Harold and Maude

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02 Jan 2010, 8:37 am

I love this movie. I aspire to be just like Maude.

Maude: I should like to change into a sunflower most of all. They're so tall and simple. What flower would you like to be?
Harold: I don't know. One of these, maybe.
Maude: Why do you say that?
Harold: Because they're all alike.
Maude: Oooh, but they're *not*. Look. See, some are smaller, some are fatter, some grow to the left, some to the right, some even have lost some petals. All *kinds* of observable differences. You see, Harold, I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are *this*,
[she points to a daisy]
Maude: yet allow themselves be treated as *that*.
[she gestures to a field of daisies]

Has anyone else seen it and liked it as much as me?

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02 Jan 2010, 8:39 am

I love that movie.

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02 Jan 2010, 9:34 am

That's a great movie. I love the low-riding Jag-hearse Harold makes.

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02 Jan 2010, 9:42 am

It's pretty rad, I agree.

I want Maude's train compartment home.

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02 Jan 2010, 10:38 am

Ruth Gordon was a great actress playing the character, "Maude" very well...against Harold in his many attention seeking behaviors so bent on suicide. She also, delighted audiences in the Clint Eastwood fim, "Every Which Way But Loose" as well as many other films before she passed away a few years ago.

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02 Jan 2010, 11:03 am

I think Harold and Maude was one of the most thoughtful movies ever made. Ruth Gordon was awewome...she was great in those Clint Eastwood movies. I still laugh when I think of her chewing out Clyde the Orangutan, and the scene with the motel manager. :lol:

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02 Jan 2010, 11:40 am

Snazzestick, you neve cease to amaze me.

One of my favorite movies of all time. My friend recommended it to me after I told her I would like very much to drive a hearse.

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03 Jan 2010, 3:12 am

My husband used to work as a gravedigger in high school. I guess he must have gotten to drive a hearse (sans stiff) because he said they drive pretty smooth.

I love that movie, too. One of my favorite bits is the stunt they arrange to get him out of the draft, the bit with the shrunken head.

"To think, I may get to make my own!"

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