| Leonard Cohen – The Stranger Song Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Quite old, but I thought I would point out that this song *was* the opening theme for a Hollywood movie titled "McCabe and Mrs. Miller". I first heard the song watching that movie long ago, and I've had difficulty separating the two ever since. Warren Beatty stars as a smalltime gambler who teams up with Julie Christie's prostitute and Madam, to run a whorehouse in the California Gold Rush country. It is, in every way, a bleak, hopeless and pointless movie from Robert Altman. McCabe accomplishes nothing, and ends up getting himself shot. Miller ends up an opium addict, their business closed by a larger company. One memorable scene involves a young boy taught to shoot another out of prejudice, to no purpose at all. You'd be hard pressed to find a moral, or even a point, here. The song fit well with the tone of the movie, but I always took from it an essential hopelessness that isn't really there in the lyrics. I wonder which came first, the song or the movie? |
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