The gay aspect, if there was, went beyond me - unless gay was different in
the 60's (not that I am old enough to remember the 60's, lol ) Maybe I
should watch the movie now, with all this "worldly" wisdom, I might catch
the deeper meaning. Anyway, I remember a few scenes - the all night diner,
with the weird chick and her son, something about a rodent.
> >>
> > Wha? Gay movie? Midnight Cowboy
>
>
>was one of the weirdest and most
> > depressing films I ever saw
>Just to bring a bit back into New York, Ken, here are a couple of Google
>hooked takes on the film:
>"This is one of the most emotional gay relationship movies ever made. The
>two main characters go through life on the bad side of society with only
>each others love and support to keep them going."
>
>"Joe Buck (Jon Voight) a good-looking, naively charming Texas "cowboy"
>who's
>convinced that he's the salvation of many love-starved New York women,
>makes
>his way to the Big Apple to seek his fortune.
>Trouble is, his well-to-do clientele never materializes - and the only
>wealth he finds is in the friendship of Ratso Rizzo (Hoffman), a
>scrounging,
>sleazy, small-time con man with big dreams.
>
>Living on the tattered fringe of society, these two outcasts develop an
>unlikely bond - one that transcends their broken dreams and get-rich-quick
>schemes and makes Midnight Cowboy "that rarest of things...every bit as
>moving now as it was when it was [first] released" (Premiere Magazine).
>Daring. Provocative. Shocking. Compelling. Nearly thirty years after its
>original release, "Midnight Cowboy is still heartbreaking - and timeless"
>(The New York Observer)."
>
>but if there was gayness to it, that went
> > right past me. Well, I was 25, newly married, profoundly naive (still
> > am at 61), and I was about to leave New York City for Upstate. I've
> > never lived in New York since. For me, at least, Midnight Cowboy was
> > the perfect urban nightmare for someone about to depart it for Upstate
> > and the presumed "vita nuova" of graduate school. "THIS is what I'm
> > leaving behind? Dustin Hoffman? Sylvia Miles?? I'm outta here!" But
> > gay? I was naive, yes. For all that, MC is one of two movies I refuse
> > to watch ever again. The other is Sophie's Choice. I'd rather see a
> > marathon of Todd Browning movies, including a colorized version of
> > Freaks. So I guess I'm bound to have missed stuff.
> >
> >> Take advantage while we can before the media begins to fill us with
>fake
> >> sugar and nostalgia (the 'docs' are coming.)
> >>
> >>
> > I have a profound regret...and it predates Katrina...that I never got to
> > see New Orleans. I could either never afford the trip or was turned off
> > by the idea of the humid weather. I don't do humidity too well. But
> > that upset me only in the New Orleans context. I'd been in South
> > Florida in 1986 to visit some dying relatives (who else goes to Florida
> > except dying relatives?) and the heat had no redeeming social value
> > because there is NOTHING there except ways to get old gracelessly. I
> > knew I was not some exceptional being and could probably adjust to New
> > Orleans, but the opportunity never came. Now? I'm doubtful. I'm
> > waiting for the strip malls, WalMart, and theme parks (Resurrection
> > Village) to move into the reconstruction. They'll have a clarinetist
> > out front to do Pete Fountain imitations. Imitations because the old
> > guy will have died of shame.
> >
> >
> > Ken
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