Midnight Cowboy

Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 film that is written by Waldo Salt and directed by John Schlesinger. The film stars John Voight as the young rodeo cowboy who heads to New York City in hopes of being a hustler and head man, but his foolish ways soon lead him in a downward spiral. His cash suddenly starts to disappear and he finds himself in a desperate situation to make sufficient funds to survive. Joe Buck's clientele soon becomes the opposite of the wealthy women that he originally planned on attracting ( usually in gender and in race). While in the midst of his new business venture, he meets the lame and scraggly Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo who also leads the life of a hustler and conman. Joe and Ratso begin to form a partnership where Ratso becomes the manager of the young rodeo stud.

The Cinematography shows some very modern characteristics of Classic Hollywood cinema. Many of the film sequences takes the viewers on flashbacks and daydreams of Joe Buck's chaotic childhood and young adulthood. This proves to be a useful technique in keeping the viewers in tuned with Voight's character and his emotional state of mind. Both with the lost of his long lost love Annie and the death of his grandmother.

There arose some controversy surrounding the 1969 classic because of it X-rating that focused on the sex scenes. This is the stage where Classic Hollywood was taking the theme of sex to the next level, even those some of the scenes in this film only showed partial frontal nudity.