I can totally relate. I grew up watching this movie and everytime the song played, my sister and I rewinded it over and over and over. That 'stomping' of the heavy boots that the 3 men are wearing accompanied with music is awesome
I made a board game in early grade school called Oh Industry. Born and raised in Texas, it was based off of the oil industry. It was a school project. Thanks to Beaches.
The artistry behind both of her shows that we only got one song out of each was just spectacular and left me wanting more! I will never tire of this song, even if I often don't have the heart to watch the movie.
This movie came out when I was 7 and I remember loving The Wind Beneath My Wings so much that my mom bought me the cassette single (remember those?). The B-Side was Oh Industry and that quickly became and even more beloved song for me and it is to this day!
The movie was okay but this song was unbelievable. To me it feels more like performance art. This song has a great message that we are in an unfortunate relationship with the industrial revolution: we love it, we desire it , it consumes us and we cannot live without it even as it is killing us.
I am the captain and this is my shrine. Lord of the manor. See what I leave behind. River in flames, cities on fire. Yes, I'm a relic trapped in the wire. Hydrogen fuel, it burns so clean, throbs in the veins; a mother lovin' machine. She is my wife. Her mechanical heart constantly serving 'til death do us part. Now a glorious war draws to a close. The yellow winds blow. And I have to know. Oh industry, whatever will become of me? Soon the cruel rains will start. Is it true we must part company? Oh industry, whatever will become of me? What have I ever done? Where did I go wrong? Joined at the hip; pain, hunger and I, leave our gift to the world 'neath the phosphorous sky. A labor of love is the truest of all. But will I be forsaken after the fall? Now a glorious war draws to a close. The yellow winds blow. And I have to know. Oh industry, whatever will become of me? Nothing after the flood but the fire and the mud's prophecy. Oh industry, whatever will become of me? Of me? Industry, charity, faith, hope. Industry, charity, faith, hope. Industry, charity, faith, hope. Industry, charity, faith, hope. Industry, charity, faith, hope.
I love this song; it's so powerful! For years, I had a line of the lyrics wrong. I always heard: "Yes, I'm a rabbit, trapped in the wire" instead of "relic". It made it doubly scary, like a rabbit in a snare.
It’s kind of like it’s own movie…within one. Anyone else remember the scenes from Home Alone and Home Alone 2 with the guy shooting people with his Tommygun? Random as fuck but left you feeling like you wanted to the entire actual thing lol
I met her at my job around 10 years ago. My coworker asked her on her way out, "Can I just tell you that I LOVE you?!" Bette's reply. "You can!" & she flashed that smile. Unforgettable.
Also, I was so little when this movie came out and watched it a million times and always fast forwarded through this part. Partly because it scared me and partly because it bored me as a child. But when I watched it again as a teenager maybe 18 I finally watched it and saw and heard something totally different to my ears than I remember as a child. It is amazing how taste buds change and so does our taste in music and art and lyrics. I love this scene now. It’s a great song.
@@Gemmarose9012are you joking, other than Adele, gaga is the best artist to pay tribute to Bette in any way (regardless of their one and only interaction being slightly tense)! I see so much bette in gaga tbh.
