It was cheap in America back then.

Rowan 2022-04-20 09:01:41

midnight cowboy is a classic movie. Yes, classic enough. Hoffman played the down-and-out Rizzo very vividly; on the contrary, Voight, who played cowboy, was a bit inferior.

The film is interspersed with a large number of streams of consciousness, and if you want to psychoanalysis, it is a model with sufficient resources. However, the most impressive thing is that the price was so cheap at that time.

Qiao Maichun only charges 20D at a time. But how much can this 20D buy? Florida clothes 10C can buy 200 pieces, 20D can buy 200 pieces. After they attended the hippie party, they once successfully made a single sale for spring and got 20D. Joe bought at least 3 kinds of medicines, a lot of food, and had 8D left. The price quoted in the video is 6c for chewing gum. In exchange for the current purchasing power of RMB, 10 yuan for a piece of clothing is considered cheap, and 200 pieces is 2,000 yuan. However, it is estimated that the Cowherd is very expensive to sell the spring harvest for 2,000 yuan. Chewing gum 6C is generally 1.5 yuan in China now; 20D can buy 333 Wrigley GUMs, and the total purchasing power of 20D is about 500 yuan.

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Midnight Cowboy quotes

  • Joe Buck: I like the way I look. Makes me feel good, it does. And women like me, goddammit. Hell, the only one thing I ever been good for is lovin'. Women go crazy for me, that's a really true fact! Ratso, hell! Crazy Annie they had to send her away!

    Ratso Rizzo: Then, how come you ain't scored once the whole time you been in New York?

  • [At the gravesite of his father]

    Ratso Rizzo: He was even dumber than you. He couldn't even write his own name. "X," that's what it ought to say on that goddamn headstone, one big lousy "X". Just like our dump. Condemned by order of City Hall.