Re: Midnight Cowboy - discussion thread
The songwriter, I later found out, was a pretty revered treasure amongst people in the know, and missed a lot of the fame of the fantastic theme song, sung by Nilsson. Extremely evocative to me.
The whole movie was. You're right on how wonderful this movie was with giving space to the characters. The subject was so often the characters' feelings and reactions to things, not a relentless march of plot. I really like that kind of movie, and it feels much more like something I would recognize as life.
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