Midnight Cowboy - Intro Scene - Everybody's Talkin' 

Totally agree!

Certainly one of the best!

Absolutely 💯

Harry Nilsson.... that vocal range and emotion add so much depth. It is such a perfect fit, it seems natural, you almost take it for granted..

YES Just a little bit of awesomeness...!!!

I can relate

That’s because it used so many real locations, showing the buildings and streets and cars, as well as clips from real TV shows and audio from real radio stations.

Love the opening of the movie classic!😊👍

@@user-pm3uu1bp1y Lot's of films shot during that era DON'T capture that late 60's urban rot vibe. This one does. Todd Phillips manages to capture it in Joker (2019) too.

yep like the cars at the start

Reminds me as a kid the clothes , cars , buildings reminds of me of my small town I grew up in . I come here to watch opening scene TAKES MY MIND BACK EVERYONE SMOKED BACK THEN .

And the editing, I'd say it's one of the most creatively edited films I've ever watched in my life

Sincere Truth.

Agree 100%!

And sadly means Hollywood is long past it’s best.

The original is actually by Fred Neil but this cover is sublime

The film is a sad example of just how cruel the American 'health care' system is.

I remember seeing this film as a child in the 70s and it made me cry. I got out of bed and sneeked downstairs to watch it on TV during a weekend. The way Joe finally becomes a responsible and considerate young man through his suffering gets me every time. I put this film on a par with Disney's Pinocchio.

It's definitely a sad movie but I always watch it when I can and yes I love the Harry Nilsson song one of the best overall.

@@shack7631 our healthcare system is better than any others in the world.

Most people unlike you live this life every day so we have to be depressed at the movies too ?

At least twice. That way you can make sure you didn't miss anything.

Yeah, I was 12yo back then. I remember hearing this song on my Dad`s car radio while going on the family vacation.

Song really paints a picture.

I read where the producers had a hard time deciding between this song, and the other one by Nilsson, "I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City," to headline the film. Either one works for me.

Frederick Neil song. He wrote it.

Lime in the coconut is one of the very first songs I remember singing as a little kid. Nilsson was so cool 😎

You can tell when all concerned really put their heart into making great cinema as opposed to machine cranked out for a fast dollar. The former being so rare.

Mr. Sir I’m his Youth haha

I absolutely think the same thing!! Like a rip off! Although both movies are by now classic...

@@lindasue4237 Saturday Night fever a classic?

@@rman52 It's considered a "problematic classic", according to Google

Wow are you film student? I wouldn't have noticed that until you said!

​@@rman52 It is a classic. A great film.

thats an art of story telling in motion I tell ya

...and there's an acid trip in the middle.

Book ends

Also begins with an abundance of ambition and anticipation and ends with unfulfilled dreams and hopelessness, the painful reality of life sometimes!

I love this movie the ending was so sad😔

Great movies will never be made again due to the cult of political correctness and the new Hollywood quota system. Everything will now become mediocre, predictable, and dumbed down to fit the new socio-Marxist agenda.

@@powertuber3.047 Ain't that the truth.

In my top10.

16 in 1969 it was great

Also, Last Picture Show...same era.

Today Joe Buck would have to fly if they wanted this movie to get made in 2021.

Back when bad meant bad and not good or awesome .

had a friend who worked in the movie while shooting in Big Springs, he told us a new guy was the star, and then they cut his scene out of the movie but he still go paid.

What bad movie? Ain’t that bad and, I’ve lived nearby Seminole 69-71. And moved back to San Antonio.

Bad as in X rated.

Bad, as in kinda dirty.

Interesting.

Thanks to "Escape To The Country", I know exactly where it is and why some prefer North Wales and Some prefer South. Before that, I thought Wales was like somewhere up by Ireland or Scotland.☺

@@BeachsideHank Actually, people used to retire to South Wales because the property was cheaper and the costs of living better.

🤣

George would have been better off with Liam Neesom's car.

The dentist Jon Voight. 😂

@@Alaska-Jack Dentist spelled it John Voight. Lol!

"Just drivin' around in Jon Voight's car"🎶🎶

hebneh Good noticing!

@@emirsabic7908 Yes - genius level!

A different Hollywood from today. A Hollywood I sometimes miss.

20:21 A closed movie theater with Top Gun: Maverick on the marquee.

What's ironic is I feel John Voight should have won best actor that year but they gave it to John Wayne for True Grit. ,

It's about how stupid you can be when you're young, and how the whip called the world cuts the skin on your back

Big Springs had Webb AFB until 1977. Now a federal prison and the rest is a deaf college since 1980. And you saw Settles Hotel background. It’s restored beautifully. Try check it out on Google or RU-vid.

