Midnight Cowboy
Times Square drifter
Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American film about a naive Texan who moves to New York City hoping to make money as a male prostitute.
The term has since come to suggest a man who hustles sexually in urban settings, or more loosely, someone pursuing desperate schemes in a harsh environment: He thought he'd be a midnight cowboy, but the city chewed him up.
- movieRecorded visual narrative
- New YorkNortheastern metropolis and state
- hatGarment for the head
- Taxi DriverUnhinged hack's urban spiral
- gritDetermination or abrasive particles
film · cinema · sweat · drama · sexual revolution · X rating · hunger · hustle · Dustin Hoffman · buddy film · Oscar · alienation · tuberculosis · counterculture · dreams · American Dream · survival · economic disparity
- 60s CinemaDr. Strangelove, The Graduate, Easy Rider, Bonnie and Clyde, Lawrence of Arabia
- 70s CinemaThe Godfather, Star Wars, Taxi Driver, Chinatown, Apocalypse Now
- 1969Apollo 11, moon landing, Woodstock, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin
- United ArtistsRocky, Rain Man, Apocalypse Now, West Side Story, Annie Hall
- Cult FilmsEraserhead, The Room, Donnie Darko, Napoleon Dynamite, Army of Darkness
setting and milieu
Midnight CowboyThe Searchers
Shane · High Noon · rural idyll · Rio Bravo · Old West
midnight, cowboy, night, midnights, cowboys, nightly, nights, boyish