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"MIDNIGHT COWBOY" |
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| Midnight Cowboy is one
of the most gritty, ultra realistic, sordid films of the era that also
portrays an unlikely and touching companionship of two anti-heros.
A midnight cowboy is a name for a male hustler or prostitute which is exactly what are main character Jo (John Voight) claims to be. |
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Under the impression that if he moves from Texas to New York dressed in his cowboy get-up and Southern drawl, he can make good money selling himself to bored rich City types, but when he gets there he has no idea how. |
| Well, I ain't a for-real cowboy, but I am one hell of a stud. | ||
| With this naivity he is soon taken in by the unglamorous, devious cripple Ratso Rizzo, and is in the first instance ripped off by him, later to befriend him when left homeless Jo is taken into his squalid condemed home. Here is where their friendship really begins and soon they are sharing hopes and dreams as well as quite a few insults |  |
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A really funny incident is when they are in the "house" discussing how poor buisness is for the"stud" when Ratso points out that the kind of clothes Jo wears would only attract gay clients and that women don't go for cowboys " it's purely faggot crap" to which Jo replies "what about John Wayne? you ain't gonna tell me John wayne's a faggot" | |
| There are some really funny moments like this but the film is one of the most touching and perceptive films I have ever seen, make sure you do!!!!!!!!!!!!! | ||