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In Reply to: Midnight Cowboy posted by mishmashmusic on August 29, 2004 at 19:02:42:
If you think Ratso Rizzo is larger than life then y'aint never bin to Noo Yawk(!)Dated; well 1969 was a helluva long time ago and I would have to agree with you there. Bob Dylan was meant to do the theme tune but it ended up being done by Harry Nilsson (now deceased); "Everybody's Talking"
"Cowboy" broke a lot of new ground in its day and there are quite a few films since that have paid it homage in one way or another
EG; in "Forrest Gump" when he's pushing his buddy in a wheelchair across a NY street he slaps the cabs hood and shouts "I'm walking here, I'm walking here" which is one of Ratsos lines in Cowboy...
One scene that always gets me is where Ratso picks a guys pocket, strikes a match on the roof of the cab then flips the bird as it drives away; that defines Ratso's character as much as anything else in the film without saying a word
I found the end of the film uplifting where Voights character ditches his cowboy clothes in the trash it's like he's going to get a new startGrins
Follow Ups:
The opening scene - the zoom out from the silver screen with the sound of a cowboy flick - only to see an abandoned drivein theater - the cowboy sounds fade - The message: Cowboy movies are fiction and the myth of a mysterious stranger riding into town to save the day is dead. The rest of the movie is more of the same. Fake cowboy goes to New York to do wonderful things and finds failure. No saving the town, no rescuing the girl in distress. The western myth is dead.Good movie but pretty depressing.
==========(Mark B. James - a.k.a. "Brewthunda")
for the themesong. But director went with Ev's Talking.
Nilsson sang "Everbody's Talkin'" for the soundtrack, but the late-, reclusive Fred Neil wrote it and performed it simply with his voice and acoustic guitar.
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