Dustin Hoffman improvised that scene of "I'm walking here!". Completely unscripted, filmed as it happened

@@sirliner8035 , yes, so I've read. It's not just the line though, it's how he delivered it. The confidence, passion,, defiance, authority etc. Dustin throws himself into his characters...

@@10gallons Right. Hoffman didn't ad-lib that line. Ratso Rizzo did.

Both extremely talented and creative artists. True Movie Stars.

He recently joined the talk-shows to denounce today’s liberal trends.

@@stephenpowstinger733 He's crazier than a shithouse rat, but an undeniably good actor.

Decidely so. Frederick Neil wrote it. Harry's version is the one we grew up with. Thus...

I drive through Big Spring about 3 times a year on the he way to Denver City (TX) to visit my sister.

Does that street still look like that in that town?

@@ernestkovach3305 Most of the film locations were to the north near the rail line but the town’s heart seems to have drifted south, now lining Highway 87, so there’s little left to see of Joe Buck’s Big Spring. The ‘Big Tex’ drive-in of the opening shot, originally the Sahara Drive-in Theater, stood at 5714 I-20 Frontage Road, west of town but there’s no trace of it today. Likewise, the Big Spring Hotel, out of which Joe strides with his cowhide suitcase to a better future. This used to stand at the southeast corner of East 3rd Street and Donley Street, now a vacant lot. In the film, you can glimpse the tower of the Hotel Settles in the distance along 3rd Street. Joe is off to hand in his notice at Miller’s Restaurant, which stood about four blocks west on the southwest corner of 3rd Street at Austin Street. Though it is now an empty plot, you can for the moment make out the building alongside, which then housed a Pontiac dealership. The Rio cinema which, judging by the jumble of letters left on the marquee, closed after a final showing of John Wayne’s The Alamo, stood at 309 Northwest 4th Street. It had served Big Spring since 1947, but now that entire block has gone. Joe crosses the road in front of the old freight station which once dominated the northern end of South Main Street. It’s gone but, even though the names have changed, you’ll still recognise the stores which led up to it on either side of the street.

@@FN_FAL_4_ever Sad...almost all gone . Thank you so much for your detailed answer .

Yeah, Webb AFB closed in 1977. Now a federal prison and a deaf college. And oil bust was 1982. Downtown businesses have shut down but thanks goodness for restoring Settles Hotel beautifully.

Mmm....more like 52 and man does that kitchen SMELL!

The internet ruined everything. No longer can you pull into a tavern on the back road and talk to an oldtimer at the bar. Everyone is on the internet. Adventure has been sucked out of the human experience. Nobody is out there anymore, everyone is on the internet

@@therecanbeonlyonechris5019 True mate. Young people do still travel (before the corona virus), but they are still on the internet. I travelled around South America a few years ago, and I met a lot of young travelers. They were sound, but totally on their mobiles using the hostel WIFI. It's a shame.

Well, it was easier then. You could live on a lot less. What was rent back then now will only get you a parking space.

@@robertpearson9137 You're right, boomer kids didn't have those pesky $1000 iPhones and 5G internet to worry about or have to pay for parking while getting a $5 coffee at Starbucks. Golly, kids today really do have it harder than any other generation in human history.

Yeah, they're missing the opportunity to get a decent job.

I know what you're talking about. Worked there, done that. Two Sisters.

Easy rider and Vanishing Point as well

I read that too. The Dylan song is great, but "Everybody's Talkin'" is perfect for this movie.

I'm English, not American, but I know how great Jon Voight is. He gets his due credit, believe me...a brilliant and unique actor.

I was trying to figure out what Town that was . Looks a lot like parts of Albuquerque , especially back then . Classic Film .

Agree. One of several buildings have been razed. And 1930 Settles Hotel restored beautifully.

I'm from Odessa, but live in Dallas now. I sometimes drive through Big Spring. I always think it hasn't changed.

@@frankgutierrez6016 Thank God for small blessings. Thats what love coming back back to.. familiarity and a rare gem that is stuck in time. But with this new age of hyper connectedness, all secrets are revealed and all the cool regional stuff is exposed to the world, it's inevitable that sooner or later some will change something you like just because they are spiteful, bored and are rich enough to do it for no reason other than being pricks and to show they can. Hope some.things will be left unknown to others and kept sacred to those who apart of what ever it is that makes their life, city, town, community unique and rare.

I drove through town in January. I drove around the new parts. But went downtown. I remember going there with a friend to visit a long time ago. Seeing that tall building, so I parked and walked around it.

@@frankgutierrez6016 Nothing there but the neatness of being a tine capsule, huh?

I like seeing places I seen years ago. When I to Odessa I like to go to all the places and bring back memories. Sad to see places change or gone now.

They used that song in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid, released in the same year as Midnight Cowboy.

🔭 hold on a minute

That was all they had.