Robert Altman's Nashville - closing scenes
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- Nashville - directed and produced by Robert Altman (1975)
Barbara Harris sings "It don't worry me", written by Keith Carradine
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Ronee Blakley sings "My Idaho Home" written by herself - Hudba
For a Brazilian who has seen several movies, I thought nothing else would surprise me... But Nashville must be considered one of the best films ever made in the history of cinema, and the entire final scene, in my humble opinion, is the best scene I have ever seen. Gentle, ironic, nostalgic, and finally brutal. Ronee Blakley is fantastic.
Possibly the best ending of any film...ever.
I love how in the most dramatic moment of the movie, Altman throws in a bit of humor a Opel, the British reporter, who has been trying desperately to capture the archetypal American story wonders into the scene having missed the biggest story of them all!
I gave Geraldine a lot of credit for her eagerness and skill at playing one of the most obnoxious, oblivious, and self-involved characters in movie history.
@@petergambaccini7396 and unfortunately no Oscar Nomination.
It's both funny and--"Can anyone tell me what happened?"--a very serious question that underlies the whole film.
Robert Altman was a genius of American cinema.
Amazing barbara harris!
there’s two periods in my life, before I saw this film and after. truly one of the greatest 🧡
The single most brilliant scene in movie history.
You're right. Whenever I watch this, I can't believe something this great was actually filmed.
Agree
Still brings a tear
I wouldn`t go that far
Lots of great elements in this scene. The beautiful song performance, all the main characters in the movie on the stage and in the audience, the close-up of the flag waving, the military veteran fan wrestling the gun away and then sadly walking away, the candidate's (who you would think would have been the target) entourage speeding away, the couples who were having marital problems protecting each other, the clueless journalist missing the big story, the struggling unknown singer getting her big break...
Barbara Harris,
July 25, 1935 - August 21, 2018
RIP
The powerful symbolism of the huge, rippling American flag just moments before the shooting, and Scott Glenn’s heroic soldier wrestling the gunman to the ground, then standing there, stunned, and finally walking away through the singing, clapping crowd.
I'm a "face in the crowd" at about 6:30-ish. They were filming this scene when I was a senior at the University, across the street from Centennial Park. I just wandered over and walked into the crowd. There were no restrictions on the crowd during filming, at least in the back. You could walk around, stay, leave, whatever. I've never watched the entire movie!
This movie is a real classic, a masterpiece! You were fortunate to get to be part of it, at least in a peripheral way.
One of the most extraordinary, searing scenes ever written and filmed. Bravo to all involved.
I completely agree. I think it's one of the greatest sequences I've ever seen in film (and I've seen A LOT of the movies generally regarded as the best ever made). It was unforgettable to me the first time I ever saw it, and grim as it ultimately is, I revisit this scene at least once a year probably.
Actually, I think the strip tease scene is just as symbolic.
Gives me chills... It always has for so many reasons. Altman's satirical way of directing almost like an outsider quietly and closely observing.. It's brilliant, and especially well done in this scene
It still manages to blow my mind.
Henry Gibson was so amazing in this film. Such a break away from Laugh In.
The best closing sequence in cinema
The decision to give the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1975 to Lee Grant in Shampoo over Ronee Blakley in Nashville is one of Hollywood's greatest travesties of all time. Blakley's performance as country music superstar Barbara Jean is flawless and she wrote many of the tunes she sung in the movie.
they should have done what the Golden Globes did: Nominate 4 actresses and Henry Gibson... or simply give it a special Best Cast award
Ronee was amazing, as was Lily Tomlin. Perhaps, they split the vote.
Inconvenient Reality like they did with Short Cuts
dlphc oracl facts
Yeah they messed up this one
And the band played on... This scene accurately encompasses what America was and still is; guns and show biz- amid chaos and horror, the show never stops.
Barbara Harris breaks my heart in this scene.
This had such a natural feel... almost like a documentary.
Altman said that for the final scenes in the film, he gathered crowds by announcing free hot dogs and juices and stuff like that. So these are not extras but real locals. This is the real Nashville.