This is my favorite part of the movie, and I love that 30+ years later, many people have different interpretations of the song's meaning. I always got two different takes: for starters, the music is obviously evocative of a major industrial plant (very probably a steelworks), as evidenced by some of the lyrics and the fire in the stage play's background. The lyrics are from the point-of-view of the industrialist (seemingly an 1860-1900 robber baron) who created the plant, calling it his "shrine", "manor", and "wife". It seems he's likely at the end of his career/life and looking back on his legacy (mostly with sadness/regret) for causing pollution, pain, hunger, and his lack of faith, charity, etc. He's beginning to realize what his greed has done to the world around him. His company is still going strong , but the wind, the sky, the rivers, and the cities are polluted or in ruins. Now what will happen to him? What was it all worth in the end? It could be based on Andrew Carnegie, who built a steel empire, then sold it off and spent the rest of his life on philanthropy. Or it could also be Henry Clay Frick, chairman of Carnegie Steel and the "most hated man in America", due to his breaking the strikes of steel workers. Charles Schwab is another candidate, involved in the WWI effort, accused of profiteering, later squandered his huge fortune and died impoverished. My second take: she was singing about the Hollywood/entertainment industry. How someone who's reigned supreme over Hollywood for so long, is now having their downfall, whether it be because of age, illness, changing tastes or even death. I always felt like it was about the legacy they left behind, and wondering if it was really worth anything in the end. That artful, sudden self-awareness once our life's work is complete. Will I be forgotten? What's it all worth? I did what I thought was right, and maybe still do, as part of the larger machine. And how when you're just at the top, you'll eventually fall down.
Its unfortunate when you know this song so well from the movie and then listen to the actual studio version and it pales in comparison. I wish there was a decent edit of this version of the song.
The film version is worked great for movie because it was chopped into segments long enough to fit the scene. It’s great to have the full length song for a deeper experience.
I have no clue why this came on recommended to me lol. But I’ve been watching Hocus Pocus 2 a lot so maybe that’s why. And also I have never cried harder than when she sings The Wind Beneath My Wings as it shows the little girl at the funeral and it is raining and she’s crying on her bed and asked if she can bring her cat to live with her omg the entire montage of scenes put together during that song was absolute perfection if the idea was to rip your heart out.
I was about 5 years old when mom had this playing, watching the whole thing. Them taking their masks off freaked me out as I never saw any eyes, noses, mouth, the beauty of full lycra full suits. Good choice! The song is a good one though!
“Certainly not the hand walking queer!” it refers to the time when they first met as children, Cici had an audition and lost the part to a girl with no other talent than walking on her hands, because the directors just thought she was “a beautiful child” ignoring Cici’s obvious and tremendous talent. Cici was distraught and Hilary said “honestly I think walking on your hands is kind of creepy” which made cici feel better and first cemented their unlikely friendship.
Who else wanted to see the entire play ???? Bette is an absolute genius...
Dude I would pay MONEY to see the full play! Like fr, I’d love to see it!
I love this song, this scene, and probably this play
Me!
Me. When I was little I wanted to be her 😍
Genius? Or just epically talented?
This song always stuck out for me from this movie!! I would rewind it over and over again, it had such great depth and beat!!!
I can totally relate. I grew up watching this movie and everytime the song played, my sister and I rewinded it over and over and over. That 'stomping' of the heavy boots that the 3 men are wearing accompanied with music is awesome
So agree
I needed so much more of this I messed my VHS rewinding lol
This is my favorite song from Beaches, but love all her music
I agree
It’s 2024 and I’m _still_ wishing I could see the entirety of this play (as well as Otto Titsling)!
Me too! I really wish they would have done some kind of a sequel to this
Same just finished it again! 😂
Idk why i needed to see this at 2:42am but I'm here for it!
CC approaching the entertainment industry, it was a great night
Lol, I'm watching this at 2:26AM!
@@StephanieLexis bahahaha great minds think alike 😊
2.55am for me albeit 7 months later
@@sunkat76 haha so crazy 🤣💚💚
Listen to all the textures she gets out of her voice! Masterful!
I made a board game in early grade school called Oh Industry. Born and raised in Texas, it was based off of the oil industry. It was a school project. Thanks to Beaches.
Very cool. What grade did you get?
The artistry behind both of her shows that we only got one song out of each was just spectacular and left me wanting more! I will never tire of this song, even if I often don't have the heart to watch the movie.
I’ll be honest those guys scared the crap out of me as a kid lol but I love this movie so much 🥰🥰😍
Me too!
Same!!! Loved this track
Me too!!!!
Right there with you
Same !!
Love Bette's voice.
Beaches is just a phenomenal movie!
