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  • daniel brou this thing

  • daniel brou

  • Hal Ashby initially wanted Elton John to do the music but EJ turned him down. Can you imagine what that would have been like?

  • @bettyfelon1 He actually wanted Elton to play the role of Harold but he turned it down because his career as a musician was just starting. He has said that he was upset that he had to do that and that Bud Cort played a great part. Love Elton and love 'Harold and Maude'!

  • it is sad but also really funny at the end i couldn't decide if to laugh or cry at the end X,,,,D

  • 3:30 - 3:34 - the most fortuitous camera glitch in the hx of camera glitches

  • @IdaGno actually they froze it so you could see it was his car and so you could see that he wasn't in it

  • @theycallmemagic from the harold and maude home page dot com: "And even more trivia from Nicole: The freeze frame of the Jaguar hearse in midair in the final sequence is the result of an accident. The single camera capturing the action did not start filming until well after the car had careened off the cliff, and since only one hearse had been prepared for the film, it was impossible to reshoot the shot."

  • @theycallmemagic continued from the same source: "The reason the car stops mid-frame at the end of the movie, going over the cliff? All cameras except for one froze up at that time, so only the one was left running. They had to use that shot, because they didn't have another ccar. My husband worked with Colin Higgins' cousin at the time of the making of "Foul Play." My husband also knew one of the men who put together the hearse/jag -- an old family friend. Deborah Peeples"

  • @IdaGno Very cool! I read in Ruths book she and Bud Cort really were in love. The scene where she throws his ring into the lake wasn't in the script! she did it!

  • Harold,who was so good at dying,finally learns to live Poignant,profound, and echos the dark humor of the entire film. Brilliant!

  • wats da movie?

  • I watched this movie and I was nearly weeping when this part was playing. You know a film's good when it makes you feel emotions you don't normally experience.

  • greatest film ever created (partially due to cat stevens) there's no doubt in my mind

  • trouble is a distraction, but will either strengthen or weaken you... so.. just maybe it's best to listen and heed those who've been through it. True, no two people are exactly alike, but perseverance shows no partiality.

  • 5 people are just mad that the song ended

  • I love the honesty of the car crash, no fancy Hollywood explosion, just death. Plain and ugly, like it is in the real world. Like it is for Harold. But the acceptance and recovery by Harold fills me with joy. The knowledge that life goes on, and the willingness to go out and live despite the hardships.

    Beautiful.

  • I must have seen this movie a thousand times by now, yet I still cry every single time I see this scene or hear this song.

    Can someone hand me a Kleenex, please?

  • Anyone know where the scenic driving scene was filmed?

  • @Catlovertea4

    It was filmed on the Pacific Coast Highway in Brisbane, Ca. (about 15 miles from San Francisco)

  • @3prettyvacant - thank you. ..beautiful country, but then, what state doesn't have it's beauty. - so, were you there, then?

  • I love this song, and this movie. Wonderful. ❤

  • this is the only song where i just cryed

  • As mark Twain said of his wife she was woman and girl until the end. Maude had youth till the end of her life, she didn't hold on too tightly which freed her from the trap that many fall victim to. What a film and a song! Scoffers be damned,

  • Meu Deus, isso não passa. Me dê forças.

  • Ahhh Bisto! I didn't miss the point of the movie I just felt the lyrics of the song weren't properly adhered to by the movie's ending. Had it ended without the banjo playing at the end and in a far darker, broken way it would have been much better. Even silence at the end would have been so much more meaningful than what actually happened, but then each to his own and this is just what I think is better.

  • @flourish66 i listened to it muted, and i prefered the musical version

  • @flourish66 I dissent. I think The playing of the banjo symbolized Harold's birth. If your remember the scene when Harold tried to put his head through the wooden vagina, you'll understand that it wasn't time for him to be reborn until Maude died. The point of the movie is Harold's rebirth. He actually understood that Maude's death had set him free and he loved Maude enough to live life for her sake.

  • this is a movie no one could ever remake it's sad and sweet something i don't think

    the producers now a day's are capable of portraying

    i love the ending to this film it's beautiful and full of meaning

  • No one who I showed Harold and Maude to likes it or sees a bigger picture. Oh well, Harold and Maude is awesome!

  • The ending to the film H&M was very disappointing and it would have been so much better to end with a dramatic finale as shown in this clip and then they could have played out the titles to Cat Stevens 'Trouble' song? Maybe it's time for a remake with a decent and troubled ending?

