The beauty is he frightens off all his prospective mates with cleverly staged fake suicides. In a reaction, she enlists him in a computer dating service in a vain matchmaking attempt to fix him up with Beetle-driving yuppies-to-be. Harold loves the attention he gets from staging fake suicides to frighten his obtuse and superficial haute-culture mother.

The meeting almost seems reminiscent of Edward Norton's character's support group addiction in `Fight Club.' However, Harold (Bud Cort)-a shy teenager with an affinity for death-meets his 80-year-old true love Maude (Ruth Gordon), not at a dance or social event, but at funerals. In most societies, an older man will likely fall for a woman years his junior. The interesting part is how this film will likely find you. Such is the case with the cult film `Harold and Maude.' It openly explores themes of suicide, love, death and life with a fresh perspective. A loud bang can be heard and Harold – together with his chair – falls over, but his mom isn’t interested a bit, she goes on asking and answering questions.If so irreverent a story were to be told today, how would one react? As was probably the case when the film was released, people would probably find the theme edgy, if not inappropriate. During this interrogation, Harold charges a pistol to aim it at his mother but the stop to aim it at him, and then crosses him to finally pull the trigger. But Harold doesn’t answer those questions, instead his mother does so. He sits on a chair, in the centre of the work or living room, across from his mother who asks him questions of a dating agency’s questionnaire.

The next shot was produced at Harold’s home. The preacher now appears, complaining about Maude because she used his car to drive away. Maude drives away by nearly crashing into the hearse and being honked by some other driver. She asks Harold if he can sing or dance but Harold hesitatingly says no. Maude gets into the car, offering Harold a lift and saying they have to meet again. When the coffin is transported into the hearse a marching band playing happy music can be seen. Harold denies and together with the few other visitors of requiem they leave the church talking about their reasons for visiting the church. Maude tries to approach Harold during the preacher’s sermon to ask him if he wants some liquorice. The first sequence of “Harold and Maude” can be summarized in the following way: We can meet Harold and Maude in a church for the first time, during the requiem of an 80- year-old male.

Zusammenfassung und Analyse der ersten Minuten des Films (Regie: Hal Ashby, nach einem Drehbuch von Colin Higgins) (directed by Hal Ashby, scripted by Colin Higgins) Summary And Analysis

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