Midnight Cowboy (1969) John Schlesinger. 113 min
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| Joe Buck (Jon Voight) |
Relevant Links:
Midnight Cowboy (IMDb.com)
Midnight Cowboy (RottenTomatoes.com)
Midnight Cowboy (Wikipedia.org)
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| Ratso (Dustin Hoffman) |
20131023:
After finishing this movie, I had to really sit and let it all sink in. Initially, the only word which came to my mind and which I used twice in my instant comments below is "intense." After some moments, I concluded that this was a great movie which I really enjoyed.
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| "Hey, I'm walking here, I'm walking here." - Ratso |
Prior to watching the movie, I had no idea what it was going to be about. Imagine my surprise to learn that the protagonist, Joe Buck, intends to head to New York and become a male prostitute. That is, of course, only the first of many surprising elements the movie has to offer.
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| Ratso cooks a meal for Joe. |
Instant Comments:
The hustler gets hustled.
Ha. The famous (supposedly unscripted) line: "Hey, I'm walking here, I'm walking here."
Oh man. He's doing so terrible (he should ask for the money up front)
This movie gets real intense at times.
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| Joe finds himself unable to perform for Shirley (Brenda Vaccaro). |
Haha. Sunshine and coconut milk.
That was fancy, he lit his cigarette off the taxi cab.
What an interesting friendship they have.
Oh the scratching...
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| Ratso shines Joe's shoes. |
That's intense: what Joe went through to get Rizzo to Florida.
While Joe beat up a self-hating gay man, I think it was purely for the sake of Rizzo and not because he hates homosexuals.
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