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The sequel to Harold and Maude


I would love to see a movie about Harold post-Maude. He learned a lot from her and adopted her philosophy and lifestyle. I would like to know what happened to him...

What do you think his life is like at age 30? 40? Is staging suicides a thing of the past or still an occasional hobby to annoy mothers?

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i would love to see a Maude & Harold movie. bud cort is getting to that age where he can return to the Harold Chasen charecter, encountering a young Maude in need of the same magic the first movie gave us.

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i would love to see a Maude & Harold movie. bud cort is getting to that age where he can return to the Harold Chasen charecter, encountering a young Maude in need of the same magic the first movie gave us.


Eww. 80 year old guy educates hot, young, suicidal goth girl? Doesn't work.

They tried something like that in Ghost World. She commits suicide at the end.

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Eww. 80 year old guy educates hot, young, suicidal goth girl? Doesn't work.


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On paper, a story like Harold and Maude wouldn't work either. But it did. Thanks to good filmmaking.

Any story can be engaging if told by a master.

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First of all Steve Buscemi was only in his middle 40's in Ghost World. Also we don't know what happens to the goth girl at the end of Ghost World. All we know is that she gets on the bus.

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Plus, Steve Buscemi is awesome.
Getting on a ghost bus is not the same thing as committing suicide.

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Which 80 year old guy though? Michael Caine is in his 80s and so are Sean Connery and Gene Hackman. Harrison Ford is 74, and Patrick Stewart is 76. Shatner is about a million years old, I'd give him a ride home from a funeral if he stole my car.

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A sequel in the 1970s or 1980s before Ruth Gordon and Hal Ashby passed away may have worked, but I'm against one being made today.

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I dont know about that far ahead but I'm pretty sure he would have hooked up with Sunshine Dore again.

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Nah, there's no way a sequel would have worked. This film is the perfect embodiment of the old writers Maxim: "a movie is about THE most important thing that ever happens to a person". Anything that Harold went through after he parted with Maude would have been influenced by his time with her, he will love again but nobody will ever completely change him again because he's become himself.

S different from all the modern films that aspire to become franchises.

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Absolutely agree!

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