although i love this movie and i can barely watch it and it be so real . so and i put it on tonight and hid behind my bank of computer . i remember it vividly and but just want to see if i could find something i hadn not see before . i do not represent that because it so real to me . another user write the age of the commentator should be show with their summary . i be all for that . it absolutely obvious that most of these people who have make comment about midnight cowboy may not have be bear when it be release . they be mention other movie jon voight and dustin hoffman have appear in and at a late time . i will be just a ruinously frank represent i be 82 year old . if youre familiar with some of my other comment and you will be aware that i be a professional female impersonator for 60 of those year and and also have appear in film you would never recognize me and even if you be familiar with my night club persona . do you think i know a lot about the character in this film . you bet i do . and be not the least bit ashamed . if you haven not run into some of them and it your loss but and there a huge chance you have and but just do not know it . so many mom and dad and son and daughter could surprise you . it should be no secret many actor or actress have emerge from the background of midnight cowboy . who be to judge . i can name several and current big time star who be raise on the seedy street of many city and and weren not the least bit damage by their time spend there . i make no judgment and because these be human and just a we all be love and courage and kindness and compassion and intelligence and humility represent you name the attribute and they be all there and no matter what the package look like . the trivia about hoffman actually beg on the street to prove he could do the role of ratzo be a gem he can be see drive his auto all around los angeles how do you think he get his input . i can also name lot of male star who have stand on the street and cruise the bar for money . although the nightclub i last work in for 26 year be world famous and legit and i can also name some huge star that have to be constantly chase out our back street and look to make a pick up . this should be no surprise today and although it definitely action in hollywood and other city and large and small . wake up and smell the rose . they smell no less sweet because they be of a different hue . some of the user think joe buck have be molest by his grandma . although i saw him in her bed with a boyfriend and i do not find any incidence of that . believe it or not and kid haven not always have their own room because that be a must today should tell you something kinda kinky may be go on in the master bedroom . whose business . hoffman may have beg for change on the street and but some of the user point out that jon voight be not a major star for the filming of midnight cowboy his actual salary would surprise you . i think he be rob . no one can doubt the clarity he put into his role and nor that it make him a star for such great work a deliverance . he define a potent man who have conquer his devil and be the good for it represent few people comment he have be sodomize in this movie . the end of the 60 may have be one of the first film to be so open and but society have always be hip . i also do not find any homosexuality between ratzo and joe they be clearly opposite and unappealing to one another . they find a much purely high relationship true friendship . if you do not understand that at the end of the movie and then you have waste your time . joe bewilderment and but unashamed devotion be apparent . yes and voight deserve an oscar for this role one that john wayne could never pull off and and he be a handsome in his youth . hoffman be hoffman you expect firework . he give them superbly . wayne get his oscar . every character in this film be beautifully define if you do not think they be still around and you be mistake . the party . attend some of the raf young people attend . if you can get in . look at the line of people try to get into the hot club you will see every outrageous personality . brenda viccaro be the epitome of society sleek woman who have to get down to the nitty gritty at time . if you be shock by her brilliant acting and think this isn not real and look at today lady who live on the brink of disrepute . and be admire for it . the brutality joe display in rob the old guy and unfortunately and be also a part of life . you do not have to condone it and but it not too much different than any violence . joe pointedly name his purpose in that situation and i would have hand over the money quicker than he ask for it . that one of the scene that make this movie a break through and one which i do not watch . i get heartbroken for both . john schlesinger certainly must have be familiar with this sordidness to direct this chillingly beautiful eye opener waldo salt do not write from clairvoyance . anyone who have any part of get it to the screen must have realize they be make history and and should be proud for the honesty of it . perhaps only in america can we close our eye to unpleasant situation and while other movie maker make no compunction in present it to the public . not look doesn not mean it isn not there give me the truth every time . bravo . to all .