Tessa Thompson loves HaroldandMaude so much she named her production company Viva Maude. 'Some people would argue that the character of Maude was one of the first appearances of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, but in her eighties,' she says.
Colin Higgins workshopped the story for “Harold and Maude” while he was driving the daughter of producers Ed and Mildred Lewis to school. When his directing test didn’t pan out, the studio brought in Hal Ashby, who had recently directed “The Landlord.”It’s a terrific screenplay, and as much as you want to give Hal Ashby a lot of credit, this was a hundred percent Colin Higgins’ baby.
I was friendly with Norman Jewison, who urged me to see “The Landlord” because he thought that sensibility might really be terrific, because getting a director who was right on would be a challenge. But Hal didn’t really want to do it. He started listening to this album, “Tea for the Tillerman” and said, whenever there’s silent footage, let’s put put one of these songs against it, so we’re just not sitting there listening to nothing. They needed a song for Maude to sing at one point. Cat Stevens said, “I have these two rough versions of songs — ‘Don’t Be Shy’ and ‘If You Want to Sing Out’ and if you like them, I’ll go in and finish them and turn them into real songs.
For Maude, Hal went to London and did some casting there. Dame Edith Evans was a lady that was in serious contention, but that would have been a whole other movie. We ended up going over budget. Ultimately, we shot over 300,000 feet of film and it took a lot to cull through it all and find the movie, so to speak.
Dec. 20, 1971 was originally the day Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘The Godfather” was planned to open. But the cut wasn’t finished, and Paramount decided that instead of the sprawling epic, the quirky black comedy “Harold and Maude” would be a festive film to release during the holiday period. It tanked massively, withNo one had put together a campaign, so it just opened with this blank ad.
Then I had a meeting with Peter Bart. He said that the reviews generally were terrible and that Time magazine was doing us a favor by not reviewing it. were dead in the water for a period.
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