Word: cowboy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MIDNIGHT COWBOY. Melancholy and an aching sense of loneliness pervade this screen version of James Leo Herlihy's novel about the unlikely friendship of two loners in New York. The acting by Dustin Hoffman and Newcomer Jon Voight is excellent, even though John Schlesinger's direction sometimes becomes too slick...
There, in his cowboy paraphernalia, he is as out of place as a stallion in a park ing lot. The demon lover swaggers before a mirror; a clown peers back...
...both sides of the bed. Around them swirls another kind of urban flotsam: maimed, embittered victims with out a prayer of sexual gratification or a hope of companionship. From these unpromising fragments, James Leo Herlihy wrote a lyric blues ballad disguised as a novel. The film adaptation of Midnight Cowboy may grant that ballad too much orchestration, but it preserves its essential compassion and humor...
...like Ratso, ignorant of sympathy. Neither realizes that the only place he has ever found it is in his companion. Yet by the time the two head for Florida, they have become aspects of the same person. As the thief coughs his way to death aboard a bus, the cowboy is literally beside himself with grief...
...over to the other side of the street as soon as he had heard the noise. He knew exactly what it was. I was right behind him. "Shit!" he said after we had crouched behind a car. "Seem like every parade there's some dude wants to play cowboy...