Different times.
My opinion is that getting the X rating helped the movie. It came out after The Summer Of Love and just before Deep Throat and Behind The Green Door rolled into local theaters.
I can’t think of any other mainstream movie of the time that got an X rating, so it really stood out.
Driving instructors when a 16 year old almost runs a STOP sign.
Driving instructors when (https://youtu.be/Ob1VctUT9kQ)
[full movie] https://youtu.be/8vEG5Kz-zmI
In my opinion it’s a great movie.
People still quote Hoffman’s line “I’m walkin’ here!”
“Midnight Cowboy” is still X-rated, even though there’s nothing in it that you don’t see in a show like ‘Game Of Thrones.’
What a difference a few decades make.
Reminds me of an old story.
The King asks his grandson what a king’s job is?
The lad says that a king’s job is to make good decisions. The King says no, a king’s job is to make terrible choices.
He goes on. Anyone can make a good decision, because those are usually pretty obvious. When the choice isn’t obvious, it gets ‘kicked upstairs.’ The cop hands the choice to a judge, who kicks it to the appellate court, and so on. Eventually the King has to choose between two equally bad options.
Check which local politician has made it part of their platform.
Go support them.
How is ‘multiculturalism’ impossible? Try spending a day in any big city. People use words from different languages all the time. They use chopsticks and European table ware at the same meal.
You don’t even need to go to a big city. Look at the All American cowboy. Pretty much everything you associate with him comes from Mexico. His lariat comes from ‘la riata’ and his Stetson was based on a sombrero.
This is because the American slave owners wanted to be able to sell their own children.
After raping a slave, if she got pregnant they could free their child or keep them as a slave.
Thomas Jefferson’s concubine, Sally Hemmings, was probably 3/4 white, and at least 1/2 white. Her granddaughter created a scandal when she ‘passed’ for white.
If an american tries to call themselves Native because they are 1/32 Native, people laugh at them. But up until a few years ago, being 1/64 Black made you Black.
It used to be that if you spent $100 going out, you’d be talking about a nice restaurant dinner, a movie, and a couple of drinks at a club afterwards.
Now $100 is just the dinner.
It’s a month’s rent if you want to go to a big concert.
‘No Business Which Depends for Existence on Paying Less Than Living Wages to Its Workers Has Any Right to Continue in This Country’
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Bush, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and Governor Pataki all signed off on the lie that there was no danger to the volunteers working the Ground Zero rescue site.
All three were members of the Republican Party.
The GOP killed more NYC police and firefighters than bin-Ladn ever dreamed of.
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Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead.
It’s funny, informative, exciting, and not like any other book you’ve read.
A Harlem businessman has to do a little fencing to keep his furniture store open. He’s a good family man who just wants to serve the community by selling good products at a reasonable price. Too bad he has to manage crooks, corrupt cops, and other problems.
Heath Ledger has joined the chat.
And if you didn’t vote for Harris you voted for Trump.
The movie was rated Xin the UK and Kubrick himself had it pulled after he found out that young hooligans were imitating the violence.