In 1994, Midnight Cowboy chosen for inclusion in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress.
Hoffman had become a big star after his previous movie- The Graduate-had become a hit.Īt the Academy Awards in 1970, Midnight Cowboy won three Oscars: Best Picture (Jerome Hellman), Best Director (John Schlesinger) and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium (Waldo Salt).
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Frankel says Hoffman should get full credit for coming up with “I’m walking here,” but that the cab driver was a crew member and the stunt was planned.įor their roles in Midnight Cowboy, Dustin Hoffman was paid $150,000 and Jon Voight was paid $17,000. Author Glenn Frankel points out that a Novemversion of the Midnight Cowboy script includes a cab jumping into the pedestrian crosswalk, but not the “I’m walking here” line. As Ratso Rizzo, he erupted with his famous “I’m walking here” line. One of those rube-spotters is Enrico Salvatore Ratso Rizzo, played by Dustin Hoffman as a small-time conman. Frankel describes the suit this way: “It looked to her like some high school kid had rented it for his prom and then chucked it into a trash can after he threw up on it.”ĭustin Hoffman claims the taxi that nearly bumped into him was a surprise. Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy. Roth also bought what she called “cockroach-in-the-corner” shoes and a purple suit she dyed green. She bought a white pants with “a gray line of dirt along the crease of each leg,” writes Glenn Frankel in Shooting Midnight Cowboy.
Midnight Cowboy starring Dustin Hoffman as Ratso and Jon Voight as Joe. The resume of Larry Ratso Sloman is epic: editor of National Lampoon, collaborator with John Cale and Lou Reed, a member of Bob Dylan’s traveling carnival known as the Rolling Thunder Revue, ghostwriter for Howard Stern, Mike Tyson, Anthony Kiedis and Peter Criss, writer for film and TV, and songwriter.
When Jon Voight asked director John Schlesinger about his character’s motivation, Schlesinger replied, “A good fuck for which you’ll be handsomely paid.”Ĭostume designer Ann Roth bought a lot of Ratso Rizzo’s clothes from sidewalk sellers on New York City streets near the Port Authority Bus Terminal and Times Square. Out of desperation, he takes up with Rico Ratso Rizzo, a crippled con man and. Midnight Cowboy was a surprise hit at the box office, earning $44,8 million in 1969.
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