I love this scene
This song is so fucking good
I wish the play were real! I remember when I first saw the scene and heard oh industry! It sticks with you! It’s so emotional and deco! She’s amazing!
It appeals to the simple-minded.
@@MondoMiamibruh. Don’t be a dick.
@@MondoMiaminasty comment. Leave if you’re going to be like this.
@@leahfox7076 awwwwwww! Not everybody has the same opinion as you. Waaaahhhhhhh!!!!
@MondoMiami still a nasty comment, can't call people idiots because you have different opinions about art
This movie came out when I was 7 and I remember loving The Wind Beneath My Wings so much that my mom bought me the cassette single (remember those?). The B-Side was Oh Industry and that quickly became and even more beloved song for me and it is to this day!
Yes girl !! my mother played them religiously ❤ this is her favorite movie besides joy luck club ❤
RIP John Heard😇💖
The movie was okay but this song was unbelievable. To me it feels more like performance art. This song has a great message that we are in an unfortunate relationship with the industrial revolution: we love it, we desire it , it consumes us and we cannot live without it even as it is killing us.
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That's about it--it's definitely meant to emulate a certain type of downtown NYC theater, which often takes an anti-capitalist bent.
This woman just always amazes me! Bette Midler has always been a talent in her own league! She is a different pizazz! My favorite actress of all time!
I grew up watching this movie. This performance was amazing!!!
This was my first look at steam punk
An amazing avant garde performance with a powerful message for the ages!
Favorite scene from favorite movie!!
This scene used to scare me as a kid because of the masks 😅 also this is one of my favourite songs because of its very deep and powerful message
Lmaoo same
Same🤣🤣but it pulled me in so much like I loved this scene!
My favorite scene🥰🥰
R I P John Heard who also has done Law & Order SVU & Home Alone Seventh Sign as well great actor and Emily Proctor's father CSI Miami
And in Big with Tom Hanks!!!
And in "Deceived" with Goldie Hawn. Great and creepy performance in that.
He also had a brief but excellent stint on the Sopranos as corrupt cop Vin Mackesian
What happened to him
Every 8 year old boys favorite scene. Watched it a million times.
Idk why we were watching beaches at 8 don't worry about that.
One of my favorite scenes in the movie. Thanks for uploading!
One of my two favorite songs from this movie.
This movie would *SO* not get made nowadays... but by goodness it's a classic!
always loved this part especially when she turns around at the end 💙
Everyone always wonders how she got the mask on her face without lifting a hand. Movie magic! 👌🏿
I am the captain and this is my shrine.
Lord of the manor. See what I leave behind.
River in flames, cities on fire.
Yes, I'm a relic trapped in the wire.
Hydrogen fuel, it burns so clean,
throbs in the veins; a mother lovin' machine.
She is my wife. Her mechanical heart
constantly serving 'til death do us part.
Now a glorious war draws to a close.
The yellow winds blow. And I have to know.
Oh industry, whatever will become of me?
Soon the cruel rains will start.
Is it true we must part company?
Oh industry, whatever will become of me?
What have I ever done?
Where did I go wrong?
Joined at the hip; pain, hunger and I,
leave our gift to the world 'neath the phosphorous sky.
A labor of love is the truest of all.
But will I be forsaken after the fall?
Now a glorious war draws to a close.
The yellow winds blow. And I have to know.
Oh industry, whatever will become of me?
Nothing after the flood but the fire and the mud's prophecy.
Oh industry, whatever will become of me?
Of me?
Industry, charity, faith, hope.
Industry, charity, faith, hope.
Industry, charity, faith, hope.
Industry, charity, faith, hope.
Industry, charity, faith, hope.
Where is this whole song???
On the soundtrack!
I think it’s “of my beloved machine” not mother loving lol
I love this song; it's so powerful! For years, I had a line of the lyrics wrong. I always heard: "Yes, I'm a rabbit, trapped in the wire" instead of "relic". It made it doubly scary, like a rabbit in a snare.
