbolized everyone we ever lost to the senselessness of war. The whole clip was just incredibly deep. Treat Williams absolutely owned that role. RIP...
What makes this movie so awesome is you're watching it, and watching young minds make decisions without thinking them through. It's fun, adventurous, teaching, funny. Then, WHAM!! Reality check. Berger, whom wouldn't cut his hair for 250.00, did it for his friend. WOW!! Timeless classic.
When i heard he had died immediately went looking for this clip
I'm in the crowd scene at the end... somewhere. They had Bonnie Raitt and others doing a free concert on 2 stages on the national mall, and had us all run towards the 2nd stage for the part where everyone is running and converging. Was great fun and a great film to be a part of.
Thank you for posting this. I've wondered for years when and and how they managed to get a shot of an empty field, then a single young person runs into view, and finally we have a huge crowd of seeming hippies converging on the White House. I adore this movie.
blessns Dave. hope yada good n doin well brother.
at the mall rat now akchully.
if anyones in the area, tomorrwed be the Perfect day to do another take of that For Pentecost. slight changes to wardrobe though, all white or whitish raiment and remove the red and blue from any ol glory banners renderin em divionless n unblemished.
blessns alls.
Pretty cool!
I was just wondering what it might be like for someone who was in that crowd to see the scene in the present day. :)
I’ve never seen this until this morning, and it brought me to tears. I’ve been in combat/served in four warzones and know what it feels like to “march into the void”. I was a volunteer, and it was scary each time. I cannot express how terrible it is for this to have been forced on even one person… and for what? A draft should never be allowed, ever again.
Thank you for your wisdom and for expressing it here.
@RovingTrader Thank YOU for your service and sacrifices! 🙏 It has not gone unnoticed! Blessings to you, ♥️🇺🇸♥️
thank you brother, for your service and your compassion...I volunteered but would have been drafted anyway if I hadn't...its just the way it was back then...
Then why'd you keep volunteering? You could have retired after your hitch and not re-upped.
@@Great_SandwichI'm only guessing here but by volunteering he make sure that draft is not nessesary, some choose to give up part of their life for others, also quite possible their whole life.
The way how they staged the planes as the portal to death makes this one of the most iconic scenes in movie history for me
I agree with your view.
Off subject: I went into one of those critters. They had us standing 7 people wide, with our duffel bags over our heads. We were packed heal-to-tow. When the tailgate went up, they told us we could sit. I am glad that I was not thinking of Portal to Death.
An extremely powerful scene made more powerful by the song and lyrics. The picture of soldiers who can't be really distinguished from each other than the colour of their skin, marching into a black hole, from light to dark with no end in sight is such an apt metaphor for the asinine loss of so many your men.
Especialy leatly ?
Such as hard thing and to be forced to go and than spit on when you come home. It has destroyed so many
@@catherinerange4269 Spat upon by whom..? Sounds like many here in the comment section.
The draft was population control for all those baby boomer babies. That’s sadly how the elitist think and work and make decisions. They intended to tear apart families. Make women into single mothers who had to rely on systems to take care of and educate/indoctrinate their kids, fatherless and broken. And forced into the working bracket of tax payers to fund the war machine all over again.
Young guys today have NO idea what it was like to be a young male back then. I lost so many friends in Nam. When I was drafted at 19 in 1965, I didn't know if I'd even have a future. The things in life that happen can't ever be explained. We are all toy soldiers to be played with.
Thank you for your selflessness, even if you were eventually a toy soldier. gen z can't understand this.
I think that this film has a message within it, that both forces of 'left' and 'right' are needed, and there's a delicate balance. those hippies protests against that stupid war eventually did something. but those hippies are also today's professors that bring these extreme progressive values in the universities, and there are conservatives forces that tries to push things back to balanced mode.
My Grandpa was in the Army for 25 years, fought in WW2 and Korea. He met his wife here in Germany after WW2, stayed here and got my Dad with her in 51. When Nam was just around the Corner he knew his fighti g Days had already passed, so he took an honorable Discharge. Because he didn't want my Dad to go to Nam, he advised him to become a German citizen like my Grandma, so he would avoid the Draft. Some people today call that cowardly, but I say Nam was a big mistake, and it wounded the soul and body of a whole Generation of American People, and the Song embodies that perfectly.
Thank you and your friends for your sacrifice may god bless you and let this open our young eyes to everything those who have come before us have accomplished by standing for a cause ❤
"Greater love hath no man than he who lays down his life for a friend."
