Just ordered the DVD of Midnight Cowboy (1969), the first X-rated movie to win a Best Picture Oscar. Stars Jon Voight & Dustin Hoffman. Hal
I saw that film when it first came out when I was barely in my teens, and for the longest time it remained one of my favourites...
Oh we rarely paid in the cinema when we were youngsters, ..one or 2 of our crowd who were old enough would pay to go in and when the lights went down they'd open the emergency exit doors at the back ( no alarms in those days)..and we'd sneak in...
LOL>> I think I did my penance when I worked a second job as an Usherette in the Cinema for several years in the evenings.. Try watching Star wars or Alien every single night for 6 months..that's penance
It's a good movie, but you may not like it, Hal. If you're expecting cowboy scenes, you'll be disappointed. Not X-rated according to today's standards, unless they cut some parts when it first came out, or I forgot something.
By today’s standards it might even be PG but it really was rated x at the time and later given an R rating.
When I was about 16, I took a young lass to see “Who’s afraid of Virginia Wolfe” and when her mother found out which movie we saw she made my date go to confession and then join the Catholic Junior League of Honor as penance.
You can focus on that, or you can focus on other things. To me it was more than that, but I only saw it once when it first came out, and that was 50 years ago, so my memory might be faulty.
A date took me to see "I Am Curious (Yellow) in 1967. It was banned in the US but a local art theater owner was showing it. Every night he'd show it and would be arrested. He'd bail out and show it the next night (you can't BUY that kind of publicity). People were fighting to get in to see it. The date had tickets and I was psyched to go! I did have momentary pangs about getting arrested and having to convince my parents to bail me out....LOL...but something like this was going to give me major bragging rights with my peeps, so...……………. I thought I was going to die of embarrassment. Full frontal nudity in 1967! A Disney movie, it wasn't. I wasn't quite as "cosmopolitan" as I thought I was. A few seconds of John Voight's bare heinie was nothing after that.
No, your memory does not fail you at all @Nancy Hart! There was a lot more in the movie than sex if one so chose to pick up on it. If the movie didn’t evoke some other emotions in a viewer other than some fantasy sexual desires then it didn’t do what it was designed and written to do. There was a lot of frustration, loneliness and a heckova lot of sadness involved which aren’t key ingredients for a movie bent on simple sleaze.
The most emotional scene I can remember, not having seen it for half a Century, was when Ratso Rizzo died on the bus. OK, Bobby? Hal