I’m suffering from insomnia and watching Midnight Cowboy

I just watched that about a month ago. That woman in the beginning he has sex with in NYC as his first paid gig then grifts him by crying afterwards so she does not have to pay him is just so NYC manipulative CUNTY.

And the gay student he meets in the movie theater that gives him a blow job then needs to throw up afterwards? Oh the horrors of being a "homosexual" of that time.

For R1:

Sylvia Miles

Bob Balaban

Two well-known actors.

Showing a man get a blowjob in a mainstream film was huge back then.

No wonder it was rated X.

I found the scene where the clean-cut man in the business suit is lying unconscious on the street and everybody is ignoring him to be dishonest in a movie that captured late 60s NYC so well.

It’s about as bad as the opening scene in “Sweet Charity” , which was released the same year, where Charity is pushed off the bridge and screaming for help and the people sitting on the bench don’t react.

R4 that was when everyone believed the bystander apathy version of the Kitty Genovese murder.

I saw it when it was rated X at a theater in The Combat Zone in Boston. The ticket taker asked us for ID's and my friend flashed him his draft card. "Go right in." He gave us a freebie.

[quote]I found the scene where the clean-cut man in the business suit is lying unconscious on the street and everybody is ignoring him to be dishonest

Yes, because he looks like one of them, but if he was homeless, it would be more than accurate.

So much of it is dated now, but I view it now as a period piece. One of my all-time faves. I watch it again every few years.

But last time I watched, I realized I was having a weird deja vu-like experience. Of course I knew what would happen, I'd seen it umpteen times. But every time Voight was commanding the screen, there was something about his face, his mannerisms that was bugging me.

(No, not that he went MAGA!).

Then it finally dawned on me. Angelina. His daughter. It was the same face. It was the first time in years I'd watched since she came onto the scene.

I had never previously noted a resemblance. But there is no doubt Jon is her daddy!

So odd that a guy who did a role like that turned out to be so MAGA.

Don't suffer too long, OP. Get an OTC sleep aid, or smoke some indica. 😀

I liked that someone older (too old) was cast as Joe Buck, but seeing it today I always say, how can this guy be so fucking stupid? If he was 22, I’d forgive it. I first saw Midnight Cowboy in its 1972 re-release.

Like that other movie of the time that was completely different than anything that came before, Midnight Cowboy has a great musical score. The other movie I’m talking about is The Graduate.

Those Upper East Side society women fashions, while dated, look very nice. Those short, neat, late-60s hairdos were very becoming.

That moment on the bus near the beginning when Voigt wakes up and the child and the mother are gone somehow makes me sad.

Most of the first half of the novel was jettisoned in the movie and focuses only on the second half.

OP —- I can understand suffering from insomnia, but suffering from watching Midnight Cowboy is something else altogether.

I was not around yet, were cowboys in NYC a big thing back then? The movie tried to make it sound like it was.

No anything but.

Everybody's Talking at Me by Harry Nilsson comes to mind. He went on to do completely different music after that. and released the album Nilsson Schmilsson. Hallucinogens played a part, no doubt. Loved that Harry.

Pu.t the Lime in the Coconut. It's impossible not to like that song.