He didn't lay down his life for a friend. He was fn around, switching uniforms so Claud could go flitter with his chick, and he got sucked up into the machine. He thought it was a great joke, at first. Hippie thought he could play games. Guess he found out.
Amen.
@@jivetalk1045 "Amen" _what..?_ He didn't nobly lay down his life in a great act of sacrifice. That wasn't the plan. The stupid hippie thought he was pulling an awesome gag by dressing up as Claude, and then he accidentally got caught in the gears and sucked into the machine. Off to Vietnam he went. I laughed.
Except that Berger didn’t lay down his life for a friend, at least not on purpose
@@kevinboudreaux7860 Right. He fked around, and found out real hard.
The song never dates and the message of the story never dies, humans are cruel and at the same time so superbly creative, while we make such music I have hope for a better future.
The real cruel humans are in the goverments, now not only lobbyists for Military Industry and now for Pharma Maffia and digital control .
Communists are cruel. Over 100 million dead and counting to do persecution, imprisonment, banishment, torture, execution, and starvation. Communists did that. The effort to stop them was noble. Nobody wanted to live under the red banner. And THAT is why those men marched off to war.
Tonight we lost one of the Greatest actors in Hair, Treat Williams. RIP
The vision of the soldiers marching into the open jaws of the plane is so power
Ah, every time I watch this since I was 15 I've just cried when I see this. The whole thing is exttemely powerful but the tears start at that shot and then when you see the plane flying off the ugly wobbing begins.
Amazing really. Every single time.
@@Ashfold_Eberesche I totally agree. And the way Berger's final words (Claude Hooper Bukowski, that's me, that's me, that's MEEEEEEEE") echo as he disappears into the darkness of the transport plane taking him to his death in Vietnam. It gets me every time.
RIP Treat Williams.
For those who minimize Berger's sacrifice, true, that Berger didn't plan to get deployed, he did a favor for a friend. But take into account the fact that he could have immediately proven he is not the real Claude, which would result in him being tried for trespassing on restricted military property with a short stint in prison at best. What would Claude face? DEATH PENALTY FOR DESERSION, INPERSONATING AN OFFICER, AND PUTTING A CIVILIAN IN DANGER. Berger consciously sacrificed himself for Claude.
😥😥
They still discovered Berger's identity (hence his name on the grave) but Claude wasn't charged for desertion.
I never thought about it like that.
They didn't execute guys for desertion stateside in 1968. They barely executed one guy for cowardice in 1945 while deployed to France.
This scene has haunted me ever since I saw this on vhs back in the 1990s. One question: wouldn’t his fellow soldiers or commanding officer be suspicious when Berger didn’t know how to use a weapon?
Treat Williams ... HAIR to me will always be your MASTER PIECE so much talent
RIP AND THANK YOU
PEACE BE WITH YOU
RIP Treat, this was the moment that brought you to the worlds attention
R.I.P Treat Williams.
I've watched is 5 or 6 times in the last week or so. The scene of soldiers walking toward a dark ending and then watching that darkness cover George just gets me every time.
This always hits me. First he's a soldier, watching his friend flying away in a plane. Next scene he's one of the hippies, refusing to go to war, standing at the grave of his friend. Damn.
I’m a little curious about how he pulled that one off. Berger is buried under his own name, so they did figure it out.
@@kevinboudreaux7860 He probably notified his parents about the switcheroo, but by the time they could get him out of there, it was too late, and they buried him under his real name.
@@firstlast1947 I meant the other guy getting off the base and stuff. Once the army figured it out, he would have been persued as a deserter. They went after that way harder than not showing up for the draft
i know, i'm a stickler for details and this one doesn't exactly flesh out with me. hollywood license, i guess!!@@kevinboudreaux7860
mmhmmm...@@kevinboudreaux7860
R.I.P. Miloš Forman & Treat Williams.
my mom wanted to show me this movie, im thankfull to this day. This movie is eyeopening and a piece of art.
R.I.P. Treat Williams 6/12 23.
As a solider a chill runs through my body every time i watch this!
Just heard the news of Treat Williams passing... Watching this 10th time in a row, with tears in my eyes... RIP Berger, you beautiful boy ❤
It explodes my heart from strong emotions. I love this movie.
1:36 ... how many times have I lived that scene during my later years in the Army...but the first time, having been 18 years old for a whole week, it was terrifying... few of us left who can truly relate to this closing finale...
It's an amazing shot... they are marching to their death both figuratively and in many cases literally.