For some reason I was in tears by the end.
This movie will bring you to tears.
Altmans films, all masterpieces.
...for me one of the best movies I have ever seen ... Altman mastermind ...
This on my top ten list and has been my whole life. My Dad took me to see it at 10 years old and I had a lifelong crush on Keith Carradine. Every part is well acted and no one did anyone else for such an big number of stars from 1975.I owned the soundtrack album then 8 track then cassette and wore them out. Such an original storyline(s),
Altman is genius
Certainly, one of the Top 5 American movies ever made
kirkenes :-) can you give some reasons ?
+Sebastian Wendel pushed the genre of musicals, experimented with new techniques of sound editing, was both a story of individual characters and cultural and political polemic.
ravishingravi
ok thx for you opinion - "Nashville" ist one of my favorite us-american films :-)
This movie shouldn't need any explaning. It's clear to anyone willing to listen how deep and symbolic this movie is. On the surface, it's just a weekend of country music. We all know this is more than a movie. Similar to "2001: A Space Odyssey" or "Cabaret", it's a mosaic of humanity.
kirkenes Barbara harris
It’s really heartbreaking that public shootings have become a common occurrence in America. He responded with “This ain’t Dallas” but it’s definitely American.
This scene brings me back to the 60's..... and into the present as history repeats itself. Altman did a wonderful job with that film and it stuck with me all these years until now.. A great film indeed and said so much through each artists song and life .
Barbara Harris starred in 2 Broadway musicals, On a Clear Day You can see Forever and The Apple Tree. She's also in Hitchcock's last film, Family Plot. So many actors really shine in this film - sometimes with minimal screen time- the brilliance of Robert Altmann, dir.
It’s Altman
Barbara Harris gave the best performance in Nashville.
One film I could watch over and over, it is so good, one of my favourite films ever, brilliant satire of country music. All the acting is brilliant, Ronee Blakely as Barbara Jean and Henry Gibson as Haven Hamilton are just so perfect. Unfair to pick out the best work because they are all wonderful performances in a jumbled film with so many things happening, but it is perfectly structured, it is so well done. And a real punch powerful ending.
Its not satire at all
@@sergiyr2902 I'd disagree, it's a brilliant satire about Country Music, humour, irony, sarcasm, political, exaggeration and ridicule. It's got all that and that is satire.
A friend pointed out that Haven Hamilton is also mortally wounded.
@@lagerhoundIt’s more a satire of politics than country music. I doubt Altman would make a movie with an hour of musical numbers if he didn’t at least appreciate genre.
Heartbreaking
american masterpiece
great movie i love this movie
I loved portions, this woman was so beautiful wasn't she? It put me to sleep in 75 and took two days to get through it-sad when she was shot, so little frame. I guess I love it too!
GREAT MOVIE!!! Absolutely love all the music from this film.
Barbara Harris was one of the most underrated talents in modern cinema. Its a shame she did not do more acting. The way she structured this scene is really neat and how that fits into the dramatic architecture of the film is really adroit.
Agree. I always liked her. Great in Plaza Suite, too. And, easy on the eyes.
and she played so many unique characters, but it also shows her talent that she was also completely perfect as an ideal mother in peggy sue got married...
einer meiner Lieblingsfilme ... es klingt vielleicht pathetisch, aber ich denke der Film zeigt die verwundete und hilflose Seele einer ganzen Nation ... und versöhnt gleichzeitig mit all den Widersprüchen und Verwirrungen ...
My parents used to watched this movie a few times on StarChannel (later became the movie channel) back in 1977 I think. They then bought the soundtrack record, which I still have to this day and actually liked this closing song. The movie was a bit over my head as a ten year old, as well as some of the meaning of the songs. But I remember them fondly.
That's true, this generally isn't a family-friendly or kid's movie. One of the most thought provoking and symbolic movies we've ever known. And yet, for some reason, many people still don't know about it.
