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* HomoeroticSubtext: Rizzo and Joe soon establish a basically spousal relationship, with Rizzo cutting Joe's hair and cooking for him. If that isn't overt enough, Rizzo imagines running down the beach and walking down the street with a shirtless Joe in Florida.
--> '''Shirley''': Don't tell me you two are a couple!



%%* LargeHam: O'Daniel.



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* NakedInMink: Shirley lounges around in her apartment in nothing but a fur coat when playing scribbage with a naked Joe. Then she keeps the coat on for sex.
* NewAgeRetroHippie: Rizzo and Joe go to a kookie hippie party filled with hippies in colorful clothes and wild hair, who smoke dope and pop pills and watch weird movies.
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* TheBigRottenApple: New York in 1969 looking filthy and dirty and covered with garbage--and of course Joe is associating with various dirtbags and lowlifes of the sort that live in the Big Rotten Apple.

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* TheBigRottenApple: New York in 1969 looking filthy and dirty and covered with garbage--and of course Joe is associating with various dirtbags and lowlifes of the sort that live in the Big Rotten Apple. Ratso lives in a disgusting condemned building, and dreams of escaping to Florida.



* {{Jerkass}}: Rizzo, a good deal of the time.

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* {{Jerkass}}: Rizzo, a good deal of the time.time, like when he tricks Joe out of $20 by promising to set him up with a pimp.

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%%* OneHeadTaller: Rizzo and Joe Buck.

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%%* * OneHeadTaller: Rizzo and Joe Buck.Buck. It's a notable visual contrast as runty little Rizzo is definitely the dominant in the relationship with tall, strapping Joe.



* SomethingElseAlsoRises: Joe's climax during sex with Cass is represented by coins spurting out of a slot machine.

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Joe's climax during sex with Cass is represented by coins spurting out of a slot machine.machine.
** Joe's climax when he's getting a blowjob from a man in a movie theater is represented by a clasp popping loose and a stage separating from a rocket in a sci-fi movie.
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%%* TheBigRottenApple* TheBigRottenApple: New York in 1969 looking filthy and dirty and covered with garbage--and of course Joe is associating with various dirtbags and lowlifes of the sort that live in the Big Rotten Apple.



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%%* TheFilmOfTheBook* TheFilmOfTheBook: Based on a 1965 novel by James Leo Herlihey.



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%%* IncurableCoughOfDeath* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Rizzo is shown with a persistent cough during his very first scene with Joe. It is, of course, tuberculosis, which eventually kills him.



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%%* SomethingElseAlsoRises* SomethingElseAlsoRises: Joe's climax during sex with Cass is represented by coins spurting out of a slot machine.
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%%* DiesWideOpen* DiesWideOpen: Poor Ratso, dying of TB on the bus, just as they're finally on their way to Florida.



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%%* WelcomeToTheBigCity* WelcomeToTheBigCity: Joe leaves his podunk Texas town for New York City, only to find the big city filthy, crime-ridden, filled with scummy lowlifes. On his first day out and about in New York
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* IronicNurseryTune: Joe flashes back to his grandmother singing "Hush, Little Baby" while riding the cross-country bus at night.

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* IronicNurseryTune: While riding the cross-country bus at night, Joe flashes back to various scenes of his childhood spent in the company of his grandmother and her various lovers (or johns), accompanied by his grandmother singing "Hush, Little Baby" while riding over the cross-country bus at night.soundtrack.
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* IronicNurseryTune: Joe flashes back to his grandmother singing "Hush, Little Baby" while riding the bus at night.

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* IronicNurseryTune: Joe flashes back to his grandmother singing "Hush, Little Baby" while riding the cross-country bus at night.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Ratso takes $20 from Joe to set him to with a man named O'Daniel, who (he claims) "operates the biggest stable in town". On meeting him, O'Daniel tells Joe, "I'm gonna use you. I'm gonna run you ragged." Then Joe discovers that the guy runs a street-preaching operation.

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* BaitAndSwitch: Ratso takes $20 from Joe to set him to up with a man named O'Daniel, who (he claims) "operates the biggest stable in town". On meeting him, O'Daniel tells Joe, "I'm gonna use you. I'm gonna run you ragged." Then Joe discovers that the guy runs a street-preaching operation.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Ratso takes $20 from Joe to set him to with a man named O'Daniel, who (he claims) "operates the biggest stable in town". On meeting him, O'Daniel tells Joe, "I'm gonna use you. I'm gonna run you ragged." Then Joe discovers that the guy runs a street-preaching operation.
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* DistractedFromDeath: Probably the most iconic cinematic example. Joe talks about getting a real job on Miami, only to realize that Rizzo has died mid-conversation.
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** During the opening credits Joe walks past a defunct movie theater advertising the Creator/JohnWayne flick ''Film/TheAlamo'' on its dilapidated marquee, and Joe and Rizzo share a discussion about Wayne later in the film.