@lwc2009 Thank YOU for your service 🙏 and sacrifices!! They have not gone unnoticed!! Blessings, ♥️🇺🇸♥️
@@AmazingGrace-pd7zc thank you for caring.... means a lot to me as most of us never heard a kind word when we got home... I never heard one until about 15v years later....😪💙
@@lwc2009 You are most welcome! How very sad to HAVE to acknowledge that our Country failed you....young men and women....who served! Such a very sad time in our history! A time when we were trying to do good things with some incredible, engaging young people! To be a voice of reason, caring, compassion to all! Such a mixed bag of "rules"!!! Very sorry that the powers that be...turned the tables upside down....and somehow you young men and women who served were vilified....not the people in charge!! Wrong on so many levels!! Please know you have not gone unnoticed!! Blessings in all you do, ♥️🙏♥️
@@AmazingGrace-pd7zc 😪💖
Watched the movie so many times but I’m still crying when I see this
Me too. X
Same. I saw it when I was around 9. It makes me cry every single time. Amazing work of Art this movie/musical.
Same, since 1979.
I'll never not cry!
Me too
flawless piece of filmmaking with a groundbreaking score...
R.I.P. Treat Williams 😪💔
RIP Treat Williams.....
This is the saddest part of the entire Milos Forman movie. It’s shows what a friend in George Berger was willing to do for his friend Claude Bukowsky not knowing him very long. He gave the ultimate sacrifice having no training or military knowledge. Remember George tried to talk Claude out of going to Vietnam. All of these soldiers that had the training had no idea what was really happening to them. No choice and no say to turn away from that metal machine transferring them to War. Very poignant and sad that they perished in Vietnam. What was left was grieving people all over the United States and Vietnam too. Rip Milos Forman you were a genius. 💜😘🎥🎞
This aint a movie, its called a musical
@@tristanhorsten634 It's a documentary with dramatic effects. And yes, it is a movie too. The musical was on Broadway.
@janelle so well said im just now discovering this and im emotionally distraught.
@@johndean4727 Thank you it makes me cry every time to think the man hardly knew Bukowsky but wanted him to see his girl so he gave the ultimate sacrifice when he stepped onto the metal machine to Vietnam. 😉💔🙏
@@johndean4727 It is emotional and gets me every time 😔💔
R.I.P 😢🙏🏿 Treat Williams
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
Damn that’s facts
Those who don't pay attention to history, are DOOMED to repeat it
shit i wanna cry
unfortunately
And as former U.S. President Harry S Truman said, "The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know."
The way he says "My God" seems so genuine. This whole scene is amazing.
what a movie what scene ...even today it brings chills
Beautiful & sad bittersweet movie. R.I.P. Treat Williams..
Wow. I'm a 41yo father of 3 and weeping here like a baby. What a powerful scene.
Oh, please...
Fly high, Treat Wiliams.
This is the most moving ending! Treat Williams and John Savage are such great actors that I really can feel their fear and disbelief. Combine that with a great song and this ending makes me cry ever time I see it.😭
The scene is so touching that you can feel the courage and, at the same time, the sadness of the soldiers who would never abandon their obligation to fight, but who know they are heading certain death.
1:10 that is a look of someone who really wanted to save his friend.
I've never seen the movie, but it's one of my dad's favorite movies. But I knew the song. Seeing it sung in this movie reminded me of when he flew to South Korea in 89 and when I went to Iraq in 2009. The use of the planes as the portal of death is ingenious. The movies of this age have more soul and feeling than probably 90% of movies that have come out in this century. So much has been lost to the pages of history, never to be read or learned from ever again.
1000000000% truth. Too many remakes, gory horror, pretentious, etc. stuff out in this century appealing to the least common denominator.
What gets me is the look on Claude's face when he sees the empty barracks and realizes that Berger is on his way to Vietnam in his (Claude's) place....
In my 70 years I have gone to only one on stage play, and my friends had to drag me there. Did not want to go to see Hair. After that, I went back 6 times to see it again.
Thank you, Mr. Foreman, for not pulling any punches. You were a great artistic force, and you will always be remembered as one of the great filmmakers of all time.
This is such a powerful scene. Thanks for the upload.
Brings me to tears every time and I've watched this movie at least a hundred times.
Touched me when I was kid, I'm almost 54 now,thanks to all those people that maked this movie,thks for upload,PEACE,love from Serbia.
The same here Danijel... PEACE, love from Zagreb (+Berlin)....
Goose bumps as I listen to this in Feb 2022
One of the most suspenseful, potent scenes in cinematic history. The tension is palpable.
