Midnight Cowboy - Im Walkin Here

[Guigley]

Hoffman was the only somewhat enjoyable aspect of this overwhelmingly unpleasant film. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

For those who like the film, that's great. This is my opinion, neither right nor wrong, and I respect everyone else's opinion.

[wheelers1933]

reaction of the people in the backround say it. all.they were clueless about being filmed just ike the cabbie

[bumperu]

Another beautiful day in New York for a walk.

[WannabeG00D]

awesome. Hoff is the man xD

[nvlptl]

great improv

[elfilicious13]

it was improvised everyone-the line. he was just gonna argue with the cabbie initially

[manfocused]

Well, if this scene WAS improvised, did they hunt down the cab driver? I mean, they couldn't have just included him in the movie without his permission, right?

[baggedyman]

I know what it means. But what is that action called.

Middle finger= giving the bird, flicking/flipping off.

[jjjttt148]

the closest I would know would be flicking your chin which is a similar gesture

[baggedyman]

What is is called that he did at 0:27 with him hitting his arm with his palm?

[CeeJayy1997]

I'M WALKIN HERE ! lmao. I'm gonna favourite this :D

[Heidibear76]

That take, the timing was perfect and the cab came out of nowhere and nearly hit them. Hoffman wanted to say "We're filming a movie here!" but he decided to not ruin the take.

[Heidibear76]

The line "I'm walkin' here!", is often said to have been improvised, but producer Jerome Hellman disputes this account on the 2-disc DVD set of Midnight Cowboy. The cab was driven by a hired actor during a scripted take, and production team filmed it to look like an ad-lib. However, Hoffman told it differently on an installment of Bravo's Inside the Actors Studio. He stated that there were many takes to hit that traffic light just right so they didn't have to pause while walking.

[bilbobagins1951]

priceless

[be8282]

look at when the ciggarette falls out of his mouth classic.....apparantly this scene was not rehersed, im walkin here was not in the script..this taxi driver actually nearly did hit him and dustin just rolled with it

[Ganbareg]

im sure pachino done the same in panic in needle park, some dude comes over to him on a long shot as pachino is meeting a girl and pachino says something like i aint got nothing man or something along those lines, pachino smiles though as he turns his back on him and towards camera, let me know if you view it.

[paulaitchison]

great moment

[CurtRolandFan]

I Love the film and the scene^^

Rico 4-EVER and Joe^^

[765mlg]

I think Dustin Hoffman was really pissed and the director just never yelled "CUT".

[vitalifran]

great man, he even drops the cigarette, nice touch

[CamDemon]

That was improved, checked out a bit of trivia on it. The taxi driver has no idea what's going: he broke onto the set by accident, Hoffman managed to stay in character despite nearly being run over.

Hats off to him for being able to keep in character like that.

[Soulbuddies]

100% Improvised, the car was not in the script

[carlos7217]

i was watchin back to the future 2 or 3,not sure,the 1 where he goes into the future,and micheal j fox is crossin the road in a 1 scene,and a futuristic car pulls in front of him,and he says"IM WALKIN HERE,IM WALKIN HERE"..have i spotted a nod and a wink to this scene

[lbcaps]

this clip IS improvised... dustin hoffman talked about it in "inside the actors studio"..

GREAT preforamnce by a GREAT actor...

[lumpagogo]

Dustin Hoffman was never challenged to this extent again; this was a much tougher part than "Rainman."

[lilduckie22]

Iv never seen the film, Im a big Dustin Hoffman fan, Im gonna have to see it I think, Love this bit tho !!

[monsterboy31]

It was supposed to LOOK like it was improvised.

[clay180]

Improvised or scripted? I believe this is improv, Hoffman is doing a character voice than all of a sudden I hear Dustin Hoffman in real life, and he sounded legit pissed too.

[zigzagbigbag]

I believe, as John Schlesinger has stated, thats it was scripted. I know Hoffman say's it was improv but look at Voight...he didnt even flinch. I've had that very thing happen to me and it scared the shit out of me. No way it's improv.

[VikingThor1]

that taxi would make a great collector's item - piece of American cinema history

[Theakker3]

"Up yours you son of a bitch!"

[Ecksntrick8]

And then they put it in Forrest Gump. And it worked.

[dazza5266]

and borat. neither of those films are as good as midnight cowboy though

[andeatittoo]

I like to say this to cars while walking in midtown.

[scratchneck]

but you're not hoffman so it doesn't sound as cool as that. this is very unique, it's his line...

[ToonArmy22]

Sounds like Pacino

[pjlaner]

Dustin Hoffman said that the line "I'm walkin' here, I'm walkin' here" was adlibbed but if that were true how is it the cab driver had spoken lines. They would have had to have hunted him down in order to have paid him. I think the producers would have remembered that. Also Dustin Hoffman said after the incident that it would be a good way to pick up insurance. That would have had to have been another ad lib. Never heard of so many ad libs. Movie sets yell out "cut" at the drop of a hat.

