Treat Williams will forever be synonymous with this amazing movie. May God rest his immortal Soul. May his family feel Peace upon this earth and may his Soul rise to Peace in Heaven.
I'll never forget he first time I saw it. I couldn't cry, I couldn't say anything, I was paralysed. I was just in shock and silent until the credits came and kept on trying to process the whole thing. It struck me and smashed me in a way I can't put down in words.
It’s a incredible movie and scene. Most movies or songs that carry an overtly political message are not artistic masterpieces but this song and scene manages to do both and that’s extremely rare. As for how it makes us feel. For me it’s the same I can barely breathe during the first half and I’m the end just feel tears down my face every singe time. It’s a masterpiece because it doesn’t judge it just lies the truth bare for everyone the see and feel
I checked in because of the sad news... RIP Treat Williams. An iconic sequence! I remember watching this 4 decades ago and being a bit disappointed. I already knew the main songs of this musical in wonderful performances. Now I know: European and Czech, the director of the film Milos Forman sensed the spirit of America at that time!
I believe that God believes in Claude... That's Me! He screams as he knows he is marching to his death. I can never not cry when I hear this. Enough of the endless wars and senseless killing of all young people, for what. Its obscene. We are a suicidal species. .
I bawl my eyes out every time I watch this. Original hippies loved America and were rightfully against the war in Vietnam. The hipsters now hate America and all She stands for. We’re in a tailspin my friends. We seriously need a new crop of genuine hippies.
Both the movie and the play feature the line "The Vietnam war is the White Man sending the Black man to kill the Yellow man to defend the land they stole from the Red man" Not exactly "America love it or leave it" The original cast album also features a song called " don't put it down" making fun of mindless allegiance to the flag sung in an exaggerated Southern hick accent The show faced legal challenges regarding on stage desecration of the flag "White/black boys" a show stopping number about interracial sex, strongly hinted at gay relationships including a song called "sodomy" at a time when both could get you arrested. The two main songwriters for "Hair" were gay and in a realationship and a good deal of what they wrote clearly was meant to upend a lot of what America stood for at the time I'm not sure what you mean by "real hippies" Of course A lot of them did go on to become right-wing sellouts
Since you didn't not address my point , I'll let you live in a fantasyland where the hippies were cuddly, shaggy unapologetic flag wavers The hippie movement chronicled in hair was pretty far left and pretty anti-establishment. There's a reason so many right wingers wanted the hippie movement and all its participants shot
Sensacional, inesquecível, fantástico.Assisti este filme mais de 06 vezes.Foi a época de mudanças na sociedade,uma revolução comportamental,uma época de protestos contra a qualquer tipo de guerra, não só a do Vietnã.
Every soldier in America should watch this movie before enlisting in the army and then be taken to the cemetery to see where they could end up after serving abroad. The fading voice of Berger as he entered the plane summed up the evils of wars.....
You can be killed at home just as quick as you can be killed abroad. How many stories have you heard of people coming back home only to be murdered at home or dying in a car accident. Sometimes your fate is written before you take your first breath
The saddest thing to me is that protesting against a war has turned into attacking the armed forces who fought in it. They have no choice the matter. They are not the people who should be challenged it is the politicians are.
You should put the name of the song in the video's title. I cant believe how few hits this has when it's far better audio than the one with 18m+ views.
This is by far the saddest scene ever, especially since so many of those soldiers are heading to their deaths,,,when they are walking into the plane, it makes me think that they are walking into a giant coffin 😞…it’s weird that he was so loyal to his friend that he didn’t tell them he was not a soldier 🤔
I haven’t been to the National Cemetery but I have gone to the American Cemetery at Normandy. It looks like this, rows upon rows of headstones from any direction. Men who gave their all. 58,479 who never returned. Treat realistically portrayed one.
Visit the Bonehouse in Verdun and have a look around......Also look at the landscape around.......not really alive after more than 100 Years.... People are born stupid and don`t learn...........
I thought this film was travesty, and bears little resemblance to the original stage production. Too many changes made it a terrible film and not a fitting tribute to Rado, Ragni, and MacDermot. Listen to the original Broadway cast album instead!
I was young in the 70s and today at the age of 69 , watching this video makes me realize how fast mankind evolution has been these last 50 years................Imagine millions of people all over the planet singing and marching to stop this stupid war in Ukraine ......... Just dreaming!
KGBPutin must stop his bad stupid war... i hope so much he stop... one day. This man is exact in the line of: Lenin, Trotzki, Stalin... morders, fashists...very very bad people.
They changed some of the play, but still, Forman did a fine job directing this film. These last six minutes are just an excellent combination of music and image to protest youth involvement in Vietnam, especially the visual metaphors of the two rows of young men walking into the black abyss of the plane and then the plane disappearing out of the frame to the right..
My dad was a Viet Nam vet and career military. My mom was more of a hippie (even took me to sing-in’s at her college) and the one who taught me all these songs in the early 70’s when I was young. I have seen this movie many times over many years. This ending still makes me sob. I cry for Berger. But I also cry for all those young kids that were sent to war. I cry for those that didn’t return, and for those who did return, but returned living a physical and/or emotional hell. I love this movie. I wish I could go see it in a big screen theater.
Everytime when i see this scene i must cry. Why? Why not all mothers of these planet stand up and says: "NO! No, you don't become my child to let die! NO! You don't become my child to be a murder! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!" WHY? Why we stand up and say: "NO WAR ANYMORE!" 😭☮
I got letters from a young man who served in Vietnamese Nam, I was only 14-15, receiving letters weekly about how afraid all the boys who were sent there were. The boy, Steve, was so homesick and it tore my young heart apart, worrying about him & all the guys there. Have seen HAIR numerous times, always wonderful. And sad…this old young world is still at War, always…
Eu vi o filme, no cine Miramar, em Porto Alegre. O cine não existe mais e a avenida do cine mudou muito. Só a Igreja São Jorge continua lá. Emocionante.
Humans don’t change. The US experience in Vietnam reads pretty much like that of France there from 1949 to 1954. Later Russia in Afghanistan. And on and on. And the band plays on.
Fantastic, powerful movie. A good friend was interred at Ft Rosecrans, the seemingly endless rows of markers were absolutely overwhelming. His two brothers and I were veterans at the time. We owe so much to so many.
I loved this musical and always was fine until this scene when I often broke down. To this day I think of those who never came home. God and Peace be with us.
Tremenda escena ,y el tema es brillante Echa un mar de lágrimas .. Un movimiento que se cargaron introduciendo desgraciadamente el LSD Y nunca entenderé por que ninguno de los actores tubo una buena carrera después de esta película
