"Trouble" sequence from Harold & Maude

[wolfie8205]

eddie vader should be beaten for doing a cover of this!!

[czc01123513]

daniel brou

[menopausalguitarist]

My favorie movie & favorite song... Peace 2 All

[NobodySawThat]

I love this film so much. I first saw it 2 months ago, since then I have seen it 11 times and have cried every single time.

[jtwidmer]

Does anyone know if there is a transcript of what was being said in the hospital during this song?

[jtwidmer]

greatest love story ever told on film.

[shelbysolski]

BEST movie BEST song - I have always loved cat stevens and harold and maude :)

[ItsAlliBear]

This movie and Cat Stevens was a match made in heaven.

[DonaldHope]

Wonder where this Movie was filmed at? anyone? Thanks

One of my FAVE Films Well, Since Forever~!! ♥

[colleccr]

@DonaldHope San Francisco/Marin!

[DonaldHope]

@colleccr Okay, Thanks! I thought it was the Bay Area (I used to live up there for 7 years *(SF & Alameda Naval Air Station)

[musicfan088]

One of the best sogs EVER!

[czc01123513]

daniel brou

[czc01123513]

daniel brou

[Berthangine]

j'vais encore pleurer:(

[loveallthepeople1000]

cut short, but i just cried again.

[mrclarkful]

Wow this movie blew me away Hal Ashby is a directorial genius

[KleWdSide]

Very heartfelt ending.

[rkinwatauga]

A brilliant film. One which makes an impression which on whatever level stays with the viewer. I think we can all relate on some level. 

[punkypenguin321]

I think Cat Stevens wrote this song for the movie, seeing as he was music director



[strangefacekid]

Harold<3 Maude.

Maude<3 Harold.

[pr9nkaholic]

0:58 After Yusuf (Cat Steven's) voice, The best sound in the ENTIRE movie!!!!!!!

[noaidie]

I cry every time I hear this.

[howdidienduphere]

I went to the theater 7 days in a row when this movie premiered and I've seen it a thousand times since. I always want Harold to just let Maude die in her own home in Harold's arms the way she wanted to go.

Maybe someday I'll watch the DVD and it'll end the way my heart aches for it to end.

THIS is what makes a great cult movie.

[JeffTheCanuck2]

@howdidienduphere Hmmm, I've never met anyone who has watched the film 1000+ times. I remember commenting on the Harold and Maude Homepage, years ago, at 450 views. Bud lives in Silver Lake, Ca.

[slugworth63]

Listen to that Jag 4.2 scream!

[quietdiscofork]

@slugworth63 You may be the only one who heard it.

[ihugRedPandaz]

saddest movie i've seen D:

[hippietree90]

The Cat Stevens soundtrack to this film Makes the scene, it's so moving to see the expressions on Harold's face but not hear what he's saying because the song is basically saying it for him.

[xxletsmakeascenxx]

This movie still blows my mind away. Seriously, this is THE best movie of all times. I've seen it about a hundred times and I still cry

[Navikthered]

Probably the most movingly tragic scene in any film ever. The desperation and crushing despair on Harold's face show just how far deeply in love with Maude he was. I sob like a baby every time I see this because it conjures up memories of my first love and his own death.

[SirCamera]

That just always gets me...

"I don't want no fight, and I haven't got a lot of time..."

[epituchano]

Five hours of commentary filtered into five minutes of crystalline clarity.



[Walteralteralter]

I love this movie. And this song completely fits the mood.

[hoppalongcassidy2]

I sob every time I watch this. The music is perfect.

[lizvandort666]

this scene gets me every time..

[flyer2571]

This is not only the best use of a pop song in cinema. It is also one of the most brilliantly edited sequences in film history.

[crpederson]

this is the movie Wes Anderson always wanted to make but never could.

[born4truluv]

this scene always used to make me cry like a baby. It still effects me when I see it. You feel the anger as he fights back the tears...the sense of being cheated.

[Grossproductionz]

When Harold's face is red and he's crying.... breaks my heart every time! There is just something oddly appealing about him. :(

[potatoequeen72]

makes me want to watch this again..

[SternSuperManiac]

What a heavenly sequence. It is so moving in an introspective way.  Hal Ashby knows how to do it right. I miss the film finesse of the late 60's and 70's.

[AnneSofieLovesArt]

Best film sequence ever!

[vwgub]

However you deconstruct the scene it still make me cry

[steffanpiper]

You can see a lot of Ahsby's influence in 'Girl Interrupted'. Visually a lot of the same shots constructed almost the same way.

[Kroiker]

Of course, the harsh, static compositions of Bud Cort in the hospital, alone in the frame, are great. The last shot of him in the hospital is through the glass - a shot stylistically very similar to things you might see in Douglas Sirk's films.

[togderi]

@Kroiker HOMMAGE JUST HOMMAGE MY FIEND.

T()G  /|\

[Kroiker]

The repetition of doctor walking down the hall also recalls the scene in "Graduate" where Hoffman has run out of gas and he is running toward the camera (which uses a telefoto lens) which makes it look like he isn't getting anywhere.

[Kroiker]

There's a film school adage "Movies come from movies". There are moments in this sequence that recall other images in other films - the doctor coming down the hall recalls the homecoming in "The Best Years of Our Lives". The rain on the windscreen is fairly common - the director "cries" instead of the character.

[bhite41]

@Kroiker .... those are some brilliant observations for sure... the film seems to pour out like an emtion on the viewer, funny how travel always seems to be the motif in most films and how travel in this film is so reckless but yet so beautiful, like Keith Moon flailing at his drums, his death and her death, opposites in style but poetic in their vision... maybe I need to take another hit off my hooka?

[iamaskingforit]

good job on your description, Kroiker, I agree on all points.

[Maddhater1]

right there where the hearse goes off the clip is where my dad proposed to my mom lol

[spinalfluidleak]

This film is probably has the best rythym of any i've seen, meaning the beats of the film, the way it unravels and pacing and such, that sequence could have been done silent and still looked great, of course the song just makes it one of the best sequences that will proabably be put on film. Hal Ashby could really be a genius at times!

[countconner]

H&M's better cut to the music too (and the Graduate's my favorite film ever).  Ashby was an editor before he directed - and it shows.

[countconner]

thanks for posting this. It's just perfect.

[Kroiker]

This sequence owes a lot to "The Graduate", which used Simon and Garfunkle and came out in 1967 (Harold and Maude was 1971) But I think Hal Ashby built on ideas of the graduate and was a bit more subtle.

[bettyfelon1]

@Kroiker Have you ever seen Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le fou? There are several things there that seem to show up in Harold and Maude..scenes with windshield wipers...the final scene of both movies panning out to the ocean and the sky...the idea of "breaking the fourth wall"...etc., etc., etc. How likely was it that Ashby was influenced by Godard?