[NickParisho]

The lines you heard from the cab driver were dubbed over during editing....

[m0davis]

umm, source for this? i.e. how do you know they weren't what was originally said (or very close to it)?

[m0davis]

Thank you very very very very very much for this interesting tidbid!

[pjlaner]

You are so very very very welcome.

[Ecksntrick8]

like tidbit..but not.

[oranger2525]

i heard that was not in the script. a cab went through the shoot and Hoffman just went with it -- and Voight went with it too -- staying in character.

[OldSchoolGamer1203]

If anyone says that Midnight Cowboy sucks, then they never seen the film at all.

[ZacO8965]

True that. Watched the film last night and loved it. one of the best

[TheOtherChanel]

Dustin Hoffman... I love you.

[MartinGuitarLover1]

Sooooo Funny DH is the best

[coralarch]

Dustin Hoffman- God's gift to the world of acting.

[BarbieGirlz001]

Dustin Hoffman - 5'7

Jon Voight - 6'4

What a difference ! Lol

[BluDevil93]

Dustin Hoffman's actually 5'5 :P

[jazzmanEE]

yeah they ve got a height differencee. but that doesnt mean anything. i cant believe people give so much interest in height. it reeally doesnt mean anything

al pacino isnt that tall but when he's in any scene he fills the screen

also in this scene it s hoffman sho steals the show..no matter how great an actor jon voight is

so height,,,not a really important issue

[ryanlaing]

actually that aint a bad way to pick up insurance you know

[johnnyu278]

I worked in a drive-in movie and would have to alert all the cheap motel cars that were still at it or had fallin asleep at the end of the movie. Walking up and down the roadways of the drive-in and telling folks to get a move on while listening to the beautiful score at the end of the movie brings back wonderful memories. And it was rated X.

[67tr876]

hoffman looks and walks like he's in 1977 lol i love this guy the taxi was so funny good job man

[claudioxl]

Dustin Hoffman claims on interviews that this scene was improvised with the taxi showing up unexpected but in the DVD box set the producer says it was not and there is a photograph on the web of the same scene but different take which shows Hoffman slamming the hood of the taxi with his right hand.

[andypandywright]

a very interesting detail - and as it's clearly true, then it could be possible that the box set take was, in fact, a shot of the (claimed) accidental incident, and then, if the sound quality or whatever was not up to scratch on that take, they might have got the taxi guy to redo it (as it is a good part of that scene) and it's that next version that's in the film - wnichever way, thanks for the info - martin.

[andypandywright]

see comments on "Midnight Cowboy - I'm walking here".

[superman2858w8]

Classic.

[mattych4pes]

hoffman...what a guy.

[tisbutafleshwound]

no, the cab wasn't supposed to be on the set, they were holding back traffic to shoot the scene and the one cab got trough, and hoffman improvised

[konarttis]

how do u know this

[oleboysimpjames]

I hear the taxi driver wasn't suppose to be in the movie...Hoffman just kind of rolled with the flow...AWESOME...in my book anyways..

[Jedisunscreen]

"its not a bad way to pick up insurance." nice.

[manjola30]

Oh boys those were movies! I'd give anything to be there when they were first released at cinema.

[NYerintransit]

I sure wouldn't. New York was going to hell back then. Can't imagine that today.

[babybirl009]

is hoffman a prostitute in this 2 ? or just voight

[jadenova]

Nah, just Voight. Hoffman is a sort of con man.

[Twista6002]

This scene was improvised. There was a miscommunication about the cab driving up during filming and Hoffman improvised the whole scene. I wish there were more actors like him these days.

[TheBohemianOwls]

Midnight Cowboy 1969, Taxi Driver 1974

[TMundo]

Camaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!

[teflonmagnet]

uncle ralph saint angelo in action! rip

[bobgrantsbus]

My favourite of all time. "I'm walking here"!

was also used in Forrest Gump.

[loftybutcontrite]

No, they stole it from Midnight Cowboy.

[loftybutcontrite]

When I heard this line in Apocalypto I just about lost it. It was so unexpected for a movie like that.... so kudos to Gibson.

[gizmo420420]

what do u mean?

[loftybutcontrite]

In the movie Apocalypto some guys were walking in a forest area when a tree gets chopped down and lands near them and the leader of the group said, "Hey I'm walking here!!" to the people that did the chopping. You see the writers of that movie borrowed the line from this movie because it's famous. Hope that explained it for ya.

[WBFC1969]

What a terrific bit of ad libbing!!!"that aint a bad way of pickin up insurance"...

[FCas3]

This whole scene was ad-libbed...it wasn't in the script, it just happened and they left it in the film. I just can't believe the taxi driver didn't recognize Dustin Hoffman.