Love this song
This was one of my favorite scenes.
This was such an amazing scene
Love this movie, especially this scene! I’d absolutely watch this Play if it were real lol. Love it
Bette is EVERYTHING!! so much talent!!!! This movie was played on repeat in my house for years!
what ever will become of meeeeeeee.......... that part gets me
I loved these crazy musicals she was in, id watch them for real
Excellent Song an Video/Senior frm NJ
i remember this scene scaring me shitless as a kid
Same since when they took their masks off and they didn't have a face 😂
I had this song on cassette i loved it so much
This is my song love it sing it out loud ❤❤❤❤ costumes are fantastic 👌 👏 🙌
This was my favourite part in the movie. 😁
i love her outfit at the beginning of the scene in the office..especially the belt
Love this classic from my a time favorite movie like ever!!!
The turns that the peasants did were amazing.
Bette is a awesome amazing lady funny gifted talented and a very kind warm lady who helps others and is there for them !
It’s kind of like it’s own movie…within one. Anyone else remember the scenes from
Home Alone and Home Alone 2 with the guy shooting people with his Tommygun? Random as fuck but left you feeling like you wanted to the entire actual thing lol
Love her voice!
I have nothing but respect for Bette Midler and would love to meet her in person one day, what an honor.
I met her at my job around 10 years ago. My coworker asked her on her way out, "Can I just tell you that I LOVE you?!"
Bette's reply. "You can!" & she flashed that smile. Unforgettable.
I like this song
Also, I was so little when this movie came out and watched it a million times and always fast forwarded through this part. Partly because it scared me and partly because it bored me as a child. But when I watched it again as a teenager maybe 18 I finally watched it and saw and heard something totally different to my ears than I remember as a child. It is amazing how taste buds change and so does our taste in music and art and lyrics. I love this scene now. It’s a great song.
Set it on fireeeeeee
"See what I leave behind..."
I absolutely love this song, but this scene scared the shit out of me when I was a kid and still does at 38 years old 😅
This scene always scared me as a kid but i lovedddd this movie😅
That was a great movie
I feel like Lady Gaga should do this song and complete the play that Beaches teased us with.
Noooo
Keep Gaga AWAY from Bette’s stuff!
Yes please!!!!!!!
Absolutely. You can tell some of the songs that Gaga sings have a Bette influence in the voice. She’d kill this.
@@Gemmarose9012are you joking, other than Adele, gaga is the best artist to pay tribute to Bette in any way (regardless of their one and only interaction being slightly tense)! I see so much bette in gaga tbh.
This is my favorite part of the movie, and I love that 30+ years later, many people have different interpretations of the song's meaning. I always got two different takes: for starters, the music is obviously evocative of a major industrial plant (very probably a steelworks), as evidenced by some of the lyrics and the fire in the stage play's background.
The lyrics are from the point-of-view of the industrialist (seemingly an 1860-1900 robber baron) who created the plant, calling it his "shrine", "manor", and "wife". It seems he's likely at the end of his career/life and looking back on his legacy (mostly with sadness/regret) for causing pollution, pain, hunger, and his lack of faith, charity, etc. He's beginning to realize what his greed has done to the world around him. His company is still going strong , but the wind, the sky, the rivers, and the cities are polluted or in ruins. Now what will happen to him? What was it all worth in the end?
It could be based on Andrew Carnegie, who built a steel empire, then sold it off and spent the rest of his life on philanthropy. Or it could also be Henry Clay Frick, chairman of Carnegie Steel and the "most hated man in America", due to his breaking the strikes of steel workers. Charles Schwab is another candidate, involved in the WWI effort, accused of profiteering, later squandered his huge fortune and died impoverished.
My second take: she was singing about the Hollywood/entertainment industry. How someone who's reigned supreme over Hollywood for so long, is now having their downfall, whether it be because of age, illness, changing tastes or even death. I always felt like it was about the legacy they left behind, and wondering if it was really worth anything in the end.
