Harold and maude how old is harold

He mocks his therapist's psychobabble with silence; his uncle in the army with overenthusiasm; his wealthy mother's conservatism with fake and theatrical acts of self-directed violence.

But Harold gladly gives into the authority of Maude Ruth Gordon — a woman who steals hearses, and rescues 'public trees' from smog. After meeting at a funeral which Harold attends in order to be closer to death, and Maude to be closer to life , the Epicurean older woman soon becomes Harold's lover and mentor.

While Harold seems to view life as merely an inconvenient and trivial path towards death, Maude is able to plumb as much meaning from life as death — and she shows Harold how. Through her love of life, Maude is able to overcome Harold's fascination with death Credit: Alamy. During a walk through a field of daisies, Maude turns to Harold and says: "I should like to change into a sunflower most of all.

They're so tall and simple. What flower would you like to be? 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. The camera pans out into an extreme long-shot, as it's revealed that the field of daisies Harold and Maude are standing in is a graveyard — the gravestones identical as daisies from the perspective.

Where other directors may have used a close-up shot to convey feeling, Ashby does the opposite, as he attempts to orient his viewer into an ecological point of view.

Flowers growing out of gravestones. Stevens' soundtrack both seems to further embolden Maude's perspective and the lessons she hands down to Harold, while ameliorating the taboo relationship between old and young.

According to The Criterion Collection version of the film, producer Charles Mulvehill initially approached Elton John to write the music for the movie, as Ashby was a fan of the pop star. John passed—but not before suggesting his friend, Cat Stevens, for the job. Thus, Hal Ashby was brought on. Frustrated with several issues he was having with the studio, including not being able to hire cinematographer Gordon Willis, Ashby considered leaving the picture altogether.

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