  • @flourish66 I think the ending couldn't have been more perfect, but to each his/her own, I guess.

  • @flourish66 "it would have been so much better to end with a dramatic finale as shown in this clip"

    The clip at the end of this movie is the original ending in Harold and Maude. I thought it was a perfect ending. She taught him to live, what more of a finale could you ask for?

  • @flourish66

    Well obviously you missed the entire point of that movie.

  • This makes me cry!!

  • I'm sad this video cuts off the very end!

  • I love this movie, so so freaking much, forever.

  • @SmurfQueen279 Meee toooooo =)

  • what film is?

  • @martincho4334 "Harold and Maude".

  • Great song in a somewhat stagy, slow movie but with some very tender moments. This song is played at the best parts of the movie.

  • Great Movie.Maude lived life the way she wanted to and now she,s done and its time to move on to the next phase.She felt after 80 whats the point of waiting to die,she did it her way.

  • What message is the movie trying to convey in Maude's suicide?

  • gangsta goverment USA wanted to extradite him for being a terriorst. LMAO!!

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  • nice car

  • I don't know why...I was pretty surprised that I loved this movie so much. It is somehow weird...but you just have to love it.

  • I made a video for this song if anyone's interested: watch?v=F7ccbQeQ31I

  • it would be horrible if he jumped out of the car to keep living and rolled off the cliff

  • awww... he decided to take her advice at the very last second and hop out of the car :) that looks like a great movie

  • The end made me cry </3 best film everrrrrrrrr !

  • Such an incredible movie & song!!! Loved the movie so much I named my cats Harold & Maude :)

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  • @szshell my fave movie too!!!! Wow, wish I had two dogs to name them that!

  • I can't believe he was only 19 or 20 when he wrote this song. Quickly moving up my list of favorite songs.

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  • Such a wonderful movie, argh.

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  • i love this movie watch it on netflix it called harold and maude

  • i love this movie watch it on netflix it called harolod and maude

  • i love this movie watch it on netflix it called harlod and maude

  • i love this movie

  • who wet there pants watchign this it was sooooo funny

  • Why can't they make movies like Harold and Maude anymore?

  • @musicmovie240 because we fluxuate between conservative and progressive eras... in the 1950's you would never see a taboo subject like this in the films, then we saw a big up roar of peace, love, and the progressive movement... ronald reagan started the new conservative era by decreaseing the richs taxes from 91% to 48%... bush lowered it even more... now obama is lowering taxes for regular people, and bringing the rich tax rate back up to 48%... i think good days are ahead :)

  • a classic song. one of the best.

  • Bring the tears to my eye, everytime. Thank You.

  • I like the way this starts with the singing rather the studio version the guitar

  • the bestloved movie in my childhood. cat is incomparable

  • might be the best film ever. best music ever.

  • harold and maude and cat stevens ftw, just brilliant, i can find no words

  • Cat Stevens was a symbol of freedom for me... I don't understand what he did... This song is amazing, this movie brilliant! I like the sound track, the story, the goal, this movie is a MUST see.

  • Wow, Flash backs of listening to this song while driving in the hills of Europe.

  • Thank you to whoever posted this. i believe Cat Stevens never released the soundtrack for many years - as he wanted people to have to see the movie to hear the music. understandably. as a side note - when the infamous Bruce Lee's son Brendon came to visit me (he dated one of my friends) in San Francisco in 1989, we toured the sites where the movie was filmed - in his 1959 Black Hearst. Harold and Maude, until his most tragic death while filming The Crowe - was also his favorite movie.

  • ICh liebe CAt STevens

  • I feel sorry for that unique E-Type hearse....sad.

  • AWESOME MUSIC!!!

    What flim is this again?

  • @AustinJohnson07 The movie is Harold and Maude

  • @AustinJohnson07 Its Harold and Maude. Awesome movie hope you'll see it.

  • @AustinJohnson07 get out

  • love this movie and the car is my all time favorite movie cars.

  • Maybe the best movie I've ever seen in my life. Surely the most meaningful.

    I wish I'd learned much more from it. It's a source of wisdom.

  • nothing will ever get to me like this film and this song. my god. pulls at the heartstrings, that's for sure. love, love, cat stevens.

  • "go and love some more"

  • the movie was funny as hell maude wanted to die she always said 80 was it

  • its not depressing, you just dont get it!

  • what should we be getting oh wise one?

  • Its stil depressing somehow...