Searching For Myself I envy people who get to watch this for the first time. And it’s true I bring this movie up all the time to people and most don’t even know what I’m talking about. Truly a masterpiece that gives me worries about being forgotten. But thankfully Criterion did a release.
left me completely stunned. brilliant!
I think it’s poignant that her last song is about how she had such a loving childhood and her best times were with her Momma and Daddy. She obviously dies and will finally be at peace, joining them in Heaven.
IT'S ALMOST CRIMINAL SHE DIDN'T WIN BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR FOR THIS BUT THEN I REMEMBER LILY TOMLIN IN THE BAR WHILE I'M EASY IS SUNG !!
This movie changed everything
How so?
Beautiful!!!!
Masterpiece, pure and simple. The humor is priceless! "WANDA WANDA!!!".
Love the breeze and the gently rippling American flag. Notice Suelynn Gay mouthing the words. Also Altman shoots the assassination from far away, which probably made it more of a surprise to the original audiences.
I saw it not long after it came out. The assassination was a complete unexpected shock.
So nuanced: Lily Tomlin's character is the only character to almost put the puzzle together, but then she's ushered off by her nonentity husband.
There is something addictive yet unnerving about a woman getting killed in public and suddendly, a gospel choir singing "It don´t worry me" between the american flag and a crowd of dissafective people.
Like, saying "We are here for politics. We don´t care"
I came here after reading that the Barbara Harris character is modeled after Linda Ronstadt
One of my favorite films of all time. No matter how many times I watch it, it is never boring and I also realize many of the subtle messages and uncanny predictions that the movie makes. Nashville predicted the cynicism and cunning that would become the American way, but we didn’t get it at the time. Nashville predicted a Trump presidency. Hal Walker the presidential candidate whom we never see, suggesting that a vacant individual wants to be president-his absent presence is everywhere, on billboards, vehicles, caps and hats, etc. REPLACEMENT CANDIDATE MAGA season! Which brings death in the end. The murder of Barbara Jean represents the death of innocence. But it also suggests the triumph of harmony-black, brown and white individuals are on the stage together singing IT DON’T WORRY ME. A kind of “We shall overcome”.
Well said.
The Character Barbara Harris is playing is fashioned after
"The Arizona Star" of "Girl George & the Arizona Star"
Underground Nashville Outlaw Icons of the Early 1970's.
Aaah, so not Linda Ronstad?
Coming back here after the tragedy of yesterday, the lasting power of this scene is tragic.
The contending, not opposed, (and worthy) candidates to replace our national anthem,
Is that REALLY Barbara Harris singing? Amazing
Rand Jaky yes
She had actually starred on Broadway in two musicals: "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever," which was written for her by Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane, and "The Apple Tree" by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, and later appeared Off-Broadway as Jenny in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's "Mahagonny" (which I saw). The way she brings off that final number in "Nashville" always sends chills down my spine. Robert Altman's casting sense was extraordinary, and many of the actors who worked with him did some of their best work in his films.
It is hard to imagine many more American pictures than this one. Maybe The Last Picture Show.
2021
That's why artists that I represent perform only in studio. It's not about weapons... just about people who don't recognize the real enemy... or something like that.
One of my top 10 & the best movie ending ever.
- Real Question: Could any foreign cinema fan or critic watching this with subtitles or dubbed possibly understand any of it? I think of myself trying to watch Fassbinder or Kurosawa & realizing that I'm missing at least 1/2 of what's going on.
I do understando what you mean. I'm not a native speaker but watching filmakers like Altman or Woody Allen, I feel like getting what it is to be an American.
What’s your top ten?
A shattering temporal incursion. The Loretta Lynn of that universe probably dies, an unknown singer is lifted to Goddess status by both the moment and her talent, a hack country icon becomes a genuine hero for the country in being shot with LL and ignoring his own wounds tries to help her, a populist political candidate who would have been elected is eliminated by the incident and the soldier who stops the shooter slips happily out of the historical record. RIP Robert Altman.