Got that right!!!!
I saw this performed on stage in Sydney Australia. On R&R from Vietnam.
I love this scene. I realize it is a musical. But if it was either going to jail for impersonating an officer or ending up in the jungles of Nam without any training, I would take off all my clothes, act crazy, and do anything not to get in that plane.
They would still send you to war bro, sorry you had to find out this way
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They wouldn't in the scenario outlined. If he proved himself a liability rather than an asset he wouldn't be sent. They wouldn't send a naked raving lunatic to Vietnam. It would hinder their operation, not help it
Most powerful anti-war film ever made. Brilliant. I must show it to my wife, and all other's who have never seen it.
agree with you
Strong musical....it bring tears.....I hope one day we learn that war is just the end.....just let the sun shine in........
Great comment.
HAIR-OK.
Hahaha. Utopia doesn't exist. Human nature will never allow it. Idealist are destined for sorrow. I'd rather be a realist.
This gets so knocked by the fans of the Broadway performances…..proves there’s no accounting for test…saddest part of film
I remember I watched this movie during one of my husband’s deployments to Iraq in the early 2000’s and it made me cry so hard. Made me cry for my husband because I knew he had to be scared where he was and cry for all the soldiers that have ever had to march bravely toward war.
I have cried like a couple times in my life but for some reason this makes me burst into tears every time. Im 28 and I've been watching this since I was like 6 years old... Heartbreaking, such a senseless war... I hope someone that knows me knows that I want this to be played at my funeral. Absolutely Beautiful.
I cry EVERYTIME TOO!!! THE Unity at the End is Beautiful!!!❤🙏🏾👑
You're an empathic person.
@@raynatumbeva780 I'm not American.
there is NO sense in any war!
@@juttaweise true that
Emozionante...come la prima volta che l'ho visto al cinema nel 1978!!!!!! Bellissimo!!!!
You can see and hear the fear in George's face. Everytime you see the plane flying off with George in it ,I'm crying.
I laughed. Hippie fked around, and found out hard.
@@Great_Sandwich
What the f**k is wrong with you?
It doesn't matter how cold you are, if you don't cry during this scene, you are dead.
Saddest scene ever.
R.I.P treat Williams.
"Thats me" while walking in the aircraft always gets me. RIP Treat.
Strangely, I've thought of this scene in recent days. RIP, Treat Williams.
This haunting song has been stuck in my mind ever since I was a child.
i watched this today in class i am SO devastated
Goodbye Treat...💔😢
This scene devastates me every time. What we did to these boys.
Best musical ever. I always crying on this scene. Such a powerful movie . Berger ❤️
Me too .What a waste of lives for nothing but the wealth of a few!!!!
Beeeergeeeer!
This has got to be the saddest ending to any film. It hit all the notes for sure. Great acting across the board and the vocal performance were perfection.
"... listening for the new-told lies". Still happening.
Gets me every time. I was living in Hungary in the late 80's, and this was among a handful of films in English that hadn't been dubbed, and was always on show in one of Budapest's many cinemas - they like their films in Magyarorszag. Any time I had time on my hands, I'd drop in and see it. Great movie, great music, great director, powerful message. Thanks for putting it up here
My first boyfriend ,Hongarije 1976
Lost virginity Lake Baloton
Hey, respect from hungary =) bless ya all
@@dronemotionlab Kuszi
@@yvonnemulder9038 I loved Lake
Balaton... That's awesome!
RIP Berger 😢
men don't cry except when we see this. him screaming Berger and that plane taking off gives me the chills every time.
I believe in God and I believe that God believes in Claude..that’s me…..I die at that part
Especially as his voice carries on in that one note into that cavernous echo - overwhelming.
Berger 💔 2023
I saw this on stage in San Francisco when if first came out. 53 years later and it still tears me up. It was a very emotional time, the sixties.
I like to think that in a parallel universe the sixties turned the world to peace and love forever.
This scene reminds me of watching this on TV as a kid back in the late 70s with my dad. I remember having it backwards and saying he died in 1945, and then my dad saying that's when he was born. It also happens to be the year my dad was born. RIP Treat Williams.
RIP Berger (Treat Williams) ☮️✌️🕊️♥️
♥ 6/12/23 ♥ RIP TREAT WILLIAMS ♥
R.I.P. Treat Williams 💔
that look.
That look of horror and shock on seeing the empty barracks.
I am too young to have experienced this, by a thin margin. For me, it is history and not the end of life.