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  • Freaking cried like someone ran over my cat when I saw this movie. Beautiful. I am actually wearing an amazing shirt with Maude driving a scooter and it says Harold et Maude on it... someone made it... or something. Anyway beautiful.

  • Wow, I don't know if I can even watch this scene, when I first saw this movie (which is one of my favorites of all time), I started getting teary-eyed, but right when that song started playing I was bawling!

  • @freddyratly haha same here dude, it gets me every time.

  • The best movie ever made, and this song is so fitting... Many of the songs especially written for this movie (like this one) can now be found on albums, but it took a long time for Yusef to come out with them.

  • i cant help but cry whenever i hear this song maybe I'm too sensitive maybe its just how its supposed to be

  • love every frame of that movie

  • @qmzm I meant to vote up on your comment, but voted down accidently; but I absolutely agree, this film is beautiful. And so is the tune.

  • When I cover this song before Ive found myself making the ambulance noises in my head.

  • movie I still love, cat anyways, fits like a glove

  • Best movie ever made. Point blank. Done.

  • "A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life."

  • Cat, Yusuf is a wonderful man with a wonder -full life!

  • a very good song, and a movie that makes me cry

  • me too it pulls at my heartstrings like a marionette

  • Harold & Maude! is The Most Amazing Movie In The World! :)It Was Just The Best, But it Always MAkes Me Cry! & I Never Cry At Movies! Maude Is Funny, Harold Is Just, Is A Crazy Boy... There Both Amazing.

  • JUST ADORE THAT CAR.

  • this part always makes me cry,

    it's such a grrreeeaaattt movie!

  • This movie is a work of art!

  • philosophical brilliance-beauty transcending...illuminating the beauty and pain of simply being alive, with and without love-hate; youth and aged; the Ideal spiritual condition=to forge into one, youth and aged; Harold and Maude; to accept so as to Be.

  • @rubyrose456 Thank you, I just couldn't find the words, you did!!!

  • Be who you want to be in life, don't care about what other people want out of you. I love how they used "if you want to sing out, sing out" by Cat Stevens to reinforce the message of the movie.

    Why do social taboos matter? we only have one shot at life, do what makes you happy, love who you want to love, even if it is an older woman and if you upset the local priest while doing it, all the more fun!

    There's a million things to be, you know that there are.

  • simply beatiful *tears*

  • best movie ever i agree =)

  • best movie ever

  • The movie is Harold and Maude.

  • What is the movie

  • i love this movie. ive seen cat stevens play in concert an bud cort comes to my house once and a while to visit

  • Only 5 words need to be said: BEST FREAKIN MOVIE EVER MADE!!

  • the part when Cat sings "I dont want no more of you" "I've seen your eyes" makes me miss something and it makes me feel like im going to burst. like crying. I can feel it in my throat. I lovey this movie and song

  • Your view may be different, and I respect that.

    Regardless, it was a beautiful, creative low budget movie, very underrated, and really fun to watch. This final scene, as a kid, really floored me, and the message at the end, of him plucking away at his banjo, really warmed my heart. The music, at the time, was ground breaking in terms of it driving the movie forward, it was so powerful at the time. I really loved this movie.

  • This was such a well made movie, with such a liberal and anti American blatant message. When I saw it at 18 years old, I was so affected by it, and bought in to the messages it was selling. Anti religion, anti "war", anti police, anti American. Thankfully I grew out of that unrealistic idealism. The messages are well intentioned, but not effective in the real world. Thats not being pessimistic , it's just what I've come to believe, base on my experiences in the world.

  • While I agree that those are themes of the movie and nonsense main message of the movie is to live life and love...

  • WHAT? Umm, the movie was in no way anti-american, anti-religion, or anti-anything. It was about how a young man obsessed with death became friends with, learned from, and fell in love with an old woman thrilled with life.

  • oh my word...a jaguar e-type hurst driving off a cliff face with cat stevens trouble playing in the back ground. that is the only way to go as far as i'm concerned.

  • ...or not!

  • I just thought the movie was OK and I'm not a fan of Cat Steven but the soundtrack is what I remember as being so good.

  • The best film....  awesome.

  • affective scene. the music is just perfect!

  • I totally agree. I just saw the movie for the first time about 2 months ago, and I've seen it 4 times. It is my new all time favorite. Before that it was "Somewhere in Time". Cat Stevens music is icing on the cake!

  • One of the best movies ever! The actors, the soundtrack...just perfect. It made me cry and lough quite a few times. There's too much shit comming out today...