Also Henry was a great actor....he played both a famous pig and a country singer and he was a great poet too.
His Haven Hamilton character has been a fatuous, self-righteous tyrant of the recording session, but after Barbara Jean has been shot his first instinct is to cover her. Suddenly I understood who this guy really was. Maybe he just discovered who he really was.
Sadly, I think Haven Hamilton will wind up milking that moment for his political career.
Naw, I give him more credit than that. I think the selflessness of his covering Barbara Jean was a surprise to him, too.
Sorry, but it's really horrible to see this beautifully shot film with the image cropped, squashed and distorted.
A film where about 90% of the huge cast of characters wind up disillusioned, disappointed or dead by the end, maybe the high point of 70s US disillusionment with authority (especially in the wake of Watergate) cinema
I think it was hinted that something awful would happen to Ronee's character Barbara Jean at the beginning of the movie with all the other tragedies that effected her in the movie.
If you look closely you can see the Kenny character loading his gun as Ronee's character is singing so it foreshadows what he is about to do.
Wonder if Charlie Chaplin got to see his daughter in this before he died.
My favorite film. But I hate seeing its image so distorted and compressed, as if to fit in an old time TV set. Why even post it, if it destroys what the filmmakers made?
I came here after the Nashville bombing. A lone attacker reduced to killing by politics.
Wish someone would fix the aspect ratio
Didn't Kenny come to Nashville with the purpose of shooting the presidential candidate (but ended up shooting Barbara Jean instead)?
That was my take, as well. Not sure though.
Not even Altman was sure if the assassins intentions
One never knows, do one?
Saw this movie 4 times before I noticed that Haven Hamilton's toupee falls off at 3:11 . Have to wonder if Altman planned this. Throwing a moment of humor into the middle of a tragic scene seems like something he would do - though it's said he gives his actors a lot of freedom to improvise and add there own ideas.
The single most brilliant scene in one of the single most brilliant American films ever made. What was once a satiric high tragicomedy of American extremities (trashy myopic dreams; crashing cars; celebrities [and celebrity assassinations]; reactionary, anti intellectual 'Tea Party' politics mixed with 'demographics', et al. - at the time (1975) seen to be a nearly unbelievable fantasia - has, alas, forty five years later, come to pass as reality. And its not funny.
No. This has nothing to do with Tea Party politics....that is revisionist. This is an indictment of popular culture, it's so called "liberal" media and the loss of American identity post Nixon/LBJ/ Kennedy policies. Americans, whether poor, wealthy, white or not were LEFT BEHIND and forgotten in the morass of politics and the press who think they control them. Hence, why the hapless performer attempts to gain some voice by saying, "this isn't Dallas..."
8 people are from France
3:29. Who’s “us”?
And to think Barbara Harris’s character was nearly Bette Midler.
what was the reason behind him trying to kill her ?
Barbara Jean is a symbol of all that is sweet and nice and family about America.And the assassin is a disillusioned and bitter Vietnam conscription veteran
who was he trying to kill ??
hownos ... I didn't understand it either ...
America. What America had become.
John Lennon.
Barbara Jean, who had just finished singing.
Barbara Jean, the symbol of a wholesome America.
I think the assassin killed that singer because she was singing a song about a Yankee state in a Southern state. I'm not sure, but that's my guess. Either way, it's one of the creepiest endings of a movie that I've ever seen. I don't think the show would have gone on in real life.
That's one way to look at it. Either way, it seems clear that it was pre-meditated. He made the first move.
He'd been stalking her for the entire movie.
Had nothing to do with it.
He kills her because she is a symbol of all that is good about America.Farms, family and wholesomeness
Idaho was a western territory during the civil war. It doesn't matter. Ronee Blakely grew up in Idaho and she wrote a song about it.
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I found every character to be three dimensional, except for Geraldine Chaplain’s character. I do believe she is great actress, but her character in the film was annoying.
Poor ending. A shooting would shut it down....
Great ending to a terrible film
You mean Great ending to a legendary film