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** During the opening credits Joe walks past a defunct movie theater advertising the Creator/JohnWayne flick ''Film/TheAlamo'' ''Film/{{The Alamo|1960}}'' on its dilapidated marquee, and Joe and Rizzo share a discussion about Wayne later in the film.
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* RealSongThemeTune: Music/HarryNilsson's "Everybody's Talkin'".



* ThrowItIn: The taxicab that Hoffman yells "I'm walkin' here" to came out of nowhere during filming.



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A 1969 film adapted from the novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy, directed by John Schlesinger and starring Creator/JonVoight and Creator/DustinHoffman.

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A 1969 film adapted from the novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy, directed by John Schlesinger Creator/JohnSchlesinger and starring Creator/JonVoight and Creator/DustinHoffman.
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* ThrowItIn: The taxicab that Hoffman yells "I'm walkin' here" to came out of nowhere during filming.

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* OneHeadTaller: Rizzo and Joe Buck.

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* DownerEnding: Joe and Rizzo take a bus from New York to Miami to fulfill Rizzo's dream of living there. Not far outside Miami, Joe realizes that Rizzo has quietly died in the seat next to him. The movie ends with Joe hugging his dead friend and shedding ManlyTears as the bus continues towards Miami.

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* DownerEnding: Joe and Rizzo take a bus from New York to Miami UsefulNotes/{{Miami}} to fulfill Rizzo's dream of living there. Not far outside Miami, Joe realizes that Rizzo has quietly died in the seat next to him. The movie ends with Joe hugging his dead friend and shedding ManlyTears as the bus continues towards Miami.
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->''"I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin' here!"''

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->''"I'm ->''"HEY! I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin' here!"''

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->''"I'm walkin' here! I'm walkin' here!"''



!!''Hey HEY! I'm TROPIN' HERE!

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tropin' here!"
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!!''Midnight Cowboy'' contains examples of:

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!!''Midnight Cowboy'' contains examples of:
!!''Hey HEY! I'm TROPIN' HERE!
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** During the opening credits Joe walks past a defunct movie theater advertising the Creator/JohnWayne flick ''Film/TheAlamo'' on its dilapidated marquee.

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** During the opening credits Joe walks past a defunct movie theater advertising the Creator/JohnWayne flick ''Film/TheAlamo'' on its dilapidated marquee.marquee, and Joe and Rizzo share a discussion about Wayne later in the film.
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* CreatorCameo: Waldo Salt, who wrote the screenplay for the film, is briefly seen as a TV talk-show host.
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* DumbBlonde: Joe's blond and not too bright.

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* EmbarrassingNickname: Rizzo strongly dislikes being called "Ratso" and twice asks Joe to call him Rico instead.
* EverybodyMustGetStoned: The underground party.



* EverybodyMustGetStoned
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''Midnight Cowboy'' is a 1969 film adapted from the novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy, directed by John Schlesinger and starring Creator/JonVoight and Creator/DustinHoffman.

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''Midnight Cowboy'' is a A 1969 film adapted from the novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy, directed by John Schlesinger and starring Creator/JonVoight and Creator/DustinHoffman.
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The Vanity Fair article on the making of the movie quotes John Schlesinger as calling Rizzo "consumptive."


Joe Buck (Voight) is a dishwasher in a rural Texas diner. [[CountryMouse He's not the sharpest knife in the drawer]]. One day, he decides to dress like a rodeo cowboy and move to New York City, hoping to prostitute himself to wealthy women. He burns through his savings very quickly, unable to hustle, and is taken in by Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo (Hoffman), a small-time con man with a bad leg and pneumonia. They scrape by as best they can, hoping to escape to Florida one day...

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Joe Buck (Voight) is a dishwasher in a rural Texas diner. [[CountryMouse He's not the sharpest knife in the drawer]]. One day, he decides to dress like a rodeo cowboy and move to New York City, hoping to prostitute himself to wealthy women. He burns through his savings very quickly, unable to hustle, and is taken in by Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo (Hoffman), a small-time con man with a bad leg and pneumonia.tuberculosis. They scrape by as best they can, hoping to escape to Florida one day...

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