Movie |
Life Planning | Suicide
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Best Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1972 | Ruth
Best Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1972 | Bud
Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles | 1973 | Bud
Budget 1,200,000 USD
Hal Ashby intended to film a scene of Harold and Maude making love, but Paramount dismissed this idea.
After Maude and Harold steal the police officer's motorcycle, Bud Cort accidentally hit himself in the head with the shovel but just kept going for the sake of the shot.
In all shots of Ruth Gordon (Maude) driving the hearse it is being towed because she never learned how to drive a car.
The scenes in which Harold turns to look at the camera after successfully scaring off his first date, and when he does "the finger" behind his mother's back after she sees the Jaguar turned into a Hearse, were not in the script. Rather, they were improvised by Bud Cort.
Most of the Cat Stevens songs heard in the film were taken from his albums Mona Bone Jakone or Tea for the Tillerman. He wrote the opening song, "Don't Be Shy", and "If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out" especially for the film.
"Harold: Maude? Maude: Yeah? Harold: [pulls the stamped coin from the arcade out of his pocket] Here. Maude: A gift! [reads the engraving] Maude: "Harold loves Maude."... and Maude loves Harold. This is the nicest gift I've received in years. [she throws the stamped coin into the water] Harold: [gasps, bemused] Maude: So I'll always know where it is."
"Maude: A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life. *Reach* out. Take a *chance*. Get *hurt* even. But play as well as you can. Go team, go! Give me an L. Give me an I. Give me a V. Give me an E. L-I-V-E. LIVE! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room."
