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Shooting Midnight Cowboy Turns An Eye To A Dark, Problematic Masterpiece
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Shooting Midnight Cowboy Turns An Eye To A Dark, Problematic Masterpiece
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How Jon Voight Landed His Big Break in ‘Midnight Cowboy’ (Guest Blog)
Voight wasn’t the first choice to play the role of a male hustler opposite Dustin Hoffman, recounts writer Glenn Frankel
Glenn Frankel Guest Writer Last Updated: March 15, 2021 @ 2:58 PM
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Aspiring young actors in New York in the 1960s came in many shapes and psyches. There were angry ones and cynical ones and sincere ones and intense ones. But there weren’t many joyful ones. The road was too hard and it was strewn with failure. “No one starts at the top in the theater,” Gene Hackman once said, “and the bottom is a very ugly place.”
Pulitzer-winning journalist Frankel (
High Noon) delivers a vivid chronicle about the classic 1969 movie
Midnight Cowboy, the only X-rated movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Frankel covers the film’s main contributors: James Leo Hurlihy, whose 1965 novel was the basis for the movie; director John Schlesinger, who took a chance on a novel “so bleak, troubling and sexually raw no ordinary film studio would go near it”; formerly blacklisted screenwriter Waldo Salt; actors Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman (whom Frankel interviewed); and casting director Marion Dougherty, who convinced Schlesinger to take a chance on then-unknown Voight. Frankel offers behind-the-scenes anecdotes, notably about the challenges of filming in New York City during a garbage strike, and in Texas, where the film crew needed protection from a den of rattlesnakes. Frankel also renders the social upheaval of the era the Stonewall riots, antiwar protests, racial unrest and the window between the
The making of a classic American film in âShooting Midnight Cowboyâ
By Abby McGanney Nolan Globe Correspondent,Updated March 11, 2021, 4:31 p.m.
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A scene from Midnight Cowboy with Dustin Hoffman (left) and Jon Voight.COURTESY OF UNITED ARTISTS
On a brutally hot Texas day in the summer of 1968, near the end of filming âMidnight Cowboy,â the British director John Schlesinger had a sort of fit. Visibly shaking, stirred by grievous doubts, he asked his lead actor Jon Voight, âDo you really think anyoneâs going to pay money to see a movie about a dumb Texan who takes a bus to New York to seek his fortune screwing rich women?â
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