![]() ![]() Joe Buck (Jon Voight) heads east from Texas to New York City looking to meet rich, lonely women. ![]() It’s full of naked butts and French kissing and women talking about their sexual needs, fleshed out with memories of rape and not very veiled hints of homosexuality.Īt its heart, though, Midnight Cowboy is a buddy movie of rather unlikely characters falling into a rather forced friendship. Here is a movie that focuses fully on, you know, That… It… As Monty Python would say, Thingy. Sure, with Midnight Cowboy film took a further turn into the sordid and personal in a way that hadn’t been done perhaps since 1945’s The Lost Weekend. From my perspective thirty years on, I can only guess that it was Midnight Cowboy’s shock value at the time of its original release that created its reputation as a “great film.”
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