I have no way to know what this is about in a real way, and so all I have is a faint echo. All that art can move from my heart.
I have.
I saw the movie years ago...in 1979.. never forget my feeling...going out from the cine.,...life change!✌️
in memory of treat williams
Cry every single time
My favourite all time film
Rest in Peace, Treat. June 13, 2023
Sad news today. RIP, Treat Williams 💔😢💙
LYRICS:
We starve-look
At one another
Short of breath
Walking proudly in our winter coats
Wearing smells from laboratories
Facing a dying nation
Of moving paper fantasy
Listening for the new told lies
With supreme visions of lonely tunes
Somewhere
Inside something there is a rush of
Greatness
Who knows what stands in front of
Our lives
I fashion my future on films in space
Silence
Tells me secretly
Everything
Everything
Manchester England England
Manchester England England
Across the Atlantic Sea
And I'm a genius genius
I believe in God
And I believe that God believes in Claude
That's me, that's me, that's me
We starve-look
At one another
Short of breath
Walking proudly in our winter coats
Wearing smells from laboratories
Facing a dying nation
Of moving paper fantasy
Listening for the new told lies
With supreme visions of lonely tunes
Singing
Our space songs on a spider web sitar
Life is around you and in you
Answer for Timothy Leary, dearie
Let the sunshine
Let the sunshine in
The sunshine in.....
"Eyes look your last,arms take your last embrace,
And kiss! Seal the doors of breathe!" (Romeo and Juliet)
BTW,"Moving paper fantasies" referes to LSD! Acid literally gave birth to Hippie movement. Acid teaches of freedom,Tepeyo/Peyotl teaches of unity and beauty and connection to all...gov didn't like it,it seems,so they attacked those brave,innocent children putting those heavy drugs at the Flower Power-scene,showing how 'gross' we are! We count millions today,we can officially be a nation! Like Romani-people,not an real country,but real nation! POWER TO THE PEOPLE,BROTHER BY THE NAVEL!
With what going on and Treat Williams passing, 😔 this song with those lyrics hits harder
I bawl hard every time I see this scene. So powerful!!! Love this as heartbreaking as it is. 😞😢
I live in Canada and I was born in 1966. My Parents told me they met alot of Draft Dodgers. Could someone tell me if Curt Henderson was drafted in American Graffitti. They say in the end that he was a writer living in Canada where Terry `The Toad`Fields was reported MIA in An Loc. He may have been a Prisoner Of War.
Leave it to a genius like Milos Foreman to take a pretty powerful song and make it absolute genius when soldiers marching off to die are actually singing it in their minds and spirits.
true. Reminds me of my grandfather who told me history. He had to go to Verdun in WWI and he remembered
that they had been brainwashed long before that the french were the absolute enemy. So they went all singing
on the way to the trainstation. His awakening must have been terrible, as he realised that the young man in
front of him was in no way different to him. He was one of the rare who made it, otherwise I would not be
writing here! The same thing is happening today, as the enemy is build up towards us to lead us mayby to
another big war. Sourounding Russia with Nato bases is the ultimate provocation!
This scene truly kills me. I've seen so many of Treat Williams movies and I never knew he has such amazing voice. RIP Mr. Williams 🙏🕊️🙏🕊️🙏
I am deeply touched every time! Meaningfully similar things are happening at the time. I am hopeful that this time everything will turn out well. State violence and corruption will be replaced by freedom and equality. Have faith in good things happening.
Soul-rattling.
I love that movie so much. Fell in love with Treat Williams on the spot the first time I saw it. I can't believe he's gone.
Ez a háború is értelmetlen volt, mint a mostani,
Adjon az Isten Nekik örök nyugalmat, és nyugodjanak békében!!!!
Rest in peace, Treat.
I am a veteran, 9 1/2 years as both an enlisted person and a commissioned officer. OMG, could you imagine being deployed to a combat zone as an infantryman in Vietnam an being "totally untrained", not even knowing anything, even how to fire a weapon. Think of the horror of that, the terror of that proposition. It's a wonder he lasted like even 5 minutes before he was killed. When he was singing while loading onto the plane he knew his fate I imagine. And all that because of trying to help a friend. Jeeze!
Mesmo sabendo usar a arma, jamais a usaria.
This last song impacted me so much … i watched when i was just a kid and omg… so impactful.
RIP Treat Williams! 😢💔🖤
One of the most powerful scene in a history of cinema! 😭
So good
slazem se sonja
Best Antiwar movie !!!
Treat Williams RIP. We remember you