Midnight Cowboy: Music From The Motion Picture

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Midnight Cowboy: Music From The Motion Picture

Midnight Cowboy: Music From The Motion Picture

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The line "I'm walkin' here!", which reached No. 27 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes, is often said to have been improvised, but producer Jerome Hellman disputes this account on the 2-disc DVD set of Midnight Cowboy. The scene, which originally had Ratso pretend to be hit by a taxi to feign an injury, is written into the first draft of the original script. [20] Hoffman explained it differently on an installment of Bravo's Inside the Actors Studio. He stated that there were many takes to hit the traffic light just right so that they would not have to pause while walking. In that take, the timing was perfect, but a cab nearly hit them. Hoffman wanted to say, "We're filming a movie here!", but stayed in character, allowing the take to be used. [21] Quartet Records, in collaboration with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Capitol Records, Universal Music Enterprises and the Phil Ramone estate, present an expanded 2-CD edition of the iconic score for the landmark film MIDNIGHT COWBOY, directed by John Schlesinger in 1969, starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, and winner of three Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The musical score of MIDNIGHT COWBOY presented a new concept, widely used in the last decades, but not in the late sixties—a combination of songs and original music wisely developed into a perfect underscore. Renowned British composer John Barry, who had already won three Oscars in 1969, appeared under the credit of “Music Supervisor,” but also composed a series of original cues and supervised the entire musical concept of the film, along with legendary American producer Phil Ramone. Ditmore, Melissa Hope (2006). "Midnight Cowboy". Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work. Vol.1. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group. pp.307–308. ISBN 9780313329685.

a b c Balio, Tino (1987). United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 292. ISBN 9780299114404. John Barry was one of the all-time great masters of movie music. His career spanned some 50 years - from Midnight Cowboy and Born Free to Dances with Wolves and Out of Africa - taking in 11 James Bond films along the way. The five-times Oscar winner was born in York on 3 November 1933.The album version by John Barry & His Orchestra runs to a mere 2 minutes 48 seconds. The instrumental version is known as "Midnight Cowboy Theme" or "Theme From Midnight Cowboy". In 1994, Midnight Cowboy was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. [5] Plot [ edit ] The first song, “Everybody’s Talkin’,” almost didn't make it into the movie, had Bob Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay" been available. But Dylan was unable to write his tune in time therefore "Everybody's Talkin'" made the cut, and I think the movie is all the better for it. It was written by Fred Neil and sung by Harry Nilsson, at the time an up-and-coming performer—this song would make him a star. The song has a slow, relaxed feel about it but buried underneath lies a restlessness that can only be soothed by a change of scenery. Barry won the Best Original Score Oscar and Golden Globe awards in 1985 for Out of Africa. It is the perfect example of a composer managing to capture pictures in sound; it’s music in the key of savannah. In 2005, the American Film Institute ranked Barry's score at no. 15 on their list of the greatest film scores. Midnight Cowboy (1969)". IMDb. 25 May 1969. Archived from the original on March 16, 2014 . Retrieved March 14, 2014.

Midnight Cowboy". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on January 30, 2012 . Retrieved February 26, 2012. Frankel, Glenn (2020). SHOOTING MIDNIGHT COWBOY: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp.175–176. ISBN 9780374209018. One month earlier on November 1st, 1969 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #10 and spent 15 weeks on the Top 100... Played during the scene when Joe boards a bus for New York, those lines seem ironic. After all, the cowboy is leaving the warm climes of Texas, dressed like a hired hand from a rodeo. It is only at the end of the movie that the song’s meaning becomes clear.

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Midnight Cowboy by Waldo Salt; Based on a novel by James Leo Herlihy; Draft: 2/2/68". Archived from the original on 2018-11-30 . Retrieved 2018-11-21. Mitchell, David (2014). "Gay Pasts and Disability Future(s) Tense". Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. 8 (1): 1–16. doi: 10.3828/jlcds.2014.1. S2CID 145241198. Monaco, Paul (2001). History of the American Cinema: 1960–1969. The Sixties. Vol.8. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p.166. ISBN 9780520238046. Popik, Barry (August 22, 2007). "The Big Apple: "If you don't have an oil well, get one!" (Eddie Chiles of Western Company)". The Big Apple. Archived from the original on March 19, 2015 . Retrieved February 14, 2015. Midnight Cowboy was one of the first film to make extensive use of pop artists and songs. John Barry supervised the music and composed the score, winning a Grammy for Best Instrumental Theme. "That movie is still shown at the cinema school at UCLA as the epitome of how songs should be used in the movies," Barry said in 1997. "We only bought in a couple of songs, Everybody's Talkin', sung by Harry Nilsson, and a John Lennon song, and for the rest we got young songwriters to score the scenes with songs. The songs work because they were written for the movie."



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