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Midnight Cowboy (1969) dir. John Schlesinger

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Rico Rizzo from Midnight Cowboy

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did you know i watched midnight cowboy and i will never again feel the gentle anguish that i felt towards rizzo, oh tiny man crawled into the corner of my heart and i will feel his presence until the day i die

I’d like to request Joe Buck and Rico Rizzo from Midnight Cowboy please, ty 💕

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Excerpt on Midnight Cowboy from an interview with John Schlesinger in Literature/Film Quarterly, 1978:

Riley: When I've shown the film to students, they have very mixed feelings about the ending. How do you see that? What is that moment to Joe? Is it affirmative, or is it despairing?

Schlesinger: I don't see it as a despairing ending. I feel that it's a catharsis to the whole film. It's a catharsis of a boy who has been lost and who has these strange memories of being picked out for sexual prowess and how important that seemed to him. He has this whole experience of going to New York and finding that the fantasy is total bullshit and that the reality of life there is one of eking out some kind of existence, and then he finds the relationship that he strikes up with Ratso. Some people have said it's a homosexual relationship, but it really isn't per se. It's about the need of one human being for another. I daresay that Ratso- if anybody had found him attractive, man, woman, or dog- would have been anxious to express it physically perhaps. That's why he was so hostile towards it all. But I think that having made a commitment to Ratso, Joe realized the whole ludicrousness of the situation. On the bus he ruminates about the possibilities of what he's going to do, and I think in the back of his mind his taking Ratso to Miami is a kind of gesture. I think he knows it's hopeless. That's what I remember discussing with Jon Voight, that Joe knows they aren't going there for a life together in the future. He knows that Ratso's probably not going to survive the journey. At the end when he sits there with Ratso, I don't think Joe's saying, "Now what am I going to do? I'm lost." I think he's already released himself from the fantasy, he already knows that he's going to be okay.

It certainly never struck me as we were doing it that we were making something that was meant to send the audience out in deep depression feeling that Joe Buck is totally lost, because I don't think he is.

Riley: As a matter of fact, he's saved.

Schlesinger: Yes, and I think he's saved by that relationship, by discovering something about the possibilities of a human relationship in the midst of this very unlikely one. That's exactly what attracted me to the material.

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all the little chibis are by snes on toyhouse!

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Midnight Cowboy, 1969, John Schlesinger

Joe Buck and Rico "Ratso" Rizzo

the urge to print this out and gift it to rico rizzo

saw rico while i was in florida, yelled "hey rizzo!" and everything, he turned and i told him "nice top!" and he looked at his shirt, the big guy, however, joe, he gave me the biggest smile i've ever seen, i hope they figure it out