[freymaroto]

he wasn't that famous yet-- it's only his second movie .

[grissom333]

According to producer Jerome Hellman on the two-disc DVD's commentary, the famous line, "I'm walkin' here!", contrary to all other accounts, was actually scripted. The cab driver was, in fact, an actor hired to almost drive into Dustin Hoffman. The production team made the take look as though it was an ad-lib.

[erwinruys]

This movie is a hell of a movie. With two great actors and a impressive story.

[kinmanyuen]

Far ahead of its time.. rare masterpiece movie.

[kaisahk]

Dustin Hoffman - what a great actor. Impressive, always.

[toecutterr6]

It's also funny because joe buck gets beeped at by a lone star truck in the opening credits(2:20).

[Bigbadben7]

This is the best film ever made.

[whisperinghubert]

It's known as a stolen shot. It was as it happened. John Vioght didn't know what was happening and kept telling himself to "stay in character". Brilliant stuff. However...I would have loved for the taxi driver to have got ot of his cab and smacked Dustin Hoffman...now that would have been funny!

[paulatwe]

that actually happened; and was edited out?

[whisperinghubert]

What you see on screen is what actually happened. I remember Dustin Hoffman explaning it on a TV show a few years ago. The bit about the taxi driver is just something I would have liked to have seen happen, but, alas, it didn't!

[Bigbadben7]

As much as I would like to think it wasn't scripted Ebay sells a photo of this scene. Voight is not nearly as close to Hoffman, he's way behind him and acting much more suprised than in this clip.

Hoffman is bent over much more when hitting the cab.

Maybe the ebay picture is them trying to recreate the original scene or maybe this is a recreation of the ebay photo.

The photo also uses the exact same lady holding the purse in the background, so she's a real extra not a unknowing citizen.

[omid11]

tht guy is tall

[psychill22]

No actually Dustin Hoffman is a runt.

[erwinruys]

No he isn't Dustin is bend over

[Oli3TB76]

the best, the best Dustin Hoffman

[deppy6]

love this film

[Jrge666]

i love this movie, and dustin sounds like bugs bunny, so hilarious !

[DrStrangelove646]

Dustin Hoffman wanted to say "Hey were filming here" but it he just yelled off "I'm walking here"

That's movie magic

LOL

[karlios15689]

its famous cause all the people around are not actors they are real life everyday people the camera is so far away they would not be aware they are being filmed it is a telescope like camera, it is famous because the cab was not ment to nearly hit him that bit was not scripted it was made up on the spot by the actor to a situation tht wernt ment to happen,un tht is why it is famous mate

[9263069]

This "walkin" scene wased also in Forest Gump scened in NYC. I love this film because in 71, I saw Midnight Cowboy with a double feature In the Heat of the Night - IN THE THEATRE where Joe Buck got head! It was on 42nd st. on a corner movie house. People behind me chanted -- ssheeeit! that's this theatre. The scene in front of the movie confirmed it. NYC in the early 70's was a trip.

[watts1960]

This line was used in "Back to the future" and "Apacalypto"

[fordtippexagain]

If he was so broke and on the make, he would have caught that ciggie before it hit the ground!

[IntelligentHoodlum]

"That aint a bad way to pick up insurance you know." LOL gotta love Rizzo.

[chemuckly]

This scene was an ad lib. The cab driver went through a barrier set up at the end of the block. Ratso actually was going to say we are filming here, but changed the words to what is the best ad lib in movie history.

[Beale64]

That's not true; this scene was scripted. Listen to the commentary on the special edition DVD.

[skibidido]

I heard it from Dustin Hoffman's mouth that it WAS an ad lib.

[Beale64]

He lied about it. Trust me on this. Buy the Two-Disc Special Addition or read the "Midnight Cowboy" trivia on IMDb.

[crazymuthaphukr]

I worked on this movie. It was not scripted.

[Beale64]

Did you hear what the producer said on the DVD commentary or read the "Midnight Cowboy" trivia on IMDb?

[bootskit]

righttt you worked on this movie

[radcam69]

the most impressive ad lid in movie history. wonder where that mook cab driver is now.

[Nocturna78]

Everyone wore hats back then..?

[ayaxwarrior]

this part is parodiated in forrest gump lol

[luvseinfeld]

boy,is it funny to see rico's voice change to the tough sounding voice of Dustin Hoffman.Totally COOL!

[bapyou]

This is one of my favorite scenes in MC. This and the scene where Rico tells a group of people protesting to "go to work".

[bgmcourage]

It was brilliant. Especially since the cab was not planned and Hoffman ad-libbed.

[DanielS58]

thats amazing..thanks.

[jackey5]

Not true. It was meant to look like an ad-libbed scene but was not.

[BatemanDaPsycho]

Brilliant scene.