1969 Directed by John Schlesinger
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
Jon Voight Dustin Hoffman Sylvia Miles John McGiver Brenda Vaccaro Barnard Hughes Ruth White Jennifer Salt Gilman Rankin Gary Owens T. Tom Marlow George Eppersen Al Scott Linda Davis J.T. Masters Arlene Reeder Georgann Johnson Jonathan Kramer Anthony Holland Bob Balaban Jan Tice Paul Benjamin Peter Scalia Vito Siracusa Peter Zamagias Arthur Anderson Tina Scala Alma Felix Richard Clarke Show All…
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when joe sees that carriage horse in the street and stops and gives it a lil pat and says “hey horsey”...this is the saddest yeehaw movie i have ever seen
do you think right wing homophobe jon voight is aware that he played a gay guy once? should someone tell him?
“I’m walking’ here!” became famous but the best line in this movie is “Hey fella, you fell.”
This was one of the films on my list of shame, I had been long aware of it but had never got around to seeing it, until now.
I knew the theme was Nilsson's 'Everybody's Talkin'' and that Jon Voight's character was a would-be hustler, and Dustin Hoffman's character was a low-down dirty rat. But that's about it.
The film is nothing like I expected. It has some fantastic moments - the way Voight and Hoffman eyeball each other as their friendship (and maybe more, director Schlesinger is silent on the point) develops; the way the radio that is the soundtrack to their cold and lonely existence is silenced as it is pawned; the raving Bible-basher played by John McGiver,…
Joe Buck: I wanna be a cowboy babey!
Ratso: that’s pretty gay bro..... you didn’t say no homo...
The gay subtext in this was so deep that it really wasn’t even subtext. The relationship between Joe Buck and Ratso was so great to watch because you could feel the love they had for each other. The actors had amazing chemistry.
This is another film that explores the idea of the American Dream being impossible and hell and I think that it does it better than most. The flashback sequences were devastating. Actually lot of this movie was devastating. But it was very well made and beautiful so I’m glad I watched it even though it hurt me.
This movie is about 4 Academy Awards light. Editing, Soundtrack, Voight and Hoffman are all perfect.
The late 60s and the New Wave of American cinema is one of the greatest periods in filmhistory, and this is one of the absolute cornerstones. What a fucking fantastic movie.
Also, im guessing Buck took a job as a nurse for middle aged cougars after the credits roll.
I'm fascinated that just nine years earlier The Apartment was the New York City Oscar darling and by the end of the decade we were living on the outskirts with the outcasts, struggling with the day to day hustle. I just appreciate that a film like this exists as a time capsule and remains as experimental today as it must have then. Joe Buck and Ratso are the unlikeliest of companions but there is so much truth and vulnerability revealed between their curious alliance. Also, Bob Balaban sucks off Jon Voight in his first ever film credit, and that means something.
