Where's that Joe Buck?

Midnight Cowboy Trailer




OPENING - Harry Nilsson Everybody's Talking

One of my very favorite movies is Midnight Cowboy. I first saw this when I took a class in College back in 1994 - Experience the art; Film. Most movies we'd seen upon to this point had been rather what I today refer to as classics, but then called dull, booring black and white. (Battleship Potemkin, Birth of a nation and so on)

I sleept through most of them and I pretty much didn't understand any of them. Midnight Cowboy was different. I had a great pace, tone and wonderful characters - I was sweapt away. It must have been becaouse this was kind of the first movie I experienced where the main character pretty much was a looser that didn't achive his goal. It wasnät the kind of american movies I was used to seeing at the swedish theaters.

Midnight Cowboy was pretty much the first movie I ever saw, that really stayed in my head and made me think about it for a long time. I still can remember it quite well (of course I've seen it a bunch of times at this point) and many times it still pops up in my head. The characterization, character development and relationshsips is phenomenal.

Also, the soundtrack is ofcourse outstanding.