That artful, sudden self-awareness once our life's work is complete. Will I be forgotten? What's it all worth? I did what I thought was right, and maybe still do, as part of the larger machine. And how when you're just at the top, you'll eventually fall down.
I love this take on the song! Have you heard the full version from the soundtrack?
Goosebumps❤
Its unfortunate when you know this song so well from the movie and then listen to the actual studio version and it pales in comparison. I wish there was a decent edit of this version of the song.
The film version is worked great for movie because it was chopped into segments long enough to fit the scene. It’s great to have the full length song for a deeper experience.
The mixing in the film version is much better
I remember watching this as a kid and coming back piss drunk after at LEAST 10 beers
You know this song was great and I have Beaches the soundtrack of Bette Milder's best hits and Wind Beneath My Wings. Good song.
Terrifying memory from my childhood 😮
2024 and I do a search for this scene. THANK YOU CZcams
I adore Bette. Always have always will
I have no clue why this came on recommended to me lol. But I’ve been watching Hocus Pocus 2 a lot so maybe that’s why. And also I have never cried harder than when she sings The Wind Beneath My Wings as it shows the little girl at the funeral and it is raining and she’s crying on her bed and asked if she can bring her cat to live with her omg the entire montage of scenes put together during that song was absolute perfection if the idea was to rip your heart out.
To this day, I still cry at this movie.
“Certainly not… THE HAND WALKING QUEER!!!” 😂👎👏
Beaches is on for free you guys! CZcams put it on for us 😍😍 go watch now before ita gone!!
My favorite part it use to scare the shit outta me and amaze me at the same time
And here we have the Faustian bargain
Her nod to her husband’s career. I would not be surprised to learn that he produced this number for the film.
Watching this scene as a child was terrifying lol. It was the masks. 😂😬 #LoveThisMovie
Still scares me... And I'm a whole grown adult now lmao.
FABULOSA
Miss Betty i love her.
Her name ain't Betty, it's bette
Loved the movie and the song...still one of the creepiest looking videos lol
So, was that supposed to be her character becoming a ghost in the industrial machine? The masked suits being the ones who came before her?
Whenever I see new apartments building and mom and pop stores closing I think of this song
Great song! Applicable 👍🎵😎❤️✌️
This is the song I need to do in drag.
1:50 That chinese violin and beat box was over the top lol
this song would fit perfectly into Hadestown
Best part of the movie
love this song from the movie
This soundtrack reminds me of me friend Tiffany 😢
Scene outstanding
So is it about the industrial revolution and destruction of the environment? Not sure even to do this day lol
Apparently about machines replacing people for jobs.
Did Lady GaGa travel back in time!
Woah I think I just re discovered the root of my phobia of featureless faces 😵💫
Looks like a Julie Taymor production
Oh Industry. My family is oblivious to the entire message.
Amazes me how John could evdn notice Hillary with CC right there....
The best movie ever!!!
dana t.
I was about 5 years old when mom had this playing, watching the whole thing. Them taking their masks off freaked me out as I never saw any eyes, noses, mouth, the beauty of full lycra full suits. Good choice! The song is a good one though!
Part of the song in the scene it's just creepy but catchy.
I'm going to need the ultra magnetic scan
The sad part is that we're still talking about the same issues in their world today
Such a great song but those masks scared the shit outta me when I was a kid!
I never understood why they said The Handwalking Queer got the lead.
“Certainly not the hand walking queer!” it refers to the time when they first met as children, Cici had an audition and lost the part to a girl with no other talent than walking on her hands, because the directors just thought she was “a beautiful child” ignoring Cici’s obvious and tremendous talent. Cici was distraught and Hilary said “honestly I think walking on your hands is kind of creepy” which made cici feel better and first cemented their unlikely friendship.
👍🎵👍😎
Bette married to the watchmen