  • I'm sorry for my comments. I was raised better than that. I think this is a wonderful song. I wish all the best in the world!!!!!

  • This movie transformed my life when I first saw it. :)

    I think it was all the perspectives he was recieving.... from the doctor, the priest, his mother, etc. and all he really needed was a positive-minded old lady who truely listened to him to make him feel alive again. Wouldn't be great if we were all like that?

  • Absolutly! The world would be a much better place to life.

  • Beautiful song... my favorite movie too.

  • blah blah blah political blah blah blah; can't we just enjoy a good song and a good movie?

  • totally agree. harold and maude is one of those great movies. i think the message of the film and song on hatred and war are totally different from what people have to say here. i really enjoy both.

  • Hey californiaboy1000, I would love to see your facts on that. Or are you just going off what the media tells you? Hey, so you must also believe there is a sea crearture in Lock Ness

  • Go and love someone else

  • dont do it maude

  • this is the only reason I cry

  • This scene always makes me misty.

  • these groups also do a huge amount of charity work in the middle east and are two of the few organizations able(or willing) to do so do to cultural and conflict-based restraints

  • Actually you are providing false information. Yusuf Islam commented on why the Fatwa was made and the reasoning behind it, however he later pointed out to news papers and other media outlets that he was merely explaining why they may have come the Ayetolla Khomaini may have come to that conclusion not supporting it. The whole things was blown way out of proportion by the British press. Another attempt to slander Islam.

  • As far as supporting Hammas, he spends all kinds of time and money supporting charity organizations for those less fortunate all over the world. If there was a charity which he donated to that did have links to Hammas he never did so willingly. He even stated that "The first time this accusation came up," he said, "I didn't even know what this organization was Nobody I've ever met has said, 'I'm from Hamas.' ". The American government under the bush era were the real terrorists here..

  • You are gullible and mistaken. Cat was on the FBI's Do Not Fly List because he repeatedly donated cash and even performed for "fundraisers" for phony charities linked to Al Qaida. You are naive to believe Cat's story. Yusuf spoke strongly in favor of Iran's fatwa to kill an author - ON FILM. Only an idiot would dispute that.

  • MadHater , you are wrong. Cash Yusuf donated WAS traced to Hamas weapons by Interpol. The FBI didn't let Cat fly for YEARS, they only recently took him off the Do-Not-Fly List. And Cat said "He must be killed" when asked about Rushdie , ON FILM. MadHater, you are a dumbass.

  • anybody got lyrics ?

  • Trouble Oh trouble set me free I have seen your face And it's too much too much for me Trouble Oh trouble can't you see You're eating my heart away And there's nothing much left of me I've drunk your wine You have made your world mine So won't you be fair So won't you be fair
  • I don't want no more of you So won't you be kind to me Just let me go where I'll have to go there Trouble Oh trouble move away I have seen your face and it's too much for me today Trouble Oh trouble can't you see You have made me a wreck Now won't you leave me in my misery
  • I've seen your eyes and I can see death's disguise Hangin' on me Hangin' on me I'm beat, I'm torn Shattered and tossed and worn Too shocking to see Too shocking to see Trouble Oh trouble move from me I have paid my debt Now won't you leave me in my misery
  • I've seen your eyes and I can see death's disguise Hangin' on me Hangin' on me I'm beat, I'm torn Shattered and tossed and worn Too shocking to see Too shocking to see Trouble Oh trouble move from me I have paid my debt Now won't you leave me in my misery
  • sooooooo krass,den film hab ich das erste mal vor 22Jahren gesehen und hab ihn seitdem nicht mehr aus dem Kopf gekriegt!Ein Meisterwerk der Film und Musikkunst.......Danke für das Video:)

  • One of my most favorite movies ever!! This scene, it's so beautiful and sad and wonderfully heartbreaking..

    I love this movie.

  • One of my favorite songs and movies. Thanks for posting.

  • one of the best senes ever

    teh go and ove some more quote is amazing

  • "For god sakes! Dont die maud, i love you!"

    "Oh Harold...thats wonderful!

    Go and love some more."

    Greatest scene ever

  • This song and the scene is so wonderful sad...

  • Go and love some more.

  • when I first saw this, I thought Harold had killed himself driving off the cliff. It was shocking, until it pans out to him standing there.

  • one of the best films and one of the best scenes in film

  • This part always makes me cry like a little girl with a skinned knee.

  • huh...i feel you man..i left a comment on a page where i just said this is the most saddest touching, yet hopeful ending of any movie....yeah, makes me cry too...